ANTITRUST IN THE DIGITAL AGE – SHOULD ENFORCERS CARE ABOUT DATA PRIVACY? THE CASE OF FACEBOOK IN GERMANY
Please join HELA and HLS Antitrust Association for a lunch talk on the interplay between antitrust and data protection in the digital economy with Dr. Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte.
Topic
The rise of big data (including personal data) has impacted many business areas and poses a challenges for both antitrust and data protection. The question has risen whether antitrust enforcers should be concerned with data privacy or whether this should be dealt with by data protection agencies under data privacy laws. Earlier this year, the German Competition Authority has taken the view that data privacy is indeed an antitrust issue and has found that Facebook infringed competition rules by breaching data protection provisions.
Dr. Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte
Salomé is managing partner at Hogan Lovells in Brussels and advises on all aspects of EU competition law, including merger control, investigations (cartels, verticals, state aid, dominance and other behavioral issues), compliance and litigation before the EU courts. Salomé’s practice covers all industry sectors, but is widely known for her particular experience and in-depth knowledge in consumer goods and services. In 2013, she received the International Law Office’s (ILO) EU Competition Lawyer of the Year Client Choice Award, which recognizes those lawyers and law firms around the world that stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service.
Salomé is associate professor of EU competition law at IE Law School and a fellow of the Centre for European Studies/IE in Madrid. She frequently writes and speaks on issues relating to competition. She is the president of the Harvard Club of Belgium and a member of the board of the global Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Salomé was appointed Vice-Chair of AmCham EU Competition Policy Committee in 2017 for a two-year term.
Salomé graduated summa cum laude in law and economics from the University of Deusto (Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura) and holds a master of laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School, where she was an associate fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. She obtained a PhD in law from the European University Institute in Florence and has been a Fulbright scholar. Salomé is admitted to practice in Belgium and Spain.