Global Tech Competition and Consumer Protection-Privacy Enforcement Tracker

ABA, here. 

Solutions from Stigler?

Competition Lore, with F. Scott-Morton and our beloved C. Beaton-Wells, here. 

Facebook Finally Meets a Regulator With Bite

Bloomberg Opinion, here. 

Welcome to McDonald’s. Would You Like a Podcast With Those Fries?

NyTimes, here. 

Taming the Fourth Power

UCL Faculty of Law Conference, Video here. 

Justice Department Sues to Block Sabre's Acquisition of Farelogix

DOJ, here. 

Facebook's Libra Currency Gets European Union Antitrust Scrutiny

Bloomberg, here.

Ministererlaubnis für die Fusion Miba/Zollern: europäische Champions statt Wettbewerb?

O. Budzinski, A. Stöhr, hier. 

Bayer to sell animal health business to Elanco for $7.6b

FT, here. 

The Data Portability Act: More User Control, More Competition

OTI, here. 

New money-laundering rules change everything for cryptocurrency exchanges

MIT Technology Review, here. 

My perspectives on the future of digital economy in 42 bullet-points

P. Méda, here. 

Pardon the Interruptions

Podcast, here. 

Google discloses last year's acquisition of mobile learning app Socratic as it relaunches on iOS

TechCrunch, here. 

Techlash, the Aspen Way

Why Google’s rivals refuse to pay for a slice of the Android search market

The Week, here. 

DeepMind: The Podcast

Coming soon here. 

Column: AT&T’s promise of better pay-TV prices and service is ‘bordering on the absurd’

LATimes, here. 

Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite

NYTimes, here.
AAP's Statement here. 

What does it even mean to be a tech company in 2019?

Recode, here. 

Crypto Behemoth Binance Is Planning a Rival to Facebook’s Libra

Bloomberg, here. 

Privacy for the General Public? The Expansion of Privacy Regulation in California & Beyond

Our Curious Amalgam, Podcast here, 

Kartellrecht und Ökonomik: Institutions Matter!

O. Budzinski, J. Haucap, hier. 

Peter Altmaier erlaubt Fusion von Miba und Zollern

Handelsblatt, hier.

Irish State told to delete ‘unlawful’ data on 3.2m citizens

The Irish Times, here. 

Bafin spricht PSD2-Machtwort: Fintechs kriegen mehr Zeit, Banken müssen nachbessern

Finanz-szene.de, hier. 

Für Google sind Sie der Markt

UK data protection regulator launches King's Cross facial recognition probe

FT, here. 

CMA breaks up assistive communication technology merger

CMA, here. 

A ‘big data’ firm sells Cambridge Analytica’s methods to global politicians, documents show

Quartz, here. 

Apple is reportedly in talks to let Siri play Spotify tracks

Engadget, here. 

What an Ongoing Lawsuit Says About Google’s Power in Online Travel

Open Markets, here. 

Spain: Legal fight over an algorithm’s code

Algotithm Watch, here. 

CMA pharma probe secures £8m for the NHS

CMA, here. 

Irish regulator queries Facebook on transcription of users' audio

Reuters, here. 

Democratic U.S. senator asks Facebook CEO if he gave 'incomplete' testimony

Reuters, here. 

Spotify will reportedly test a price hike for its premium service in some markets

TechCrunch, here. 

Digital Power: The Tale

C. Miller, Video here. 

The Digital Platforms Inquiry: Melbourne Press Club speech

R. Sims, here.  Video here.

Amazon Is a Monopoly, an Interview With Sally Hubbard

MarketplacePulse, here. 

Huawei officially reveals Harmony OS, its first party operating system

XDADevelopers, here. 

EPIC, Legal Scholars, Technology Experts Publish Statement on US AI R&D Policy

EPIC, here. 

Europa braucht eine Antwort auf Chinas Industriepolitik

J. Haucap, hier. 

How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power

NYTimes, here. 

Google's jobs search draws antitrust complaints from rivals

Reuters, here. 

U.S. LEADERSHIP IN AI

NIST, here. 

Spotify’s pitch to podcasters: valuable listener data

The Verge, here. 

L'Autorité de la concurrence autorise sous conditions la création de la plateforme Salto

ADLC, ici. 

The Revolution Will Not Be Automated

Sydney Review of Books, here. 

Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle

C. Doctorow, here. 

ICYMI: BEREC Report on the Data Economy

Here. See also Report on the outcome of the public consultation on the data economy, here. 

Apple is under formal antitrust probe in Russia

TechCrunch, here. 

