Antitrust Chronicle^® – Big Data – An Antitrust Perspective

Dear Readers,

In this issue, we deal with the emergent issue of the competition concerns that arise in connection with Big Data. The contributors in this special issue on Big Data discuss several relevant questions – what role should Big Data play in assessment of mergers, i.e. should having and controlling consumer data be viewed as a form of market power. Then there is the related question on whether it is correct to deem “privacy” to be a non-price consideration in antitrust analysis, a