605 research outputs found
European Commission approves Facebook/WhatsApp deal: data concentration and privacy as competition concerns?
No full textInge Graef, an expert on the intersection between personal data and competition law on online media platforms from KU Leuven, looks at the Facebook/WhatsApp acquisition and argues that the European Commission should have examined the impact data concentration can have on attracting and retaining users and privacy as a means of competition between competing services
Digital Single Market strategy shouldn’t go ‘over the top’ with regard to future regulation of OTT services
Full text linkLast week, a draft of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy and evidence file were leaked and obtained by Politico. Inge Graef, who researches the intersection between personal data and competition law on online media platforms at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT at KU Leuven, looks at the implications of the leaked document for ‘over-the-top’ players
Draghi’s new competition tool promises to revamp competition, but comes with challenges
No full textAlessia D’Amico and Inge Graef discuss Mario Draghi’s proposal for a New Competition Tool to revamp competition in the European Union. They write the European Commission must think hard about its design to achieve the right balance
Draghi’s new competition tool promises to revamp competition, but comes with challenges
No full textAlessia D’Amico and Inge Graef discuss Mario Draghi’s proposal for a New Competition Tool to revamp competition in the European Union. They write the European Commission must think hard about its design to achieve the right balance
De Data Act:Van het beschermen van data naar het delen van data?
No full textIn deze aflevering van ‘Verdraaid recht’ schrijft Inge Graef over de Data Act. Hoewel het doel van de Data Act is om innovatie te bevorderen door data beschikbaar te maken voor hergebruik door derden, zouden verplichtingen om data te delen ook kunnen leiden tot een afname van prikkels voor marktspelers om te blijven investeren in producten en diensten die data genereren, waardoor er een averechts effect optreedt
Data Portability Series: Interview with Ian Brown
No full textIn the context of the Brussels Internet & Telecom Seminar on data portability coming up on April 29, Inge Graef and Yuli Wahyuningtyas of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI – iMinds) of the KU Leuven – University of Leuven, interviewed internet governance expert Ian Brown of the Oxford Internet Institute about the new right to data portability and its implications for the online social network industry
De Data Act:Van het beschermen van data naar het delen van data?
Full text linkIn deze aflevering van ‘Verdraaid recht’ schrijft Inge Graef over de Data Act. Hoewel het doel van de Data Act is om innovatie te bevorderen door data beschikbaar te maken voor hergebruik door derden, zouden verplichtingen om data te delen ook kunnen leiden tot een afname van prikkels voor marktspelers om te blijven investeren in producten en diensten die data genereren, waardoor er een averechts effect optreedt
Regulating digital platforms:Streamlining the interaction between the Digital Markets Act and national competition regimes
Full text linkThe Digital Markets Act (DMA) will rebalance the relationship between the European Commission and national competition authorities. While Regulation 1/2003 made national competition authorities competent alongside the Commission to apply and enforce the EU competition rules, the Commission is the sole enforcer of the DMA. At the same time, national competition authorities have become increasingly proactive in taking up pioneering competition investigations and legislators at the national level have already adopted additional rules complementing the DMA. While such developments pose risks in terms of unnecessary duplication and regulatory fragmentation across the EU, the co-existence of different EU and national rules can also allow for learning-by-doing. Effective coordination between the DMA and national competition regimes is therefore key to ensure that the parallel existence of EU and national regulation is a strength rather than a weakness of the overall framework of economic regulation for digital markets
Data protection through the lens of competition law: will Germany lead the way?
No full textOn 2 March 2016, the Bundeskartellamt, the German competition authority, announced its decision to initiate proceedings against Facebook on suspicion that the social network provider had abused its dominant position by infringing data protection rules. Inge Graef and Brendan Van Alsenoy, Legal Researchers at the KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP Law, argue that the case represents the first attempt by a European competition authority to integrate data protection interests into competition analysis, and raises interesting questions about the interface between these two areas of law
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