Overview
- Original research bridging a number of areas of law and policy which makes its content unique
- New holistic perspective on looking at commercial law (in particular competition and consumer law) in unison with social policy environment
- Perspective of users of financial services
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The legitimacy or illegitimacy of information exchanges between competitors remains a topical debate with regard to EU competition law and policy. This book reexamines the issue in the retail financial services sector, focusing on the peculiar problems that it poses for EU market integration, consumer policy and protection and the intersection with fundamental rights. It analyzes and reflects on the relevant case law and guidelines offered by the corresponding European authorities, providing a critique of the current approach and advancing the proposition that information markets themselves need attention, in addition to the markets that they serve. The book also advances new perspectives on cases in which consumers’ personal information is involved in the exchange, recognizing the inevitable interaction between EU competition law, the interests and protection of consumers and personal data protection. It suggests that the status quo under competition law is unsatisfactorily short sighted and that the EU should take a holistic approach (including information markets) to the analysis of competition law, reflecting consumer protection and fundamental rights aspects in the assessment.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: EU Competition Law, the Consumer Interest and Data Protection
Book Subtitle: The Exchange of Consumer Information in the Retail Financial Sector
Authors: Federico Ferretti
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08906-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08905-8Published: 07 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08906-5Published: 24 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-855X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8568
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 127
Topics: European Law, Finance, general, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, IT in Business, International Economic Law, Trade Law