Thursday, January 28, 2016

EDPS starts work on a New Digital Ethics

EDPS, here.

A Search Engine for Your Personal Memories (and Data)

TheAtlantic, here.

12 Big Industries Where Blockchain Could Be Used

CB Insights, here.

The Promise (and Threat) of Algorithmic Accountability

F. Pasquale, Video here

The Future of Legal Services

The Law Society, here

US health insurer Centene loses 950,000 people's records

BBC.com, here

Movidius chips promise to enable real-time image recognition in Android devices

ComputerWorld, here.

The Internet of Arrogant Things (or My First Month with a Nest)

Nick-taylor.co.uk, here

Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future

R. Thaler, Webcast here

Why do technology companies hire economists, and what is their contribution? What kinds of problems do they work on?

S. Athey, here

What will be the impact of machine learning on economics?

S. Athey, here.
NBER session's syllabus here.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The Automation Paradox

J. Bessen, here

Uber condamné à verser 1,2 million d’euros à l’Union nationale des taxis

Lesechos.fr, ici

"Online Platforms" Etc. Public Consultation: First Brief Results

EC, here

« Pretty Easy Privacy », le chiffrement automatique par défaut pour tous

LeMonde, ici

The Privatization of Human Rights: Illusions of Consent, Automation and Neutrality

E. Taylor, here.

EC fines car parts producers € 137 789 000 in cartel settlement

Press Release, here

Apple Can Still See Your iMessages If You Enable iCloud

MotherBoard, here

Facebook looks to its messaging service Whatsapp to gather more personal data

TheDrum, here.

See also Fortune, here

Ad blocking is more about personal data than on-target ads

Inma.org, here

Google y derecho al olvido: bloqueo por dirección IP

ElFuturo, aquì

International Survey on Private Copying

WIPO and Stichting de Thuiskopie, here

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Fair Share - Reclaiming power in the sharing economy

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), here.

La CNMC recurre las Ordenanzas del taxi de las ciudades de Málaga y Córdoba

CNMC, aquì.

Google’s Waze launches API for third-party transportation apps (invite-only, free)

VentureBeat, here

A European survey on the opportunities and risks of data analytics

Vodafone, here.

The Teladoc Case: Antitrust and Telemedicine as "Disruptive Innovation"

Lexology, here.

Le contrôle juridictionnel du Tribunal de l'Union dans le contentieux concurrence,

Concurrences, ici.

End-User Development in Internet of Things: We the People


M. Burnett, T. Kulesza, here.

Datenschutzrechtliche Aspekte bei der Nutzung vernetzter und nicht vernetzter Kraftfahrzeuge


Konferenz der unabhängigen Datenschutzbehörden und Verband der Automobilindustrie, hier.

Two-Way Street: U.S.-EU Parallels Under the General Data Protection Regulation

J. Brill, here.

Nothing for money

Deloitte, here.

The importance of Misbehaving

Deloitte, here.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Big data : l’enjeu est moins la donnée personnelle que la disparition de la personne

LeMonde, ici.

Online Tracking: What's In It For Consumers?

J. Brill, here.

What is the impact of blockchains on privacy?

TheODI.org, here.

European Patent Office revokes Monsanto patent on melons

No-patents-on-seeds.org, here.

The Collaborative Economy


Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA), European Parliamentary Research Services, here and here and short video here.

An Emerging Competition Law for a New Economy?

K. Coates, here.

How blockchain tech could change the way we do business

BBC.com, here.

Android OS has generated revenue of $31 billion and $22 billion in profit, Oracle says

Bloomberg, here.

Economics and Ideology

The Economist, here.
"Meaningless number-crunching to give a veneer of academic credibility to near-useless theories".

One Click Away? Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to Keep Search Bar on IPhone

Bloomberg.com, here.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Digital DNA: The Nagoya Protocol, Intellectual Property Treaties, and Synthetic Biology

M. Bagley, here

Study hints at how e-Privacy Directive might be reformed – major changes on the way

Out-law.com, here.

Study mentioned here.

Sharing Economy, Blockchain Markets & Crowd-Based Capitalism

A. Sundararajan, Video here

Digitale Wirtschaft und Privatsphäre: Der Preis der Personalisierung

N. Jentzsch, hier

The FCO prohibits booking.com’s “narrow” best-price clause

S. Heinz, here

The fourth industrial revolution: what does WEF’s Klaus Schwab leave out?

A. Maynard, here

Apple Presses Supreme Court for Appeal Over eBooks Price Fixing

Fortune.com, here

The Final GDPR Text and What It Will Mean for Health Data

Hogan Lovells, here

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Blockchain Technology: Principles and Applications

M. Pilkington, here.

Disrupting the Disruptors

Nesta, here.

Emerging Competition Issues: Keeping Pace in a Changing World

CA Competition Bureau, here.

Towards a Digital Single Market Act

EP, here.

How I peeked at the personal data a billion dollar company holds about me

P.-O. Dehaye, here.

As More Pay by Smartphone, Banks Scramble to Keep Up

NYTimes, here

Digital transformations: An introduction

F.-X. Olleros, M. Zhegu, here

WhatsApp as a business channel

Whatsapp.com, here

Competition Law for a Post-Scarcity World

S. Mehla, here.

Monday, January 18, 2016

Privacy and Drone Spying

NYTimes, here

Welcome to the Jungle: The Liability of Internet Intermediaries for Privacy Violations in Europe

B. van der Sloot, here

Information as Property

H. Zech, here

The law and economics of most-favoured nation clauses

F.Gonzalez-Diaz, M. Bennett, here

Which Future for Competition in the Global Trade System: Competition Chapters in FTAs

V. Demedts, here

Drug Wars:A New Generation of Generic Pharmaceutical Delay

R. Feldman, E. Frondorf, here

Antitrust Overhaul

R. Steiner, here

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data

S. Vezzoso, here (this blog's author).

Your comments are more than welcome!

Competition in a big data world

M. Vestager, here

Ad Blocking: A Primer

TechCrunch, here

Tarifs bancaires : Bercy va lancer un comparateur sur Internet

LeParisien, ici

A Note on the Ethics of Nudge

C. Schubert, here

Building the intention economy

ctrlio, here

European Antitrust Chief Takes Swipe at Privacy Issue

NYTimes, here.