KATE THOMPSON DAVY: Meta’s mega monopoly on our data under the microscope
18 January 2022 - 18:48
Last week a rather bold and ambitious class-action lawsuit was lodged with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal. Competition law expert Liza Lovdahl Gormsen is suing Meta (the not-so-new name of Facebook and WhatsApp’s parent company) for breach of competition law.
Gormsen is the director of the Competition Law Forum and a senior research fellow at the British Institute of International & Comparative Law. She’s been vocal on the matter for a while, presenting to UK parliamentarians on Facebook’s market dominance and authoring academic research on the topic...
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