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Japan competition chief says regulating data collection by digital platforms through dominance-abuse provisions possible

( March 25, 2019, 03:47 GMT | Insight) -- Japan’s competition chief said it’s possible to apply the provisions on abuse of superior bargaining position in the Antimonopoly Act to regulate unfair data collection by operators of digital platforms, the Japanese business weekly Diamond reports, based ...Japan’s competition chief said it’s possible to apply the provisions on abuse of superior bargaining position in the Antimonopoly Act to regulate unfair data collection by operators of digital platforms, the Japanese business weekly Diamond reports, based on an interview. Kazuyuki Sugimoto, chairman of the Japan Fair Trade Commission, told the magazine the law could be applied to digital platforms and tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, as the government seeks to figure out how best to regulate them to protect Japanese small- and medium-sized enterprises and consumers from possibly exploitative conduct....

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