Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications, said that antitrust officials should be careful not to treat data like other commodities that could be monopolized, but rather as something more complex that can be shared and kept at the same time. “We think it is legitimate to ask profound questions about how data is held,” Mr. Clegg said at a briefing with journalists. But he added that officials defining what he called the orthodoxy of competition policy should “reconfigure old concepts” and “relinquish themselves of the idea that [using data] is the same as using finite resources in finite, one-off ways.”
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