Intro -- Data Privacy and GDPR Handbook -- Contents -- 1 Origins and Concepts of Data Privacy -- 1.1 Questions and Challenges of Data Privacy -- 1.1.1 But Cupid Turned Out to Be Not OK -- 1.2 The Conundrum of Voluntary Information -- 1.3 What Is Data Privacy? -- 1.3.1 Physical Privacy -- 1.3.2...

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...

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...

Clicks, comments, transactions, and physical movements are being increasingly recorded and analyzed by Big Data processors who use this information to trace the sentiment and activities of markets and voters. While the benefits of Big Data have received considerable attention, it is the...