Personal information more at risk than ever in age of big data, Hong Kong privacy watchdog head says

SCMP, here. 

How Uber could be building a restaurant empire with your data

TNW, here. 

The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine

NYTimes, here. 

Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond "Free"

I. Arrieta Ibarra, L. Goff, D. Jiménez Hernández, J. Lanier, E. Weyl, here. 

Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence

2017 Talks, here. 

Using AdWords API to export to third-party ad networks will remain OK as Google keeps terms it adopted in FTC settlement

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Are FinTechs hindered by supervisory fees in the Netherlands?

EY for the ACM, here. 

INSIDE CHINA'S VAST NEW EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL RANKING

Wired, here. 

The price of the bitcoin bubble: Patent trolls are digging into the blockchain

CNBC, here. 

Brenntag sanctionnée à hauteur de 30 millions d'euros pour obstruction à l'instruction.

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Apple confirms iPhones with older batteries will take hits in performance

The Verge, here. 

21st Century Competition Commission Act

Ellison.house.gov, here. 

ECJ puts some fizz in German retail market with ‘Champagner Sorbet’ decision

FT, here. 

Barclays begins preparations for Open Banking

FinExtra, here. 

Consumer Watchdog Asks FTC to Act Against Google Home; Amazon Echo Digital assistants for Deception, COPPA Violation

PRNewswire, here. 

Gemeinsam gegen das Lastwagen-Kartell

FAZ, hier. 

La banca teme nuevos conflictos con los clientes ante la futura regulación de pagos

CincoDias, aquì. 

Platform Regulations How Platforms are Regulated and How They Regulate Us

L. Belli and N. Zingales (Eds), here. 

Génériques de Durogesic: arrivée sur le marché retardée, développement freiné

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

We Can't Find Your Data, But a Hacker Could: How 'Privacy by Design' Trades-Off Data Protection Rights

M. Veale, R. Binns, J. Ausloos, here. 

Uber Dealt Setback After European Court Rules It Is a Taxi Service

NYTimes, here. 

Here’s What Happens to a Startup When Google Gets All Up in Its Business

Bloomberg, here. 

Facebook wants your face data — in the name of privacy, it says

The Washington Post, here. 

Digitale Handelspolitik: Datenschutz gegen Bananen?

Heise.de, hier. 

Fintechs in het betalingsverkeer

ACM, hier (Google translation here; as some of the footnotes got lost in translation, I collected them separately here; for any remaining doubt ask your spouse - if he/she happens to be Dutch or at least Flemish).

Konditionenmissbrauch durch Ausplünderung von Plattform Nutzerdaten

S. Telle, hier. 

Preliminary assessment in Facebook proceeding: Facebook's collection and use of data from third-party sources is abusive

Bundeskartellamt, here. See also Background information on the Facebook proceeding, here and hier.

Bin mir nicht sicher, ob die Uebersetzung hier überhaupt stimmt:

 Der Bundesgerichtshof hat hier eine Rechtsprechung entwickelt, wonach die Unangemessenheit von Konditionen auch anhand von Wertungen des Zivilrechts, etwa des AGB-Rechts, oder anhand einer grundrechtlichen Interessenabwägung überprüft werden kann. Dies gilt für alle gesetzlichen Wertungen, die den Schutz einer Vertragspartei in einer ungleichgewichtigen Vertragsposition bezwecken. Hieran anknüpfend prüft das Bundeskartellamt die Vertragskonditionen Facebooks anhand datenschutzrechtlicher Wertungen. Denn auch das Datenschutzrecht bezweckt den Schutz des Betroffenen vor ungerechtfertigten Datenverarbeitungen seiner personenbezogenen Daten durch die Marktgegenseite. Es soll gewährleisten, dass ein Nutzer selbstbestimmt und freiwillig über den Umgang mit seinen personenbezogenen Daten entscheiden kann.

According to the case-law of the German Federal
Court of Justice, civil law principles can also be
applied to determine whether business terms are
exploitative. On principle, any legal principle
that aims to protect a contract party in an
imbalanced negotiation position can be applied forthis purpose. Often, such principles stem from the
legislation on unfair contract terms or the German
Basic Law. Following the Federal Court of Justice's
approach, the Bundeskartellamt also applies data
protection principles in its assessment of
Facebook's terms and conditions. In this regard,
data protection law has the same objective as competition law, which is to protect individuals
from having their personal data exploited by the
opposite market side. Data protection legislation
seeks to ensure that users can decide freely and
without coercion on how their personal data are
used."

Hier nicht falsch aber zu unpräzis (Selbstbestimmung=rechtlicher Begriff):


"Der Schaden liegt hier vielmehr in einem Kontrollverlust für den Nutzer: Er kann nicht mehr selbstbestimmt über seine persönlichen Daten verfügen."

" The damage for the users lies in a
loss of control: they are no longer able to control
how their personal data are used."

