From AntitrustConnect Blog: Inadvertent Collusion in E-Commerce: EU’s Highest Court Confirms that Automated Messages Can Put Recipients on the Hook for a Price-Fixing Cartel…


“Eturas runs the e-commerce back-end of 30 travel agents in Lithuania.  An administrator message to each member informed them that the e-commerce functionality allowing each travel agent to grant discounts would be capped at 3 per cent.  That message appeared in part of the system relating to “information messages”. The Court of Justice found that…


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