The Nexus Between Competition and Personal Data Protection Laws: Thailand’s Perspective

Peerapat Chokesuwattanaskul ()
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Peerapat Chokesuwattanaskul: Chulalongkorn University

A chapter in The Digital Economy and Competition Law in Asia, 2021, pp 75-101 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter argues that the data-driven economy needs to figure out how to apply both competition and personal data protection laws. The implementation has to aim at preventing the situation where a group of people disproportionately gains at the expense of another group of people, whose data have been processed by the former. Without proper enforcement of competition and personal data protection laws, we argue that the feedback loop of having more data, better performance and greater talents will eventually worsen the problem of inequality. Thailand serves as a good case study of how the problem exists, while the implementation of both laws is still in retard. We propose that the line separating between personal and public interests has to be drawn and the effective enforcement of competition and personal data protection laws is at the heart of it.

Keywords: Data-driven economy; Privacy; Competition law; Personal data; Data protection law; Private and public interest; GDPR; Personal Data Protection Act; Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0324-2_4

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