Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Sampling-Urteil des EuGH: Im Zweifel für die Kunstfreiheit

Heise.de, hier.

Carrier bags data

Data.defra.gov.uk, here. 

Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing project

The Verge, here. 

Paiement en ligne: L'Autorité rejette la saisine de l'hébergeur de contenus en ligne Dstorage (1fichier.com)

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Daten – das Öl des 21. Jahrhunderts

Auszug aus Justus Haucap »Macht, Markt und Wettbewerb«, S. 5–13, hier. 

Guidance on Cryptoassets

FCA, here.

Visa pitches a program offering fintechs faster market access through an ecosystem of partners

TechCrunch, here. 

TECH-OVER: AN OVERVIEW OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN DIGITAL MARKETS

Lear, here. 

Our Data Future

Privacy International, here. 

Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the human rights impacts of algorithmic systems

Council of Europe, here. 

Why Google employees are donating to Warren and Sanders — presidential candidates who want to break up Google

Recode, here. 

Réguler au niveau européen

Le Soir, ici. 

You can't simply pay a fine to make us go away

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Interview here. 

New DPIA on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

PrivacyCompany, here. 

Can Antitrust Enforcement Improve Privacy Protection? Privacy as a Parameter of Competition in Merger Reviews

M. MacCarthy, here. 

Data Right set to sail through

InnovationAus, here. 

The DPO Handbook

Elaborated for the EU‐funded “T4DATA” programme , here. 

Petre warns on ACCC tech report

Innovationaus, here. 

US Defense Department to Develop Blockchain Cybersecurity Shield

CoinDesk, here. 

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Digital Socialism?

E. Morozov, here. 

Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain

Congressional Research Service, here.
Blockchain Association, here.
M. Baradaran, here. 

CJEU rules that use of a protected work for the purpose of reporting current events does not, in principle, require authorization

IPKat, here. 

Will Facebook’s Libra Change the Way the World Banks?

Foreign Affairs, here. 

China’s Long View

Project Syndicate, here. 

What comes next? The business analysis of no deal preparations

CBI, here. 

Data subjects as data controllers: a Fashion(able) concept?

L. Edwards et al., here.

Fashion ID ruling here. 

Monsanto seeks time to respond to CCI probe on it abusing dominant position in India

The Economic Times, here.

Capital One: hacker stole data of over 100m Americans

The Guardian, here. 

Ant-Financial-Backed Startup Rides Indonesian Fintech Wave

Bloomberg, here. 

From energy to insurance: How Open Banking could fix the loyalty penalty headache

Citya.m., here. 

ICO selects first participants for data protection Sandbox

ICO, here.

CJEU rules that freedom of information and of the press cannot justify a derogation from the rights of copyright holders beyond allowed exceptions and limitations

IPKat, here. 

The future of online advertising regulation

ICO, here. 

Facebook’s Libra and the scourge of hot money

FT, here. 

IP Rights for Data: Mortaring Over the Cracks

Mayer Brown, here. 

Facebook's Libra could massively help the cryptocurrency industry — or hurt it badly

CNN, here.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement

Vice, here. 

Viele neue Account-Sperren auf Amazon - Händler sind ratlos

Internet World, hier. 

Les clefs pour comprendre l'activisme de la Commission européenne contre Amazon

F. Marty, ici. 

Big Tech and Antitrust: A Discussion With Randal Picker

Technology Policy Institute, Podcast here. 

Facebook amasses army to lobby on Libra

Politico, here. 

Why You’ll Never Quit Amazon Prime

Land of the Giants, Podcast here. 

Digital Europe: Draft Orientations for the preparation of the work programme(s) 2021-2022

EC, here. 

New EU rules for the Platform Economy

EC, Video here. 

What affects the flow of data-enabled international trade?

ODI, here. 

Interview with Andreas Mundt

Who Owns Americans’ Personal Information and What Is It Worth?

R. Shapiro, S. Aneja, here.

Calls Mount to Ease Big Tech’s Grip on Your Data

NYTimes, here. 

Regulator prohibits use of transaction data for marketing purposes

White & Case, here. 

Spielregeln für Giganten

Die Zeit, hier. 

Geo­blocking: Online-Beschwerdeformular

Bundesnetzagentur, hier. 

Treasury's Mnuchin says Amazon 'destroyed' U.S. retail sector

Reuters, here. 

