2020
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3593236
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The Economics of the German Investigation of Facebook’s Data Collection

Abstract: The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever increasing and poses challenges for the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to such challenges, investigations of such markets are of high interest. One of recent cases is the investigation of Facebook's data collection practices by German competition authorities. Our paper, in contrast to the wid… Show more

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“…13 See Bundesgerichtshof (2020) 14 See, e.g., Witt (2020, 32-35), Podszun (2020Podszun ( , 1276. 15 See, e.g., Schneider (2018), Volmar/Helmdach (2018), Colangelo/Maggiolino (2018, Botta/Wiedemann (2019), Haucap (2019), Këllezi (2019), Körber (2019), Budzinski et al (2020), Buiten (2020), Witt (2020), Podszun (2020. 16 Most legal scholars that welcome the Facebook decision think that the behaviour of Facebook could also be seen as a violation of Art.…”
Section: The Controversial Discussion About the German Facebook Casementioning
confidence: 99%
“…13 See Bundesgerichtshof (2020) 14 See, e.g., Witt (2020, 32-35), Podszun (2020Podszun ( , 1276. 15 See, e.g., Schneider (2018), Volmar/Helmdach (2018), Colangelo/Maggiolino (2018, Botta/Wiedemann (2019), Haucap (2019), Këllezi (2019), Körber (2019), Budzinski et al (2020), Buiten (2020), Witt (2020), Podszun (2020. 16 Most legal scholars that welcome the Facebook decision think that the behaviour of Facebook could also be seen as a violation of Art.…”
Section: The Controversial Discussion About the German Facebook Casementioning
confidence: 99%
“…80 Reuters, "German Antitrust Regulator Probes Linking of Oculus with Facebook Network" (10 December 2020) at https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-tech-antitrust-facebook-germany-idUSKBN28K0ZV (last visited 1 December 2021). 81 Budzinski et al (2020). 82…”
Section: Excessive Data Collection and Usage Practicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For classification of this practice interplay between consumer protection standards and competition law plays essential role (see discussion in Kerber & Zolna 2020). Current antitrust precedent of recognized privacy harms caused by Facebook as a dominant player (on economics of Facebook case see Budzinski et al 2021b) forced attention to relevance and application of this practice. In this case, market power as well as cross-market integration (e.g.…”
Section: Overview Of Anticompetitive Practices P1 Excessive Data Coll...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This could take place in both directions -over consumers and over third party providers. Along with reasoning in Budzinski et al 2021b, this harm to business partners, who face take-it-or-leave decision in case of market dominance in DPA market, should also be considered. There is less explanation why companies would be willing to agree on extensive data collection as users tend to do (information asymmetry is less as well as behavioral issues differ).…”
Section: Overview Of Anticompetitive Practices P1 Excessive Data Coll...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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