New letter: Top Uber officials engaged in illegal wiretapping, shady spycraft

ArsTechnica, here. 

Transmission de données de WHATSAPP à FACEBOOK : mise en demeure publique pour absence de base légale

CNIL, ici. 

Disney Files Lawsuit Against Redbox Claiming Copyright Infringement

IP Wire, here. 

How to Build a Better Antitrust Policy

H. Hovenkamp, Podcast and Transcript here. 

Google Search (Shopping)

CASE AT.39740, here. 

Can Facebook and Google Be Disrupted?

E. Chiel, here. 

Chinese tech groups look for edge in using artificial intelligence

FT, here. 

Netflix and Spotify Ask: Can Data Mining Make for Cute Ads?

NYTimes, here.

Expedia, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Kayak : comment les Américains imposent leurs lois aux hôtels, restaurants, compagnies aériennes et commerces français?

France Culture, Podcast ici. 

If you go down to the mall today, you're watched by a thousand eyes

TheAge, here. 

Pourquoi Bercy assigne Amazon en justice

Le Parisien, ici. 

La CNIL se prononce sur l'éthique des algorithmes et de l'intelligence artificielle

Sciencesetavenir.fr, ici. 

Europe gears up to play pivotal role in ‘internet of things’

FT, here. 

PROTECTION AND CONTROL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN THE EU MEMBER STATES

EUIPO, here.

Joining Disney and Fox's sports channels may raise antitrust concerns: experts

Reuters, here.

Data and the role of antitrust enforcement

B. Nigro, here.

Drones, volcanoes and the 'computerisation' of the Earth

The Conversation, here.

Data will change the world, and we must get its governance right

The Guardian, here.

AI isn’t just compromising our privacy—it can limit our choices, too

Quartz, here.

Hard Questions: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?

Facebook, here.

Top Silicon Valley tech battle judge probed over sex pest claims

TheRegister, here.

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

FCA to examine ‘high risk’ initial coin offering market

FT, here. 

CMA launches digital tool to fight bid-rigging

CMA, here. 

Comment permettre à l'homme de garder la main ? Les enjeux éthiques des algorithmes et de l’intelligence artificielle

CNIL, ici. 

Accuracy and administrability go hand in hand

J. Laitenberger, here. 

"Die Bundesregierung hat sich auf die Lufthansa versteift"

FAZ, hier.

DOJ confirms new criminal probe linked to Waymo v. Uber lawsuit

ArsTechnica, here. 

The Hidden Side of Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from the Airline Market

M. Alderighi, A. Gaggero, C. Piga, here. 

Berlin regrets EU decision on airline Niki as insolvency looms

Reuters, here.

Guidelines on Consent and transparency

Art29WP, here and here.

Validating scraped data using goodtables

Ofnlabs, here.

Bundeskartellamt will Lufthansa-Preise prüfen

FAZ, hier.

The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust: Outdated or a Harbor in a Sea of Doubt?

US Senate, here.

Demain ce sera: à. Chacun son prix !

E. Combe, TEDxMarseille, ici.

Connected Cars: What Happens To Our Data On Rental Cars?

Privacy International, here.

ICANN; No, you can't

Article 29WP, here.

33 Theses for an Economics Reformation

Rethinking Economics, here.

Der Todes-Algorithmus

Tagesschau, hier.

The Rhetorical “We” and the Ethics of Technology

M. Sacasas, here.

Bing soll schlauer suchen – dank KI und Reddit

Heise.de, hier.

Wiedergabe von Vorschaubildern in Google-Bildersuche

BGH I ZR 11/16, hier.

Mytaxi pide flexibilizar horarios y tarifas para dinamizar el taxi

CincoDías, Aquí

Competition policy in the digital era (with a special focus on the challenges raised by algorithms)

A. Capobianco, Presentation here. 

"Unfaire Praktiken": Spotify, Deezer & Co. beschweren sich über Apple bei der EU

Heise.de, hier. 

Artificial intelligence is guiding venture capital to start-ups

FT,  here.

Federal Advisory Committee on the Development and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence

A Bill, here. 

Google is opening a China-based research lab focused on artificial intelligence

TechCrunch, here. 

EBay acquires Terapeak to provide more analytics to marketplace sellers

TechCrunch, here. 

ALEXA WANTS YOU TO TALK TO YOUR ADS

Wired, here. 

Lufthansa zieht Angebot für Niki zurück

ORF.at, hier. 

Amazon is coming. Game over for the insurance industry?

InsurTechNews, here. 

10 Things you wish you didn't know about elections (and what to do about them)

Socsci.ox.ac.uk, here.

What Would You Pay to Keep Your Digital Footprint 100% Private?

HBR, here. 

ICN Merger Workshop 2017

COFECE, Videos here. 

