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 […]