United States:
Developments In The Antitrust Enforcement Of Online Platforms' Use Of Data
09 August 2019
Shearman & Sterling LLP
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The economic value and utility of customer data has led to many
technology companies devising successful business models on the
basis of providing free access to their online platforms and
services in return for access to their users’ personal data.
Data has therefore become an important input for online services
and thus a parameter for market competition in the digital
economy.
Read this chapter in Shearman &
Sterling’s 2019 Antitrust Annual Report, “Developments
in the Antitrust Enforcement of Online Platforms’ Use of
Data.”
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