Competition Law And Data Protection Meet Again

Over recent years there has been a raft of developments at the intersection of competition law and data protection. Both the UK and EU have introduced legislation to regulate the way in which large online platforms compete including a number of requirements around the use, collection and sharing of personal data (namely the DMA in the EU and the UK equivalent which is currently passing through Parliament). These issues have also been before the courts; last year the CJEU found that an infringement of the provisions of the GDPR may constitute the basis for a finding of infringement of competition law by a national competition law authority (in the context of a case concerning the way that Facebook collects data).