Online media platforms have the characteristics of a particular type of market known as ‘multi-sided’. These businesses create value by bringing advertisers and users together. Access to user data is critical to this process. On the basis of economic literature, the features of multi-sided...

This paper was written in the context of the DIAMOND SBO project. Against the background of a growing concern over increasing market power by a handful of widely used online services, this paper starts from the assumption that such a situation may limit citizens' access to or consumption of a...

While both international and European law-makers are currently in the process of introducing new laws re-gulating the fight against cybercrime and the exchange of digital evidence amongst competent authorities,this paper elaborates on a series of investigative challenges deriving from the...

Online platforms have the characteristics of a particular type of market known as ‘multi-sided'. These businesses create value by bringing advertisers and users together. Access to user data is critical to this process. On the basis of economic literature, the features of multi-sided platforms...