The State of Online Privacy and Data Security

M. Cantwell, here.

US floats approval process for tech that poses security threat

FT, here. 

Tech Nationalism 5G, Cybersecurity and Trade

IGF 2019, Video here. 

New Directions in Privacy and Competition Policy

Forbes, here. 

Human Rights and Digital Platforms

IGF 2019, Video (from 4:40), here. 

Principles for a human-centric, thriving and balanced data economy

EU2019.fi, here. 

A Roadmap for a Fair Data Economy

L. Ilves and D. Osimo, here. 

Position Paper on National and European Champions in Merger Control

Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, here. 

Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data

OECD, here. 

What Can Be Done? Digital Media Policy Options for Strengthening European Democracy

R. Kleis Nielsen, R. Gorwa, and M. de Cock Buning, here. 

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EAT THE LAW? THE RISE OF HYBRID SOCIAL-ORDERING SYSTEMS

T. Wu, here. 

Amazon Doesn’t Favor Its Own Brands—Except When It Does

Wired, here. 

The Second Wave of Algorithmic Accountability

F. Pasquale, here. 

Kill Zone

S. Kamepalli, R. Rajan, L. Zingales, here. 

Facebook and Twitter say hundreds of users accidentally gave improper access to personal data through third-party apps

Cnbc, here. 

Leaving Hotel California: Promoting alternatives to the internet giants

IGF 2019, Video (from 2:28:27), here.

The Clash of Codes

IGF 2019, Video here. 

Data Governance and Competition

IGF 2019, 26 Nov at 9.30 am, streaming here.

ICN’s Merger Working Group held a teleseminar on digital mergers

J. Neely, here.

Uber Is Fighting to Survive in London After Losing Its License

NYTimes, here. 

Google runs into data fears over $2.1bn Fitbit deal

FT, here. 

GOOD PRACTICES FOR SECURITY OF SMART CARS

ENISA, here. 

Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web

The Guardian, here. 

FSFE begrüßt CDU Parteitagsbeschluss zum verpflichtenden Einsatz Freier Software

FSFE, hier. 

Privacy 2030: A New Vision for Europe

Iapp, here. 

'Privacy 2030'

C. D'Cunha, here. 

Report of the Competition Law Review Committee

Here. 

German car manufacturers fined for anticompetitive practices in the purchase of steel

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

Games consoles: The Autorité launches a market consultation

Adlc, here. 

Faster and more effective enforcement of competition rules in digital markets - the complementary role of ex ante regulation

EP, Question for written answer, here. 

Competing funeral businesses in a tiny and saturated market

Wooden Overcoats, Podcast here. 

"My jokes will still work"

S. Baron Cohen, Video here. 

Guidelines 4/2019 on Article 25 Data Protection by Design and by Default

EDPB, here. 

Privacy and competition in an age of data

M. Vestager, here. 

The CNMC investigates the possible use of price algorithms to facilitate collusion in the real estate brokerage market

A. Robles Martín-Laborda, here.

Valuing data is tricky but crucial for the public good

D. Coyle, here. 

Amazon admits to Congress that it uses ‘aggregated’ data from third-party sellers to come up with its own products

CNBC, here.  Amazon's responses here. 

China goes full digital with its currency market

Fintech Finance, here. 

Antitrust and High Tech, Platform Companies - A New Future for Antitrust?

University of Utah October 25-26, Video here.

Ad tech industry questions intentions behind Google’s latest privacy moves

Digiday, here. 

Unearthing the complete set of harms to patients and innovation

R. Chopra, here. 

Integration and Monopoly

Stratechery, here. 

The Utah Statement: Reviving Antimonopoly Traditions for the Era of Big Tech

T. Wu, here. 

„Lex ApplePay“ – Sternstunden in Berlin und woanders

Paymentandbanking, hier. 

Big Tech Acquisitions and the Potential Competition Doctrine: The Case of Facebook

M. Glick, C. Ruetschlin, here. 

Facebook's Libra testnet has logged over 51,000 transactions, deployed 34 projects

The Block, here. 

Supreme Court to Hear Google and Oracle Copyright Case

NYTimes, here (my prehistoric take on some of the still central issues here).

Apple warns of risks from German law to open up mobile payments

Reuters, here. 

