As the notorious 2017 Equifax Breach was unfolding in the United States, the European Union was counting down the days until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) would become enforceable. This Law Review Note was written as these events were developing, and it analyzes various legal...

Due to the key role of personal data in the digital economy competition law and data protection law are getting deeply intertwined. This article uses a market failure framework for analyzing new important interaction effects between both legal regimes. Since on digital markets competition...

Is privacy a luxury for the rich world? Remarkably, there is a dearth of literature evaluating whether data privacy is too costly for companies to implement, or too expensive for governments to enforce. This paper is the first to offer a review of surveys of costs of compliance, and to summarize...

On February 23, 2022, the European Commission presented a proposal for the Data Act. This regulation is intended to regulate access to and use of data in the European Union in the future. It includes requirements for data transfer to users of products and services that produce data, to...

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that enables the secure recording and storage of transactions without the need for a trusted third-party intermediary. This distributed ledger technology has the potential to mainstream entirely new, decentralized business models where determining the...