Susan Athey: Applying Machine Learning to the Economy

Stanford Business, here. 

Klöckner darf digitale Plattform für Stahlprodukte starten

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Inside the Engine Room of Digital Platforms: Reviews, Ratings, and Recommendations

P. Belleflamme, M. Peitz, here. 

Telegram Triples Price in Largest Initial Coin Offering

Bloomberg, here. 

Economic approach to privacy and data security issues

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

A. Kruger, E. Posner, here. 

Mobile Security Updates: Understanding the Issues

FTC, here. 

Amazon circles home security market with $1bn Ring deal

FT, here. See also here (Reuters).

Daten einfach übertragen: Ihr Recht auf Datenportabilität

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier. 

Content Analysis of Cyber Insurance Policies: How do carriers write policies and price cyber risk?

S. Romanosky et al., here. 

Is the Market for Digital Privacy a Failure?

C. Fuller, here. 

Privacy Expectations and Preferences in an IoT World

P. Emami-Naeini et al., here. 

Bayer to win EU approval for $62.5 billion Monsanto deal

Reuters, here. 

Italian marketplace Eataly gets own payments app with Mastercard

FinExtra, here. 

Antitrust enforcement: equal contributions of legal and economic analysis

M. Delrahim, here. 

Google Shopping: letter from comparison shopping services and others calling on the EC to reject current

Here. 

EU: Ban on unjustified geo-blocking expected to apply as of late 2018

BakerMcKenzie, here. 

GDPR will have positive ripple effect, says US consumer group

ComputerWeekly.com, here. 

Switzerland: Spotlight On Copyright Issues Of Blockchain Technology

Mondaq, here. 

Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law

Iapp, here. 

Goethe-Uni entwickelt Datenschutz-App für das Smartphone

Aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de, hier.

Opening statement at the PC public hearing into Competition in the Australian Financial System

ACCC, here. 

Facebook’s data collection in Germany caught in antitrust spotlight

MLex Podcast, here. 

Patenting the Future of Medicine: The Intersection of Patent Law and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

S. Tull, here.

In response to EU antitrust ruling, Google Shopping now shows ads from competing shopping engines

Searchengineland.com, here.

Kartell-Man

Hochschule Düsseldorf und Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Open Banking: Opening New Opportunities

Meeco, here. 

Blockchain: What is it good for?

E. Felten, here. 

Economists and the Emergence of Antitrust

Mises Institute, here. 

Ohio v. AmEx - SCOTUS Oral arguments transcript

Here. 

Data Protection and data analytics: what is Art. 29 WP really saying to businesses wanting to innovate with data?

Peep Beep! , here.

Das nächste Instagram? Social-App Vero lockt immer mehr Nutzer an

Heise.de, hier. 

Digital Platforms Inquiry - Issues Paper

ACCC, here. 

EBA Rules out Secure Open Banking?

KuppingerCole, here. 

Why Financial Institutions Are Turning To Chief Data Officers To Generate More Value Out Of Data

Forbes, here. 

How GDPR could weaken, not strengthen, the duopoly

DigiDay, here. 

Data Ready

FSB, here. 

Aura: Telefónica lässt eigenen digitalen Assistenten von der Leine

Heise.de, hier. 

Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us

Ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org, here. 

Antitrust World Eyes Justices On AmEx Steering Case

Law360, here. See also this argument preview.

Medicines Innovation And Access: Swiss Stimulate New Thinking

IP-Watch, here. 

DIGITALE PATIENTENAKTE

FAZ, hier.
“Wer einmal seine Daten auf einer Akte einer Kasse habe, der sei auch im Fall von Beitragssatzerhöhungen wenig geneigt, den Anbieter zu wechseln...Die Daten müssten übertragbar bleiben...”

Der Spion flirtet mit

FAZ, hier.

The British couple that cost Google £2.1 billion

Wired UK Podcast, here. And Jeff Jarvis discussing “The Case Against Google” here (from 1:02:18)

Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power

S. Naidu, E. Posner, G. Weyl, here.

Snips brings its privacy-focused voice assistant to cars

TechCrunch, here.

