Wednesday, October 30, 2019

China Announces New Regulatory Authority to Certify Digital Payments, Blockchain Products

Coindesk, here

The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets

T. Philippon, here

Restrictions on Privacy and Exploitation in the Digital Economy: A Competition Law Perspective

N. Economides, I. Lianos, here

Google sued by ACCC after allegedly misleading customers over location data collection

Google, here

HOW MUCH BRANDEIS DO THE NEO-BRANDEISIANS WANT?

D. Crane, here

RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT AND FACILITATE REGULATORY CO-OPERATION BETWEEN DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITIES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMPETITION AUTHORITIES TO ACHIEVE CLEAR AND CONSISTENTLY HIGH STANDARDS OF DATA PROTECTION IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners October 2019, Tirana, Albania, here

Antitrust and Tech: Europe and the United States Differ, and it Matters

G.Werden & L. Froeb, Audio here

Tying in evolving industries, when future entry cannot be deterred

C. Fumagalli, M. Motta, here

Google is reportedly trying to buy Fitbit

The Verge, here

Digitale Souveränität im Kontext plattformbasierter Ökosysteme

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, hier

Money 20/20: Calibra head claims Libra AML efficacy higher than other payment networks

FinExtra, here

Building a positive digital world

M. Vestager, here

MERGER CONTROL IN DYNAMIC MARKETS

OECD, here

Margrethe Vestager eyes toughening ‘burden of proof’ for Big Tech

FT, here

VERS DES PRIX PERSONNALISÉS À L’HEURE DU NUMÉRIQUE ?

E. Combe, ici

Monday, October 28, 2019

Xi Jinping’s endorsement of blockchain sparks China stocks frenzy

FT, here. The discourse here

Which antitrust investigations should Big Tech worry about?

FT, here

Google Sweetens Search-Engine Remedy After EU Pressure

WSJ, here (and here).

Blockchain, FinTechs and their relevance for international financial institutions

EIB, here

Conference on Competition Law and Sustainability

Video here.

Competition Authorities to Investigate Mobile Application Store Dominance

B. Yüksel, N. Acar, M. Salan, here

Cipher Technologies Bitcoin Fund

Here

Blockchain/crypto: a new digital economy

C. Jeanneau, Slides here

ACM ontwikkelt leidraden voor het delen van infrastructuur

ACM, hier

Applications mobiles : un texte sénatorial veut libérer les utilisateurs des règles des GAFA

Publicsenat.fr, ici

Ethikgremium empfiehlt Algorithmen-Verordnung

FAZ, hier

New Rules for Credit Reporting Systems in the Digital Economy

EDPB, here

Yelp on Google

Here

Antitrust, Tech Monopoly and the Apple Case

C. Sagers, here.

Banks may cut ties with Facebook on Libra concerns, ING warns

FT, here

Gutachten der Datenethikkommission

Hier.
Executive Summary here.

The Code-ification of Law and Its Potential Effects

T. Kaeseberg, here

Data Ownership: Exploring Implications for Data Privacy Rights and Data Valuation

US Senate Committee, here

DESIGNING SELF- AND CO-REGULATION INITIATIVES: EVIDENCE ON BEST PRACTICES

BEIS, here

Libra and its potential role

OMFIF Podcast, here

The Regulatory Regime for Stablecoins

Libra, here

Was Libra wirklich bringt

Libra in FAZ, hier. and auf Englisch here.

AI RIGHTS FOR CONSUMERS

BEUC, here

Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral

NiemanLab, here.

Open Banking: Regulatory challenges for a new form of financial intermediation in a data-driven world

N. Remolina, here

Saturday, October 19, 2019

A G7 stablecoin report that tells it how it is

FT, here.
Report here

Big Tech and the Future of Finance

A gaze is worth a thousand words.........

