personal data

The Federal Trade Commission is telling businesses where it plans to look next. And the agency is pointing straight at how companies handle personal data. The FTC just published its...

Europe’s approach to governing the digital economy has often arrived in waves, and the General Data Protection Regulation was the one that reshaped the shoreline. Since GDPR took effect, companies...

By Giuseppe Colangelo*   Over the past decade, the intersection of privacy and antitrust has become a significant focus in the literature on data’s role in digital markets.1 In a...

Today, data are not a passive by-product of economic activity but can be used as an input in the production process and by firms to make other significant business decisions....

By Bing Chen & Yongji Liu1   I. The Current Status of Data-related Monopoly Supervision in China Data has become one of the most important factors of production in the...

In an era marked by increasing digitalization, the flow of personal data has become a focal point for both competition and privacy concerns. While illicit personal data collection remains a...

Healthcare antitrust practitioners are grappling with the increased value and prominence of patient data in competition. In many respects, this data can be examined using traditional antitrust concepts. However, antitrust authorities and other stakeholders have also raised questions about consumers’ interests in mergers, or other competition practices from a privacy perspective. Privacy advocates have identified […]

In our data-driven society, privacy as a fundamental right should be recognized and upheld. We must adopt strong legal and technological protections that preserve our autonomy. Legally speaking we must establish a comprehensive federal scheme that recognizes privacy as a fundamental right. Technologically speaking, solutions that are architecturally developed from the individual privacy point of […]

U.S. privacy law is undergoing dramatic change on an accelerating pace. New laws across the country address specific industries, certain kinds of data, and various concerning practices. There is international pressure to improve the state of U.S. privacy law. At the same time, technological progress also is accelerating, leading to more personal information being gathered […]

The protection of privacy and personal data is a must for maintaining democracies and avoiding authoritarianism led by extreme surveillance. For the optimal protection of both rights, it is necessary to promote regulatory compliance, ethics, self-regulation, the strengthening of regulations, and of public bodies and institutions.

This article describes the elements of an information security program under the Federal Trade Commission Final Rule regarding Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (the “FTC Rule”). While the effective date of the FTC Rule was January 10, 2022, certain information security program elements become effective as of December 9, 2022. This article also highlights differences between […]

China’s recently adopted Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) is a new weapon in its arsenal to tame big tech companies. As the first comprehensive legislation to protect personal information within China, the PIPL was adopted amidst a broad regulatory assault on Chinese big tech companies by multiple enforcement agencies, including the State Administration for Market […]