Uber's Massive Scraping Program Collected Data About Competitors Around The World

Gizmodo, here.

Comment on Canada's Big Data and Innovation White Paper

Antonin Scalia Law School, here.

A different model for personal data

D. Alexander, here. 

Birkenstock beliefert Amazon nicht mehr

FAZ, hier. 

Platform Market Power

K. Bamberger, O. Lobel, here. 

Brits flock to digital-only banks

FinExtra, here. 

Merger and national security concerns

City of London Law Society, here. 

"LUXUSPROBLEME" - EUGH ZU VERTRIEBSVERBOT ÜBER AMAZON, EBAY & CO.

K. M. Künstner, hier. 

Mercedes: „Datenschutz ist für uns ein Vorteil“

StN.de, hier. 

Patents and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

EPO, here. 

In Your Face: China’s all-seeing state - A Must Watch

BBC, here. 

Antitrust Examining Google Dominance on Web Advertising

Haaretz, here. 

Sources: Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam

TechCrunch, here.

Algorithmic collusion

Seminar, Antonio Capobianco @OECD Trento University Dec. 13, 10.30 am, Conference Room. You're welcome! Tutti/e benvenuti/e!

BPatG: Nespresso-Kaffekapsel verliert markenrechtlichen Schutz für Kaffee, Kaffeeextrakte und kaffeebasierte Zubereitungen, Kaffeeersatz und künstliche Kaffeeextrakte

Beckmann und Norda, hier.

BLOCKCHAINS AND DATA PROTECTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

M. Finck, here.

International Skating Union's restrictive penalties on athletes breach EU competition rules

EC, Press Release here.

EU merger control: how to remove anti-competitive effects?

C. Esteva Mosso, here.

Selective distribution and online sales: complying with EU competition law after the Coty judgment

Hogan Lovells, here.

European Commission to intervene before the US Supreme Court in the Microsoft case

Press Release, here.

Bundeskartellamt begrüßt geplante Einführung einer Zementhandelsplattform

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Data Spending To Hit $10 Billion This Year: IAB/DMA Report

MediaPost, here.

Warren: "No exception in antitrust law for Big Tech"

Axios, here.

Carmakers Want Silicon Valley’s Tech Without Its Patent Wars

Bloomberg, here.

Hotelverband unterstützt Hotels bei der Geltendmachung von Schadensersatzansprüchen gegen HRS

Hotellerie, hier.

Gelati Algida, sanzione da oltre 60 milioni di euro a Unilever per abuso di posizione dominante

AGCM, here. 

A battle between Apple and an app developer has caught Congress’ attention

Recode, here. 

Inside Oracle’s cloak-and-dagger political war with Google

Recode, here. 

Coty: A supplier of luxury goods can prohibit its authorised distributors from selling those goods on a third-party internet platform such as Amazon

C-230/16, here.

Enceintes intelligentes : des assistants vocaux connectés à votre vie privée

CNIL, ici.

Wholesale Local Access Market Review

Ofcom, here.

Safe harbours and legal presumptions in competition law

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here.

Common Ownership by Institutional Investors and its Impact on Competition

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here.

The Extraterritorial Reach of Competition Remedies

OECD Secretariat, Issues Paper, here.

10 years on from the Financial Crisis: Co-operation between Competition Agencies and Regulators in the Financial Sector

OECD Background Note, here.

Competition Policy and Sector-Specific Regulation in the Financial Sector

M. Hellwig, here.

How are companies preparing for GDPR?

Computer World, here.

How Can the Data Economy Be Regulated to Promote New Emerging Markets?

J. Drexl, Video here.

Artificial intelligence and behavioral economics

C. Camerer, here.

Ryanair sues Expedia, accusing online travel giant of illegally scraping its site to sell flights

GeekWire, here.

Australia to probe Facebook, Google over media disruption

Reuters, here.

A way to poke Facebook off its uncontested perch

T. Harford, here.

When Our Thoughts Are No Longer Our Own

NYTimes, here.

The right to data portability in the GDPR: Towards user-centric interoperability of digital services

I. Sanchez et al., here.

Australia to legislate to open up access to consumer data across sectors

Out-law.com, here.

Praktische Umsetzung des Rechts auf Datenübertragbarkeit

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier.

Fintech: Privacy and Identity in the New Data-intensive Financial Sector (India and Kenya)

Privacy International, here.

DFB erleichtert die Voraussetzungen für den Ticketkauf zur WM 2018

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Investigation of Parity Clauses in Japan

Japan FTC, here.

China’s Tech Giants Have a Second Job: Helping Beijing Spy on Its People

WSJ, here.

Jurisdiction, Conflict of Laws and Data Protection in Cyberspace

M. Requejo, here.

EU gibt der Lufthansa mehr Zeit für Air-Berlin-Deal

FAZ, hier.

What I Learned from the People who Built the Atom Bomb

MIT Technology Review, here.

