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.