Richard Thaler in the Big Short

Video here. 

Individuelle Preise? Bitte nicht!

FAZ, hier.

Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Uber’s true cost

TheGuardian, here.

How Europe is fighting to change tech companies' 'wrecking ball' ethics

TheGuardian, here,

Apple builds secret VR unit

FT, here.

¿Un robot para cada persona mayor?

E. Morozov, aquí.
Ver también aquí. ("nuevo proyecto de colaboración entre IBM, Apple y Japan Post")

How Data Brokers Make Money Off Your Medical Records

ScientificAmerican, here.

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.

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. 

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.

Consumer privacy in network industries

CERRE, here. 

Consumer engagement in a digital world

A. Crisholm, here (pdf here). Book mentioned here.

The EU And The Digital Economy [What Think Tanks Are Thinking]

EPthinktank.eu, here. 

Internet Fragmentation: An Overview

W. Drake V. Cerf, W. Kleinwächter, here.

L'informatisation de la Société

S. Nora, A. Minc ici. Vidéo ici. 

Data Exchange website launch adds to personal data debate

FT, here.

Internet of Things: search engine for sleeping kids

ArsTechnica, here.

Off-Topic: Sending the Elevator Back Down

K. Spacey at Davos 2016, Video here.

Alphabet's Page: How to make a sizable business out of whatever problem this or that technology might solve

NYTimes, here.

Wende im Milliardenpoker um Fußballrechte

FAZ, hier.

TfL is quietly testing a system to track every single person on London Underground

TheMemo, here.

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.

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. 

Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain

UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, here.

Internet providers want to know more about you than Google does, privacy groups say

Washington Post, here.

Towards a material ecology

N.Oxman,  here.

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.

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.

Unilever CMO predicts that consumers will be using some sort of virtual assistant in the near future

Adage.com, here.

Stop Chug-a-Lug-a-Lugin 5 Miles an Hour on Your International Harvester: How Modern Economics Brings the FTC's Unfairness Analysis Up to Speed with Digital Platforms

J. Wright, J. Yun, here.

Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies: Elites Who Advocate Free-Market Competition

L. Lessig, here.

UK Government Response to EU public consultation on Digital Platforms

HMGovernment, here.

Un chauffeur de taxi peut aussi être sur Uber. L'article de loi l'interdisant censuré

Conseil constitutionnel, Décision n° 2015-516 QPC du 15 janvier 2016, ici. 

The Rise of the Platform Enterprise: A Global Survey

P. Evans, A. Gawer, here. 

IT giants debate on Big Data

Vodafone-institut.de, Video here

Some Reflections on ‘Switching Principles’ for key regulated sectors

The Centre for Competition Policy (CCP), here.  

Open Letter on Ethical Norms in Intellectual Property Scholarship

R. Feldman, M. Lemley, J. Masur, A. Rai, here. 

Fair Share: Reclaiming power in the sharing economy

B. Balaram, here. 

The economic impact of enforcement of competition policies on the functioning of EU energy markets

EC, here. 

Preisvergleichs- und Bewertungsportale als Verbraucherinformation

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. 

Do Consumers Care About Their Privacy In Practice? The FTC Digs Into The Debate

Adexchanger, here. 

Digital dividends

World Bank, here. 

This Rectal Thermometer Is the Logical Conclusion of the Internet of Things

Motherboard, here. 

Bundesgerichtshof: Facebooks "Freundefinder" ist unzulässiger Spam

Heise.de, hier. 

The Tradeoff Fallacy (Or the Privacy 'Paradox' Elucidated)

N. Draper M. Hennessy, J. Turow, here.

Privacy and Information Sharing

Pewinternet.org, here. 

In Letter To Google CEO, Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Student Data Collection

TechCrunch, here. 

Google Maps will soon work out where you're going by itself

Wired.com, here. 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respond

WEForum, here. 

Recommendation on protecting and promoting the right to freedom of expression and the right to private life with regard to network neutrality

Council of Europe, here. 

Innovation de rupture, droit et concurrence

Microeconomix, Conférence vendredi 29 janvier 2016, ici. 

Shops could soon be targeting ads according to your feet

TheGuardian, here. 

America's top privacy regulator refuses to wear a Fitbit

Theguardian.com, here. 

How Hotels.com uses email to keep me as a loyal customer

Econsultancy, here.

