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Philippine digital platform study urges privacy integration into competition law

By James Konstantin Galvez ( February 20, 2026, 08:48 GMT | Insight) -- A market study by the Philippine Competition Commission recommends integrating data privacy considerations into the Philippine Competition Act and strengthening coordination with privacy regulators and foreign competition authorities. The report finds that highly concentrated social media and search markets — dominated by Meta’s Facebook and Google — allow extensive data consolidation that may reinforce market power, and calls for further research into data portability and interoperability safeguards.A market study by the Philippine antitrust regulator has recommended that data privacy considerations be explicitly integrated into the country's competition law, warning that extensive data consolidation by dominant digital platforms may entrench market power in the country’s social media and search markets....

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