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

Journal article

1 online resource

9780197617649 eBook

This book emphasizes that the privacy and autonomy concerns of consumers are indeed warranted, and the remedies deserve far greater attention than they have received from leading policymakers and experts to date. It offers a clear and accessible insight into how a few powerful firms, such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, have used the same anticompetitive playbook and manipulated the current legal regime for their gain at people's collective expense. It also cites references from various prisms of economic theory, market data, policy, and law. The book addresses fundamental issues that confirm whether more competition necessarily promotes privacy and well-being. It discusses who owns personal data and what are the policy implications if personal data is non-rivalrous.

Online resource

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022

English