GoCompare opens up APIs to fintech firms

Finextra, here.

Regulating machine data: less is more for global growth

General Electric, here. 

The Shape of Water: plagiarism accusations explained

S. Jacques, here.

Copyright And Artificial Intelligence

IP-Watch, here. 

Five reasons for a self-driving car slowdown

Marketplace, here. 

Privacy and data protection in mobile applications

Enisa, here. 

OLG Frankfurt a.M.: Kaufvertrag über Daten wegen fehlender Einwilligung nach dem BDSG unwirksam

Delegedata, here. 

German antitrust regulator: Why we're investigating Facebook

CNBC, here. 

Remarks delivered at the World Economic Forum

G. Soros, here.

Facebook Only Cares About Facebook

The Atlantic,  here.

EDEKA “wedding rebates” – German Federal Supreme Court removes roadblock to antitrust enforcement in food retail sector

K-S. JAnutta, P. Camesasca, here.

What kind of data can my car share?

Caratafacts.eu, here.

A letter to Delrahim re IP and competition law (SEPs, you know)

Here.

Kartellamtschef: Facebook ist marktbeherrschend

Noz.de, hier.

Engineered for Dystopia

The Baffler, here. 

The battle for consumers gets physical

TechCrunch, here. 

Appeals Court Says Accessing Data In A Way The Host Doesn't Like Doesn't Violate Computer Crime Laws

TechDirt here. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS GOING TO SUPERCHARGE SURVEILLANCE

The Verge, here. 

Versicherer starten Kampagne zum Datenschutz im Auto

AssCompact.de, hier. 

Towards a digital ethics

EDPS Ethics Advisory Group, here. 

Antitrust and the Platform Economy

Tech Policy Institute, Video here. 

Lessons from the EU General Data Protection Regulation to contribute to the global discourse on data protection

AccessNow, here. 

AmEx Supreme Court Amici Curiae: 28 Profs of Antitrust

Here.

Tech Policy: A Closer Look at GDPR

Capitol Forum, here. 

Germany threatens curbs on Facebook’s data use

Ft, here.

Facebook has...questioned the timing of the German authorities’ move, months before the EU implements its General Data Protection Regulation, a law that introduces sweeping data protection rules. Under the GDPR, businesses must give customers more information about which companies their data are shared with and to what end. “With the GDPR, Europe is already putting in place strong enforcement measures that hold Facebook and other companies accountable for privacy and data protection,” Facebook said. “We will comply with these new rules, just as we have complied with existing data protection law in Europe.”

A conversation with regulators on innovation in payment services

Hosted by ESB, here. 

Fairness, Competition, and Knitting

M. Vestager, here. 

ASICS dealers allowed to use price comparison engines - Federal Court of Justice confirms Bundeskartellamt's decision

Does it look like a luxury item to you? Where is the aura?

Bundeskartellamt, here.
Decision here. 

European Commission publishes guidance on upcoming new data protection rules

Press Release, here; Guidance here.

BGH: NEUE KARTELLRECHTLICHE SPIELREGELN FÜR VERHANDLUNGEN ZWISCHEN HANDEL UND HERSTELLERN

Schulte-lawyers.com, hier. 

Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

Press Release, here. 

Regulating Competition and Property in the Digital Economy – The Interface Between Data, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Fairness and Competition Law

B. Lundkvist, here.

GDPR: Harmonization or Fragmentation? Applicable Law Problems in EU Data Protection Law

K.Nolan, here.

Allianz fordert Treuhänder für Autodaten

FAZ, here. 

Artificial intelligence could yet upend the laws of finance

FT, here.

Banks and Fintechs Are Duelling In a ‘War For Talent’

Bloomberg, here. 

Artificial Differentiation between Avastin and Lucentis: CJEU

 Case C-179/16, here. 

LA VIE PRIVÉE ET LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA DONNÉE

A. Casilli, P. Tubaro, ici. 

Fusionieren Foodora und Lieferando?

FAZ, hier. 

Data is power: Towards additional guidance on profiling and automated decision-making in the GDPR

E. Bietti, F. Kaltheuner, here. 

“BREXIT” passes EU trademark test

WIPO Magazine, here. 

Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs

New Scientist, here. 

Big Tech’s trust issues at the forefront of Davos debate

FT, here. 

Focus on the User

Here.

United States v. Microsoft Corp.

Briefs amici curiae here. 

The Introduction of Data Breach Notification Legislation in Australia: A Comparative View

A. Daly, here. 

Ethics, algorithms and self-driving cars – a CSI of the ‘trolley problem’

A. Renda, here. 

EU antitrust regulators clear Qualcomm purchase of NXP

Reuters, here. 

