As consumers and businesses continue to develop technology-driven commercial relationships and with personal data increasingly representing the currency of digital commerce, the overlap between the regulatory spheres of privacy, consumer protection and anti-trust has become more apparent than ever.. Regulators and global networks have been living and examining this intersection of regulatory spheres. Privacy and consumer protection regulators are increasingly taking enforcement action over the same privacy related conduct. At the same time, privacy considerations have become a subject of increased discussion in the anti-trust realm, revealing complements and tensions between the two disciplines. Through this session, the cross-disciplinary panel will:

• Provide insights into the factors that have driven the intersection between privacy, competition and consumer protection and examples of intersection related enforcement cases;
• Learn how different stakeholders (companies, regulators, policymakers) perceive and navigate the growing intersection
• Discuss complements and tensions between the Privacy and Anti-Trust regulatory spheres;
• Discuss examples of cross-regulatory collaboration – what has worked; challenges faced; and the potential benefits