TESLA LUST UND DER VERLUST UNBEOBACHTETER MOBILITÄT

DMM,hier.

Car companies are preparing to sell driver data to the highest bidder

ArsTechnica, here.

Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?

Duck&DuckGo, here.

Digital R&D

Deloitte, here.

No free rides? Platform bans in light of the Coty case

Oxera, here.

To Give A.I. the Gift of Gab, Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You

NYTimes, here.

Les Agtech poussent les murs du Salon de l'agriculture

La Tribune, ici.

GOOGLE AND ANTITRUST

Discussion, Exponent Podcast here (from 04:30).

A Brief Sketch Of (Early Copyright) Privilegio In The Venetian Renaissance

IP-Watch, here.

AT&T fight: David beat Goliath for a reason

Cnbc, here.

BNP Paribas launches fintech investment fund

Finextra, here.

Google sagt den Kontostand – nicht nur bei der Sparkasse Stade-Altes Land

Handelsblatt, hier.

Concurrences conference on innovation economics 2018: two interviews

On excessive pricing, here; on Fintech ❤️ (the GDPR making data “more open” and “less proprietary”? An interesting view indeed!),  here.

Merger Policy and the Consumer Welfare Standard: Time for a Change?

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here. 

Revisiting Vertical Antitrust Enforcement

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here.

What are the Goals of Antitrust? What Should They Be?

v. 

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here (discussion from 47:36).

The Court of Justice of the European Union has reached a decision on the collusive practices carried out in Italy by Roche and Novartis when marketing the medicinal products Avastin and Lucentis

Osborne Clarke, here. 

Anticompetitive Mergers in Labor Markets

I. Marinescu, H. Hovenkamp, here. 

Die Wettbewerbs- Erklärer

FAZ, hier.

La CNMC incoa expediente sancionador contra Atresmedia y Mediaset

CNMC, aquí.

Good Times, Bad Times, Trust Will Take Us Far: Competition Enforcement and the Relationship Between Washington and Brussels

M. Delrahim, here.

The Antitrust Logic of Biologics

S. Ghosh, here.

A Solution in Search of a Problem at the Biologics Frontier

E. Lietzan, here.

Progressive Antitrust

H. Hovenkamp, here.

Brief comment : “channeling” innovation is not an antitrust goal, but “protecting” innovation is. 

Les monopoles : un danger pour les États-Unis ?

Banque de France, ici.

Dead Reckoning: Navigating Content Moderation After “Fake News”

Data Society, here.

UK’s FCA Inks FinTech Collaboration With CFTC

Pymnts, here. 

How consumers Value Digital Privacy: New Survey Evidence

C. Fuller, here. 

Datenschutz als Dienstleistung

Adzine, hier. 

"Diese Marken sind für Edeka zu wichtig"

Zeit.de, hier. 

Should we treat data as labor? Let’s open up the discussion

Brookings, here. 

Free flow of non-personal data in the European Union

EPRS, here. 

Supreme Court declines to review pay-for-delay ruling

Reuters, here.

Disney Misused 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Copyrights, Says Judge

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

Driverless cars: mapping the trouble ahead

FT, here.

Data, Innovation, and Potential Competition in Digital Markets – Looking Beyond Short-Term Price Effects in Merger Analysis

T. McSWEENY; B. O’DEA, here.

Unusually strong words and some concrete proposals. 

Opinion by Former Senior Government Officials and Leading Antitrust Experts on the Significant Antitrust Risks Posed by Broadcom’s proposed takeover of Qualcomm

Here.

Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again

Bloomberg, here. 

Alibaba’s social credit rating is a risky game

 FT, here.

Is MyData a Force or Counter Force?

A. Jogi Poikola, here.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

, here,

The Case Against Google

The NYTimes, here. 

Das Microsoft-Dilemma

Das Erste, Video hier. 

The Rise of Amazon, Facebook May Be Bad News for the Economy

Bloomberg, here.

Crunching Car Data for Cash: An Israeli Startup Takes on Google

Bloomberg, here.

PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR EU REGULATION FOR ACCESS TO CAR DATA

Fiaregion1, here. 

Tracking-Methoden werden brutaler, Browser-Hersteller schauen weg

Heise.de, hier. 

