The American Express Opinion, Tech Platforms & the Rule of Reason

T. Wu, here.

Warning! Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

NYTimes, here.

Huge surge in AI patent applications in past 5 years

FT, here.

Italy 4.0

Deloitte, here. 

Google a aussi donné des cartes cadeaux à des internautes contre leurs données personnelles

Numérama, ici. 

Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) launched

FCA, here. 

Artificial Intelligence - Technology Trends 2019

WIPO, here. 

L'Autorité de la concurrence ordonne des mesures d'urgence à l'encontre de Google

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Die Zuckerberg-Sandberg-Connection funktioniert doch

FAZ, hier. 

Competition and engineering

Competition Lore Podcast, here. 

Two-Thirds of Financial Decision-Makers Believe Tech Giants Will Offer Retail Banking in Five Years

The Fintech Times, here. 

Sencrop is a data platform to help farmers manage their lands

TechCrunch, here. 

How to make Google stronger: Punish it

Politico.eu, here. 

Google and IAB ad category lists show ‘massive leakage of highly intimate data,’ GDPR complaint claims

TechCrunch, here. 

Google and adtech body criticised over data protection

FT, here. 

Competition Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Sector (2009-2017)

EC, here. 

Gripe to UK, Ireland, Poland: Ad tech industry inhales, then 'leaks' sensitive info on our health, politics, religion

The Register, here. 

Another tech bubble could be about to burst

FT, here. 

The Copyright Killer

GCR, here. 

Bußgeld gegen Fahrradgroßhändler ZEG wegen vertikaler Preisbindung

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Automating Society: Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU

AlgorithmWatch in cooperation with Bertelsmann Stiftung, supported by the Open Society Foundations, here. 

Japan Introduces ”Commitment Procedure” for Alleged Antitrust Violations

Orrick, here. 

How To Stop Amazon From Swallowing The Internet

H. Singer, here. 

Apple and Aetna are teaming up on a new app to help track and reward healthy behavior

CNBC, here. 

GOOGLE’S SIDEWALK LABS PLANS TO PACKAGE AND SELL LOCATION DATA ON MILLIONS OF CELLPHONES

The Intercept, here. 

Public Understanding of GDPR

Open Rights Group, here. 

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

TechCrunch, here. 

Google rejects regulator checks on search algorithms

AFR, here (and here).

Ein EU-Gesetz mausert sich zum globalen Standard

NZZ, hier. 

Daten teilen – mit dem Staat?

FAZ, hier. 

Brussels set to block rail merger between Alstom and Siemens

FT, here. 

The video of #CPDP2019 Opening Night Book Launch of "Surveillance Capitalism"

Here. 

Buchungsportale - "intransparent und unfair"?

Tagesschau.de, hier. 

Surveillance Capitalism: A Competition Policy Assessment

This is finally (on very last day, of course, and this after an already generous deadline extension - am I the only one?) my submission to the Ascola 2019 Conference (extended abstract). Any comments from @wavesblog Readers? I’d be extremely grateful (my email address is mentioned in the first footnote, thank you!).

Update on GDPR complaint (RTB ad auctions)

Brave, here. 

PRIVACY GROUPS CLAIM ONLINE ADS CAN TARGET ABUSE VICTIMS

Wired, here. 

China’s threat to Europe’s rail is a ‘straw dragon’

FT, here. 

Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

QC.com, here. 

Approach to final Regulatory Technical Standards and EBA guidelines under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2)

FCA, here.

UK watchdog proposes tougher rules for peer-to-peer lending

Reuters, here.

#CPDP2019

YouTube channel here. 

The First major truly "open" Android phone in the wake of the Android remedies?

« C’était surhumain » : des joueurs professionnels ont perdu contre une IA à Starcraft 2

Numérama, ici. 

An Alternative Vision for Antitrust in the Digital Age with Cristina Caffarra

Techopoly, Podcast here. 

A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

MIT News, here. 

Merging WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram could kill Facebook

Wired, here. 

The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite

NYTimes, here. 

Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Fix That Op-Ed You Wrote

K. Swisher, here. 

Quel est le rôle des plateformes dans l’économie numérique ?

Le Monde, ici. 

NHS to offer paid-for DNA tests if patients share data

BBC, here. 

The facts about Facebook

TechCrunch, here. 

Algorithmic regulation and the rule of law

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

Italy Makes First-Ever Official Move Toward Blockchain Regulation

Finance Magnates, here. 

Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?

TechCrunch, here.

Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

NYTimes, here.
Read also here.

Reminder: #EUcompdigit Students Challenge

Rules here.

Good Data

Edited by A. Daly, K.  Devitt and M. Mann, here.

World Leaders at Davos Call for Global Rules on Tech

NYTimes, here.

Les « brevets blockchain » : état des lieux et perspectives

August-debouzy.com, ici. 

« Amazon, Netflix : le retour de l’intégration verticale ? »

E. Combe, ici.

Surveillance capitalism’ has gone rogue. We must curb its excesses.

The Washington Post, here.

Google's cert petition in Google v. Oracle

Here.
More here.
And what I wrote on the topic centuries ago is here.

Amazon Can’t Fix Facial Recognition

C. O’Neil, here.

Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence

H. Kim, M. Luca, here.

Perspectives on Issues in AI Governance

Google, here.

Max Schrems Files New Privacy Complaints That Seem To Show The Impossibility Of Complying With The GDPR

TechDirt, here.

PhD Candidate Robbert van Eijk measures privacy component in online advertising

Uni Leiden, here.

How Do You Govern Machines That Can Learn? Policymakers Are Trying to Figure That Out

NYTIMES, here.

‘The industry can’t say it hasn’t been warned’: Media execs react to Google’s GDPR fine

DigiDay, here.

Apple's Security Expert Joined the ACLU to Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever'

Motherboard, here.

The Canal+ Judgment (T-873/16), and the end of the Pay-TV Case (or the illusion of precedent)

A. Lamadrid, here.

CNIL: Millionenbußgeld gegen Google wegen DSGVO-Verstößen

P. Hense, Video hier.

Blockchain’s Occam problem

McKinsey, here.

The New Madison Approach Goes to Court

Orrick, here.

DIGITALISIERUNG BRAUCHT ZIVILGESELLSCHAFT

Phineo.org, hier.

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

The Register, here.

COLLUSION BY BLOCKCHAIN AND SMART CONTRACTS

T. Schrepel, here.

China blocks Bing access in curb on last foreign search engine

FT, here.

Cooperation, Dependence and Eviction - How Platform-To-Business Relationships in Mobile Telephony Ecosystems Should Be Addressed in A Competition Law Perspective?

F. Marty, J. Pillot, here.

Merger Review in the 2020s: Do Digitalization and Globalization Change the Analysis?

T. Igarashi, here.

Privacy and Manipulation in the Digital Age

T. Zarski, here.

Google’s European Monopoly (& Shrinking Click-Through Opportunities)

SparkToro, here.

Data Broker That Sold Phone Locations Used by Bounty Hunters Lobbied FCC to Scrap User Consent

MotherBoard, here.

Millions of bank loan and mortgage documents have leaked online

TechCrunch, here.

Suppose TV can now alert you to changes in TV packages, so you get the best deal

TechCrunch, here.

Et voilà:

Dreamstime v. Google

Google’s response, here.

Data protection in the age of big data

S. Wachter, here.

Délibération n°SAN-2019-001 du 21 janvier 2019

Ici. 

New technology as a disruptive global force

M. Vestager, here.

Abuse of dominance through data overcharges and EU competition law enforcement

CoreBlog, here.

Brussels takes a welcome lead on AI regulation

FT, here.

Guess

Datainspektionen, here.

Amazon Knows What You Buy. And It’s Building a Big Ad Business From It.

NYTimes, here.

Brave alerts the FTC about two major problems in digital media & services markets

Brave, here. 

EU’s antitrust cop lays groundwork for more tech scrutiny

Washington Post, here.

Die Zukunft des Internets: Mozilla und Co. wollen es besser machen als die Großen

FAZ, hier.

Proceeding against whitelisting contract between Google and Eyeo terminated after amendments to the contract

Bundeskartellamt, here.

First sanction against Google following our collective complaints

La Quadrature, here.

Brussels fines Mastercard €570m for restricting competition

FT, here.

Google Is Fined $57 Million Under Europe’s Data Privacy Law

NYTimes, Here.

What data counts in Europe? Towards a public debate on Europe’s high value data and the PSI Directive

OKI Blog, here. 

Is IoT inevitable?

From S. Zuboff‘s Surveillance Capitalism.

'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

The Guardian, here.

Is Google an evil genius?

The Economist, here  (and here)

O.K., Google: How Much Money Have I Made for You Today?