Why Robots (and Animals) Never Need Rights

J. Bryson, here.

False Negatives Can Be a Matter of Life and Death

C. O'Neal, here. 

Justices Seem Ready to Boost Protection of Digital Privacy

NYTimes, here. 

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google should be broken up

                                                                                  S. Galloway, Video here. 

First Person Extradited From Europe to the United States for Criminal Antitrust Charges—Continued

Orrick, here. 

Bad Science: Abuse And Effects In Online Markets

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, here. 

U.S. Joins Europe in Fighting China’s Future in W.T.O.

NYTimes, here. 

Behavioural Law and Economics as Litmus Test

P. Cserne, here. 

Google kämpft nun auch gegen Ticketwucher

Heise.de, hier. 

Commission sends Statement of Objections to AB InBev for preventing cheaper imports of beer into Belgium

EC, here

Data protection gone digital

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Section 46 no defence for uncompetitive firms

ACCC, here. 

UK class action accuses Google of unlawfully harvesting personal data

The Guardian, here. 

How to Tame Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple

Bloomberg, here.

The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death.

NYTimes, here.

Examining the Fintech Landscape

US SENATE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, Testimonies and Video here.

Legal Scholarship on Data Protection: Future Challenges and Directions

L. Bygrave, here. 

At least one US state is probing Google’s secret tracking of Android users

Quartz, here. 

Identity Verification in a Post-Breach World

T. Hunt, here. 

Unlocking the Promise of Antitrust Enforcement

Conference, Washington 
Center for Equitable Growth, here. 

Interesting Tidbits From FTC’s Antitrust Win Against 1-800 Contacts’ Keyword Ad Restrictions

E. Goldman, here. 

FCA issues first statement of objections to four asset management firms

FCA, here. 

An innovative introductory economics course at Stanford is now free online

Quartz, here. 

The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Announces New Standards Projects

IEEE, here. 

EU regulator spells out license guidelines to prevent patent wars

Reuters, here.
Communication here. 

Uber, Tinder, Snapchat and other top apps include trackers that secretly watch everything users do

The Independent, here.

Brüssel setzt Grenzen für das gläserne Bankkonto

FAZ, hier.

Mapping the Real Routes of Trade in Fake Goods

OECD, EUIPO, here.

PSD2: 'screen scraping' ban confirmed in finalised standards

Out-law, here.

Fairness in platform-to-business relations: Feedback Received by the EC

Here.
Google in praise of competition policy? "This decision, which hinges on specific facts related to online shopping ads, is under appeal to the European Union General Court. It shows that in situations where ranking is a matter of concern,
competition authorities have the appropriate tools to determine legal compliance
and therefore an additional ex ante regulation is not needed."

Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported

TechCrunch, here. 

"Screen Scraping ist nicht tot“

It-Finanznmagazin, hier.

Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft begrüßt Festlegungen der Europäischen Kommission zum PSD2-Kontozugang für Drittdienstleister

die-dk.de, hier.

L’économie des plateformes : dissipation ou concentration de la rente ?

F. Marty, ici. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE FOR LEGAL SERVICES

CliffordChance.com, here. 

Video Startup Can’t Outspend YouTube, So It Created a New Currency to Pay Creators

Bloomberg, here. 

Le numérique et la concurrence dans une économie et une société en transformation

J. Laitenberger, ici. 

German Kid Smartwatch Ban Opens Voice-Activated Privacy Debate

BNA, here. 

The Purchase Data Playbook For Marketers

AdExchanger, here. 

Algorithms: How Companies’ Decisions About Data and Content Impact Consumers

House of Representatives, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, Hearing Info  here.
Testimonies and Video available here.
The following issues may be examined at the hearing:
• How is personal information about consumers collected through the Internet, and how do companies use that information?
• How do companies make decisions about content that consumers see online?
• How effective are current policies and communications with consumers regarding the collection and use of personal data?   

Payment services: Consumers to benefit from safer and more innovative electronic payments

EC, here. Regulatory Technical Standards here.

Inside the Revolution at Etsy

NYTimes, here.

I'm Testifying in Front of Congress in Washington DC about Data Breaches - What Should I Say?

Troyhunt.com, here.

Das gläserne Bankkonto

FAZ, hier.

Love in the Digital Age

Futurism.com, here.

Neue Fraunhofer-App entlarvt geheimes Tracking über Apps

TelTarif.de, hier.

Brazil pushes back decision on Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

Reuters, here.

The Economic Case Against an A.T. & T.-Time Warner Merger

The New Yorker, here.

Des mouchards cachés dans vos applications pour smartphones

LeMonde, ici.

Media in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

C. Moedas, here.

Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner merger is good antitrust economics and law

S. Salop, here. 

WIE DAS EU-PARLAMENT UNSERE PRIVATSPHÄRE SCHÜTZEN WILL

Fink, hier. 

