Positionspapier zur Anonymisierung unter der DSGVO unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der TK-Branche

BfDI, hier.
Stellungnahmen der Konsultationsteilnehmer, hier. 

Visa International Service Association / Plaid Inc. merger inquiry

CMA, Commencement Notice here. 

Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: the Future of Artificial Intelligence for Policy Making

BCCP Virtual Mini-Conference 2020, Video here.

The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on artificial intelligence

STOA Study, here; Options Brief, here. 

Margrethe Vestager on EU-China relationships

ECFR, Video here. 

Case study: £4.5 million fine for Fender for illegally preventing online price discounts

CMA, here. 

Telegram to pay SEC fine of $18.5 million and return $1.2 billion to investors as it dissolves TON

TechCrunch, here. 

Musical instrument firms to pay millions after breaking competition law

CMA, here. 

Artificial intelligence: How does it work, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

EP, Study, here. 

Bundeskartellamt gibt den Erwerb der Vossloh Locomotives GmbH durch die die chinesische CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotives Co. nach umfangreichen Ermittlungen frei

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

LIKED by Margrethe Vestager HERSELF 😳

...besides a @Google Software Engineer 😲😲😳😳

Competition in a Digital Age: Changing Enforcement for Changing Times

M. Vestager, here (and really *here*).

The state we’re in

NewStatesman, here. 

15º ASCOLA (virtual) Conference - Algorithms and Competition Law

You can watch the video here. 

A Council of Citizens Should Regulate Algorithms

Wired, here. 

EU-Ratspräsidentschaft: Deutschland will mehr digitale Souveränität

Heise.de, hier. 

How Amazon Used the Pandemic to Amass More Monopoly Power

The Nation, here. 

Die pragmatischen Puristen

Republik.ch, hier. 

Competition Policy in Transition: Exploring Data Portability’s Roles

My today's presentation @ASCOLA, here.

Draft paper here. 

"Un test di civiltà" - Come conciliare sorveglianza e privacy durante una pandemia

La qui presente, su YouTube.

Operationalizing Research Access in Platform Governance

Algorithm Watch, here. 

Competition Policy in Transition: Exploring Data Portability’s Roles

Yours Very Truly, here.

Yes, it has actually to do with 👈

Very first draft...Please let me know if you have comments!

Google to pay some publishers in Australia, Brazil, Germany for content

Reuters, here. 

Bundesgerichtshof bestätigt vorläufig den Vorwurf der missbräuchlichen Ausnutzung einer marktbeherrschenden Stellung durch Facebook

BGH, hier. 

Capitaliser et valoriser les données de paiement : l’exemple de l’industrie des cartes de crédit

LINC, ici. 

Konsultationspapier zur Sektoruntersuchung Nutzerbewertungen

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Bank-Fintech Partnerships, Outsourcing Arrangements and the Case for a Mentorship Regime

L. Enriques, W.-G. Ringe, here. 

Gatekeepers and digital markets set for further EU regulation

Pinsent Masons, here. 

RGPD : le Conseil d’État rejette le recours dirigé contre la sanction de 50 millions d’euros infligée à Google par la CNIL

Ici. 

Antitrust & Corruption: Overruling Noerr

T. Wu, here. 

EP REPORT on competition policy

Here. 

Why was Frankfurt so blind for so long about Wirecard?

FT, here. 

Cash Less Society : comment préserver la vie privée dans une société sans argent liquide ?

LINC, ici. 

To tame the giants, the EU needs to step up competition enforcement

BEUC, here. 

Are cookie banners indeed compliant with the law? Deciphering EU legal requirements on consent and technical means to verify compliance of cookie banners

C. Santos, N. Bielova, C. Matte, here. 

Amazon’s Enforcement Failures Leave Open a Back Door to Banned Goods—Some Sold and Shipped by Amazon Itself

TheMarkUp, here. 

