Friday, June 07, 2019

The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined

S. Zuboff, here

Digital disruption in financial markets: Presentations available!

OECD (bravi), here.

(Links to several countries' contributions not working though).

And my ASCOLA 2018 presentation ICYMI here

Sir Tim versus Black Mirror

Still my fav
E. Zuckerman, here

Competition policy: access to data, and more

P. Wells, Presentation here.

What Duopoly? Why Amazon’s Sizmek Purchase Is Just The Next Step In Its March Toward Ad Dominance

AdExchanger, here

Bring Back the Golden Age of Broadcast Regulation: Especially for YouTube and Facebook.

Slate, here

Three ways that Big Tech could be broken up

FT, here

Blockchain's Appeal Is Limited for Retail Banks, McKinsey Says

Bloomberg, here

How to rein in the web of lies

Chatman House, here

Google to Buy Data Analytics Company Despite New Antitrust Scrutiny

NYtimes, here.

Machine Learning and AI as business tools: Threat or blessing for competition?

CCP 15th Annual Conference 6th – 7th June 2019, Blog post here

Facebook plant eigene Kryptowährung

FAZ, hier

Google übernimmt den BI-Spezialisten Looker für 2,6 Milliarden US-Dollar

Heise.de, hier

From Innovation Hub to Innovation Culture

FCA, here

Making Big Tech companies share data could do more good than breaking them up

MIT Technology Review, here

Facebook’s Anticompetitive Lean in Strategies

L. Lovdall Gormsen, J.T. Llanos, here

A duty of care to prevent online exploitation of consumers? Digital dominance and special responsibility in EU competition law

W. Sauter, here

IBM withdraws notification of its acquisition of staff, hardware and software from T-Systems’ mainframe business after the Bundeskartellamt expressed concerns

Bundeskartellamt, here

iOS developers file class-action against Apple over ‘profit killing’ App Store practices

9to5mac.com, here

Google erweitert die Pay API für umfangreichere Bezahloptionen

Heise, hier

Kelkoo ready to take Google complaint to U.S. antitrust regulators - CEO

Reuters, here

Report: Facebook plans to create independent foundation to manage its cryptocurrency; will charge members $10M licensing fees for right to operate node

The Block, here

Amazon executive says company welcomes scrutiny of big tech

Reuters, here

How Big Tech funds the debate on AI ethics

NewStatesman, here

The Fintech Bubble Floats Toward a $64 Billion Pin

Bloomberg, here

Competition and Regulation in the Data Economy

Panel, videos here

Governance of Data in IoT Contexts


















W. Kerber, Presentation here

Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set

FT, here