Nokia is re-evaluating its wearables division

TechCrunch, here. 

Ärztin klagt erfolgreich auf Löschung aus Bewertungsportal

Zeit.de, hier.

A further letter to Makan re IP and Antitrust

Here. 

EU Court ruling on how off-label use is to be analysed under competition law

White & Case, here. 

Goldrausch in der Schweiz

FAZ, hier. 

Amex loses its final appeal – it must cut its fees to retailers who accept BA, SPG and Nectar cards

Headforpoints.com, here. 

The Deeply Human Core of Roche's $2.1B Tech Acquisition - And Why They Did It

Forbes, here.

Big data and innovation: key themes for competition policy in Canada

Competition Bureau, here.

Tech investor Roger McNamee: 'I would like Google to be broken up into 8 or 10 different monopolies'

CNBC, video here.

Mes data sont à moi. Pour une patrimonialité des données personnelles.

Génération libre, ici.

A qui confier notre portefeuille de données personnelles ?

Du grain à moudre (France culture), Podcast ici. 

Is consumer 3D printing over before it begins?

ITNews, here.

Whatsapp Beta allows users to download the information it has collected and stored about them

Myce.com, here.

Dateneigentum – Eine gute Idee für die Datenökonomie?

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, hier.

Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-first Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective

R. Langlois, here.

Innovation Policy Pluralism

D. Hemel, L. Larrimore Ouellette, here. 

Energy bills, switching, and a coconut roulade

The Chopping Board Economist, here. 

Google Shopping: beware of ‘selffavouring’ in a world of algorithmic nudging

N. Zingales, here. 

Canadian Regulator On Innovation’s Slow Roll

Pymnts, here.

EPRIVACY-VERORDNUNG: RÜCKBLICK UND AUSBLICK

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier. 

Antitrust Analysis Involving Intellectual Property and Standards: Implications from Economics

J. Padilla, D. Ginsburg, K. Wong-Ervin, here. 

Biologics: The New Antitrust Frontier

M. Carrier, C. Minniti, here. 

ACCC on dealing with algorithms

InnovationAus, here. 

EU to probe Apple’s $400m deal for Shazam

FT, here. 

Retail Banking Remedies

CMA Blog, here. 

To protect or collect? Germany’s big data divide

Politico.eu, here. 

The House That Spied on Me

Gizmodo, here. 

Competition Commission of India fines Google for abusing dominant position

Reuters, here.
Decision here.

Bank of Canada warns of threat from Big Data

The Globe and Mail, here. Remarks here.

Review into Open Banking – giving consumers choice

AUS Treasury, here. 

Angus Deaton on the Under-Discussed Driver of Inequality in America: “It’s Easier for Rent-Seekers to Affect Policy Here Than In Much of Europe”

ProMarket, here. 

The Copyright Permissions Culture in Software Preservation and Its Implications for the Cultural Record

Association of Research Libraries, here. 

Google-Nest merger raises privacy issues

BBC, here. 

Who blinked first in Waymo v. Uber?

The Verge, here. 

Feedback to the Commission's Proposal on a Framework for the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data

I. Graef, R. Gellert, N. Purtova, M. Husovec, here. 

Démanteler les GAFA ?

Le Monde, ici. 

Data Portability Under GDPR: Technical Challenges

Philips, here. 

Facebook’s German antitrust probe hinges on market power of network effects

mLex, here. 

Internal Compliance Mechanisms for Firms in the EU General Data Protection Regulation

G. Voss, here. 

Das erste Urteil zum Lkw-Kartell – Auftakt nach Maß?

R. Velte, hier. 

Algorithmic Trading Compliance in Wholesale Markets

FCA, here. 

Koalitionsvertrag und Kartellverfolgung

K. Ost, hier. 

Kartellrecht, Marktmacht und Facebook

S. Louven, hier.

France: Wikimedia loses constitutional challenge to law protecting images of national buildings

IrishLegal, here.

Vestager kicks off new chapter in Google Shopping probe

Politico, here. 

Es braucht kein Dateneigentum

iRights, hier. 

Devices, the weak link in achieving an open internet

Arcep, here. 

