Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed

NYTimes, here. 

Chris Sagers on United States v. Apple & the Purpose of Antitrust Law

Ipse Dixit Podcast, here. 

Algorithms and Collusion: Has the CCI got it wrong?

B. Chandola, here. 

Understanding the Sharing Economy

D. Coyle & S. O'Connor, here. 

Non-Price Competition in Digital Markets

OECD Panel, Video here. 

A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist

MIT Technology Review, here. 

California could be first state to bar drug makers from paying competitors to delay release

LATimes, here. 

When competition law met data protection: the Bundeskartellamt’s Facebook decision

F. Bostoen, here. 

European Champions

IGM Forum, here. 

BMW und Daimler wollen Roboterauto-Allianz schmieden

FAZ, hier. 

Why data flows matter to M&A

Cliffordchance.com, here. 

The left needs to get radical on big tech – moderate solutions won't cut it

E. Morozov, here. 

Insights and Impacts of the ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry

R. Sims, Video here. 

Olympische Spiele - auch Sportler dürfen werben

Sportschau.de, hier. 

SOLIDARITÉ AVEC LES PROFS DE PARIS 13 REMPLACÉS PAR GOOGLE

La Quadrature du Net, ici. 

Ever seen an Unwinding Order before?

CMA. Tobii AB / Smartbox Assistive Technology Limited and Sensory Software International Ltd merger inquiry, here. 

Why an OECD Competition Open Day (journée porte ouverte) *now*?

A. Capobianco, Video here. 

Néo-fordisme, retour de l'empire romain... 6 scénarios sur le futur du travail

Usbek & Rica, here. 

On Price Geysers

P. Marsden, Video here (from 50:25). Do watch it!












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And yes, this is the Jet d'Eau (59:58) - it'll always remind me of pills from now on - unsure it's a good thing...

...and this looks like the Lac Vert facing the Mont Blanc Chain (Mer de Glace on the left) (1:00:03) - nice, easy hike if you know the short cut to skip the crowd...

Antitrust Enforcement Needs to Evolve for the 21st Century

EFF, here. 

DSGVO-Bilanz: Erstklassiges Gesetz, mangelhafte Durchsetzung

Heise.de, hier. 

Experian pulls planned purchase of start-up rival ClearScore

FT, here. More here.

Cade aprova compra da Fox pela Disney com restrições

CADE, aqui. 

Policy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework in the United States

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, here. 

Governing the Game Changer – Impacts of artificial intelligence development on human rights, democracy and the rule of law

COE, Video here. 

HSBC forges partnership with commercial lending platform NepFin

FinExtra, here. 

The Responsible Consumer in the Digital Age: On the Conceptual Shift from ‘Average’ to ‘Responsible’ Consumer and the Inadequacy of the ‘Information Paradigm’ in Consumer Financial

C. Stănescu, here. 

I asked an online tracking company for all of my data and here's what I found

PrivacyInternational, here. 

Reform des Urheberrechts birgt auch datenschutzrechtliche Risiken

bfdi.bund.de, hier. 

Google Assistant aura doit à son propre bouton sur plusieurs smartphones

Numérama, ici. 

This Japanese news app quietly pushes traffic to millions

Axios, here. 

NO, DATA IS NOT THE NEW OIL

Wired, here. 

A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries

L. Khan, D. Pozen, here. 

Third-Party Data Is A Bad Habit We Need To Kick

AdExchanger, here. 

Why 65 Intellectual Property Scholars Filed an Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Google’s Petition for Cert in the Oracle Case

P. Samuelson, here. 

Brave Will Reward Its Browser Users With a Way to Earn Offers From Brands

AdWeek, here. 

US drugmakers defend pricing under fire in Senate

FT, here. 

Let’s Tackle Real Antitrust Problems. AT&T Isn’t One.

Bloomberg Opinion, here. 

FTC brings its first case against fake paid reviews on Amazon

TechCrunch, here. 

Equifax and harm created by data breach

Enlightening Video Clip, here. 

Key Antitrust Lawmaker Sees ‘Reawakening’ in Congress to Perils of Big Tech

Variety, here. 