CJEU on commitment decisions

C‑547/16, here.

28      It follows that a decision taken on the basis of Article 9(1) of Regulation No 1/2003 cannot create a legitimate expectation in respect of the undertakings concerned as to whether their conduct complies with Article 101 TFEU. As the Advocate General observed in point 39 of her Opinion, the commitment decision cannot ‘legalise’ the market behaviour of the undertaking concerned, and certainly not retroactively.

29      Nonetheless, national courts cannot overlook that type of decision. Such acts are, in any event, in the nature of a decision. In addition, both the principle of sincere cooperation laid down in Article 4(3) TEU and the objective of applying EU competition law effectively and uniformly require the national court to take into account the preliminary assessment carried out by the Commission and regard it as an indication, if not prima facie evidence, of the anticompetitive nature of the agreement at issue in the light of Article 101(1) TFEU.

30      In those circumstances, the answer to the first question is that Article 16(1) of Regulation No 1/2003 must be interpreted as meaning that a commitment decision concerning certain agreements between undertakings, adopted by the Commission under Article 9(1) of that regulation, does not preclude national courts from examining whether those agreements comply with the competition rules and, if necessary, declaring those agreements void pursuant to Article 101(2) TFEU.

In charts: how US retailers fared as Amazon powered ahead

FT, here. 

Making globalisation work for Europeans

M. Vestager, here. 

Challenges For Me of Discussing the Google Comparison Shopping Decision With My Students Without the Decision

Challenges for Competition Law Enforcement and Policy in the Digital Economy

A. Capobianco, A. Nyeso, here (and here). 

Facebook will help some users figure out if they saw Russian propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Recode, here. 

ICO backs development of medical data sharing tool

UKAuthority, here. 

Tracking Walls, Take-It-Or-Leave-It Choices, the GDPR, and the ePrivacy Regulation

F. Borgesius, S. Kruikemeier, S. Boerman, N. Helberger, here. 

ESMA Provides Further Clarity on Initial Coin Offerings in Europe

Latham Watkins, here. 

Germany’s Cyber Valley aims to become leading AI hub

FT, here. 

What’s Next for SWIFT? APIs, Realtime Payments, and Cryptocurrency

BankInnovation, here.

Will online platforms be able to access your bank data?

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here. 

Uber's data breach handling provides lessons for others ahead of GDPR

Out-Law.com, here. 

Economic Analysis of Network Effects and Intellectual Property

P. Menell, here. 

EU-Abgeordnete stimmen für Rückgaberecht auch bei "kostenlosen" Apps und Online-Diensten

Heise.de, hier. 

E-Books: Börsenverein begrüßt Einigung zum Geoblocking

Presse-Information, hier. 

Bundesregierung: ePrivacy-Verordnung kommt erst 2019

Wuv.de, hier.

Artificial intelligence: the hidden algorithms shaping our lives

EP News, here. Video of the event here.

European Commission fines five car safety equipment suppliers € 34 million in cartel settlement

Press Release, here.

L'impatto delle nuove tecnologie sui settori finanziario, creditizio e assicurativo

G. Pitruzzella, qui.

Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People’s Data

Bloomberg, here.

A state Supreme Court justice’s open letter to AI

Quartz, here.

Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems

N. Seaver, here. 

Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

Quartz, here. 

Linky, Gazpar : quelles données sont collectées et transmises par les compteurs communicants ?

CNIL, ici. 

Enquête sectorielle sur le fonctionnement de la concurrence dans le secteur du médicament et de la biologie médicale

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. Saisine d’office pour avis ici. 

China: Police ‘Big Data’ Systems Violate Privacy, Target Dissent

Human Rights Watch, here. 

Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media

Spectrum.ieee, here. 

The Department of Justice's Long-Awaited and Much Needed Course-Correction on FRAND-Assured Standard-Essential Patents

D. Ginsburg, K. Wong-Ervin, here. 

U.S. Sues to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger

NYTimes, here. 

Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke, Princeton Researchers Find

MotherBoard, here. 

This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Senate Once Again Passes Antitrust Whistleblower Bill

Biglawbusiness, here. 

Use GDPR to future-proof business models

ComputerWeekly, here. 

UK regulator accuses Concordia of abusing position with 5700% drug price hike

FT, here. 

Digital Single Market: EU negotiators agreed to end unjustified geoblocking

EC, here. 

Helping people cope with technological change

M. Vestager, here. 

Legal and Regulatory Challenges Facing Platforms in Europe

Conf call with Alec Burnside, Transcript here.

The Next Frontier of Antitrust?

K. Christensen, here. 

Shifting the Dial

Productivity Commission, Chapter 5 here

DOJ bucks China, urges SCOTUS to hear case against vitamin cartel

Reuters, here.

Blablacar Wants to Become a Car Insurance Broker

Bloomberg, here.