NYTimes, here.

Apple darf nicht behaupten, alle iPhones seien verfügbar

Heise.de, hier. 

EU to veto Siemens, Alstom rail merger: sources

Reuters, here.

#EUcompdigit: some (personal) visual memories

  
 

Privacy campaigner Schrems slaps Amazon, Apple, Netflix, others with GDPR data access complaints

TechCrunch, here. 

Netflix: Fortnite is a bigger rival than HBO

WashingtonPost, here. 

In Utrecht or thereabouts next Monday afternoon? Come and join us for a BIG discussion!

Workshop: Smart data and Competition Law, Utrecht University, more info here. 

La forme des choix

LINC, ici. 

Smart glasses and data protection

EDPS, Technology Report No 1, here. 

Responsibility in the Age of Emerging Technology

P. Nemitz, here. 

Examining Copyright Protection of AI-Generated Art

C. Dee, here (p. 31 ff.).

The Unwanted Sharing Economy: An Analysis of Cookie Syncing and User Transparency under GDPR

T. Urban et al., here. 

Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation

You can re-watch THE EU Competition Conference here 

Jean Tirole at #EUcompdigit

Video, here. 

Margrethe Vestager's Addresses #EUcompdigit

Video, here. 

Tracking technology to reveal whether food produced legally and sustainably

The Guardian, here. 

Commission approves BASF's acquisition of Solvay's nylon business, subject to conditions

EC Press Release, here. 

For teens, digital technology is good. Or bad. Or maybe neutral?

Ars Technica, here. 

Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

BBC News, here. 

Netflix, Spotify & YouTube: Eight Strategic Complaints filed on “Right to Access”

Noyb, here. 

ICYMI (and ICIFAT - In Case I Forget About Them)

Amazon and the Law of the Jungle, here.
Android Remedies: Tearing Down the Wall, here.
Geo-blocking of Audio-visual Services in the EU: Gone with the Wind?, here.
Sabbiere, innovazione e concorrenza: il caso fintech, qui.

Google Spends $40 Million for Fossil Watch Tech to Fight Apple

Bloomberg, here. 

Congress needs to address consumer data privacy in a responsible and modern manner

The Hill, here. 

How Tracking And Selling Our Data Became A Business Model

WBUR, Audio here. 

Capturing the Classroom

GTP, here. 

Facebook and Google Are the New Data Brokers

C. Hoofnagle, here. 

Ist die Bank N26 wirklich so toll?

FAZ, hier. 

Disruption is thriving in unexpected areas

FT, here. 

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that quotation exception is not limitless and that there is no fair use in the EU

IPKitten, here. 

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

Stratechery, here. 

Wyoming Lawmakers Advance Blockchain ‘Sandbox’ Bill

Coindesk, here. 

A Grand Bargain on Data Privacy Legislation for America

ITIF, here.
"

Der Jäger der missbrauchten Daten

Republik.ch, hier. 

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review: The New Big Brother

WSJ, here. 

Die zweite EU-Richtlinie zu Zahlungsdiensten hat eine Revolution im Verborgenen ausgelöst

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Fake News, Real Money: Ad Tech Platforms, Profit-Driven Hoaxes, and the Business of Journalism

J. Braun, J. Eklund, here. 

Große Koalition nimmt WhatsApp ins Visier

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Gartner Predicts for the Future of Privacy 2019

Gartner, here. 

Colonised by data: the hollowing out of digital society

M. Pirogan, here. 

Fusion Alstom-Siemens : « La constitution d’un Airbus du ferroviaire sera-t-elle favorable pour le consommateur européen ? »

Le Monde, ici. 

Buying a new purse? This startup wants to help you pay for it — but could also get you into debt.

Vox, here. 

Market Dominance in Chip Manufacturing Will Mean Higher Prices

InsideSources, here. 

Facial and emotional recognition; how one man is advancing artificial intelligence

CBS, video here. 

Japan’s Robot Hotel Just Laid Off Half Its Robots

Futurism, here. 

Facebook’s Privacy Problems Get Real in Germany

Bloomberg, here. 

WeChat is quietly ranking user behavior to play catch-up with Alibaba

TechCrunch, here. 

PRESSURE MOUNTS ON AMAZON, MICROSOFT, AND GOOGLE AGAINST SELLING FACIAL RECOGNITION TO GOVERNMENT

ACLU, here. 