Competition policy cannot be responsible of everything

A. Faya, here. 

States’ massive Google antitrust probe will expand into search and Android businesses

CNBC, here. 

AI regulation in the EU: The risks of a human-rights based approach

Fingleton, here. 

Les bacs à sable réglementaires

Petit-déjeuner de la Chaire Gouvernance et Régulation, ici. 

Enough With the Big Corporate Mergers

N. Colin, here. 

ACCESS TO CONSUMERS’ DATA IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

BEUC, here. 

Google-Fitbit Deal Should Be Blocked by U.S., Groups Say

Bloomberg, here. 

Protocols As Minimally Extractive Coordinators

Placeholder.vc, here. 

Apple launches research app in push to gather users’ health data

FT, here. 

AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers

SkyNetToday, here. 

Avis sur la proposition de loi du pays interdisant l'importation et la distribution de certains écrans solaires contenant des perturbateurs endocriniens

Autorité de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, ici. 

Data for money: App facilitating data portability now under the EDPB's scrutiny

Iapp, here. 

Data Network Effects: The Example of Internet Search

M. Schaefer, G. Sapi, here. 

Lex Apple Pay: Kopfschmerzen in Cupertino? Der Kommentar von Rudolf Linsenbarth

IT Finanzmagazin, hier. 

Data, technology and policy coordination

A. Carstens, here. 

Google plan to lock down user data draws fire from advertisers

FT, here. 

Data Trusts: Why, What and How

Algotithm Watch, here. 

EU needs to get its own digital house in order

FT, here. 

Facebook Launches Its Venmo Competitor, and What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Gizmodo, here.

More Pros and Cons of Vertical Restraints

Swedish competition authority, here

Facebook Pay consolidates payments across apps

FinExtra, here. 

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of WeWork

Bloomberg, Video here. 

A tale of two money markets - fragmentation or concentration

B. Cœuré, here. 

UK AI - Where are we now?

C. Middleton, here. 

The Geography of Innovation: Local Hotspots, Global Networks

WIPO, here. 

The Google Squeeze

Stratechery, here. 

Technical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence: An Understanding from an Intellectual Property Law Perspective

J. Drexl et al, here. 

EU looks to join digital currency wave in response to Libra

FinExtra, here. 

China is Pushing Toward Global Blockchain Dominance

Wired, here. 

The Dark Psychology of Social Networks

The Atlantic, here. 

Let´s call a spade a spade: abuse of power in the digital economy must end

BEUC, here. 

What Google’s access to health data means for Fitbit deal

Politico.com, here. 

Un an après le séisme Cnil, les acteurs du drive to store voient le bout du tunnel

Journal du Net, ici. 

Practical competition policy implications of digital platforms

D. Coyle, here. 

What risks arise from the increasing importance of bigtech players in the world of payments?

B. Balz, here. 

U.S. v. Sabre: Putting the Innovation Theory of Harm to the Test?

Orrick, here. 

SSNIPPETS (35): FALL OF THE WALL

D'Kart, here. 

Germany calls on EU to tighten grip on Big Tech

FT, here. 

Germany’s Pressing Ahead: The Proposal for a Reformed Competition Act

R. Podszun, F. Brauckmann, here. 

SPD will mit staatlicher Agentur Datenmonopol von Internetkonzernen brechen

Handelsblatt, hier. 

China regulator warns e-commerce platforms to stop monopolistic practices

Reuters, here. 

How Google Edged Out Rivals and Built the World’s Dominant Ad Machine: A Visual Guide

WSJ, here. 

Bill Gates thinks Windows Mobile would have beaten Android without Microsoft’s antitrust woes

The Verge, here. 

China: Doch keine weiteren Beschränkungen für Bitcoin-Mining

Heise.de, hier. 

Comparative Competition Law

CCL, here. 

Consummated Merger of Microprocessor Prosthetic Knee Companies Was Anticompetitive

FTC, here. 

Completed acquisition by Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. of Experian Limited’s Experian Payments Gateway Business and related assets

CMA, Decision to refer here. 

Corporate Surveillance of Everyday Life. How Companies Use Personal Data against People

W. Christl, here. 

77m Ltd v Ordnance Survey Ltd

Here. 

Why Facebook’s data-sharing initiative is faltering

FT, here. 

