Consumers have shifted their consumption of online content dramatically from websites that they browse from a personal computer to apps that they use on mobile devices. Marketers have moved with the eyeballs, particularly since people use their smartphones much of the day and carry them wherever...

Traditionally, the way competition law has viewed the exchange or sharing of information among competing firms, has been to some extent mainly negative, at least from the supply side. Present market conditions, an excessively transparent market, where operators exchange detailed and (prospect)...

This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and general competition law, especially concerning energy markets and the road to Internal Market objective.We firstly present Trinko case, in order to focus on two crucial and...

The debate over information privacy in the last decade has been dominated by unscientific survey data and lurid anecdotal data, making it difficult to determine if there really is a privacy crisis and, if so, what public policy choices would most effectively mitigate it without introducing...

After a decade of data misuse scandals involving public and private data collectors, the EU enacted its General Data Protection Regulation, which will dramatically change data collection and use practices worldwide. The poorly-thought out provisions of the GDPR, however, are certain to raise...

With over a dozen bills pending in both the U.S. and E.U. to "solve" the privacy crisis, perhaps it's time to take a step back and ask some fundamental questions about information management in the age of big data. Why does "private" information evoke visceral policy responses? Is there a...

As the pace of technological-based disruption across industries accelerates, static models of regulatory analysis and decision-making become increasingly counter-productive. This article proposes a more pragmatic, "results-based regulation" framework and applies it to what has become the most...

Some of the most significant transactions singled out recently for intensive federal review involve the communications industry. Unfortunately, communications providers face serious and potentially fatal problems of supply. Radio spectrum -- the chief input and most severe constraint on the...