IMF Seminar, Video here

Banking disrupted by FinTech and Big Tech

Bruegel, Video here

Technology is a Tool and Weapon

B. Smith, Boss Files Podcast here (antitrust from 23:44).

Financialisation of the Food Value Chain, Common Ownership and Competition Law

I. Lianos et al., here

How much does the lack of competition in digital markets cost?

J. Furman, here

Competition is no longer a click away

R. Chopra, here

Why is privacy a competition problem?

T. Valletti, here

Data-opolies: Congress needs to act

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here

Competition policy with a (holistic) view

R. Sims, here

Glad to be of any help!

M. Vestager, here

China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother

NYTimes, here

Google is in serious trouble, warns top anti-trust lawyer

ZDNet, here

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Commission imposes interim measures on Broadcom in TV and modem chipset markets

EC, here.

QUO VADIS VERTICAL BER? – THE BUNDESKARTELLAMT’S BACKGROUND PAPER

D'Kart, here

DER REFERENTENENTWURF ZUM GWB

D'Kart, hier

Soziale Marktwirtschaft für den europäischen Datenraum

U. von der Leyen, hier

Apple is suffocating mobile-payment rivals

Quartz, here

Google confirms acquisition of data science community Kaggle

ZdNet, here

We may need a whole new approach to data protection

Live Mint, here

Why the government is investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook for antitrust — but not Microsoft

Vox, here

There’s a big problem with Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Ars Technica, here

Google’s $2.6 Billion Looker Deal Said to Get Closer DOJ Review

Bloomberg, here

The Interaction of EU Competition, Consumer, and Data Protection Law in the Digital Economy: The Regulatory Dilemma in the Facebook Odyssey

M. Botta, K. Wiedermann, here

Sports Direct calls for probe into Nike and Adidas dominance

BBC News, here

Antitrust After Big Data

J. Yun, here.

RGPD : Vueling sanctionnée par la CNIL espagnole pour sa politique de cookies

Next Inpact, ici.. 

Amazon's massive investment in food delivery startup Deliveroo faces further delays thanks to a formal antitrust probe

Business Insider, here

Is Libra Dead?

E. Reineris, here

Antitrust in Digital Markets

J. Newman, here

Brave highlights critical CCPA omission in letter to the Attorney General of California

Brave, here

Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 3: The Role of Data and Privacy in Competition

Friday, October 18, 2019 - 3 pm Trento Time, streaming here

Competition Authorities to Investigate Mobile Application Store Dominance

Kluwer Competition Law Blog, here

Apple Pay rückt angeblich ins Fadenkreuz der EU-Kommission

Heise.de hier

Fear of Facebook spurs momentum for Fed to build its own digital currency

Politico.eu, here

Thursday, October 10, 2019

NYSE Arca Order

SEC, here

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

F. Foer, here

Competing at Scale: EU Competition Policy fit for the Global Stage

ERT, here

Brave writes to all European governments to press for strong ePrivacy protections

Brave, here

EU-Kommission: Digitalchefin Vestager plädiert bei KI für "Vertrauen by Design"

Heise.de, hier

Joint memorandum of the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg competition authorities on challenges faced by competition authorities in a digital world

B, NL, LUX Competition Authorities, here

Rights as Methodology?

CIM, here

Tether Backers Sued Over Market Manipulation

Bloomberg, here

Desktop OS Market Share Worldwide

Statcounter, here

Germany finalizes proposed changes in competition rules

PoliticoPro, here

Geldbuße gegen Bose Ges.m.b.H.

Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, hier

Adversarial Interoperability

C. Doctorow, here

CMA alleges guitar firm illegally prevented price discounts

CMA, here

Interoperability Is Not the Only Obstacle to Blockchain Adoption

CMSWire, here

BLOCKCHAIN NOW AND TOMORROW

EU Science Hub, here

Senators Caution Mastercard, Visa, Stripe on Libra Membership

Bloomberg, here

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Policy and Regulation

UCLP Public Policy, Video here

The anthropology of #cryptocurrency and the possible end of the nation state

A. Tripathi, here

GOVERNING DLT NETWORKS

Accenture, here

The internet: broken or about to be broken?

