Breaking Away

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.

• Chapter 1 The Rise of the Data-opoliesChapter 2 Understanding the Data-opolies' Anticompetitive PlaybookChapter 3 How Data-opolies Have Exploited the Current Legal Void, and What's Being Proposed to Fix ItChapter 4 Why Competition Isn't the Easy FixChapter 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 RightChapter 7 What Are the Policy Implications If Data Is Non-Rivalrous?Chapter 8 Avoiding Four Traps When Competition and Privacy ConflictChapter 9 A Way Forward:Developing A Post-Millennial Antitrust/Privacy/Consumer Protection FrameworkChapter 10 Responding to Potential Criticisms to a Ban on Surveillance CapitalismChapter 11 Signs of Hope

Stucke (law, Univ. of Tennessee) discusses data privacy in an approachable manner for lay readers. He covers how a few large tech companies, such as Google's parent company Alphabet, hoard data. He then describes the attempts of international, federal, and state laws to rein in data collection, mostly to little effect. These discussions serve as an introduction to his analysis of data privacy, especially data that include personal identifiable information...This book sounds a clarion call for ordinary people and experts alike to take data privacy seriously.