Ankit Singh Rajput INTRODUCTION Indian competition law enforcement reveals a strong, yet healthy, tension. Ever since the inception of the Competition Act, 2002 [“the Act”], the CCI has initiated investigations in various sectors, for instance, auto components, digital sectors, pharma, e-commerce, digital components among other sectors. On one hand, we can see the Competition Commission of India [“CCI”] proactively initiating investigations in all these sectors. However, on […]
THE RISE IN JUDICIAL INTERFERENCE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE WORKING OF INDIAN ANTITRUST REGULATOR
SELF DETERMINATION: THE NEXUS BETWEEN COMPETITION LAW AND DATA REGULATION
A. Rangarajan Introduction Data and Competition regulation have been traditionally delineated, with the European Competition Commission [“the Commission”] consistently holding that data privacy issues would be subject to combination regulation only to the extent that they would hamper competition. Similar sentiments were echoed when Google acquired DoubleClick, an advertisement platform that specialized at targeted advertisement monitoring advertisement performance. The combination sought not […]