Google completely terminated our new business via our Google Play Developer Account

M. Dodson, here. 

Platforms, promotion, and product discovery: Evidence from Spotify playlists

L. Aguiar, J. Waldfogel, here. 

Comments/critiques on the EU's High Level Expert Group on AI's "ethical guidelines"

J. Bryson, here. 

More Internal Facebook Documents Leak Online, Revealing How Facebook Planned to Sell User Data

GizModo, here. 

Bundeskartellamt erwirkt Öffnung der Werbemöglichkeiten für deutsche Sportler und ihre Sponsoren während der Olympischen Spiele - IOC und DOSB verpflichten sich zu Änderung der Werberegeln

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Innovation in the mass entertainment industry: maybe ask the Romans

IPKat, here. 

EU-Kommission will Gegengewicht zu Mastercard und Visa schaffen

Handelsblatt, hier. 

New FTC task force to tackle competition in tech sector

FT, here. 

Examining the impact of digital platforms on competition in media and advertising markets

R. Sims, here. 

The Bundeskartellamt’s Facebook Decision- What’s not to like? Well…

ChillingCompetition, here. 

Confessions of a location data exec: ‘It’s a Ponzi scheme’

DigiDay UK, here. 

How Amazon took 50% of the e-commerce market and what it means for the rest of us

TechCrunch, here. 

Online advertising

OECD Digital Economy Paper, here. 

USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE THE DESIGN AND ENFORCEMENT OF PUBLIC POLICIES

OECD Digital Economy Paper, here.

Mozilla Asks Supreme Court to Protect App Development

Mozilla, here. 

FTC’s Bureau of Competition Launches Task Force to Monitor Technology Markets

FTC, here.

Appeals court upholds decision allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner

CNBC, here.  Ruling here. 

The "Vestager Effect"

Data Portability

Personal Data Protection Commission in collaboration with Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, here. 

APPLICATIONS MOBILES : clôture de la mise en demeure à l’encontre de la société VECTAURY

CNIL, ici. 

OECD Competition Open Day 2019

27 Feb. 2019, Live Webcast here: don't miss it! 

BRIEF OF MICROSOFT CORPORATION AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF GOOGLE

Google v. Oracle, here. 

California wants Silicon Valley to pay you a data dividend

Cnet, here. 

Uber Under The Antitrust Microscope: Is There A 'Firm Exemption' To Antitrust?

Forbes, here.

EDPS Guidelines on assessing the proportionality of measures that limit the fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data

EDPS, here. 

UK cannot examine Facebook until it has clarity on Brexit timing - CMA

Reuters, here. 

The Shaping of a European Consumer Welfare Standard for the Digital Age

A. Reyna, here. 

India proposes new e-commerce regulations with focus on data rules

Reuters, here. 

Summary of proposals from Andrew Tyrie, CMA Chair, to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

CMA, here.
And the whole letter here (HT @RegCom_UChile)

What consumers need to know about the upcoming credit card from Apple and Goldman Sachs

MarketWatch, here. 

Schmutzige Tricks und Betrug: So brutal ist der Kampf auf dem Amazon-Marktplatz

Etailment, hier.

UK competition regulator seeks more power

FT, here. 

EC salmon price-fixing probe

UCN, here.

Lina Khan, a Top Antitrust Thinker, Joins Democratic Staff in the House, Putting Silicon Valley On Alert

Daily Beast, here. 

How Big Data Is Changing The Nature of Consumer Lending

Smart Data Collective, here. 

The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change

S. Zuboff, here. 

A mixed manifesto for EU industrial policy

FT, here. 

Facebook needs regulation – here’s why it should be done by algorithms

E. Giovannetti, here. 

Bosses face tougher sanctions under radical CMA overhaul

SkyNews, here. 

What is the economic value of data?

Mydex, here. 

Up and Down the Stack Through a Nerd’s Eyes: Making The Internet Better the Internet Way

A. Sullivan, here. 

Les API c’est bien… en abuser ça craint !

C. Quest, here. 

Apple closes two Dallas stores in apparent bid to ward off patent trolls

ArsTechnica, here. 

Everyone can have an opinion, but to write an Opinion you need conviction

N. Wahl, here. 

Consumer Data Right in Energy

ACCC, here. 

Datenschutz ist wichtiger als Eigenstumsrechte an Daten

FAZ, hier. 

