Data Privacy Protection from the Perspective of Antitrust
With the advent of the information age and the rise of digital platforms,privacy protection and anti-trust have come to be related to each other.Regarding the relationship between them,there are two main ap-proaches:the separation approach and the integration approach.The separation approach holds that data privacy should not be included in antitrust,which is based on the differences between privacy protection and an-titrust in terms of legal goals and implementation methods.The integration approach believes that antitrust should take data privacy into consideration,which attempts to compare data privacy to product quality or in-cludes data privacy in product quality.Since there might be inconsistencies between the improvement of data privacy protection and the strengthening of market competition,and challenges in analyzing privacy protection in antitrust law,the separation approach seems to be the more appropriate approach.In the context of the con-tinuous improvement of data privacy protection in China,the separation approach could be a better choice.
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