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This book explores how data-opolies colonize and dominate markets, identifying shortcomings in the proposed remedies and providing solutions that can promote privacy, deter the toxic competition caused by behavioral advertising, and balance privacy and healthy competition when they conflict.
List of contents
- Chapter 1 The Rise of the Data-opolies
- Chapter 2 Understanding the Data-opolies' Anticompetitive Playbook
- Chapter 3 How Data-opolies Have Exploited the Current Legal Void, and What's Being Proposed to Fix It
- Chapter 4 Why Competition Isn't the Easy Fix
- Chapter 5 Who Owns the Data, and Is That Even the Right Question?
- Chapter 6 The Promise and Shortcomings of Treating Privacy as a Fundamental Inalienable Right
- Chapter 7 What Are the Policy Implications If Data Is Non-Rivalrous?
- Chapter 8 Avoiding Four Traps When Competition and Privacy Conflict
- Chapter 9 A Way Forward:
- Developing A Post-Millennial Antitrust/Privacy/Consumer Protection Framework
- Chapter 10 Responding to Potential Criticisms to a Ban on Surveillance Capitalism
- Chapter 11 Signs of Hope
About the author
Maurice E. Stucke is the Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the law firm, Konkurrenz. With 25 years experience handling a range of policy issues in both private practice and as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, he advises governments, law firms, consumer groups, and multi-national firms on competition and privacy issues. He has testified before, and provided expert reports for, multiple governments and inter-governmental agencies, including the European Commission, United Nations, OECD, and World Bank. He has been quoted, and his research has been featured, in numerous media outlets.
Summary
This book explores how data-opolies colonize and dominate markets, identifying shortcomings in the proposed remedies and providing solutions that can promote privacy, deter the toxic competition caused by behavioral advertising, and balance privacy and healthy competition when they conflict.
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The arguments in the book are clear, well evidenced and indicative of the author's distinguished career as a scholar, lawyer and legal advisor...Stucke uses concise language and useful examples to make specialised concepts easily comprehensible to readers who are unfamiliar with either or both fields. This makes Breaking Away a valuable read not only for scholars, lawyers, consumer groups and policymakers, but also anyone interested in how their data are being used and what can be done about it.
