MIT Platform Strategy Summit Report 2019

Here. 

One of Amazon’s first employees says the company should be broken up

Vox, here. 

Pentagon wants open-source 5G plan in campaign against Huawei

FT, here. 

Google and Apple remove alleged UAE spy app ToTok

BBC, here. 

Trump might help free science that’s locked behind paywalls

Vox, here. 

Booking.com commits to align practices presenting offers and prices with EU law following EU action

EC, here. 

T-MOBILE’S MERGER TRIAL HAS BEEN ALL ABOUT DISH

The Verge, here. 

How a Top Antitrust Official Helped T-Mobile and Sprint Merge

NYTimes, here. 

POLICY STATEMENT ON REMEDIES FOR STANDARDS-ESSENTIAL PATENTS SUBJECT TO VOLUNTARY F/RAND COMMITMENTS

USPTO, DOJ, and NIST, here. 

Brief Amici Curiae of 82 Law, Economics, Business, and Medical Professors in Support of Respondent

M. Carrieret al., here. 

Adtech and the data protection debate – where next?

ICO, here. 

Apple, Cisco, Daimler and BMW complain to Brussels over patents

FT, here. 

(In)formal Blockchain Governance

A. Urlichs, here. 

The 2019 Stratechery Year in Review

Stratechery, here. 

Saga launches its cryptocurrency as Libra waits in the wings

FT, here. 

Comparing Privacy Laws: GDPR v. CCPA

FPF, here. 

AB InBev beer trade restrictions

EC, Decision here.

What do we mean by data empowerment?

Medium, here. 

Why Facebook’s Libra Hangs in Limbo—and What’s Next in the Digital Currency Race

Fortune, here. 

How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company

Vice, here. 

Sparkassen im Apple-Pay-Rausch. Offenbar >200.000 Aktivierungen

Finanz-Szene.de, hier. 

Whatsapp Conversations Getting Under Antitrust Scrutiny: The Dutch Case

Mondaq, here. 

The BIS Innovation Hub

Podcast, here. 

An Introduction to Complex Systems Science and its Applications

A. Siegenfeld, Y. Bar-Yam, here. 

Connected Cars

EDPS, here. 

Top EU Court's Adviser Says Personal Data Can Be Transferred Using 'Standard Contractual Clauses' -- But Also Suggests That Privacy Shield Should Be Ruled Invalid

TechDirt, here. 

Wie Tiktok seine Nutzer überwacht

SZ, hier. 

Researchers were about to solve AI’s black box problem, then the lawyers got involved

TNW, here. 

Release of the “Guidelines Concerning Abuse of a Superior Bargaining Position in Transactions between Digital Platform Operators and Consumers that Provide Personal Information, etc.”

Japan FTC, here. 

Künstliche Intelligenz vollendet Beethovens 10. Symphonie

Heise online, hier. 

IBM to Google: Istio, Knative, TensorFlow should be under 'open governance'

The Register, here. 

The design of digital financial infrastructure: lessons from India

BIS Paper, here ; podcasr, here. 

L'Autorité sanctionne Google à hauteur de 150 M€ pour abus de position dominante

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

France slaps Google with $166M antitrust fine for opaque and inconsistent ad rules

TechCrunch, here. 

Facial recognition: for a debate living up to the challenges

CNIL, here. 

Mehr Verbraucherschutz bei Hotelbuchungen im Internet

BMJV, hier. 

Digitale Avantgarde: Deutschland wird Vorreiter bei der kartellrechtlichen Regulierung digitaler Märkte

RechtsBoard, hier (und hier).

Grab Philippines fined $318k for pricing violations, driver cancellations

DealstreetAsia, here. 

CJEU rules that the provision of ebooks is an act of communication to the public (so there is NO digital exhaustion under the InfoSoc Directive)

IPKat, here.
Judgment here. 

Apple, Google, and Amazon team up to create “CHIP,” a new smart home standard

ArsTechnica, here (and valuable comments)

Call for Input: Open finance

FCA, here. 

From the Dark Side to the Bright Side: Exploring Algorithmic Antitrust Compliance

NERA, here. 

FTC Challenges Illumina’s Proposed Acquisition of PacBio

FTC, here. 

The American AI Century: A Blueprint for Action

CNAS, here. 

When Data Creates Competitive Advantage

A. Hagiu, J. Wright, here (and here).

Online platforms and digital advertising: Market study interim report

pages (glossary included)

CMA, here.

