Tuesday, November 26, 2019

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.

Monday, November 25, 2019

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

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Friday, November 15, 2019

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

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

Sunday, November 10, 2019

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!).

Tuesday, November 05, 2019

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