Friday, December 20, 2019

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.