Privacy and antitrust in digital platforms

Nicholas Economides () and Ioannis Lianos ()
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Ioannis Lianos: President, Hellenic Competition Commission and Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London

No 21-01, Working Papers from NET Institute

Abstract: Dominant digital platforms such as Google and Facebook collect personal information of users by default precipitating a market failure in the market for personal information. We establish the economic harms from the market failure. We discuss conditions for eliminating the market failure and various remedies to restore competition.

Keywords: personal information; Internet search; Google; Facebook; digital; privacy; restrictions of competition; exploitation; market failure; data dominance; abuse of a dominant position; unfair commercial practices; excessive data extraction; self-determination; behavioral manipulation; remedies; portability; opt-out. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K21 L1 L12 L4 L41 L5 L86 L88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2021-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-big, nep-com, nep-ict, nep-law, nep-mic, nep-ore and nep-pay
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