Excessive Data Collection: Privacy Considerations and Abuse of Dominance in the Era of Big Data

V. H. Robertson
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The present era of big data challenges many of the basic assumptions of competition law. One particularly pressing question is: to what extent should privacy considerations and data protection filter into competition law assessments? The paper focuses on personalized user data that companies gather through third-party tracking on the web. This practice allows the tracker to build comprehensive user profiles across platforms and devices, placing an unprecedented volume of up-to-date personal data in the hands of a small number of globally active companies. Focusing on the stage of data acquisition, the paper assesses two scenarios under which EU competition law may deem the vast amounts of data gathered by certain digital platforms excessive under Article 102(a) TFEU: excessive data “prices” and data policies as unfair trading conditions. In both cases, the competition law assessment is autonomous from other areas of the law: while a breach of data protection rules is not automatically a breach of competition law, a company adhering to data protection rules may still violate competition laws. The paper finds that EU competition law already possesses the necessary tools to address excessive data collection, while data protection rules provide much-needed context for this type of exploitative abuse.
过度数据收集:大数据时代的隐私考量与主导权滥用
当前的大数据时代挑战了竞争法的许多基本假设。一个特别紧迫的问题是:隐私考虑和数据保护应该在多大程度上渗透到竞争法评估中?这篇论文关注的是公司通过第三方网络追踪收集的个性化用户数据。这种做法使追踪器能够跨平台和设备建立全面的用户档案,将前所未有的大量最新个人数据交到少数全球活跃公司手中。本文侧重于数据获取阶段,评估了两种情况,在这种情况下,欧盟竞争法可能认为某些数字平台根据TFEU第102(a)条收集的大量数据是过度的:过度的数据“价格”和数据政策是不公平的交易条件。在这两种情况下,竞争法评估都是独立于法律的其他领域的:虽然违反数据保护规则并不自动违反竞争法,但遵守数据保护规则的公司仍可能违反竞争法。本文发现,欧盟竞争法已经拥有解决过度数据收集的必要工具,而数据保护规则为这种类型的剥削性滥用提供了急需的背景。
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