Why open science is critical to combatting COVID-19

OECD, here. 

Apple will let users pick their own default email and browser apps

TechCrunch, here. 

Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets

D. Srinivasan, here. 

BREAKING NEWS: Federal Cartel Office of Germany asks regional courts to refer component-level standard-essential patent licensing questions to CJEU, disagrees with Nokia

FOSS Patents, here. 

City-wide data in London (Part 2): Where we want to get to

Smart London, here. 

Data and Covid-19: why standards matter

ODI, here. 

Regtechs, fintechs and datasharing

EU Data Staring, here. 

EU rights and data protection bodies: new technology and data protection have to go hand in hand

Joint FRA & EDPS statement, here. 

Interview with Olivier Guersent, Director General, Directorate General for Competition, European Commissio

The Antitrust Source, here. 

Cape Town company agrees to pay R600,000 for over-charging for sanitisers

Times Live, here. 

Empowering the consumer for the green transition

EC, IIA, here. 

EU PROPOSALS FOR NEW POWERS TO ADDRESS FOREIGN SUBSIDIES

Clifford Chance, here. 

The Google/Fitbit merger - NOT ON OUR WATCH!

Privacy International, here. 

Facebook’s Libra 2.0: Why you might like it even if we can’t trust Facebook

Brookings, here. 

Market studies by CCI: Towards healthy competition

Financial Express, here. 

New protections for UK businesses key to national security and fight against coronavirus

CMA, here. 

Digital Services Act: Opportunities and Challengesfor the Digital Single Market and Consumer Protection

EU Parliament, here. 

Does The Relaunch Of Google Meet Breach Antitrust Law?

Forbes, here. 

Bungled Lancet study casts shadow over health data industry

Politico.eu, here. 

Data protection as a pillar of citizens’ empowerment and the EU’s approach to the digital transition - two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation

EC, here. 

Central banks and payments in the digital era

BIS, here. 

Facebook's investment in Jio Platforms gets CCI nod

Econoomic Times, here. 

Kapitalismus braucht Regeln

J. Haucap, hier. 

GOOGLE’S PLAN TO BUY FITBIT – SHOULD WE BE ALARMED?

K. Kemp, Radio Interview here. 

GDPR IN NEED FOR A CENTRALIZED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM TO PROPERLY WORK WITH GLOBAL PLATFORMS

Radiobruxelleslibera, here. 

Sunlight alone is not a disinfectant: Consent and the futility of opening Big Data black boxes (without assistance)

J. Obar, here. 

Germany flexes its muscles on foreign investment

FT, here. 

Bundeskartellamt clears Intersport’s online platform sales model

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

viagogo / StubHub merger inquiry

CMA, here. 

Google LLC – proposed acquisition of Fitbit Inc: Statement of Issues

ACCC, here. 

France's COVID tracing app hard to link to others, EU official says

Reuters, here. 

India’s antitrust watchdog is reviewing Facebook’s $5.7B deal with Reliance Jio Platforms

TechCrunch, here. 

L’app Immuni non è sorveglianza di massa: un’analisi dei rischi tra fiducia e garanzie tecniche

A. Gadotti, qui. 

Caméras dites « intelligentes » et caméras thermiques : les points de vigilance de la CNIL et les règles à respecter

CNIL, ici. 

Amazon's new Distance Assistant uses AI to encourage social distancing

CNET, here. 

Coronavirus: Member States agree on an interoperability solution for mobile tracing and warning apps

EC, here.
Specifications here. 

EC opens investigations into Apple's App Store rules

Here. 

EC opens investigation into Apple practices regarding Apple Pay

Here.
@wavesblog thread

Covid-detecting ‘smart rings’ to be trialled by staff at Las Vegas resort

FT, here. 

Why are Google and Apple dictating how European democracies fight coronavirus?

The Guardian, here. 

Norway pulls its coronavirus contacts-tracing app after privacy watchdog’s warning

TechCrunch, here. 

