EU competition law, data protection and online platforms
Subtitle: data as essential facility
By: Inge Graef
Series: International competition law series -- v. 68
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Alphen aan den Rijn, the netherland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9789041183248
Subjects: Consumer protection; Law and legislation; Electronic commerce; Right of Privacy; Antitrust law; Internet service providers; Internet; Data protection
Other titles: European Union competition law, data protection and online platforms :
Description: EU Competition Law, Data Protection and Online Platforms. Data as Essential Facility' provides a highly topical study of how EU competition law interacts with data on online platforms. All agree that the digital economy contributes to a dynamic evolution of markets and competition. Nonetheless, concerns are increasingly raised about the market dominance of a few key players. Since these companies hold the power to drive rivals out of business, regulators have begun to seek scope for competition enforcement in cases where companies claim that withholding data is needed to satisfy customers and cut costs. This book is the first to focus on how competition law enforcement tools can be applied to refusals of dominant firms to give access to data on online platforms, such as search engines, social networks, and e-commerce platforms commonly referred to as the gatekeepers of the Internet.
Notes: "This book forms the result of a doctoral research project conducted at the Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) of the Faculty of Law of KU Leuven" -- page xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.