At an antitrust conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General of Antitrust Makan Delrahim suggested that boosting competition among tech companies can run parallel with efforts to improve privacy, MediaPost reports. “By protecting competition, we can have an impact on privacy and data protection,” Delrahim said in a speech. He added “diminished quality is also a type of harm to competition” and that “privacy can be an important dimension of quality.” Delrahim also suggested a better sense of competition within the tech market could drive companies to provide more appealing privacy policies that will attract consumers away from competitors.
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