The real threat/d

A. Stamos, Thread here. 

Facebook ends friend data access for Microsoft and Sony, the last 2 of its legacy partners, under FTC deal

TechCrunch, here. 

Businesses begin to benefit from Current Account Switching Service

FinExtra, here. 

Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain

United States Senate Banking Committee, Hearing, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 4 pm Trento Time, live here. 

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Data isn't the new oil, it's the new CO2

M. Tisné, here. 

The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom

A. Stamos, Video here. 

Facebook to Pay $100 Million for Misleading Investors About the Risks It Faced From Misuse of User Data

SEC, Press Release here; juicy complaint here. 

FTC Imposes $5 Billion Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

FTC, here. Complaint here.
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER ROHIT CHOPRA, here.
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER REBECCA KELLY SLAUGHTER, here.

The Great Hack

Documentary, here. 

The EC Report on Competition Policy for 2018: Themes and Trends

Hausfeld, here. 

EU privacy ruling against Facebook to come by end 2019

Politico.eu, here. 

THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2019

WIPO, here.

General Data Protection Regulation shows results, but work needs to continue

EC, here. 

Do cities have access to the private sector data they need to make effective decisions?

ODI, here. 

EU draws up sweeping rules to curb illegal online content

FT, here. 

Justice Department Reviewing the Practices of Market-Leading Online Platforms

DOJ, here. 

Technology: how the US, EU and China compete to set industry standards

FT, here. 

Innovation is more than amassing customers

FT, here. 

Competition Issues in the Digital Economy

Russian Federation, here. 

Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models

L. Rocher et al., ici. 

Amazon Testimony May Have Been Untruthful, Top Democrat Says

Bloomberg, here. 

WHITE PAPER: THE DATA MOBILITY OPPORTUNITY

digi.me, here. 

L'apport du droit de la compliance à la gouvernance d'internet

Rapport commandé par Monsieur le Ministre en charge du Numérique, ici.

(DROIT DE LA CONCURRENCE ET DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE ici.)

Guidance on the interpretation and application of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts

EC, here. 

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

How Russia Defeated Google’s Monopoly

M. Stoller, here. 

Unlocking Access to Self-Driving Research: The Lyft Level 5 Dataset and Competition

Lyft, here. 

Datenökonomie: Sommerlektüre

Hier. 

Competition rules must continue to evolve

G. Clark, here. 

Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capitalism

K. Birch, here. 

Commission fines US chipmaker Qualcomm €242 million for engaging in predatory pricing

EC, here. 

Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on “Competition and the Digital Economy”

Here.
Présentation Isabelle de Silva, présidente de l’Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Update from the Chair of the G7 working group on stablecoins

G7, here. 

Cade instaura processos para apurar cartéis em licitações de estádios da Copa e de edificações especiais da Petrobras

CADE, aqui. 

G7 warns on ‘serious risks’ posed by Libra and other digital coins

FT, here. 

Competition & regulation

C. Ritter, here. 

Cookies et autres traceurs : la CNIL publie de nouvelles lignes directrices

CNIL, here. 

Breaking Up: “It’s Not You, It’s Me”, “Maybe We Should See Other People” and “with or without You”

P. Marsden, here. 

UK CMA’s Digital Market Strategy

Antitrust Digest, here. 

Antitrust in the Digital Economy

Conversable Economist, here. 

The EU's latest antitrust probe could hit Amazon where it hurts

Wired, here. 

Crémer Report on Competition for the Digital Era Misses the Mark

Disco, here. 

Separation without a Breakup

P. Guniganti, here. 

Legal risk as a competitive advantage

Former Apple general counsel interviewed here. 

Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech

T. O'Reilly, here. 

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

India plan to merge ID with health records raises privacy worries

FT, here. 

G-7-Finanzminister machen Front gegen Facebooks Libra

FAZ, hier. 

Amazon Faces Probe in Europe Over Third-Party Selling

WSJ, here

Examining Facebook’s Proposed Cryptocurrency and Its Impact on Consumers, Investors, and the American Financial System

Hearing, here. 

Innovationen: Open-Source-Veteran soll Deutschland auf die Sprünge helfen

Heise.de, hier. 

Ein wachsames Auge auf Amazon

FAZ, hier. 

PSD2's narrow focus limiting the potential of Open Banking - report

FinExtra, here. 

Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon

EC, here. 

UK National Data Strategy: OKFN's Response

OKFN, here. 