AI NEEDS YOUR DATA—AND YOU SHOULD GET PAID FOR IT

Wired, here. 

ФАС РОССИИ ВОЗБУДИЛА ДЕЛО В ОТНОШЕНИИ APPLE INC

ФАС, здесь. больше из Kaspersky Lab, here. 

AI and the Economy

Working Capital, Podcast and Transcript here. 

Japan's FTC probes Apple over pressuring parts makers

The Mainichi Shimbun, here. 

How much does Google know about you?

The Guardian, Podcast (at the beach) here. 

Japan's FTC demands action from four big contractors who keep cropping up in antitrust cases

Japan Times, here. 

Ten Things To Know About The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry

C. Beaton-Wells, here. 

Concealed Data Practices and Competition Law: Why Privacy Matters

K. Kemp, here. 

Twitter says it may have used user data for ads without permission

Reuters, here. 

Brexit: Food industry seeks no-deal competition waiver

BBC News, here. 

Antitrust гласность (glasnost): A summer thread

Here.

La nouvelle politique de Google sur Android fâche les moteurs de recherche indépendants

Le Monde, ici. 

Facebook’s Libra: it’s not the ‘crypto’ that’s the issue, it's the organisation behind it

B. Maurer, D. Tischer, here.

RTB RIP? The Writing Could Be On The Wall For Real-Time Bidding In Europe

AdExchanger, here.

ACM: Extension of enforcement toolkit to increase effectiveness in dealing with competition problems in the digital economy

ACM, here. 

Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation

M. Finck for the EP, here. Policy options here. 

FedNow: FAQs

Fed, here. 

Facebook fine reveals Congress has set up FTC to fail

J. Brookman, here. 

Joint statement on global privacy expectations of the Libra network

ICO et al., here. 

"IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization

EFF, here. 

European Competition Policy in Digital: What’s Next?

N. Petit, here. 

Merger Brief: SHARING is CAR-ing: Daimler/BMW/Car Sharing JV

Here. 

Merger brief: A remix of your favourite tunes of data issues in merger control (Apple/Shazam)

Here. 

Energy Data Taskforce Report

Here.

A blueprint for re-regulating the tech sector: ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report released

Corrs, here.

Google, Siri und Alexa US-Konzerne stoppen umstrittene Auswertungspraxis

Tagesspiegel.de, hier.

UK Government Launches ‘Smart Data’ Proposals as Data-Portability Agenda Intensifies

Latham & Watkins, here. 

Huawei tests smartphone with own operating system, possibly for sale this year: Chinese state media

Reuters, here. 

Takeaway.com and Just Eat agree food delivery tie-up

FT, here.

Goldman-Backed Apple Card Restricts Cryptocurrency Purchases

Bitcoin.com, here. 

The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers

The Verge, here. 

Banning cryptocurrencies in India not the solution: Nasscom

The Economic Times, here.
Report here.

Google to Ask Rivals to Bid to Be Default Search on Phones

Bloomberg, here.
More from Qwant here. 

Sprachassistenzsysteme auf dem Prüfstand – Datenschutzbehörde eröffnet Verwaltungsverfahren gegen Google

Datenschutz-hamburg.de, hier. 

Speech Renegade Pandas: Opportunities for Cross Border Cooperation in Regulation of Digital Assets

SEC, here. 

Hot questions on data portability under the GDPR from Italy

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, here. 

Overseeing the Fintech Revolution: Domestic and International Perspectives on Fintech Regulation

Task Force on Financial Technology, Hearing, Video here (C. Woolard at 40:00, his written evidence here).
SEC's Fintech Forum, Video here. 

U.S. FTC Probes Facebook's Acquisition Practices-WSJ

NYTimes, here. 

How cities are using private sector data

J. Hardinges, here. 

Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe

The Verge, here. 

Amazon fera payer la « taxe GAFA » à ses vendeurs français

Le Monde, ici. 

Chinese financial services apps accused of overcollecting user data

TechNode, here.

Piano supplier fined £3.7m for illegally preventing price discounts

CMA, here. 

Jerome Powell: Fed 'seriously considering' faster payments system

Politico.com, here.

How To Stay Ahead Of Evolving, Unpredictable Digital Platforms

Forbes, here. 

Challenge to FTC/Facebook 2019 Settlement

EPIC, here. 

AGCOM: AVVIATA ANALISI DI MERCATO NEL SETTORE DELLA PUBBLICITÀ ONLINE

AGCOM, here. 

Digital Platforms and Digital Moments

R. Picker, Video here.