Payment systems

Autoritat Catalana de la Competència,  here.

Intangible Capital in Global Value Chains

WIPO, here.

How much …? The rise of dynamic and personalised pricing

The Guardian, here. 

A practical approach to rebates

BakerMcKenzie, here. 

Bundesnetzagentur geht gegen Kinderuhren mit Abhörfunktion vor

Bundesnetzagentur, hier. 

Japanese regulators raid Airbnb over suspected antitrust practices

Reuters, here. 

AI Can Be Made Legally Accountable for Its Decisions

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Régulation économique : quels secteurs réguler et comment ?

M. Bacache-Beauvallet, A. Perrot, ici. 

Here’s what we learned from ordering 213 curries at Wetherspoons

FT, here. 

Commission and China start new dialogue on State aid control and discuss competition policy

EC, Press Release here.

"The European Commission and the three Chinese competition agencies confirmed their readiness to develop closer cooperation on the enforcement of their respective competition laws in the fields of antitrust, mergers and State aid enforcement".

L’autorité de la concurrence pas assez indépendante, selon un rapport

Euractiv, ici. 

Companies face high cost to meet new EU data protection rules

FT, here.

Amazon’s exclusive deal with Calvin Klein is about much more than underwear

Quartz, here.

The role of antitrust in the ongoing deregulatory push

M. Delrahim, here. 

The First Wealth is Health: Protecting Competition in Healthcare Markets

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

#WatchOut Analysis of smartwatches for children

Norwegian Consumer Council, here. 

Acquisti discussing privacy at a PwC Event

Video, here. 

Differential privacy, part 2: It’s complicated

AccessNow, here. 

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'

Guardian, here. 

Accountability of AI Under the Law: The Role of Explanation

F. Doshi-Velez, M. Kortz, R. Budish, C. Bavitz, S. Gershman, D. O'Brien, S. Schieber, J. Waldo, D. Weinberger, A. Wood, here. 

Facebook investor says he wants the company to contact everyone who saw fake news during the election

CNBC, here. 

Vers la démocratie culturelle

Conseil économique, social et environnemental, Avis ici.
P.37: "Dans son avis Pour un renouveau des politiques publiques de la culture, le CESE s’était exprimé sur le rôle des grandes multinationales de l’industrie numérique dans le financement de la création artistique. La position défendue à l’époque n’a pas changé : « Afin d’associer fiscalement les géants du numérique au soutien de la création et sans préjuger des actions nécessaires pour faire respecter l’ensemble des droits, le CESE est favorable à l’imposition des bénéfices qu’ils réalisent sur le territoire et à la création d’une taxe pour les entreprises qui exercent une forme exclusive de captation des données personnelles ». Afin de compenser en partie les atteintes à la création qu’entraînent l’explosion du numérique et le partage illégal, il pourrait être prévu le fléchage d’une partie des impôts prélevés sur les GAFA vers un fond de soutien à la création musicale, théâtrale et chorégraphique, des arts visuels, du livre."

Data Flows – Future Scenarios

Prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), here. 

Open Data Maturity in Europe 2017

European Data Portal, here. 

Streit über Wetter-App: "WarnWetter" des DWD muss Geld kosten

Heise.de, hier. 

Making human organs through 3D printing

BBC, here.

Data Portability and Data Control: Lessons for an Emerging Concept in EU Law

I. Graef, M. Husovec, N. Purtove, here. 

Finance's Tech Revolution Risks Being Stymied by Wary Bosses

Bloomberg, here. 

Data Protection Commissioner raises CCTV concerns with Garda

IrishTimes, here. 

The ACCC’s approach to colluding robots

R. Sims, here. 

Algorithmia now helps businesses manage and deploy their machine learning models

TechCrunch, here. 

Awake on the Autobahn: Academics, algorithms and accountability

S. Venkatasubramanian et al., here. 

Taming the masters of the tech universe

FT, here. 

Digital Economics

A. Goldfarb, C. Tucker, here. 

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO WIDER CALL FOR EVIDENCE FROM THE HOUSE OF LORDS COMMITTEE ON AI

Here. 

Albrecht: ePrivacy reg will change business models

Iapp, here. 

Defending access to lawful information at Europe’s highest court

Google, here. 

Umfrage KI: „ ...dann werden wir abgehängt“

FAZ, hier. 

Verbraucherschützer: Online-Bezahldienste erheben zu viele Daten

Ausburger Allgemeine, hier. 

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and the Rule of Law

The Law Society, here. 

Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts. But They’re Still Easy to Spot.

NYTimes, here. 

Measuring the Information Society Report 2017

ITU, here. 

"AI: Intelligent Machines, Smart Policies"

OECD, Presentations here. 

Some EU regulators still don't get internet economics

EUObserver, here. 

Much ado about endives

CJEU C-671/15, here. 