G. Smith, here

The Next Generation of Data-Sharing in Financial Services: Using Privacy Enhancing Techniques to Unlock New Value

WEF, here

Order approves 11 interveners in Android Case

T-804/18, here

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Google’s new competition cop, says everything is "on the table"

The Texas Tribune, here

Data scraping and the implications of the latest LinkedIn-hiQ court ruling

iabb, here. 

The Ties That Bind Facebook's Libra

Wired, here

Insight report on sharing engineering data

Lloyd’s Register Foundation, here

Thursday, October 03, 2019

On Libra, trust, etc.

From Erasmus University, Video here.

Droits voisins : enquête « exploratoire » de l'Autorité de la concurrence

Le Point, ici. Mais ici

House panel taps startup for Facebook files

660 News, here

Malaysia proposes $20 million fine on Grab for abusive practices

Reuters, here. See also here

REGULATORY MARKETS FOR AI SAFETY

J. Clark, G. Hadfield, here

Google faces UK class action lawsuit over collecting iPhone data

FT, here

Libra member companies are planning to meet this month in Switzerland

CNBC, here

Huawei backdoor to Google apps slams shut

Mobile World Live, here

Open Banking and the Closed Ecosystem: The Tech Banks Need to Navigate GDPR

BizTechMagazine, here

Du droit et des algorithmes

M. Teller, ici

Criteo porte plainte contre Facebook devant l'Autorité de la concurrence

LesEchos, ici

Regulating the Internet of Things

UK House of Commons, Debate Pack here

Competitive Edge: Five building blocks for antitrust success: the forthcoming FTC competition report

Equitable Growth, here

Finance et acteurs numériques : fintechs, GAFA, transformation des banques

@Echelle, vidéo ici

FASHION-ID: INTRODUCING A PHASE-ORIENTED APPROACH TO DATA PROTECTION?

European Law Blog, here

Bierkartell-Bußgeld: Preisnachlass für Edeka Nord in Sicht

Welt.de, hier

Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content, E.U.’s Top Court Rules

NYTimes, here

US: Siri will no longer default to using Apple messaging

CPI, here

3 drug firms accused of illegal market sharing

CMA, here.

What Are the Benefits of Data Sharing?

H. Huttunen et al., here

Andrew Yang's privacy proposal sounds great, but could be awful

Cnet, here

Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Bottom-up data Trusts: disturbing the ‘one size fits all’ approach to data governance

S. Delacroix, N. Lawrence, here

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF MARK ZUCKERBERG’S LEAKED INTERNAL FACEBOOK MEETINGS

The Verge, here

Banking, FinTech, Big Tech: Emerging challenges for financial policymakers

K. Petralia, T. Philippon, T. Rice, N. Véron, here

Digitale Währungen, insbesondere Libra

Öffentliche Anhörung des Ausschusses Digitale Agenda 25. September 2019, Stellungnahmen hier

Understanding the economics of information sharing

BBVA, here

Storing cookies requires internet users’ active consent

Judgment in Case C-673/17, press release here. Ruling here

Guiding Policies and Procedures under Section F of the UN Set on Competition

UNCTAD, here

Erster Kfz-Versicherungstarif mit Dashcam-Bonus

Heise.de, hier

PayPal gets Chinese payments license

FinExtra, here

A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

P. Aghion, here

House Antitrust Investigators Now Scrutinizing Google's Plans to Add DNS Encryption to Chrome

Gizmodo, here

Snapchat's Secret Dossier on Facebook

The Journal, Podcast here

Dezentrale Datenpools – Europas Chance in der Plattformökonomie

D. Janecek, D. Bayaz, hier. 

MFN Clauses and Antitrust Enforcement: On a Slow Path to Convergence?

I. Vandenborre & C. Janssens, Podcast here

Facebook says Libra is out of its control. But Libra's overseers are a web of Silicon Valley insiders

CNN, here

Libra: Articles of Association