Calls to rein in the tech titans are getting louder

The Economist, here. 

It’s Time to Reboot the Startup Economy

T. Wu, here. 

Reframing platform power

J. van Dijck, D. Nieborg, T. Poell, here. 

IBM announces Data Asset eXchange (DAX) to help developers use free and open data and AI

IBM blog, here. 

Open Banking: Preparing for Lift Off

ODI, Fingleton, here. 

An agent-based model on the effects of data sharing on economic innovation

ODI, here. 

‘I Don’t Trust You Guys’: Lawmakers Unite to Take Aim at Big Tech

NYTimes, here. 

Amazon ändert Geschäftsbedingungen

BWB, hier.
Fallbericht hier. 

Bundeskartellamt obtains far-reaching improvements in the terms of business for sellers on Amazon’s online marketplaces

Bundeskartellamt, here.
Fallbericht hier. 

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

EPIC Seeks Public Release of FTC Settlement with Facebook

EPIC, here. 

Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data

Yahoo Finance, here. 

Only Regulation Can Jump-start Competition in Big Tech

Public Knowledge, here. 

Competition merger brief

EC, July 2019, here. 

Everything you need to know about Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency

CNN, here. 

Habile : le WWF a inventé une fausse géolocalisation Instagram pour protéger des sites naturels

Numérama, ici. 

Why YouTube Keeps Demonetizing Videos of the Hong Kong Protests

One Zero, here. 

Libra, the GAFA, and Libra again.

Testimonies, here, here and here. 

Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

J. Stiglitz, here. 

Data sharing code of practice

ICO, here. 

UK National Data Strategy: ODI's Response

ODI, here. 

Regulator's increased interest in technology transactions

White and Case, here. 

@Echelle : la politique de concurrence à l'ère du numérique

Le nez dans le code
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Vidéo ici (dès 21:51; accès aux données pour l'entraînement des algos AI dès 1:01:40; more technological approach dès 1:38:07 "nez dans le code"). 

Calibra: Testimony

US Senate COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, here. 

1 big thing: Using a privacy law to filch data

Axios, here. 

Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional y la aplicación para dispositivos móviles de La Liga

AEDP, aquì. 

Monday, July 15, 2019

YouTube's Trampled Foes Plot Antitrust Revenge

BloombergQuint, here. 

The Toxic Potential of YouTube’s Feedback Loop

Wired, here.

U.S. Proposes Barring Big Tech Companies From Offering Financial Services, Digital Currencies

NYTimes, here. 

The Rise of Digital Money

IMF, here. 

Digital upstarts need to play by the same rules as everyone else

FT, here. 

Geleaktes Arbeitspapier: EU-Kommission erwägt neues Gesetz für Plattformen

Netzpolitik.org, hier. 

Régime juridique applicable aux traitements poursuivant une finalité de recherche scientifique (hors santé)

CNIL, ici. 

Elements of strong customer authentication under PSD2

EBA, Opinion, here. 

CYBG launches energy switching service within banking mobile app

FinExtra, here.

Licensing of FinTech business models

ESMA, Report here. 

Protecting Journalism in the Age of Digital Platforms

Stigler Center, Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms, here. 

Commission d'enquête: Souveraineté numérique

Audition du CSA, de l'ARCEP, de l'Autorité de la concurrence, Vidéo ici.

Décision: (pas de) mesures conservatoires à l'encontre de Amazon

Conseil de la Concurrence, ici. 

Congressional leaders have drafted a bill that would ban Big Tech from launching a digital asset

The Block, here. 

Digital Dystopia

J. Tirole, here. 

Canada’s nascent AI sector needs data standards to thrive

TheGlobeandMail, here. 

Digital Manipulation

TED Radio Hour, here. 

The Value of Trustworthy AI

D. Danks, here.

Invisible Influence

D. Susser, here. 

Compensation at the Crossroads

T. Hresko Pearl, here. 

AI + Art = Human

A. Daniele, Y.-Z. Song, here. 

TED: Teaching AI to Explain its Decisions

M. Hind, here. 

Requirements for an Artificial Agent with Norm Competence

B. Malle et al., here.

Moment des Aussterbens

S. Spiekermann, hier. 

Friday, July 12, 2019

The UK Furman Report as "digested" by Pedro

Antitrust Digest, here. 

Superpredators

Washingtonmonthly, here. 

