Search results for "Cambridge Analytica"

November 09, 2022
Adapting Merger Guidelines to a Digital Environment

Contemporary merger guidelines are heavily dependent on empirical observations of past and present markets. This feature makes the guidelines inadequate for addressing market power in the dynamic high-tech industries. Competition...


October 27, 2022
Antitrust’s Increasingly Long Arm: (Minority) Private Equity Investors Beware

Where do competition, antitrust, and private equity intersect? Once antitrust’s favored child compared to strategic buyers, private equity seems to have fallen from competition enforcers’ grace. Interestingly, this is part...


August 31, 2022
“A Rose by any Other Unique Identifier”: Regulating Consumer Data...

Representations in online privacy policies that certain data is anonymous or “not information that personally identifies you” can have significant consequences. They may indicate that the firm considers the data...


August 28, 2022
Meta Agrees To Settle Facebook Privacy Suit

Meta Platforms’s Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of...


August 24, 2022
Some Reflections of a Former Competition Agency Head

After 11 years as Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in this article Rod Sims reflects on a range of antitrust issues, emphasising their importance to our economy...


July 27, 2022
Toxic Innovation in the Digital Economy

Silicon Valley’s genius combined with limited regulation promised a new age of technological innovation in which entrepreneurs would fuel unprecedented job growth, improve overall well-being, and address pressing issues. Instead,...


July 27, 2022
Minimizing Privacy Risks in Regulating Digital Platforms: Interoperability in the...

The EU Digital Markets Act purports to benefit consumers and improve the competitiveness of digital markets. It is likely to have negative and unaddressed consequences, however, in terms of information...


July 13, 2022
A Wider-Aperture Lens for Competition Policy: Antitrust in the Context...

The growth of China and President Xi’s policies have transformed the global economy in ways that competition policy and business strategies have yet to fully grasp. The global economy is...


May 31, 2022
Novel Privacy Concerns in Healthcare Antitrust

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...