Price discrimination based on tracking of Internet Protocol addresses – numerical identifiers assigned to devices that are connected to the Internet – was in the news again this week after a Belgian Member of the European Parliament, Marc Tarabella, called for action from the European Commission to investigate the practice.
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UK OFT Call for Information on Personalized Pricing Practices
This post was contributed by Mac Macmillan, an attorney in Hogan Lovells’ London office The United Kingdom Office of Fair Trading has issued a Call for Information on personalized pricing practices in the UK, in another illustration that “big data” is becoming an increasingly hot topic in the world of data protection and privacy. Personalized […]