Japan grants certification for first time to 'information banks'

The Japan Times, here. 

Data Protection and Competitiveness in the Digital Age

A. Mundt, here Video (from 5:49) . 

The end of Fintech

The Finanser, here. 

Big Fair Use Win Concerning Andy Warhol's Paintings Of Prince

TechDirt, here. 

Bundeskartellamt's Facebook Decision in English

Here. 

Reg. (EU) 2019/1150 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services

Here. 

Google’s 4,000-Word Privacy Policy Is a Secret History of the Internet

NYTimes, here. 

Uber in London: the battle between public and private regulation

Y. Marique, here. 

Tommaso/Tommasso Valletti Tells the Truth, Nothing But the Truth

MLex Market Insight, here. 

The price of data security

AON, here. 

Interoperability: Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Companies

C. Doctorow, here. 

Guidelines 3/2019 on processing of personal data through video devices

EDPB, here. 

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Zulässigkeit der Transkribierung und Auswertung von Mitschnitten der Sprachsoftware "Alexa" durch Amazon

Deutscher Bundestag, hier. 

Brüsseler Podiumsdiskussion zu Datenschutz und Wettbewerb

BfDI, hier. 

BIG DATA: INDAGINE CONOSCITIVA CONGIUNTA

LINEE GUIDA E RACCOMANDAZIONI DI POLICY, qui. 

Smart Data: Putting consumers in control of their data and enabling innovation

UK Gov, here. 

UK to create a 'Digital Markets Unit'

Hogan Lovells, here. 

IBM Bets $34 Billion That Red Hat Can Help It Catch Amazon and Microsoft

NYTimes, here. 

Artificial Intelligence: the global landscape of ethics guidelines

A. Jobin, M. Ienca, E. Vayena, here. 

Heineken's pub and bar business investigated by PCA over 'beer tie'

The Guardian, here. 

„Wir müssen das Wettbewerbsrecht für das digitale Zeitalter fit machen“

Inclusive Productivity, hier. 

COMMENT LE NUMÉRIQUE TRANSFORME LE DROIT ET LA JUSTICE VERS DE NOUVEAUX USAGES ET UN BOULEVERSEMENT DE LA PRISE DE DÉCISION

L. Godefroy et al., Rapport, ici. 

Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice

BBC, here. 

Europas Behörden wollen Datenschutz und Wettbewerbsrecht verheiraten

Netzpolitik.org, here.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Cade condena 11 empresas e 42 pessoas por formação de cartel em licitações de trens e metrôs

NovoDia, aqui. 

Frydenberg puts Facebook and Google on notice over market power

SMH, here. 

Intention to fine Marriott International, Inc more than £99 million under GDPR for data breach

ICO, here. 

How much is your data worth?

Quartz, here. 

10 Ans: Accompagner la modernisation de l'économie

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Missed opportunities in the EU’s revised open data and re-use of public sector information directive

OKFN, here. 

Concurrence : soupçons de cartel dans la compote

Le Monde, ici. 

The UK's Entire Approach To 'Online Harms' Is Backwards... And No One Cares

TechDirt, here. 

Facebook v. Max Schrems

L. Kayali, Twitter Thread here. 

Banks in no rush to join Facebook’s crypto project

FT, here. 

All hands on deck: we’ve updated the Data Access Map

ODI, here. 

Commission fines Sanrio €6.2 million for restricting cross-border sales of merchandising products featuring Hello Kitty characters

EC, here. 

DEBRIEFING: ASCOLA CONFERENCE, AIX-EN-PROVENCE, JUNE 2019

R. Podszun, here. 

Unter Umständen ist es rechtswidrig, über WhatsApp schülerbezogene Daten zu verschicken

MDR, hier. 

Transparency you can trust: Transparency requirements for artificial intelligence between legal norms and contextual concerns

H. Felzmann et al., here. 

Bonn gegen das Silicon Valley

Deutschlandfunk.de, hier. 

What if policy anticipated advances in science and technology?

EP, here. 

Blockchain and freedom of expression

Article 19, here. 

EBA thematic report on the impact of FinTech on PIs’ and EMI’s business models

EBA, here. 

Monday, July 08, 2019

Blockchain Disables Real-World Governance

H. Matsushima, here. 

Amazon’s Alexa may soon know if you’re happy or sad

Venture Beat, here. 