Antitrust’s Messy Breakup Fallacy

R. Woodcock, here. 

The Most Powerful Person in Tech Is … David Cicilline?

Bloomberg, here. 

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

LA Review of Books, here. 

« Les deux visages des fusions-acquisitions »

E. Combe, ici. 

Facebook made a $300 million pledge to help journalists — just like Google did last year

Recode, here. 

FINA RELAXES RULES, WON’T BAN ATHLETES FOR COMPETING IN NON-FINA MEETS

SwimSwam, here. 

Open banking quietly delayed

InnovationAus, here. 

Good Data Ethics

A. Zeffiro, here. 

Korea to tear down barriers to fintech innovation

FinExtra, here. 

FACEBOOK'S '10 YEAR CHALLENGE' IS JUST A HARMLESS MEME—RIGHT?

Wired, here. 

After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges in Europe — and kept growing ad revenue

DigiDay, here. 

Planet49: pre-ticked agreement with clauses in terms and conditions.

GAVCLaw, here. 

PayPal Holdings, Inc / iZettle AB merger inquiry: Issues Statement

CMA, here. 

Basic Private Auctions Are ‘Going The Way Of The Dinosaur’ As Programmatic Cleans Up

AdExchanger, here. 

THE QUEST TO TOPPLE SCIENCE-STYMYING ACADEMIC PAYWALLS

J. Ito, here. 

Data-rich Markets: The Best of Possible Worlds?

ICLE, here (heavily redacted title ;-) - SV), here. 

Experian responds

Here; Appendices here. 

ONLINE ADVERTISING: TRENDS, BENEFITS AND RISKS FOR CONSUMERS

OECD Digital Economy Paper No.272, here. 

Geo-blocking of Audio-visual Services in the EU: Gone with the Wind?

S. Vezzoso (this Blog's Author), here.



(...years waiting for this moment)

BLOCKING THE DATA STALKERS

New Economics Foundation, here. 

La ACCO considera discriminatorio y restrictivo de la competencia imponer a los VTC’s la obligación que se les pre-contraten los servicios con una antelación mínima de 6 horas.

ACCO, Nota de Prensa aquí.

Kartellamt knöpft sich Facebook vor

Bild.de, hier. 

When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction

J. Sadowski, here. 

CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING (5A): WIE GEFÄHRLICH SIND BIG DATA, KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ UND ALGORITHMEN FÜR DEN WETTBEWERB?

A. Rösner, hier. 

“Alexa, play some music” isn’t the only time Amazon is listening to you.

J. Voiovich, here. 

The Creative Industries

J. Waldfogel, here. 

From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising

F. Decarolis, G. Rovigatti, here. 

Data Brokers Co-Opetition

Y. Gu, L. Madio, C. Reggiani, here. 

S.M.A.R.T.

FTC v. Qualcomm: Trial and Implications?

Orrick, here. 

India central bank convenes digital payments panel

FinExtra, here. 

Coopération, dépendance et éviction. Quelle appréhension concurrentielle des liens inter-entreprises dans les écosystèmes de téléphonie mobile ?

F. Marty, J. Pillot, ici. 

AI for international economists

R. Baldwin, here.

Status quo on fighting planned obsolescence

Recent-ecl.blogspot.com, here. 

Why Regulators Went Soft on Monopolies

J. Tepper, here. 

Vente-Privée et « l’illusion de faire une bonne affaire » : le site rejette les accusations

Numérama, here.

Auf die digitale folgt die analoge Revolution

NZZ, hier. 

'Rule of Trust': The Power and Perils of China’s Social Credit Megaproject

Y.-J. Chen, C.-F.Lin, H.-W. Liu, here.

Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill eBay

S. Yegge, here. 

Female Economists Push Their Field Toward a #MeToo Reckoning

NYTimes, here. 

Automatorts: How Should Accident Law Adapt to Autonomous Vehicles? Lessons from Law and Economics

E. Talley, here. 

Liability Rules in the Internet of Things: Why Traditional Legal Relations Encourage Modern Technological Innovation

R. Epstein, here.

Open Banking year one: Insights from the CMA9 and more

FinExtra, here. 

Le lien unissant un chauffeur et Uber reconnu « contrat de travail »

Le Monde, ici. 

What if algorithms could abide by ethical principles?

STOA, here.

Robotic Milkers and an Automated Greenhouse: Inside a High-Tech Small Farm

NYTimes, here. 

