Policy Brief 08/01/2024
Many digital platforms exploit their consumers by using such deceitful tactics to extract
data which they further use to assert market dominance. They use this dominance to
extract mire data much more effectively and sub-consciously. Consumer protection
and data protection laws are interlinked in the digital sphere as the price of digital
consuming is itself data. As opposed to competition law, consumer data protection
laws could be used to target any processor regardless of its magnitude.
