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Are Privacy and Antitrust on a Collision Course?

Harmful dominance, democratic privacy controls, interop and illegitimate greatness.

Cory Doctorow

Aug 24·8 min read

A control room where a group of people in business attire stare at a surveillance dashboard that includes files and the silhouette of a woman with her arms folded across her chest. A political caricature of Teddy Roosevelt as a club-swinging trustbuster is superimposed on one of the windows in the control-room’s display surface.

In “The New Antitrust/Data Privacy Law Interface,” Temple Law’s Erika M Douglas presents a fascinating look at the tensions between privacy and competition.