Google reportedly under antitrust scrutiny for new internet encryption protocol

Cnet, here. 

Competition in Digital Technology Markets: Examining Acquisitions of Nascent or Potential Competitors by Digital Platforms

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights (US), Video here. 

What Should Be Done? The Debate on How EU Competition Law Should Respond to China

Our Curious Amalgam, here. 

Digitalcharta Innovationsplattform: D

Beschluss des Bundesvorstandes der CDU Deutschlands, hier. 

FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Facebook's $5 billion fine, YouTube's COPPA violations, and the dangers of under-enforcement

Recode Decode, here. 

Solicitor General recommends Supreme Court deny cert in Google v Oracle

Here. 

AI ethics and the limits of code(s)

Nesta, here. 

Gesamtverband Autoteile-Handel eV v KIA Motors Corporation

Case C‑527/18, here. 

New Anti-Monopoly Regulations in Force in China

Orrick, here. 

Google Expands Digital Payments Push in India

Bloomberg, here. 

Co-Regulation and the Competitive Advantage in the GDPR: Data Protection Certification Mechanisms, Codes of Conduct and the 'State of the Art' of Data Protection-by-Design

M. Grafenstein, here. 

Google Android

EC, CASE AT.40099, here. 

THE FUTURE OF COMPETITION LAW: TIME TO CHANGE OR TIME TO ADAPT?

I. de Silva, here. 

Facebook may copy your app, but Amazon will copy your shoe

The Verge, here. 

Ecosystem Businesses Are Changing the Rules of Strategy

J. Birkinshaw, here. 

The Right Way to Regulate Digital Platforms

G. Kimmelman, here. 

Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier

WSJ, here. 

EBA outsourcing guidelines: What banks, fintechs and cloud providers need to know

Computer Weekly, here. 

Competition Law and the Brics

Video here. 

Big Tech Regulation Shouldn’t Sweep Up Startups, Uber CEO Says

Bloomberg, here. 

Gov't targeting global OTAs' 'unfair request' over hotel rate

The Korea Times, here. 

Completed acquisition by PayPal Holdings, Inc. of iZettle AB: Failure to comply with requirements imposed on PayPal by the Initial Enforcement Order

CMA, here. 

‘We have reached “peak cloning” in Silicon Valley’: when does copying your competitor’s product become anticompetitive?

F. Bostoen, here. 

Are Key Word Searches Key to Competition? An Analysis of FTC v. 1-800 Contacts

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

The industry that cries wolf: pharma and innovation

M. Carrier, G. Tung, here. 

Digitalisering en consumentenbescherming

AFM, hier. 

Recommendations for the Artificial Intelligence Research Agenda for the Netherlands

C. Muller, here. 

La CNMC investiga posibles prácticas anticompetitivas en relación con el acceso a las redes de cajeros por parte de ciertas entidades bancarias

CNMC, aquì.

Social Networks or Social Nightmares?

Panel Discussion / Vienna Humanities Festival 2019, September 29, MARX HALLE with Roger McNamee, Evgeny Morozov, Max Schrems and Shalini Randeria, Video here. 

Proving that competition principles are sufficiently flexible and fit for the future (?)

M. Snoep, here. 

Data Politics Worlds, Subjects, Rights

Edited By D. Bigo, E. Isin, E. Ruppert, here. 

WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

WIPO, here. 

BRISER LE MONOPOLE DES BIG TECH

S. Soriano et al., ici. 

A new governance for personal data in the XXIst century

PrivacyTech White Paper, here. 

Jeff Bezos says Amazon is writing its own facial recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers

Vox, here. 

David Marcus über Libra: «Wenn wir den Zahlungsverkehr nicht revolutionieren, machen es andere»

NZZ, hier. 

The Fantasy of Opting Out

F. Brunton & H. Nissenbaum, here. 

Leitfaden Preisspitzen

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

THE OECD INTERNATIONAL CARTEL DATABASE

Here. 

Commission fines Coroos and Groupe CECAB €31.6 million for participating in canned vegetables cartel

EC, here. 

Düsseldorf Court of Appeal Revokes Antitrust Authority's Data Processing Prohibition for Facebook

CR Online, here. 