Victoire de la Commission vie privée dans la procédure Facebook

CPVP, ici et here.

FACEBOOK IN BREACH OF GERMAN DATA PROTECTION LAW

VZBV, hier. Ruling hier.

Access to car data – the new battleground that risks consumer choice

Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, here.

Competition in changing times

M. Vestager, here. 

Terrible Copyright Ruling Over An Embedded Tweet Undermines Key Concept Of How The Internet Works

TechDirt, here. 

The Tyranny of Convenience

T. Wu, here. 

Artificial Intelligence and the Good Society

c. Cath, M. Zimmer, S. Lomborg, B. Zegenbergen, here. 

Third Circuit Says “Umbrella Damages” Bar Does Not Preclude Antitrust Standing Where Product Is Partly Comprised of Materials Not Subject to the Alleged Conspiracy

PBWT, here. 

Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results to make pics harder to steal

The Verge, here. 

Only the EU can break Facebook and Google's dominance

G. Soros, here. 

How to (Re)Use Big Data

S. Leonelli, Video here. 

Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

K. Martin, A. Borah, R. Palmatier, here. 

Schweppes SA v Red Paralela SL: more details

Marques, here. 

Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law - BRICS Draft Report

I. Lianos, here. 

Should the tech giants be broken up?

N. Petit, here. 

La gran banca engañó a cientos de empresas a lo largo de 10 años

El Mundo, aquì.

Artificial intelligence and privacy

Datatilsynet, here. 

Data Commons and the City

DECODE, Video here. 

Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study

Cisco, here. 

Der Computer muss sich am Menschen messen lassen

Algorithmenethik, hier. 

Pour une protection sociale des données personnelles

L. Aufrère et L. Maurel, ici. 

Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon want to fix health care

Cnn, here.

Europe’s new data protection rules export privacy standards worldwide

Politico.eu, here.

Blockchain to track Congo's cobalt from mine to mobile

Reuters, here.

If You Can’t Take the Heat Map: Benefits & Risks of Releasing Location Datasets

Fpf.org, here.

Tech giants go to med school. Apple and Amazon’s moves in health signal a coming transformation

The Economist, here.

Harvard Business Manager berichtet über Studie der Hochschule Koblenz

HS-Koblenz.de, hier.

Europäer sollten die richtigen Schlachten schlagen

Criteo, hier.

EU schadet mit Datenschutz den Startups, macht aber Google und Facebook stärker

Gründerszene, hier.

Connected compliance

Bakermckenzie, here.

Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk

Video, here.

How critics say drug companies play "games" to stave off generic competitors

CBS News, here.

« Cookies tiers » et protection des données

C. Perrin, ici.

Oracle could prevail in copyright case against Google based on commercial market harm

K. Riley, here.

Die Geoblocking-Verordnung: kleiner Schritt für digitalen Binnenmarkt

K. Künstner, hier.

Doch nicht so einfach mit der Fahrphysik

Zeit,de, hier.

Eric Posner on Cultural Monopsonies and Data-As-Labor

E. Posner, here.

EU – Price Comparison Methodologies (DS516): Challenging the Non- Market Economy Methodology in Light of the Negotiating History of Article 15 of China’s WTO Accession Protocol

W. Zhou, D. Peng, here.

Merkel in Davos: Initiative neue Soziale Datenmarktwirtschaft

Netzpolitik, hier.

Competition, Intellectual Property, and Economic Prosperity

M. Delrahim, here.

Antitrust Enforcement in an Interconnected World

R. Alford, here. 

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

Delegedata, hier. 

The dreary secrets of Amazon’s success

FT, here. 

AI offers opportunity to increase privacy for users

iapp, here. 

Discrimination and Data Ethics

DTL 2017, Video here. 

Brazilian general Bill on the protection of Personal Data

iapp, here. 

New China Data Privacy Standard Looks More Far-Reaching than GDPR

CSIS, here. 

Bundeskartellamt startet Untersuchung der Marktverhältnisse bei Online-Werbung

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Online advertising

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum

EC, here. 

Transatlantic Digital Economy Dialogue

CCIA, Video (from 42:10), here.