Breaking Away: How to Regain Control Over Our Data, Privacy, and Autonomy

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Maurice E. Stucke (Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law, Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee)

Breaking Away

How to Regain Control Over Our Data, Privacy, and Autonomy

Maurice E. Stucke (Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law, Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee)

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Oxford University Press Inc
27 July 2022

Competition law & Antitrust law; IT & Communications law

Breaking Away sounds a warning call alerting readers that their privacy and autonomy concerns are indeed warranted, and the remedies deserve far greater attention than they have received from our leading policymakers and experts to date.

Through the various prisms of economic theory, market data, policy, and law, the book offers a clear and accessible insight into how a few powerful firms - Google, Apple, Facebook (Meta), and Amazon - have used the same anticompetitive playbook and manipulated the current legal regime for their gain at our collective expense.

While much has been written about these four companies' power, far less has been said about addressing their risks. In looking at the proposals to date, however, policymakers and scholars have not fully addressed three fundamental issues: First, will more competition necessarily promote our privacy and well-being? Second, who owns the personal data, and is that even the right question? Third, what are the policy implications if personal data is non-rivalrous?

Breaking Away not only articulates the limitations of the current enforcement and regulatory approach but offers concrete proposals to promote competition, without having to sacrifice our privacy.

This book explores how these platforms accumulated their power, why the risks they pose are far greater than previously believed, and why the tools need to be far more robust than what is being proposed. Policymakers, scholars, and business owners, managers, and entrepreneurs seeking to compete and innovate in the digital platform economy will find the book an invaluable source of information.

By: Maurice E. Stucke (Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law University of Tennessee)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9780197617618
ISBN 10: 0197617611
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 27 July 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 The Rise of the Data-opolies Chapter 2 Understanding the Data-opolies' Anticompetitive Playbook Chapter 3 How Data-opolies Have Exploited the Current Legal Void, and What's Being Proposed to Fix It Chapter 4 Why Competition Isn't the Easy Fix Chapter 5 Who Owns the Data, and Is That Even the Right Question? Chapter 6 The Promise and Shortcomings of Treating Privacy as a Fundamental Inalienable Right Chapter 7 What Are the Policy Implications If Data Is Non-Rivalrous? Chapter 8 Avoiding Four Traps When Competition and Privacy Conflict Chapter 9 A Way Forward: Developing A Post-Millennial Antitrust/Privacy/Consumer Protection Framework Chapter 10 Responding to Potential Criticisms to a Ban on Surveillance Capitalism Chapter 11 Signs of Hope

Maurice E. Stucke is the Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the law firm, Konkurrenz. With 25 years experience handling a range of policy issues in both private practice and as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, he advises governments, law firms, consumer groups, and multi-national firms on competition and privacy issues. He has testified before, and provided expert reports for, multiple governments and inter-governmental agencies, including the European Commission, United Nations, OECD, and World Bank. He has been quoted, and his research has been featured, in numerous media outlets.

Reviews for Breaking Away: How to Regain Control Over Our Data, Privacy, and Autonomy

The arguments in the book are clear, well evidenced and indicative of the author's distinguished career as a scholar, lawyer and legal advisor...Stucke uses concise language and useful examples to make specialised concepts easily comprehensible to readers who are unfamiliar with either or both fields. This makes Breaking Away a valuable read not only for scholars, lawyers, consumer groups and policymakers, but also anyone interested in how their data are being used and what can be done about it. * Shania Ann Kirk, European Journal of Risk Regulation *