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Harming Competition and Consumers Under the Guise of Protecting Privacy: An Analysis of Apple’s iOS 14 Policy Updates
By  |  May 27, 2021

By D. Daniel Sokol & Feng Zhu*   Apple’s iOS 14 update represents an anti-competitive strategy disguised as a privacy-protecting measure. Apple now prohibits non-Apple apps from using information essential to providing relevant, personalized advertising, without explicit user opt-in. And users may opt-in only after they are shown an ominous and misleading prompt about “tracking,” […]

Digital Data as an Essential Facility: Control
By  |  Feb 24, 2020

This paper examines the question of data as an essential facility. It argues that rather than size being the biggest driver of data meeting the definition of being an essential facility, it is instead whether the data are protected by copyright or privacy regulation.

Privacy and Competition: Friends, Foes, or Frenemies?
By  |  Mar 1, 2019

She debate about data-rich tech companies has led to calls for changes to consumer privacy law, competition law, or both. Europe has adopted the General Data Protection Regulation, limiting the collection, use, and sharing of consumer data, which may raise competitive hurdles for some players. It also includes a data portability requirement, which may reduce […]

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