Regulation of Cloud Services under US and EU Antitrust, Competition and Privacy Laws

This book examines how cloud-based services challenge the current application of antitrust and privacy laws in the EU and the US. The author looks at the elements of data centers, the way information is organized, and how antitrust, competition and privacy laws in the US and the EU regulate cloud-based services and their market practices. She discusses how platform interoperability can be a driver of incremental innovation and the consequences of not promoting radical innovation. She evaluates applications of predictive analysis based on big data as well as deriving privacy-invasive conduct. She looks at the way antitrust and privacy laws approach consumer protection and how lawmakers can reach more balanced outcomes by understanding the technical background of cloud-based services.

Author Biography

Sára Gabriella Hoffman is a privacy and antitrust attorney. She is an expert on encryption standards and cloud architecture. As Microsoft fellow at Stanford Law School, she studied technical and legal aspects of setting up data centers and protecting information from a data security perspective. She teaches at the Freie Universität Berlin and speaks frequently on cybersecurity, encryption, and the impact of data-driven business on antitrust law.