Digital platforms: The need to restrict surveillance capitalism

G. Greenleaf at al., here. 

Facebook and Google Are the New Data Brokers

C. Hoofnagle, here. 

WhatsApp wird 10: Wie ein Messenger die Welt eroberte

Heise, hier. 

Facebook verweigert trotz BGH-Urteil den Zugriff auf das Konto einer Toten

Heise, hier. 

Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly

Los Angeles Times, here. 

California leads the way on data regulation

FT, here. 

Agree to Disagree: Competition Authorities Differ on Approach to Digital Platforms

Orrick, here.

Growing the digital economy in Australia and New Zealand. Maximising opportunities for SMEs

Australian Productivity Commission and New Zealand Productivity Commission, here.

Eigentlich sind die beiden deutschen Luxusautohersteller Konkurrenten. Nun machen sie gemeinsame Sache

FAZ, hier. 

The new ecosystem of trust

Nesta, here. 

Decision 19-MC-01 of 31 January 2019 on the request by Amadeus for interim measures

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Wer hat ApplePay das verraten?

BargeldlosBlog, here. 

EPIC demand: It's time for Google to fly the Nest after 'forgetting' to mention home alarm hub has built-in mic

The Register, here. 

Complements and/or substitutes? The competitive dynamics between news publishers and digital platforms and what it means for competition policy

D. Geradin, here. 

Apple could be working with Goldman Sachs on a credit card

TechCrunch, here. 

Tackling Online Harms

Tech UK, here. 

Even the IAB warned adtech risks EU privacy rules

TechCrunch, here. 

European data protection and freedom of expression after Buivids: an increasingly significant tension

European Law Blog, here. 

FCA issues its first decision under competition law

FCA, here. 

Avis n° 19-A-04 du 21 février 2019 relatif à une demande d’avis de la commission des Affaires culturelles et de l’Éducation de l’Assemblée nationale dans le secteur de l’audiovisuel

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Competition policy and European firms’ competitiveness

M. Motta, M. Peitz, here. 

New evidence to regulators: IAB documents reveal that it knew that real-time bidding would be “incompatible with consent under GDPR”

Fix adtech, here. 

London and Brussels make the case for competition

FT, here. 

At Harvard Law, Zittrain and Zuckerberg discuss encryption, ‘information fiduciaries’ and targeted advertisements

Harvard Law Today, here. 

ICO regulatory sandbox

ICO, here. 

EU's Vestager says not precluding Facebook case in future

Reuters, here. 

High-tech toilet seat monitors your heart as you sit on the can

ArsTechnica, here. 

Shoshana again, this time with Kara

Recode, Audio here.

Kara asks: "I know they are sneaky bastards...What do we do?"

2019 Draft commentaries on 6 articles of the GDPR

C. Kuner et al., here.

Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'

Business Insider, here. 

Privacy activists say online ad industry knowingly violated GDPR

Mashable, here. 

Why a focus on "fake news" and Facebook misses the internet's real problems - and solutions

OpenDemocracy, here. 

Vanguard of the Techlash: Will antitrust offer a way forward?

Yelp's event, video here. 

Amazon’s Winner-Take-All Approach to Small Business

Bloomberg, here.

France, Germany Seek Veto for EU Governments on Antitrust Cases

NYTimes, here.

Artificial intelligence: challenges for the financial sector

ACPR, here. 

Bradesco cierra cuentas a operadoras de criptomonedas locales

CPI, aqui.

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked

Technology Review, here.

Cinco euros al mes para Bankia si no cedes tus datos: "Es una barbaridad, se saltan la ley"

El Confidential, aquí.

Fintech for the people

B. Cœuré, here. 

Social networks to become liable for content on their platforms under government plans

Sky, here.

Putting Technology to Good Use: The Role of Corporate, Competition, and Tax Law

J. Armour et tres viri, hic. 

Google 12.11.18 Hearing QFR Responses

Here.

Google partially backtracks on Chrome changes that would break ad blockers

ArsTechnica, here. 

Der Finanzminister grübelt über die Blockchain

FAZ, hier.

Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms

J. Kleinberg et al., here.

Data Trusts and other shaggy dog shortcuts

Mydex, here.