The Future Computed - Artificial Intelligence and its role in society

Microsoft, here. See also here.

The quest for truly user centric services

D. Alexander, here. 

Google, Tencent Agree to Share Patents in Global Tech Alliance

Bloomberg, here. 

The Right to Privacy, 70 Years On

BSR, here. 

Wie der Mensch die Kontrolle über den Algorithmus behalten kann

Netzpolitik, hier. 

Seminario "Economia digitale e Big Data"

Università Bocconi, presentazioni qui.

How to tame the tech titans

The Economist, here. 

Judgement from the Swedish Patent and Market Court - Nasdaq dismissed of all allegations

Nasdaq, here.
The Decision by the Swedish Competition Authority is here.

Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements

Washington Post, here. 

Transparency of Automated Decisions in the GDPR: An Attempt for Systemisation

E. Bayamlıoğlu, here. 

Global antitrust in 2018

Freshfields, here. 

Is Your Company’s Data Actually Valuable in the AI Era?

A. Agrawal, J. Gans, A. Goldfarb, here. 

Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world

S. Pink1 , M. Ruckenstein, R. Willim and M. Duque, here. 

‘We get audience data at virtually no cost’: Confessions of a programmatic ad buyer

DigiDay, here. 

THE TAKING ECONOMY: UBER, INFORMATION, AND POWER

R. Calo, A. Rosenblat, here. 

Big businesses band together in urging lawmakers to sell out your privacy

Los Angeles Times, here. 

Artificial Intelligence is Trade Policy's New Frontier

Cigionline, here. 

Alexa, What Are You Doing with My Family's Personal Info?

Scientific American, here. 

Fangt die Internetgiganten ein!

SZ, hier. 

Terms of service and human rights: an analysis of online platform contracts

Here. 

DYNAMIC AIRLINE PRICING AND SEAT AVAILABILITY

K. Williams, here. 

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

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

Abstract: The revised EU Directive on payment services in the internal market (PSD2) entered into application on 13 January 2018. The PSD2 introduces a sector-specific data portability rule dubbed access to account, or XS2A. Under the PSD2, specific categories of third parties (“Fintechs”) are allowed to access bank account data to provide payment-related services requested by the customer.
The Paper first outlines how the PSD2 intends to tackle well-known market failures and other issues in the EU payment sector. Second, it discusses the role of competition enforcement in the shadow of the PSD2. Finally, the Paper asks whether the XS2A rule could serve as a template for further access regimes in the data economy.

Alternative title: The Devil in Data Access Regimes

Fintech in 2018: start-ups going global; innovation in payments and breach notification fatigue

Out-Law.com, here. 

Digital Proletariat: Should internet firms pay for the data users currently give away?

The Economist, here.

Open Banking set to shake up the way we bank

FT, here.

European banks brace for shake-up in customer data

FT, here.

The Social Contract at the Basis of Competition Law: Should we Recalibrate Competition Law to Limit Inequality?

M. Gal, here.

How the Uber & Lyft case provides an impetus to re- examine buyer power in the world of big data and algorithms

I. Herrera Anchustegui, J. Nowag, here.

Why the future of social data is partnering with your users

Digi.me, here.

Wettbewerbskommissarin: "Die Menschen müssen sorgsamer werden"

Der Standard, hier.

Researchers develop data portability recommendations for the cloud

Iapp, here.

Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark

Bloomberg, here.

Notes on attention, fake news and noise #1: scratching the surfaces

Perscrutor, here.

Richard Smith: A Big Brother future for science publishing?

Blogs.bmj.com, here.

ePrivacy Verordnung: Mitgliedstaaten sollen über opt-in oder opt-out für den Einsatz von Cookies für Werbezwecke entscheiden

Delegedata, hier.

AI trust and AI fears: A media debate that could divide society

V. Polonski, here.

Techmate: How AI rewrote the rules of chess

FT, here.

XXXLutz verzichtet auf rückwirkende Hochzeitsrabatte

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Qualcomm Set to Win European Backing for $39 Billion NXP Buy

WSJ, here. 

Canada's competition watchdog settles with HarperCollins

Reuters, here. 

About the ISU decision: a policy perspective

Chilling Competition, here. 

Bundeskartellamt sends preliminary assessment to Facebook

S. Heinz, here. 

A letter about Google AMP

here. 

The New Digital Wild West: Regulating the Explosion of Initial Coin Offerings

R. Robinson, here. 

Baidu Sees Maps for Self-Driving Cars as Bigger Business Than Web Search

Technology Review, here. 