Making data Portability More Effective for The Digital Economy

J. Krämer, P. Senellart A. de Streel, here.

TALES FROM THE CRYPTO

F. Pasquale, here. 

Données : la LDH veut ouvrir la «boîte noire» d’Uber

Libération, ici. 

Can This Be the New Normal? 10 Questions on the Proposed New Competition Tool

Chillin'Competition, here. 

Why Jio-Facebook May Work Better Than A Google Or Amazon Combination

BloombergQuint, here. 

Tackling the COVID-19 challenge - competition policy perspectives

Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, here.

THE JURY IS OUT: AN ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSED REFORMS TO AUSTRALIA’S MERGER CONTROL REGIME FOR ADDRESSING COMPETITIVE HARM IN THE (DIGITAL) ECONOMY

CliffordChance, here. 

Facebook hit by antitrust scrutiny after buying a site for GIFs

CNN, here. 

What's in a Name? The Marginal Standard of Review of "Complex Economic Assessments" in EU Competition Enforcement

A. Kilintiri, here. 

Resilience and competition law, in times of emergencies and crises: two research agendas

J. Nowag, here. 

The CMA is investigating the completed acquisition by Facebook, Inc of Giphy, Inc.

Here. 

Competition Law in Isolation

Video library, here. 

What will the Regulatory Horizons Council do for "us"?

Here. 

Shaping Europe's Digital Future

Council of the European Union, here. 

Apple adds anonymous symptom and health info sharing to its COVID-19 app and website

TechCrunch, here. 

GitLab acquires DevSecOps startups Peach Tech and Fuzzit

VentureBeat, here. 

General Magic

Documentary, here. 

How advertisers should adapt to the privacy-first future

J. Ryan, Remote Keynote here. 

Amazon Set to Face Antitrust Charges in European Union

NYTimes, here.
[Note to self: 2018 short "Amazon and the Law of the Jungle" here; 2016 article here]. First time I wondered about it here]

How we make decisions during a pandemic

K. Harmon Courage, here. 

Another response to the public consultation on “A European strategy for data”

 Transatlantic project “Principles for a Data Economy”, here. 

Competition rules for Big Tech and the digital economy

N. Petit & I. de Silva, Video here. 

‘AI-Generated Inventions’: Time to Get the Record Straight?

D. Kim, here. 

Data Trusts at CogX: Terrific Famel

Video here (look for it).

Competition Law in Isolation discusses market definition

Video, here. 

Re-imagining the Abuse of Economic Dependence in a Digital World

A. Rinaldi, here. 

Roadmap for an Antitrust Case Against Facebook

F.Scott Morton, D. Dinielli, here. 

EU seeks tougher checks on foreign buying of European firms

Reuters, here. 

Crisis management measures in the automotive industry

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

To define or not to define (the market), that is the problem

F. Costa-Cabral, here. 

Apple Could Cost Google $15 Billion By Buying DuckDuckGo, Analyst Says

Forbes, here. 

Google got rich from your data. DuckDuckGo is fighting back

Wired, here. 

FNE aprueba adquisición por parte de Copec de una bomba de Hualpén, aplicando la "Failing Firm Defense"

FNE, aquì.

Facebook unafraid of scrutiny as ACCC probes Giphy deal

SMH, here. 

Where Did Software Go Wrong?

J. Li, here. 

Money is data – the platformization of financial transactions

C. Westermeier, here. 

CASE AT.40220 Qualcomm (Exclusivity payments)

EC Decision here.

Commission approves acquisition of Bayer's animal health division by Elanco, subject to conditions

EC, here. 

EU competition law – market definition notice, feedback published

EC, here. 

CogX Live Streams

Here.

Competition in Ad Tech: A Response to Google

D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here. 