Real-time bidding and the GDPR

J. Ryan, here.

Darkening of the digital dream

The Hindu Business Line, here.

IMMEDIATE PAYMENTS CATALYSING CHANGE AND INNOVATION IN THE NORDICS

FinExtra, here. 

UK says Huawei is manageable risk to 5G

FT, here. 

My apologies to @WavesBlog Readers for the rather chaotic blog update

El “puzzle” de frases que marcaron la Jornada Fintech de la CNMC

CNMC Blog, aquí.

“Hollywood is now irrelevant,” says IAC Chairman Barry Diller

Recode, here. 

I can’t manage another word of Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism

D. Coyle, here. 

AWS and Microsoft reap most of the benefits of expanding cloud market

TechCrunch, here. 

Making the data revolution work for us

M. Vestager, here. 

DIE FACEBOOK-ENTSCHEIDUNG DES BUNDESKARTELLAMTES

K. Künstner, hier. 

Führende Ökonomen kritisieren Peter Altmaiers Industriepolitik

Zeit.de, hier. 

Warum eine "Datenteilungspflicht" kein gutes Instrument ist

S. Louven, hier. 

India watchdog probes accusations that Google abused Android - sources

Reuters, here. 

L’UFC-Que Choisir obtient la condamnation de Google

QueChoisir, ici. 

Japan sets sights on tighter anti-trust regulations for Big Tech

Reuters, here. 

Ermittlungsverfahren gegen Amazon eingeleitet

BWB, hier. 

'Tinder for cows' matches livestock in the mood for love

Reuters, here. 

INTERNET PRIVACY: Additional Federal Authority Could Enhance Consumer Protection and Provide Flexibility

GAO, here. 

UN report dismisses fintech sandboxes in developing economies

FinExtra, here.
UNSGSA Report here. 

Facebook, Exploitative business terms pursuant to Section 19(1) GWB for inadequate data processing

Bundeskartellamt, Case Summary here. 

Porsche warns UK buyers of 10% Brexit surcharge

Yahoo, here. 

Why bankers should drop their fear of fintech regulatory sandboxes

American Banker, here. 

'Internet of things' spurs broad interest in standard essential patent licensing

Out-Law, here. 

Facebook acqui-hires Chainspace team for blockchain push

FinExtra, here. 

Google’s GDPR Policies Throw Digital Media Into Disarray

AdExchanger, here. 

Hotel booking sites to make major changes after CMA probe

CMA, here. 

Commission prohibits Siemens' proposed acquisition of Alstom

EC, here. 

EU competition rules on vertical agreements – evaluation

EC, here. 

Overview of Fintech Regulation in the United States

Covington, here. 

Bundeskartellamt untersagt Facebook die Zusammenführung von Nutzerdaten aus verschiedenen Quellen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

GERMAN REGULATORS JUST OUTLAWED FACEBOOK'S WHOLE AD BUSINESS

Wired, here. 

Privatheit in Zeiten der Digitalisierung

Leopoldina, hier. 

Personalisierte Manipulation, automatisierte Ungleichheit, quantifiziertes Misstrauen?

W. Christl, Video hier. 

Schrödinger’s Robot: Privacy in Uncertain States

I. Kerr, here. 

I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell

GIZMODO, here. 

The New Legal Landscape for Text Mining and Machine Learning

M. Sag, here. 

Only 17% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Ethical, Survey Says

Forbes, here. 

Is Europe closing in on an antitrust fix for surveillance technologists?

TechCrunch, here. 

The security of access to accounts under the PSD2

P. Wolters, B. Jacobs, here. 

The Adtech Crisis and Disinformation

J. Ryan, Presentation here.

THE BUNDESKARTELLAMT’S FACEBOOK DECISION: GOOD, BAD, AND UGLY

J. Newman, here. 

Brave New World: what will open banking mean for Australia?

Stone and Chalk, here. 

Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence

White House, here. 

THE CAIRNCROSS REVIEW: A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR JOURNALISM

Here. 

Nudging Citizens through Technology in Smart Cities

S. Ranchordas, here. 

On a comprehensive European industrial policy on artificial intelligence and robotics

European Parliament resolution of 12 February 2019, here. 