Italian Supervisory Authority approves Code of Conduct for consumer credit agencies

Covington & Burling, here. 

BRICS in the digital economy

Here. 

Labor markets and competition

R. Chopra, here. 

Advertising executives point to five ways Google stifles business

Reuters, here. 

Infrastructure Data Sharing

UK's Regulators Framework, here.

Are Regulatory Agreements to Address Climate Change Anticompetitive?

H. Hovenkamp, here. 

A national vision for digital agriculture

M. Keogh, here. 

GDPR in the automotive sector - Data protection authority North Rhine-Westphalia on car garages, joint controllership and product monitoring

C. Pitz, here. 

The alternatives to privatisation and nationalisation

The Economist, here. 

Facebook to the ACCC

Here.

Regulating digital markets - do we tame the big beasts or set them free?

Diginomica, here. 

iHuman perspective: Neural interfaces

The Royal Society, here. 

METHODOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND THE GDPR

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

Law for Computer Scientists

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

Digital platforms will soon face more regulatory scrutiny in Japan

White and Case, here. 

briefing on RTB and the GDPR

J. Ryan, here. 

Online-Banking: Bafin sieht wenig Probleme bei Umstellung auf PSD2

Heise.de, hier. 

US regulator says Amazon search algorithm may be ‘problematic’

FT, here. 

Le défi de l'explicabilité des algorithmes publics

BdT, ici. 

Blockchain-Strategie der Bundesregierung

BMWI, hier. 

CJEU decides that the originality level is the same for all copyright works, including works of applied art

E. Derclaye, here. 

Digital challenges to the international monetary and financial system

B. Cœuré, here. 

Migration between platforms

G. Biglaiser, J. Crémer and A. Veiga, here. 

The Slow Death (and Rebirth?) of US Antitrust Enforcement

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, watch here. 

Faut-il mettre fin aux monopoles des GAFA ?

France Culture, Podcast ici. 

Justice Department presses Google rivals for info as part of antitrust inquiry

Axios, here. 

Senate creates select committee on fintech and regtech

AFR, here. 

Zunehmende Distanz der Politik zu Facebooks Libra

Heise.de, hier. 

House Antitrust Panel Seeks Documents From 4 Big Tech Firms

NYTimes, here.
The four letters here. 

Is there a role for blockchain in responsible supply chains?

OECD, here. 

Phishing & Co: Betrüger nutzen Start der PSD2-Richtlinie aus

Heise.de, hier. 

We’re living in an era of digital feudalism. Here’s how to take your data and identity back

Quartz, here. 

Copyright in artificially generated works

AIPPI, here. 

Google adjusts search algorithm to boost original journalism

FT, here. 

Security and trust in a digital world

M. Vestager, here. 

The Council of Europe established an Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence - CAHAI

COE, here. 

Sorry, Silicon Valley: your tormentor-in-chief just got a bunch of new powers

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Data trusts raise questions on privacy and governance

FT, here. 

Why Europe should take the lead on trade

The Economist, here (and here). 

Über influential?

Corporate Europe, here. 

Brave's Johnny Ryan and IAB Europe clash over GDPR real-time bidding legality

The Drum, here. 

« Avec le Libra, nous n'allons pas faire de création monétaire »

LesEchos, ici. 

Advertising executives point to five ways Google stifles business

Reuters, here. 

Brad Smith: "Cambridge Analytica was the Three Mile Island for the Tech Sector"

Yahoo Finance, Interview here (from 2:00). 

Smart Speakers and Voice Assistants

CDEI, here. 

AI and Personal Insurance

CDEI, here. 

Uber argues its drivers aren’t core to its business, won’t reclassify them as employees

The Verge, here. 

Friends or foes? Examining platform owners’ entry into complementors’ spaces

F. Zhu, here. 

France to block development of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency

The Guardian, here (Vidéo ici).

48 States Announce Google Antitrust Investigation, California Not Among Them

KQED, Podcast here. 

Airbus wants to know everything passengers do on an airplane — including how often they use the bathroom

CNBC, here. 

OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum 2019

Here. And here.

A Unique Case? The EU Takes on Amazon.

Our Curious Amalgam, Podcast here. 