"On peut faire beaucoup plus avec les données quand on maitrise le contexte réglementaire"

JournalDuNet, ici. 

Lead MEP: member states’ slow pace on ePrivacy is unacceptable

Euractiv, here. 

New legal opinion may have implications for class actions in EU

Iapp, here. 

Antitrust in a Time of Populism

C. Shapiro, here. 

Liability for Providing Hyperlinks to Copyright-Infringing Content: International and Comparative Law Perspectives

J. Ginsburg, L. Buduardjo, here. 

UNDERSTANDING CORPORATE DATA SHARING DECISIONS: PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARING CORPORATE DATA WITH RESEARCHERS

Future of Privacy Forum, here. 

Google Pays to Put Search Back on Firefox Browser in U.S.

Bloomberg, here.

Regulatory Sandboxes — a Global Stocktake

Latham & Watkins, here.

The role of antitrust law in the context of standard setting organizations

M. Delrahim, here. 

Democrats Seek Hearings on Trump's Role in AT&T-Time Warner Deal

Bloomberg, here. 

EU set to rule in favour of speed skaters over ISU ban threat: sources

Reuters, here. 

The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech

NYTimes, here. 

It’s Time to Tax Companies for Using Our Personal Data

NYTimes, here. 

The Automated Public Sphere

F. Pasquale, here.

Swiss watchmakers permitted to refuse to supply independent watch repairers

CMS Germany, here. 

Equifax says it owns all its data about you

The Washington Post, here. 

Platform Regulation: A Preface

D. Kaye, here. 

Missourians deserve to know what Google does with their information

KansasCity.com, here.

SCOPING STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ON COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION ADOPTED BETWEEN 2006 AND 2016

G. Rostama for WIPO, here.

Web companies should make it easier to make your data portable: FTC's McSweeny

USA Today, here.

From Bayer to Qualcomm, M&A Gets Costlier in the EU

Bloomberg, here.

Public consultation on fake news and online disinformation

EC, here.

Why people ruin others’ lives by exposing all their data online

New Scientist, here.

Dear Wavesblog Reader,

I'm currently revising and updating my "Competition by Design" ASCOLA conference paper to make it fit for publication. Your suggestions, comments, etc. would be much appreciated! Thank you.

New Draft Action Plans On Copyright Limitations And Exceptions At WIPO

IP-Watch, here.

Missouri AG Josh Hawley launches investigation of Google

Kansascity.com, here.

Use of algorithms must respect competition rules, says EU competition official

Out-law.com, here.

Who’s responsible for what happens on Facebook? Analysis of a new ECJ opinion

L. Woods, here.

Report on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society

Japan's Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society, here.

UK competition regulator builds new tech team

UK, here.

Leyes estatales de notarios ganadoras del Premio para identificar el obstáculo regulatorio más absurdo para competir y emprender

Cofece, aquí.

The new generation economy

Autorité de la concurrence, here.

How adtech players are approaching consent in GDPR and whether they will be compliant in time

TheDrum, here.

EU closes in on Google as it prepares second antitrust fine

The Telegraph, here.

Conference: Antitrust in Developing Countries

M. Delrahim, keynote speech (from 06:21), video  here.; text here. Q&A from 41:42.
Work at the DoJ:
- review of live consent decrees (1400!);
- draft whistleblower legislation: comments provided, good improvement

The feasibility of measuring the sharing economy: November 2017 progress update

UK ONS, here.

Kara Swisher interviews Margarethe Vestager

Web Summit, video here.
"Some of these algorithms will have to go to law school before they are let out. You have to teach your algorithm what it can do and what it cannot do, because otherwise there is the risk that the algorithm will learn the tricks...we don't want the algorithms to learn the tricks of the old cartelists...we want them to play by the book also when they start playing by themselves"

Watch also the press conference, here.
"One of the  discussions I'm trying to enable is the discussion about compliance. Just as much as we hope to see privacy by design I also hope to see compliance by design when we talk about self learning machines... they shouldn't learn the tricks of the old cartelists... they should learn the compliance of the best in the market...we don't propose any rule of that at the moment  but we want the debate to take place  because  it would be sort of paradox when we end up in a situation saying well what happens in the black box remains in the black box...because whatever machine...there is still a business or person who are responsible for what happens..."

Why Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Might Be Right

T. Wu, here.

AT&T-Time Warner redraws faultlines on antitrust enforcement

FT, here.

Algorithms and Competition at the Websummit

Video, here.

DIGITAL ASSISTANTS: HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPETITION IS UNDERMINING “HIPSTER ANTITRUST”

G. Manishin, part 1 and 2.

Competencia se pronunciará sobre el conflicto FIBA-Euroliga

As.com,  Aquí

Panel: Pharmaceutical Drugs Prices

H. First summarizes, Video here.
"The invisible hand got stuck in the pocket"

Ist die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung doch schon anwendbar? Zwei Gerichte sagen: ja.

