ESR Onntje Hinrichs publication in the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML)

ESR Onntje Hinrichs’ article on “Consumer Law and the Regulation of the Free Flow of Data: Upsetting the Balance of the European Data Protection Framework” has been published in the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML).

Over the past years, scholars have increasingly investigated the complementarity of data protection and consumer law with regard to the protection of consumer data. No attention, however, has thus far been paid to the consequences which consumer law might have on the free flow of both personal and non-personal data.

In his article, Onntje analyzes various consumer law instruments and shows how consumer law transposes the principle of free movement of data from data protection to non-personal data via maximum harmonization. At the same time, however, his article demonstrates how consumer law risks undermining the object of data protection law to create a harmonized legal framework that facilitates the free flow of personal data.

The entire article can be accessed via this link.