Dr Samson Y. Esayas is an Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He teaches on topics of data protection law, AI regulation, and competition law. His research explores the power dynamics stemming from control over data and mediated communications, with a focus on how these evolving power paradigms are addressed by competition and data privacy law. Dr Esayas has published in several renowned journals covering these issues and his work has received international recognition, including the FPF Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award. He earned his PhD from the University of Oslo in 2020 and his dissertation was awarded His Majesty the King's Gold Medal for outstanding research by the Norwegian monarchy. He was a visiting researcher at Berkman Klein Center in 2023.

• Foreword by Lee A. Bygrave Introduction Part I: Data Privacy and Competition Law in the Age of Big Data 1: Data Privacy and Competition Law in the Age of Big Data Part II: Emergent Properties in Data Privacy Law and Competition Law 2: The Idea of Emergent Properties in Data Privacy Law 3: Digital Ecosystems, Emergent Harms, and the Need for a Holistic Approach in Competition Law Part III: Harnessing Complexity to Understand the Interface 4: The Interface Between Data Privacy and Competition Law: Insights from Complexity Science 5: Merger Control and Theories of Harm on Data Privacy as a Non-Price Parameter 6: Privacy Fixing and Other Forms of Anticompetitive Cooperation on Privacy 7: Excessive Data Collection and Unfair Privacy Policies as Forms of Abuse of Dominance 8: Regulating a Complex Economy: Beyond the Atomistic and Either/or Approaches

Dr Samson Y. Esayas is an Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He teaches on topics of data protection law, AI regulation, and competition law. His research explores the power dynamics stemming from control over data and mediated communications, with a focus on how these evolving power paradigms are addressed by competition and data privacy law. Dr Esayas has published in several renowned journals covering these issues and his work has received international recognition, including the FPF Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award. He earned his PhD from the University of Oslo in 2020 and his dissertation was awarded His Majesty the King's Gold Medal for outstanding research by the Norwegian monarchy. He was a visiting researcher at Berkman Klein Center in 2023.

• Foreword by Lee A. Bygrave Introduction Part I: Data Privacy and Competition Law in the Age of Big Data 1: Data Privacy and Competition Law in the Age of Big Data Part II: Emergent Properties in Data Privacy Law and Competition Law 2: The Idea of Emergent Properties in Data Privacy Law 3: Digital Ecosystems, Emergent Harms, and the Need for a Holistic Approach in Competition Law Part III: Harnessing Complexity to Understand the Interface 4: The Interface Between Data Privacy and Competition Law: Insights from Complexity Science 5: Merger Control and Theories of Harm on Data Privacy as a Non-Price Parameter 6: Privacy Fixing and Other Forms of Anticompetitive Cooperation on Privacy 7: Excessive Data Collection and Unfair Privacy Policies as Forms of Abuse of Dominance 8: Regulating a Complex Economy: Beyond the Atomistic and Either/or Approaches