De Lege Data, hier.

Equifax faces hundreds of class-action lawsuits and an SEC subpoena over the way it handled its data breach

Washington Post, here.

ICAP wins fight against EU yen Libor cartel ruling, fine annulled

Reuters, here.
Ruling here.

Facebook, show us your secret recipe

WashingtonPost, here.

Google: Our hunt for hackers reveals phishing is far deadlier than data breaches

ZDNet, hier.

Sippel: ePrivacy reg should 'abolish surveillance-driven advertising'

iapp, here. 

Diagnosing the Treatments: Issues in Post-Patent Pharmaceutical Markets

M. Ohlhausen, here.

The fight over antitrust’s soul

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

Berlin court rules Facebook data transfers to third parties violate data protection law

TelecomPaper, here. 

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

Gizmodo, here. 

Recent Data Protection Developments in Brazil and Latin America

Linked In, here. 

Datenschützer kritisieren jahrelange Speicherung von Fluggastdaten

Heise.de, hier. 

The Pulse of Fintech Q3 2017

KPMG, here. 

This stupid patent was going to be used to sue hundreds of small businesses

ArsTechnica, here. 

Blocked: Why Some Companies Restrict Data Access to Reduce Competition and How Open APIs Can Help

Center for Data Innovation, here. 

AL FRANKEN JUST GAVE THE SPEECH BIG TECH HAS BEEN DREADING

Wired, here. 

Supreme Court to Decide First Antitrust Case in Two Years

Antitrust Advocate, here. 

Margrethe Vestager, Wise Digital Hygienist

Politico, here. 

US: Sen. Klobuchar urges probe for online travel agencies

competitionpolicyinternational, here.

Innovationen – Herausforderungen für die Kartellrechtspraxis

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Understanding Competition in Prescription Drug Markets: Entry and Supply Chain Dynamics

FTC, Workshop here. Live webcast here. Presentation slides here. 

Fairness in platform-to-business relations

EC, Inception impact assessment here. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS PUTTING ULTRASOUND ON YOUR PHONE

Wired, here. 

Big Data Poses Special Risks for Children, Says UNICEF

TechnologyReview, here. 

Google-Manager Eric Schmidt warnt vor China

FAZ. hier. 

The Economics of Attention Markets

D. Evans, here. 

TÜV kritisiert Autohersteller für den Umgang mit Daten

FAZ, hier. 

Eigentumsordnung‘ für Mobilitätsdaten

Telemedicus, Stellungnahme hier. 

#gruesseausmoskau

Süddeutsche Zeitung, hier. 

Datenschutzbeauftragter schlägt Gütesiegel für Gesundheits-Apps vor

Heise.de, hier. 

Technology-led innovation and emerging services in the Canadian financial services sector

Competition Bureau, here (my own pdf here).

Artificial Intelligence Has Officially Infiltrated the Fintech Industry

Inc, here. 

May Your Drug Price Be Ever Green

R. Feldman, C. Wang, here. 

Amazon found an ingenious new way to undercut its competitors ahead of the holidays

Quartz, here. 

Google and Salesforce sign massive strategic partnership

VentureBeat, here. 

Datenmärkte in der digitalisierten Wirtschaft: Funktionsdefizite und Regelungsbedarf?

H. Schweitzer, M. Peitz, hier. 

Foundem on Google's Auction-Based Proposal

Here. 

Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M

ArsTechnica, here. 

Computer says no: why making AIs fair, accountable and transparent is crucial

TheGuardian, here. 

Clearing the path for innovation

M. Vestager, here. 

The EU’s competition chief explains why punishing Big Tech is good for innovation

Quartz, here. 

TESLA’S DANGEROUS SPRINT INTO THE FUTURE

NYT Magazine, here. 

7th Circuit confronts antitrust in the age of Big Data

Reuters, here. 

UK Data Protection Bill vs EU General Data Protection Regulation

ComputerWeekly, here. 

IP Europe’s Disingenuous Case for Giving its Members a License to Discriminate

Actonline, here. 

Why we need to regulate the tech platforms and how

FT, here. 

SPOTIFY, DEEZER AND SOUNDCLOUD LAUNCH EUROPEAN LOBBYING COALITION

Musically, here. 

Vergleichsportale in Deutschland

WIK-Consult, hier. 

Paying for Privacy and the Personal Data Economy

S.-A. Elvy, here. 

FIFA and FIFPro sign landmark agreement and announce measures to enhance professional football

FIFA, here. 

Unobserved collusion: warning signs and concerns

R. Marshall, here. 

Fintech, Access to Data, and the Role of Competition Policy

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Presentation here.
(Paper in the pipeline - if you have any comment so far, please let me know).

Amazon gets green light for massive discounts from ACCC chairman Rod Sims

AFR, here.