Competition Law - Data, Data Protection & Digital Markets

Introduction

Data protection laws including the GDPR are increasingly placing restrictions on the degree to which businesses can share personal data with third parties.

Antitrust authorities are looking to platforms to open access to their data which may lower switching costs, stimulate innovation, and drive competition.

Novel applications of competition law to data-related issues extend beyond privacy (for example recent interventions by the UK CMA to restrict targeted advertising by online platforms).

The landscape is characterised by some uncertainty until the tensions between standards of data privacy and competition are resolved.

This new webinar provides an exploration of how data and data protection law are increasingly a focus of competition authorities.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• An overview of the concepts of data and big data and how these phenomena affect competition law
• A reminder of the key principles of the EU General Data Protection Regulation
• An overview of the common characteristics of data protection and competition law and where they overlap and diverge
• Examples of competition law interventions in business practices involving data concerns including the CMA Market Study into Online Platforms and the German Federal Cartel Office’s interventions against Facebook for abuse of dominance
• Emerging trends in the relationship between data protection and competition law and the scope for future convergence

This webinar was recorded on 3rd February 2022