Valuation of start ups and nascent companies

W. Holterman, Emergency Remote Presentation here

Conglomerate effects of mergers

M. Bourreau, Video here. 

An American's Guide to the GDPR

M. Jones, M. Kaminski, here. 

Concurrence & commerce en ligne

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Google dominates online ads — and DOJ may be ready to pounce

Politico.eu, here. 

Der Tanz mit den Giganten

NZZ, hier. 

What should we do about price gouging?

A. Fletcher, here. 

Do we make informed decisions when sharing our personal data?

D. Nguyen, here. 

Competition and Risk

D. Bloomfield, here. 

Preventing Data Authoritarianism

K. Pistor, here. 

Digitalisation and Competition Law

BWB, Proposition Paper, here. 

Start-ups, killer acquisitions and merger control

DoJ+FTC, here. 

SCHLÜSSELASPEKTE DIGITALER SOUVERÄNITÄT

T. Bendig, hier. 

Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

§ 19a GWB (Referentenentwurf „GWB-Digitalisierungsgesetz“)

S. Louven, hier. 

Understanding EU data protection policy

EP Briefing, here. 

TWO YEARS UNDER THE EU GDPR

Access Now, here. 

Nicolas Anciaux : « L’agentivité, c’est le pouvoir d’utiliser collectivement nos données personnelles, sous forme de Big Data citoyen »

LINC, ici. 

Support studies for the evaluation of the VBER

EC, here. 

Two years into new EU privacy regime, questions hang over enforcement

Politico.eu, here. 

Avis concernant une proposition de loi relative à l’utilisation d’applications numériques de dépistage de contacts

Autorité de protection des données, ici. 

Verbesserung der DSGVO zum Schutz unserer Grundrechte

Digitale Gesellschaft, hier. 

An opportunity for openness and user agency in the proposed Facebook-Giphy merger

Mozilla, here. 

Google faces antitrust case in India over payments app

Reuters, here. 

Report by the DPC on the use of cookies and other tracking technologies

Data Protection Commission, here. 

REVISED ISSUES PAPER ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

WIPO, here. 

Kartellgericht verurteilt Peugeot für Preisdiktat

Der Standard, hier. 

Amazon sellers are marking products as ‘collectible’ to get around price gouging rules

The Verge, here. 

The General Court annuls the European Commission’s prohibition of the Three/O2 merger – a reset for EU merger control?

Allen & Overy, here. 

The Law and Policy of Government Access to Private Sector Data (‘B2G Data Sharing’)

H. Richter, here. 

„Die wichtigste digitale Bestrebung Europas in dieser Generation“

FAZ, hier. 

What’s good for the goose ain’t good for the gander: heterogeneous innovation capabilities and the performance effects of R&D

A. Coad, N. Mathew, E. Pugliese, here. 

Designing regulation for digital platforms: Why economists need to work on business models

C. Caffarra et al., here. 

Decision 20-MC-01 of April 09, 2020

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Blockchain for supply chains and international trade

EPRS, here. 

Emergency Remote Teaching: a study of copyright and data protection policies of popular online services

R. Ducato et al. Part I, Part II. 

National COVID-19 contact tracing apps

EP Briefing, here. 

Fusión entre Uber y Cornershop

FNE, aquì.
And also @oecd, here. 

GAIA-X: The European project kicks off the next phase

Here. 

Commission to assess the proposed acquisition of Nets A/S account-to-account payment business by Mastercard

EC, here. 

App Users Say Plaid Collects Bank Logins Without Consent (1)

Bloomberg Law, here.
Complaint here. 

New Directions in Privacy and Competition Policy

M. MacCarthy, here. 

Show Me The (Data About The) Money! What You Didn’t Know About Data Aggregation Can Hurt You.

N. Packin, here. 

“The Portability and Other Required Transfers Impact Assessment (PORT-IA): Assessing Competition, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Other Considerations”

P. Swire, here. 

Data & Society Data & Society An Ecological Approach to Data Governance

J. McNealy, Podcast here.