The California Consumer Privacy Act will have a significant business impact on the digital advertising industry.

IAB, here

Congress spends $0 on independent assessments of technology issues

Washington Post, here. 

German watchdog deals new blow to Alstom-Siemens rail tie-up

FT, here. 

Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World

D. Susser, B. Rossler, H. Nissenbaum, here. 

Apple Admits The Obvious: User Repairs Harm The Bottom Line

TechDirt, here. 

Preview

Professors Hartzog and Richards Insist It’s Time to Try Something Different on Internet Privacy

TAP, here. 

Should we think of Big Tech as Big Brother?

FT, here. 

Ansip: "La fragmentación del mercado digital es un rompecabezas malo"

Cadenaser, aquì.

FTC Displays Its Anti-Innovation Folly

Investors.com, here. 

“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”

Pro-Market, here. 

Major Consulting Firm McKinsey Finds Little Evidence of Practical Blockchain Use Cases

CoinTelegraph, here. 

WILL REDIGI ASK THE SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH IN ON THE RESALE OF “USED” DIGITAL MUSIC FILES?

All Rights Reserved, here. 

NOWCASTING PRIVATE CONSUMPTION: TRADITIONAL INDICATORS, UNCERTAINTY MEASURES, CREDIT CARDS AND SOME INTERNET DATA

Banco de EspaÑa, here. 

Google gets payments licence in Ireland

FinExtra, here. 

Understanding the Unplanned Internet - How Ad Tech is Broken By Design

A. Zucker-Scharff, Video here. 

Online Advertisers Embrace Blockchain to Fight Fraud

Bloomberg, here. 

Structural presumption in U.S. merger control policy would strengthen modern antitrust enforcement

J. Kwoka, here. 

The Day Antitrust Died?: Episode 1, Frederic M. Scherer

Ipse Dixit podcast here. 

Senators aim to give internet companies doctor-like duties to protect our data

TechCrunch, here. 

Consumer data right: Rules outline

ACCC, here. 

Options to maintain a competitive digital economy

ESB, here (Google translate), original here. 

Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say

Bloomberg, here. 

The Law and Economics of Apple Inc. v. Pepper

Technology Policy Institute, here. 

Contre le pouvoir des plateformes, établir une portabilité sociale des données

S.I.Lex, here. 

Competitive Enhancement involving Digital Platformers: Japanese authorities

White & Case, here. And here.

The New ECN+ Directive: Towards an Even More Integrated Antitrust Enforcement in the EU

Arnold & Porter, here. 

WHY IT'S HARD TO ESCAPE AMAZON'S LONG REACH

Wired, here. 

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

M. Read, here. 

2018 Code of conduct on internet quality of service

ARCEP, here. 

Google ofrecerá servicios bancarios: por una competencia financiera real y justa

El Economista, aquì.

Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study

ArsTechnica, here. 

AncestryDNA ist in Deutschland - Und wo ist der Datenschutz?

T. Weichert, hier. 

AutomatedPricingAlgorithmsandCollusion:ABraveNewWorldorOldWineinNewBottles?

S. Li, C. Xie, here. 

How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook - Report

Privacy International, here. 

How to Fix America's Monopoly Problem

L. Khan, here. 

The U.S. Needs Conglomerate Merger Legislation

R. Lande, here. 

Infectious healthcare waste disposal sector in Corsica: excessive prices

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Regulating the disrupters

J. Tirole, here. 

Banken sind Marktführer; aber welche Chance haben sie im Zahlungsverkehr gegen Apple, Google und PayPal?

IT-Finanzmagazin.de, hier. 

BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH COULD BECOME NETFLIX’S SECRET MARKETING WEAPON

The Verge, here. 

Thou shalt not sample… without permission!

J. Quintais, B. Jütte, here. 

Microsoft is privately testing 'Bali,' a way to give users control of data collected about them

ZDNet, here. 

What They Are Saying: Experts Continue To Point Out Flaws In EC’s Android Decision

Springboard, here. 

Perils of Surveillance capitalism

S. Zuboff, Video here. 

The Competitive Landscape of AI Startups

HBR, here. 

Qualcomm-FTC lawsuit: Everything you need to know

Cnet, here.

A Real Remedy the FTC Should Demand of Facebook

Public Knowledge, here. 

Bayer/Monsanto: Summary of the Decision (and the whole 946 pp.)

Here. and the whole Decision here.