The Alice Drizzle—Barely Even Noticeable

PatentProgress, here. 

Trucks Cartel

CDC, here. 

Facebook and Google’s Dirty Secret: They’re Really Junk Mail Empires

TheDailyBeast, here. 

Connected Cars Workshop

FTC STaff, here. 

Amicus Briefs support Arista in Cisto Litigation

J. Band, here. 

Enhancing Fairness in Platform-to-Business Relations in the EU Through a Change of Legal Landscape

Orrick, here. 

Digital 'Mash-Ups,' Patents, and Copyright

E. Boudreau, L. Jeppesen, M. Miric, here. 

Monologue of the Algorithm: how Facebook turns users data into its profit

Panoptykon Foundation, Video here. 

EU privacy boom’s a business bust

Politico.eu, here. 

MEO – Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia SA contre Autoridade da Concorrência

C‑525/16, CONCLUSIONS DE L’AVOCAT GÉNÉRAL M. NILS WAHL, here. 

Non-price competition and 'witches' persecution

The Guardian, here. 

VW verbündet sich mit dem Chiphersteller der Künstlichen Intelligenz

FAZ, hier. 

Internet Users in China Expect to Be Tracked. Now, They Want Privacy.

NYTimes, here. 

Horizontal Mergers, Innovation and the Competitive Process

G. Federico, here. 

‘It Can’t Be True.’ Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown

Bloomberg, here. 

La vie numérique bientôt protégée comme le corps?

20 Minutes, ici. 

Israel's anti-trust regulator to look at internet giants

Reuters, here. 

How to Fix Facebook—Before It Fixes Us

R. McNamee, here. 

Why Are We Paying Different Prices? Hint: Artificial Intelligence is Learning What You’re Willing to Pay

T. Gaubert, here. 

Open banking’: radical shake-up, or a threat to your private data?

The Guardian, here. 

Improving Ourselves to Death

NewYorker, here. 

Oracle v. Rimini Street

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, here. 

Zuckerberg Money Manager Iconiq Bets on European Data Startup

Bloomberg, here. 

The personal data of many of India's citizens is for sale on WhatsApp for less than $10.

MotherBoard, here. 

Lufthansa räumt Einfluss auf höhere Flugpreise ein

Rbb24.de, hier. 

The Concept of Fairness: Linking EU Competition and Data Protection Law in the Digital Marketplace

H. Kalimo, K. Majcher, here. 

Bundeskartellamts: "Gegen Facebook können wir vorgehen"

Rheinische Post, hier.

Deep Learning Blindspots

K. Jarmul, Video here.

Facebook Can’t Be Fixed.

J. Battelle, here.

How to Curb Silicon Valley Power—Even With Weak Antitrust Laws

Wired, here.

Singularity Skepticism

E. Felden, here.

Could New York City's AI Transparency Bill Be a Model for the Country?

GovTech, here. 

Apple Says Developers Earned 30% More From App Store in 2017

Bloomberg, here. 

Tough new German law puts tech firms and free speech in spotlight

TheGuardian, here. 

Exploitative abuse and abuse of economic dependence: What can we learn from the industrial organization approach?

P. Bougette, O. Budzinski, F. Marty, here. 

Southwest Airlines to pay $15 million to settle price collusion lawsuit

Reuters, here. 

Drei Monate Hölle

SZ, hier.

Versicherungen aus dem Netz

FAZ, hier. 

Data take centre stage as Ant Financial fails in MoneyGram bid

FT, here. 

Fintech leads the way as investment in UK tech firms doubles in 2017

FinExtra, here. 

Why Google's And Facebook's Dominance Is Normal Market Evolution

AdExchanger, here. 

Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees

Nature, here. 

How the FTC keeps up on technology

FTC, here. 

Can This App That Lets You Sell Your Health Data Cut Your Health Costs?

FastCompany, here. 

EU Copyright Law and the Cloud: VCAST and the intersection of private copying and communication to the public

J.Quintais, T. Rendas, here. 

The economics of the Bitcoin payment system

VOXEU, here. 

What Is at Stake with Supreme Court Review of United States v. American Express Co.?

A. Shampine, here. 

EBA's finalised guidance for banks on outsourcing to the cloud lacks detail

Out-Law.com, here. 

Gartner Highlights 10 Uses for AI-Powered Smartphones

Gartner, here. 

Data aggregators: a solution to open data issues

Blog.okfn.org, here. 

No Idea What MiFID Stands For? Here’s What You Need to Know

Bloomberg, here.

Merger Policy for Tech Giants and Broadband Providers Panel

Capital Forum, here.