Tag: private damages
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Something for nothing: user damages and abuse of dominance in digital markets
The dominant digital services that structure much of our daily lives do not charge consumers for access. Search engines, social networks, maps, email: all are offered for nothing … yet they are anything but free. It has become a commonplace that we pay in another currency, with our data, our attention and our behavioural patterns,…
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Private damages in the new digital regulations – A fine balance to tread
A picture of “astonishing diversity and total underdevelopment”. Thus spoke a 2004 Report that surveyed competition damages actions across the EU at the time. It took ten years from there to adopt the Damages Directive, which finally ensured that anyone who suffered harm caused by a competition infringement can effectively claim full compensation and gave…