Can competition law also take into account effects on privacy or should pri-vacy concerns of data-collecting behaviour only be dealt with by data protection law? In this paper we are analysing the German Facebook case, in which certain terms of service (that force consumers to give consent for...

Can competition law also take into account effects on privacy or should privacy concerns of data-collecting behaviour only be dealt with by data protection law? In this paper we are analysing the German Facebook case, in which certain terms of service (that force consumers to give consent for...

Die "IT Infrastructure Library" (ITIL) gilt heute als weltweit führender De-facto-Standard für das IT-Servicemanagement (ITSM). Obwohl der Standard mittlerweile in der in 2007 veröffentlichten dritten Version vorliegt, haben Datenschutzbelange bis heute kaum Eingang gefunden. Das...

The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever increasing and poses challenges for the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to...

The use of smartphone apps has numerous advantages for app providers and users. However, the users of many smartphone apps are confronted with a trade-off between usage benefits and preferences for personal data protection. We investigate the acceptability of data sharing in different...

Several countries' economies have been disrupted by the sharing economy. Global champions like Airbnb and Uber use similar models and platforms across many countries. However, each country and its consumers have different characteristics including the language used. The text in the profile of...

Vier Parteien - Die Linke, SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen und FDP - haben bis Ende April 2021 den Entwurf ihres Programms zur Bundestagswahl am 26. September veröffentlicht. Wie klar und überzeugend vermitteln Bundestagsparteien ihre Vorstellungen? Die digital- und medienpolitischen Aussagen der...

Nodal pricing has emerged from a theoretical approach to a practicable and efficient tool for network and congestion mangement. Experiences from North America and New Zealand have proven nodal pricing to be workable without serious technical problems. Continental European electricity grids like...