Antitrust Chronicle^® – Privacy Matters: GDPR & CCPA

Dear Readers,

Data protection has emerged as one of the key issues of the 21st Century. Two key pieces of legislation: the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) are the keystones in the legislative response to the concerns raised by Big Data, in the so-called digital economy.

Of the two, the GDPR, put into full effect in mid-2018, represented the first blow on behalf of consumer privacy. It was intended to protect EU citizens, bu