• Appendix A: The legal framework 
• Appendix B: Summary of responses to our statement of scope 
• Appendix C: Market outcomes 
• Appendix D: Profitability of Google and Facebook 
• Appendix E: The role of data 
• Appendix F: Consumer control over data collection 
• Appendix G: Summary of research on consumers’ attitudes and behaviour 
• Appendix H: Intermediation in digital advertising 
• Appendix I: Potential practices to be tackled through a code of conduct 
• Appendix J: Potential interventions in general search 
• Appendix K: Potential interventions in social media 
• Appendix L: Potential approaches to improving personal data mobility (
• Appendix M: Potential interventions in digital advertising 
• Glossary 

UK data watchdog promises no regulatory changes before the New Year

The Drum, here. 

Exploring anonymity in central bank digital currencies

ECB, here. 

Internet Giants, Defied by Bitcoin, Now See Its Tech as a Remedy

NYTimes, here.
More here. 

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

Japan FTC, here. 

Amazon slams media for not saying nice things about AWS, denies it strip-mines open-source code for huge profits

The Register, here. 

Japan to Tighten Screws on Tech Giants to Ensure Transparency

NYTimes, here. 

US: PNC blocks Venmo, tells users to Switch to Zelle

CPI, here. 

Data governance : Ethical, Political & Legal Challenges

GFAIH_SESSION 2, video here.

Tech *Pour* Good?

P. Méda, Vidéo ici. 

Faut-il remettre au pas les Big Techs qui « stérilisent l’innovation » ?

Larevuedudigital.com, ici. 

A genuine innovation in capitalism: big fines for treating consumers unfairly

D. Stalibrass, here. 

Amazon’s third-party merchants are now barred from using FedEx Ground for Prime shipments

TechCrunch, here. 

The Internet & Jurisdiction Global Status Report 2019

Secretariat of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, here.  

Twitter Wants Social Media to Be More Like Email

PCMag, here. 

Decentralized Finance – ein Protokoll-basiertes Finanzsystem

Blockchain-stuttgart.de, hier. 

Twitter tries to find another way to solve the censorship dilemma

Telecoms.com, here. 

U.S. Antitrust Policy: A Discussion with Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim

Hudson Institute, Video here. 

Japan to keep tight leash on Big Tech in antitrust push

Nikkei, here. 

ANTITRUST IN TIMES OF UPHEAVAL: CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING

R. Podszun, here. 

For me, the most remarkable antitrust development this year is...

V. Kathuria, here. 

Anticipated acquisition by Amazon of a minority shareholding and certain rights in Deliveroo

CMA, here. 

Google’s $2.1B acquisition of Fitbit faces DOJ probe: sources

New York Post, here. 

One year anniversary of the Consumer Council’s complaint against Google´s location tracking

Forbrukerradet, here. 

Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

NYTimes, here. 

Félix Tréguer : «L’informatique accentue les rapports de pouvoir plus qu’elle n’égalise les rapports de force»

Libé, ici. 

Google warns Turkish partners over new Android phones amid dispute

Reuters, here. 

Margrethe Vestager examines EU curbs on state-backed foreign companies

FT, here. 

Greed is dead

TLS, here. 

Lessons From the First Digital Gold Boom

CoinDesk, here. 

On the Privacy Implications of Real Time Bidding

M. Ahmad Bashir, here.

The Growing Trend of Ecosystems Within Financial Services

The Fintech Times, here. 

EuGH: Marke "Der Grüne Punkt" der Duales System Deutschland GmbH ist doch nicht überwiegend wegen Verfalls zu löschen

Beckmann und Norda, hier. 

Competition watchdog investigates Viagogo over £3bn StubHub takeover

The Guardian, here. 

Apple buys UK photography start-up Spectral Edge

FT, here. 

Chillin’Competition Conference 2019- The Videos

Here. 

Review of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation: Results Inside and Outside the Public Consultation

EC, here. 

Does the doctrine of exhaustion apply to videogames purchased digitally? French court says oui

M. Rucz, here. 

A sign referring to marijuana may not, as the law currently stands, be registered as an EU trade mark

EU GC, here. 

DRAFT ISSUES PAPER ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

WIPO Secretariat, here. 

Intelligence artificielle, innovation et propriétés intellectuelles

LexRadio, ici. 

