A new report from the American Antitrust Institute, Privacy and Antitrust at the Crossroads of Big Tech, explores the increasingly complex relationship between competition and privacy in the context of Big Tech. The burgeoning growth of surveillance capitalism business models is leading to interactions between competition policy and privacy principles that reveal surprising synergies, gaps, and conflicts in what was once assumed to be a straightforward and symbiotic relationship.
The report was authored by Laura Alexander, AAI’s Vice President of Policy, and was supported by a grant from the Omidyar Network Fund, Inc.