The Record of Weak U.S. Merger Enforcement in Big Tech

AAI, here. 

LA CONCENTRATION DES ENTREPRISES EST-ELLE LA SOLUTION ?

Les Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence, Vidéo ici.

FTC to Ask About Disabling YouTube Ads for Kids’ Privacy

Bloomberg, here. 

La régulation par la donnée

Autorité de la concurrence, AMF, Arafer, Arcep, CNIL, CRE, CSA, ici. 

Les données personnelles : un levier pour différents régulateurs

LINC, ici. 

India's latest Google probe sparked by junior antitrust researchers

Reuters, here.
CCI's Android Order here. 

German data protection authorities publish guidelines on data transfers in the context of asset deals

C. Piltz, here. 

Who will win? The Banks, FinTechs or BigTechs?

FinExtra, Video here. 

Competition Law for a Complex Economy

I. Lianos, here. 

ICO statement: Intention to fine British Airways £183.39m under GDPR for data breach

ICO, here. 

Your Data Could Be at the Center of the Fight Against Big Tech

NYTimes, here. 

Charting the precursors to Facebook’s Libra coin

FT, here. 

Vertical Mergers: Ex Post Evidence and Ex Ante Evaluation Methods

M. Slade, here. 

CMA launches digital markets strategy and market study into online platforms and digital advertising

Allen & Overy, here. 

Economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI)

EP Think Tank, here. Podcast here.

7-Eleven Japanese customers lose $500,000 due to mobile app flaw

Zdnet, here. 

Selling Your Private Information Is a Terrible Idea

NYTimes, here. 

Emergence of collective digital innovations through the process of control point driven network reconfiguration and reframing: the case of mobile payment

B. Rukanova et al., here. 

Banking’s Digital Revolution Is Here But No One Is Ready

Which-50.com, here. 

The Strange Politics of Facial Recognition

The Atlantic, here. 

THE DIGITAL ADVERTISING ECOSYSTEM VISUALIZATION - LITERATURE REVIEW

V. Stallone, M. Klaas, here. 

Friday, July 05, 2019

Thursday, July 04, 2019

Fintech Workshop in Trento 21 October 2019: Call for Abstracts

Call for Abstracts HERE. 

The Boston Tea Party Was a Protest Against Monopoly

M. Stoller, here.

The Technology Trap

D. Coyle, here. 

Excessive Data Collection: Privacy Considerations and Abuse of Dominance in the Era of Big Data

V. Robertson, here.

The journey towards PSD2 compliance

FinExtra, Video here. 

Can I buy a phone that doesn’t use anything from Google or Apple?

The Guardian, here. 

Open Banking could be worth £18bn a year to UK consumers and SMEs - report

FinExtra, here. 

Artificial intelligence: the new electricity

WIPO Magazine, here. 

The return of the MFN clauses – platform ranking as an enforcement mechanism for price parity

D. Mandrescu, here. 

FCA Competition Director Christopher Woolard Testifies before House Committee Fintech Task Force

CrowdFundInsider, here. 

Antitrust regulators may also scrutinize internet firms' cryptocurrencies: German cartel chief

Reuters, here. 

French consumer group files class-action against Google for alleged GDPR violations

iapp, here. 

Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview

H. Surden, here. 

Copyright Law on Blockchains: Between New Forms of Rights Administration and Digital Rights Management 2.0

M. Finck, V. Moscon, here. 

BIS to set up Innovation Hub for central banks

BIS, here. 

Intelligent interfaces

Deloitte, here. 

Facebook’s Inches Towards Global Regulatory Compliance, Applies for New York BitLicense

CoinDesk, here. 

Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide

J. Metcalf, K. Crawford, here. 

New York Governor Cuomo orders probe into Facebook's advertising platform

Reuters, here. 

Facebook’s privacy game – how Zuckerberg backtracked on promises to protect personal data

ComputerWeekly, here. 

Guidance to national courts: Quantification of harm caused by infringements of the EU antitrust rules

EC, here. 

First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence

J. Tasioulas, here. 

CMA launches digital markets strategy

Press release, Here.
The CMA’s Digital Markets Strategy, here.
Online platforms and digital advertising market study: Statement of Scope, here.  

Bundeskartellamt legt Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde ein

AHGZ, hier. 

Der Spion im Schulzimmer

Republik, hier. 

FCA proposes ban on cryptocurrency products

The Guardian, here.