Introduction In September 2020, four Republican senators introduced the Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act (the “SAFE DATA Act”).1 However, their introduction of a bill that would attempt to address the federal government’s lack of comprehensive data privacy regulation was far from the first time Congress had tried to…
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Antitrust implications of Big Data
Increasingly, big data is becoming an important tool for understanding customer behavior. The information provided by the data can be used to understand customer behavior, predict consumption patterns and market products. Now, because big data has become such a central tool for effectively operating a company, companies are coming under fire for withholding big data…