“Relationship status: It’s complicated” The interaction of competition law and data protection law in the light of the German Facebook case and the integrationist theory
(2023) JAEM01 20231Department of Law
Faculty of Law
- Abstract
- This thesis aims to present the relationship between competition law and data protection law in the digital market. The paper illustrates the economic background that creates certain conditions for the interplay between the bodies of law. The emergence of the digital economy with platform-based business models is a challenge that cannot be tackled within a single system. Therefore, the paper presents opposing theories, which address the problem of privacy violation in the internal market. The separatist and integrationist approaches will be introduced together with the relevant case law from which the views are derived. Subsequently, the paper analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the integrationist theory applied by the German... (More)
- This thesis aims to present the relationship between competition law and data protection law in the digital market. The paper illustrates the economic background that creates certain conditions for the interplay between the bodies of law. The emergence of the digital economy with platform-based business models is a challenge that cannot be tackled within a single system. Therefore, the paper presents opposing theories, which address the problem of privacy violation in the internal market. The separatist and integrationist approaches will be introduced together with the relevant case law from which the views are derived. Subsequently, the paper analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the integrationist theory applied by the German competition authority in the German Facebook case. The purpose of the assessment is to examine the consequences of using the GDPR as a normative point of reference in competition law. Finally, the thesis presents de lege ferenda solutions to the problem of overlapping competition law and data protection law. (Less)
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- author
- Szymanek, Agata LU
- supervisor
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- Julian Nowag LU
- organization
- course
- JAEM01 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- language
- English
- id
- 9120679
- date added to LUP
- 2023-06-08 14:52:47
- date last changed
- 2024-03-07 13:09:55
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