30 RECOMMENDATIONS ON REGULATION, INNOVATION AND FINANCE

EU ROFIEG, here. 

DATA-INFORMED DUTIES IN AI DEVELOPMENT

F. Pasquale, here. 

TRUST, DECENTRALIZATION, AND THE BLOCKCHAIN

A. Guadamuz, here. 

Sharing is caring? That depends…

EDPS, here. 

AINow 2019 Report

Here. 

Towards a bolder Annual Report on EU Competition Policy

Renew Europe, here.

Competition/Antitrust Rap

P. Marsden, Video here. 

High-Priced Acquisitions of Tech Startups Do Not Always Stimulate More Innovation

Pro-Market, here. 

Privacy in the EU and US: Consumer experiences across three global platforms

TACD, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, here. 

Report on Experience Gained in the Implementation of the GDPR

 Conference of Independent German Federal and State Data Protection Supervisory Authorities (DSK), here. 

Steel manufacturers fined approx. 646 million euros for agreeing on prices of quarto plates

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

The deployment of algorithms and Artificial Intelligence systems in markets

N. Petit, here. 

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INNOVATION FAILURES AND INSTITUTIONS IN CONTEXT

B. Frischmann, M. McKenna, here. 

CONFRONTING BLACK BOXES

AI Now Institute, here. 

Regulating in the digital age

AU Government Response and Implementation Roadmap for the Digital Platforms Inquiry, here. 

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

M. Masnick, here. 

India proposes first major data protection law

FT, here. 

The EU’s Whistleblowing Directive

Orrick, here. 

JAYAPAL PRESSES GOOGLE ON HEALTH DATA COLLECTION

Letter here. 

Competition Policy in a Globalized, Digitalized Economy

WEF, here. 

A Payments System for the Digital Economy

P. Lowe, here. 

Forward together - the socio-economic dimension of cash and remittances

J. Beermann, here. 

The Digital Roadmap: how developing countries can get ahead

Pathways for Prosperity Commission, here. 

Exploitative Conducts in Digital Markets: Time for a Discussion after the Facebook Decision

M. Botta, K. Wiedemann, here. 

Framing the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis

H. Hovenkamp, F. Scott Morton, here. 

Big tech's next prey: Big Finance

Axios, here. 

Sanofi will Biotechfirma Synthorx für 2,5 Milliarden Dollar kaufen

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Brussels asks news groups to describe data deals with Google

FT, here. 

Microsoft’s GitHub mulls expansion in China

The Economist, here. 

Defining markets in a new age

M. Vestager, here. 

BMW Sues Air Conditioning Suppliers Over Price Fixing

NYTimes, here. 

NATO-Linked Researchers Bought Fake Social Media Engagements To Test How Facebook, Twitter, And Google Combat Manipulation. The Companies Failed.

Buzzfeednews, here. 

Embraer investor wants EU to block "killer" Boeing deal

Reuters, here. 

IS IT TIME TO BREAK UP BIG TECH?

Bu.edu, here. 

The laws protecting our data are too weak

Yahoo.com, here. 

General principles for the use of Artificial Intelligence in the financial sector

Dutch Central Bank, here. 

La Libra, un stablecoin aux multiples enjeux juridiques

Dl4t.org, ici. 

Bitcoin: the Good and the Bad

M. Rauchs, TedTalk here. 

China survey shows high concern over facial recognition abuse

FT, here. 

Facebook Gets $4m Fine From Hungary for Claim Services Are Free

Bloomberg, here. 

Chinese Courts and Internet Judiciary.

Supreme People’s Court (SPC), here. 

Data-Driven and Digital Procurement Governance: Revisiting Two Well-Known Elephant Tales

A. Sanchez-Graells, here. 

Third-party dependencies in cloud services

FSB, here. 

BigTech in finance

FSB, here. 

France Plans a Revolution to Rein in the Kings of Big Tech

Wired, here. 

Is the fintech bubble bursting?

FT, here. 

WIE ALGORITHMEN VERSTÄNDLICH WERDEN

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, hier. 

Pseudonymisation techniques and best practices

Enisa, here. 

Evaluation der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung aus Verbrauchersicht

Gutachten im Auftrag des Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverbands e.V. (vzbv), hier. 

Portability and Interoperability

Stratechery, here.