EU's Vestager says Google's antitrust proposal not helping shopping rivals

Reuters, here. 

How the GDPR Approaches Algorithmic Accountability

TAP, here. 

Powerful Coalition Pushes Back on Anti-Tech Fervor

NYTimes, here. 

A Guide to Privacy by Design

AEPD, here. 

Die EU bastelt an einem Recht auf Reparatur

Heise.de, hier. 

Decentralised digital ecosystems and competition law: a conceptual framework

R. Nicholls, S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here (very first draft, please do let us know if you have any comments!).

Margrethe Vestager at the 2019 Web Summit

Video, from 7:10:17, here. 

Federal Reserve Proposal to Develop Round-the-Clock, Real-Time Payments System FedNow Service: Comment

R. Chopra, here. 

Algorithmes et IA : quid des risques de réplication et d’aggravation des biais sociaux ?

F. Marty, ici.

More serious concerns over Facebook's candor with federal regulators

Not using this image lightly

Here. 

Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage

ZDNet, here. 

Microsoft has big plans for its new Edge browser

TechCrunch, here. 

Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends

NBC News, here. 

Google übernimmt Fitbit: So können Sie Ihre Daten löschen

Wettbewerbszentrale, hier. 

Algorithms and Competition

Autorité de la concurrence, Bundeskartellamt, here. 

BBVA exprime la normativa digital con pagos y créditos 'express' a clientes de otros bancos

VozPopuli, aquì.

What is Google going to do with your Fitbit data? Anything it likes

Wired, here. 

Competition for-the-market: Advocacy & Enforcement in Concessions

OECD Background Paper, here. 

COMPETITION POLICY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

OECD Background Paper, here. 

Open Banking: Regulatory Challenges for a New Form of Financial Intermediation in a Data-Driven World

N. Remolina, here. 

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

N. Economides, I. Lianos, here.

Facial recognition: A solution in search of a problem?

EDPS, here. 

CLIMATE CHANGE, SUSTAINABILITY AND COMPETITION LAW

S. Holmes, here. 

Canada's competition watchdog investigating travel site Flighthub

CBC, here. 

Google’s CSS Auction: Different Name, Same Illegal Conduct

Search Neutrality, here. 

Monopolization in the Name of Privacy: Google Is Slowly But Steadily Closing Its Advertising Ecosystem

H. Singer, here. 

IIF’s panel on the Future of Money

Video, here. 

The Government will share the Spanish financial and health data with companies

VozPopuli, here. 

Facebook reportedly was in talks to buy Fitbit before Google was

The Verge, here. 

Anti-Hipster Antitrust

J. Newman, here. 

What Google's Fitbit Buy Means for the Future of Wearables

Wired, here. 

Elements of Zuboff’s surveillance capitalism

G. Greenleaf, here. 

Entwurf eines Gesetzes für eine bessere Versorgung durch Digitalisierung und Innovation

Deutscher Bundestag, hier.  

Teens Love TikTok. Silicon Valley Is Trying to Stage an Intervention.

NYTimes, here. 

Apple Pay in EU antitrust spotlight as regulators seek details

Reuters, here. 

INTRODUCTION TO THE HASH FUNCTION AS A PERSONAL DATA PSEUDONYMISATION TECHNIQUE

EDPS, here. 

WSJCoin: To Understant Cryptocurrencies, We Created One

Video, here. 

I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too.

NYTimes, here. 

Global Think-in: The Code of Capital

Podcast, here. 

EU-Parlamentsvize Barley will Aufspaltung von Amazon

Presse-Augsburg.de, hier.

Rana Foroohar on taming big tech

FT, Podcast here. 

Pixel Watch : pourquoi le rachat de Fitbit est une excellente affaire pour Google

Numérama, ici

Commission opens investigation into possible collusion by two French retailers in a purchasing alliance

EC, here. 

Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte verhängt Bußgeld gegen Immobiliengesellschaft

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, here. 

A Libra Co-Creator on How Facebook Will Make Money From Calibra

Unchained, Podcast here.

Bedroht Facebooks eigene Währung das staatliche Geldmonopol? Bundesbankvorstand Wuerme­ling sieht große Risiken

SZ, hier. 

CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING (15): FORUM UNTERNEHMENSRECHT ZUR 10. GWB NOVELLE

D'Kart, here.