The digital economy challenges many of the basic assumptions of competition law. With the rise of big data and big data analytics, one question has become particularly pressing: to what extent should privacy considerations and data protection laws filter into competition law assessments? The...

The cost of storing and processing vast quantities of digital data has dropped significantly in recent years. Cloud computing services, such as those provided by Amazon, have commodified data processing so that applications that once required supercomputers are now available to anyone with an...

The current data revolution is changing the conduct of social science research as increasing amounts of digital and administrative data become accessible for use. This new data landscape has created significant tension around data privacy and confidentiality. The risk–utility theory and models...

Chapter 1. Data Sovereignty -- Chapter 2. Digital Governance -- Chapter 3. Conflicts of Law -- Chapter 4. Technical Complexities -- Chapter 5. Comparative Legal Strategies -- Chapter 6. Emerging Topics in Data Sovereignty and Digital Governance.

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...