The European Commission initiated an antitrust investigation about the e-commerce giant, Amazon, for collecting sensitive data from third party transactions that use the platform as a marketplace.
Amazon’s serves as a marketplace for independent retailers besides selling products directly on the platform. Therefore, its business model is two-sided. Commission’s preliminary findings unveils that Amazon collects sensitive data formed on the platform through the transactions of third party sellers.
Amazon’s behavior will be assessed with respect to both Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (anticompetitive agreements between companies) and Articles 102 TFEU (abuse of a dominant position).
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