Data Portability and Platform Competition

G. Nicholas and M. Weinberg, here.

Sebastian Louven: „Mit ApplePay hatte der Smartphonehersteller die Finanzbranche eiskalt erwischt“

ESV, hier. 

Daten teilen für digitalen Fortschritt

SPD, hier.

Assessing Innovation Theories of Harm in EU Merger Control

S. Solidoro, here. 

Consciously decoupling the US economy

FT, here. 

He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk in North Korea. The U.S. Arrested Him.

NYTimes, here. 

Explaining decisions made with AI

ICO, Alan Turing Institute:
The basics, here;
Explaining AI in practice, here;
What explaining AI means for your organisation, here.

Data Services Market Inquiry: Final Report Presentation

South Africa Competition Commission, Video here.
Final Report's SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, here. 

Wo fängt Marktmachtmissbrauch in Zeiten von Algorithmen und Datensammlern an?

#DigitalerMut mit @AdDeuschle, Podcast hier. 

Data, technology and policy coordination

A. Carstens, here. 

COMPETITION FOR-THE-MARKET: TACKLING THE INCUMBENCY ADVANTAGE

E. Iossa for the OECD, here. 

Summaries of the various written contributions received for the discussion on "Merger control in dynamic markets"

OECD, here. 

CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING (16): DIE 10. GWB-NOVELLE BEIM 6. BERLINER KOLLOQUIUM DES FIW

D'Kart, hier. 

Digital power at the service of humanity

M. Vestager, here (my very own copy with highlights as I currently can't find it back on the EC's website)

EU spotlight on Big Tech

FT, here. 

UK competition watchdog invites to comment on Google’s $2.6bn Looker deal

FT, here. 

Updating Competition Policy for the Digital Economy? An Analysis of Recent Reports in Germany, UK, EU, and Australia

W. Kerber, here. 

Google Accused by Rival of Antitrust Violations in Ad Market

Bloomberg, here.
Complaint, here. 

Große DSGVO-Verfahren: Deutsche Datenschützer wollen die Iren zum Jagen tragen

Heise.de, hier. 

EU antitrust regulators seek details of Google's data practices: document

Reuters, here. 

L’EUROPE FACE AUX NATIONALISMES ÉCONOMIQUES AMÉRICAIN ET CHINOIS (1) POLITIQUE DE CONCURRENCE ET INDUSTRIE EUROPÉENNE

Fondapol.org, here/ici.

More (or Less) Economic Limits of the Blockchain

N. Gandal, J. Gans, here. 

US-Kartelluntersuchung soll Apples neue Datenschutzfunktionen prüfen

Heise.de, hier. 

Shipper anger at EC extension to shipping consortia block exemption regulation

TheLoadStar, here. 

Towards the retail payments of tomorrow: a European strategy

B. Cœuré, here. 

Data flows in international trade: what are the governance options?

ODI, here. 

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

J. Furman, here. 

A Guide on the use of cookies

AEPD, here. 

Bank-Manager über PSD2: Datenteilen nutzt vor allem Google, Facebook und Apple

Heise.de, hier. 

Axel Springer unit, others say Google still playing unfairly, want EU to act

Reuters, here. 

Proceeding against Deutsche Bahn AG - Bundeskartellamt examines possible anticompetitive impediment of mobility platforms

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

Even Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency Can Spill Your Secrets

Wired, here. 

« L'antitrust doit prendre en compte la protection des données personnelles », déclare la présidente de la CNIL Irlandaise

LesEchos, ici. 

Untersuchung der Umsetzung der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) durch Online-Dienste

Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, hier. 

Innovation in Financial Services: A Regulator’s Perspective

E. Sibley, here. 

If a monopoly gives away free services is it a problem?

FT, here. 

Bundestag beschließt „Lex ApplePay“

BargeldlosBlog, hier. 

Connected car prices may rise if Qualcomm wins antitrust case: auto makers

Reuters, here. 

SURVEILLANCE GIANTS: HOW THE BUSINESS MODEL OF GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK THREATENS HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International, here. 

FAIR play in geoscience data

Nature.com, here. 

The World Trade Organization Is Dying. What Should Replace It?

NYTimes, here. 

Independent Sector Regulators

BEUC, here. 

Chinese tech groups shaping UN facial recognition standards

FT, here. 

Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City

NYTimes, here. 

EU investigates Google data collection practices

Engadget, here. 

Industriestrategie 2030

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi), hier.