Wolfgang Kerber

Wolfgang Kerber is a retired Professor of Economics at University of Marburg, and currently a Senior Professor at the Faculty of Law & Economics, University of Bonn as well as an Associated Researcher at Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin. Since 2015, he has done research about regulatory problems of the digital economy with a main focus on competition policy, innovation and IP, data policy and data governance, data protection and privacy, and digital policies in the EU such as the Digital Markets Act and the Data Act. Wolfgang Kerber was, inter alia, a Fellow at the law schools of New York University and European University Institute (Florence).

The EU Commission’s Meta Decision on “Consent or Pay” Foregoes Competition for Data Privacy Law

In new research, Wolfgang Kerber argues that the European Union's decision to require a third option in Meta's "consent or pay" model focuses too heavily on user consent and ignores the broader goal in the Digital Markets Act of reducing gatekeeper advantages and increasing competition.

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