"So what is it about the Hotels.com offers and vouchers that get me? They feel relevant. They feel timely. They’re just the right amount of pushy". Email are "personalised, and relevant to trips I have browsed and taken in the past".

Market Study Into the Supply of Legal Services in England and Wales

CMA, here. 

Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel verringern die Produktvielfalt

E. Argentesi, P. Buccirossi, R. Cervone, T. Duso, A. Marrazzo, hier. 

The sorry legacy of Internet Explorer

Wired.com, here. 

In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet for the Blind

Technologyreview, here. 

Meet the Company That Doesn't Want to Know Who You Are

Zdnet, here. 

A Few Keystrokes Could Solve the Crime. Would You Press Enter?

J. Zittrain, here. 

Apple’s Android switching plan

Telegraph, here. 

Skratch Bastid's David Bowie remix takes off on Facebook

CBC.ca, here. 

Italian consumer organizations seek EU antitrust probe into McDonald's franchise

Reuters, here. 

The College With Mandatory Fitness Tracking Devices

Thedailybeast, here. 

Intelligent Virtual Assistant Market Worth $3.07 Billion By 2020

iCrunchdatanews, here. 

The three stages of printed pizzas and other wonders

Deloitte, here. 

Travel Search Site Skyscanner Raises $192M For International Expansion

TechCrunch, here. 

Auswirkungen der Safe Harbor Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. 

General Data Protection Regulation: A Milestone Of The Digital Age

IAPP, here. 

What Mobile Ads Know About Mobile Users

S. Son, D.Kim V. Shmatikov, here.

Der erfasste Mensch

SZ.de, here.

Off-Topic: A Different Kind of Cartel

Rollingstone, here.

Capturing value in the evolving mobility ecosystem

Deloitte, here.

Unlocking the Value of IoT Through Big Data

GSMA, here. 

Richard Langlois to Lords and Baronesses re online platforms

here.

Digital platforms: an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating policy options

TNO Report, here.

VG Media reicht weitere Klage gegen Google ein

Leistungsschutzrecht.info, hier. 

Insurance companies prepare to insure Uber drivers

OttawaCitizen, here. 

Auto Distribution: Current Issues and Future Trends

FTC, here. 

Law & Order 2045: Here are 3 legal cases from the future

FusionNet, here.

3 Products That Turn Your Fitness Data Into Training Tips

.consumerreports.org, here.

Recht auf Nutzung der persönlichen Daten. Recht auf Kopie

Postulat (vom CH Bundesrat angenommen), hier. 

Misleading patent office as abuse of dominant position (Israel)

Internationallawoffice, here or here. 

OLG Frankfurt: Einsatz von Cookies für Werbezwecke erfordert kein Opt-in

Delegedata.de, hier. 

Google is Microsoft, after all

Politico.eu, here. 

San Francisco’s largest taxi company is edging toward filing for bankruptcy

SFExaminer, here.

Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues

FTC, here.
Read also the Separate Statement of Commissioner Ohlhausen, here. 

Supermarkt-Fusionen schaden der Produktvielfalt

Handelsblatt, hier.

Studie hier. 

Forbes, ad blocking, and the promise of an "ad-light experience"

Forbes, here. 

Artificial Intelligence: What Will the Next 20 Years Bring?

B. Hodjat, here. 

What We Can Do with Ad Blocking's Leverage

LinuxJournal, here. 

MLB Faces Antitrust Trial Over Telecasts: Are Small-Market Clubs Doomed By Cord-Cutters?

HollywoodReporter, here. 

vzbv mahnt Datenschutzerklärung von Google erneut ab

vzbv.de, hier.

Aptoide Lands $4M To Grow Its Alternative Android App Store In Emerging Markets

TechCrunch, here.

The Power of Data Network Effects

M. Turck, here. 

Facebook just gave us one more reason never to trust it

Theverge.com, here. 

GDPR: The hard way and the easy way

Ctrl-shift.co.uk, here. 

Can Robots Be Lawyers? Computers, Lawyers, and the Practice of Law

D. Remus, F. Levy, here. 

The Internal and External Constraints of Data Protection on Competition Law in the EU

F. Costa-Cabral, O. Lynskey, here. 

Looking Beyond the Internet of Things

NYTimes, here.

Beware: Silicon Valley’s cultists want to turn you into a disruptive deviant

E. Morozov, here.