The evolution of US antitrust law

CNBC, Video here. And How Microsoft’s antitrust fight in the 1990s reshaped the Internet, here. 

Currencies, money and digital tokens

T. Jordan, here.

Swiss regulator FINMA issues guidelines for stablecoins, including Facebook’s Libra

The Block, here. 

Online platforms and digital advertising market study: Responses to Statement of Scope

CMA, here. 

Fintech’s need to watch their digital backs – short-term lending banned by Google

Daily Fintech, here. 

Google, Mayo Clinic strike sweeping partnership on patient data

StatNews, here. 

Google’s cloud chief Thomas Kurian on antitrust, Amazon competition

CNBC, here. 

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that internet downloads of ebooks are covered by right of communication to the public, not distribution (so, no, there is no digital exhaustion under InfoSoc Directive)

IPKat, here. 

Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules

ArsTechnica, here and here. 

Tom Kabinet's Opinion

Here. 

MARGRETHE VESTAGER AGAIN!!!!!!!!

Announcement here, at (7:56, also from 54:00 and 1:04:00).

COMPETITION ISSUES IN THE DIGITAL ERA – EU DEVELOPMENTS

K. Fountoukakos, S. Hall, here. 

COMPETITION 4.0

D'Kart, here. 

48 states are probing Google on antitrust grounds. Why isn’t California?

LATimes, here. 

AdC condena 14 bancos a coima de 225 milhões de euros

AdC, aqui.

The Case for Employing Hybrid Welfare Standards in Antitrust Matters

S. Walker, Audio here. 

Technology Tencent Music Dives as Watchdog Probes Its Record-Label Ties

Bloomberg, here. 

Draft Guidelines Concerning Abuse of a Superior Bargaining Position in Transactions between Digital Platform Operators and Consumers that Provide Personal Information

FTC Japan, here. 

50 State AGs announce Google antitrust probe

Live, here.  Also watch here.

Frank Pasquale, the Father of Algorithmic Transparency (and Much More) on Competition Lore

Podcast, here. 

Australia is figuring out its own way to wrestle with tech giants

MarketplaceTech, Podcast here. 

@Echelle : Furman report

Video here. 

Ex-ante competition law enforcement and online platforms – a tool with no (clear) instructions

D. Mandrescu, here. 

Tech Firms Need More Regulation

B. Smith, C. Browne, here. 

Apple tweaks its App Store algorithm as antitrust investigations loom

TechCrunch, here. 

Ein neuer Wettbewerbsrahmen für die Digitalwirtschaft

Kommission Wettbewerbsrecht 4.0, hier (Zusammenfassung hier).

FACEBOOK VS. BUNDESKARTELLAMT

R. Podszun, hier. 

ICYMI: Silvie Goulard moderating an important panel

Here (from 7:46:00).

Le tribunal de commerce de Paris condamne Amazon à une amende de 4 M€ et lui impose de revoir ses conditions générales d’utilisation

Jugement ici. 

Data portability and privacy

Facebook (yes), here. 

@Echelle event on 11 April 11 2019 looks at blockchain

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

EU competition rules on horizontal agreements between companies – evaluation

EC, here. 

Wanted: fast solutions for fast-growing platforms

Stibbe, here. 

EU looking to see if Facebook's Libra currency poses competition risks

Reuters, here. 

How Each Big Tech Company May Be Targeted by Regulators

NYTimes, here. 

NY attorney general will lead antitrust investigation into Facebook

TechCrunch, here. 

How Robert Bork Fathered the New Gilded Age

ProMarket, here. 

China says new digital currency will be similar to Facebook's Libra

Reuters, here. 

KI-Enquete: Schon bald erste Empfehlungen?

Tagesspiegel, hier und hier. 

Digital Economy Report 2019

UNCTAD, here. 

America’s Existential Antitrust Crisis

Nota Bene, Podcast here. 

Steve Wozniak on Big Tech

Bloomberg, here.

Bavarian Data Protection Authority publishes new FAQ on requirements for WebFonts, Maps, GoogleAnalytics, Facebook Custom Audience and more

C. Piltz, here. 

Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers

FT, here.
More here. 

How a ‘regulatory sandbox’ can drive innovation in financial services

World Finance, here.