This paper examines threats to privacy and anonymity accompanying underlying technical changes related to the Internet of Things and big data analytics. Governmental and corporate entities have focused on creating sophisticated graphs of citizens' social media connections and aggregating these...

Whether data can lead to market power is currently the subject of numerous academic debates. Some are in favour of strict competition in regulation of collection and use of data, and others consider competition inappropriate for regulation of data processing and call for solutions based on...

This paper studies three specific issues around the application of competition policy to big data. The first issue relates to market power assessment and analyses the power given by data control in the big data value chain. The second and third issues relate to abuse of dominance assessment and...

Recent merger cases involving the transfer of control over “big data” concluded that these mergers would not lead to competition problems because there was a sufficient number of other data sources available to the various players in the market. These merger cases implicitly accepted, but...