Facebook mulled multi-billion-dollar acquisition of gaming giant Unity, book claims

TechCrunch, here. 

Jack Ma's Ant Buys U.K.'s WorldFirst in a Giant Step Abroad

Bloomberg, here. 

Agro-Chemical Mega-Mergers and Innovation – Between Competition Law, Regulation and IP Rights

I. Lianos, here. 

Online platforms required by law to be more transparent with EU businesses

EP, here. 

The Surveillance Industry and Human Rights

EPIC, here. 

Emojis and the Law

E. Goldman, video here. 

A heart-shaped logo cannot be registered as an EU trademark

T-123/18, here.

Amazon's Wish List with Stacy Mitchell

Art19.com, here. 

BEHAVIORAL FIRMS: DOES ANTITRUST ECONOMICS NEED A THEORETICAL UPDATE?

E. Bailey, here. 

Alexa, are you exploiting me?

BEME News, Video here. 

ENQUETE FRANCEINFO. COMMENT NETFLIX S’Y PREND POUR NOUS RENDRE ACCROS

Francetvinfo, ici. 

FinTech and market structure in financial services: Market developments and potential financial stability implications

FSB, here. 

Is Amazon Violating the Sherman Act?

S. Sussman, here. 

Economics for Inclusive Prosperity: An Introduction

S. Naidu, D. Rodrik, and G. Zucman, here. 

Economics After Neoliberalism

Boston Review, here. 

Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report

House of Commons, here. 

Digital Ad Revenue Tops $26B In Q3 2018

MediaPost, here. 

Regulators Create Sandboxes as a Place to Foster Fintech

Bloomberg, here. 

Your Smart Light Can Tell Amazon and Google When You Go to Bed

Bloomberg, here. 

We’re all being manipulated by A/B testing all the time

Fast Company, here. 

Ad IDs Behaving Badly

S. Egelman, here. 

Non, vous ne pouvez pas reprendre du code open source

ZDNet, ici. 

Internet Platforms’ Rising Dominance, Evolving Governance

Videos here.

How to Stop Facebook’s Dangerous App Integration Ploy

NYTimes, here.

Capitalism’s New Clothes

E. Morozov, here.

Assessing the Facebook Problem

Roger McNamee talks about "Zucked," here. 

“A Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice”

The Intercept, here.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns

The Guardian, here.

Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

UpNextPodcast, here.

Amazon forced to pull products in India as new rules bite

BBC, here.

(Not quite away yet)

Off-ish

Here. 

The whistleblower, politician and journo who hauled the banks before a royal commission

ABC News, here. 

Robotaxis: can automakers catch up with Google in driverless cars?

FT, here. 

Our Thoughts on Facebook’s WhatsApp + Messenger + Instagram Integration

Public Knowledge, here. 

Proceeding with caution – a survey on central bank digital currency

BIS, here. 

Now Your Groceries See You, Too

The Atlantic, here. 

The Tech Industry Is Dead! Long Live the Tech Monopolies!

TabletMag, here. 

FTC Decision on Staples' Acquisition of Office Supply Wholesaler Essendant

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, here. 

The Data Inspectorate initiates supervision against Google

Swedish Data Protection Authrity (Google translate), here. 

Innovation Policy Pluralism

D. Hemel, L.Larrimore Ouellette, here. 

GUIDELINES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA PROTECTION

COE, here. 

German Court determines the limits of private copying

IPKitten, here. 

Response to IAB statement

Open Rights Group, here. 

Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University School of Law, on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's Digital Platforms Inquiry, Preliminary Report

Here. 

Entscheidungen in Zeiten des Internets: "Es braucht den Mut zum Scheitern"

Heise.de, hier. 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Delusion of Consumer Consent

J. Turow, C. Hoofnagle, here. 

Apple restores Google’s own internal iPhone apps after privacy brouhaha

ArsTechnica, here. 

Regulatory Sandbox and Competition of Financial Technologies in Taiwan

A. Chen, here. 

Web Privacy Measurement in Real-Time Bidding Systems. A Graph-Based Approach to Rtb System Classification.

R. van Eijk, here. 

Tech giants are the new gatekeepers

Axios, here. 

Wettbewerb schützen

J. Haucap, hier. 

Andreas Mundt auf Podcast!

LTO, hier.