Monday, September 28, 2020

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Spotify criticizes new Apple services bundle on antitrust grounds

Reuters, here

The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website

The MarkUp, here

A Far Reach

Global Finance, here

Converging Disruptions

EPRS, here

Erneuter Vorwurf: Amazon soll bei Eigenprodukten Konkurrenz behindern

Heise, hier

FTC Petition for Ninth Circuit Rehearing in Qualcomm Antitrust Case

Here

A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy roadmapping for the SDGs: The case of plastic-free oceans

M. Miedzinski, M. Mazzucato, P. Ekins, here

Interoperability as a competition remedy for digital networks

M. Kades, F. Scott Morton, here

Digital Finance Package: Commission sets out new, ambitious approach to encourage responsible innovation to benefit consumers and businesses

EU Commission, here

Die Corona-Transformation – Wie die Pandemie die Globalisierung bremst und die Digitalisierung beschleunigt

BertelsmannStiftung, hier

UK regulator says Google not doing enough about scam ads

FT, here

Video del seminario: “Competencia, Privacidad y Datos Personales”

Capítulo América Latina de la Academic Society for Competition Law, Video aquì.










Is it game over for the console?

FT, here

New farm bill 2020: Who is protesting & why

Times of India, here.

And CCI 2012 Onion Study here

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Lessons in Data Access, Portability and Interoperability from Digital Agriculture

DataFed, here

The Green Deal and competition policy

M. Vestager, here

How can competition rules support the Green Deal?

With Margrethe, here

EPIC Demands Privacy Commitments From Oracle, TikTok

Here

The Progressive Case for a TikTok Sale

Wired, here

INNOVATION POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY FOR POST-COVID ECONOMIC RECOVERY

M. Mazzucato, G. Dibb, here

Data Futures: Research to shift power through data governance

Mozilla, here

SURVEILLANCE IN AN ERA OF PANDEMIC AND PROTEST

N. Klein, S. Zuboff, and S. Browne, here

Why we need to do something about the monopsony power of employers

A. Manning, here

Microsoft Grabs Some of World’s Biggest Games in $7.5 Billion Deal

NYTimes, here

Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles

Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group, here

Decentralised Futures: How digital technologies will change the shape of organisations to come

Nesta, here

Digital Minilateralism: How governments cooperate on digital governance

T. Filer, A. Weiss, here

FTC: Virtual workshop on data portability

 This afternoon, here.
My draft paper presented at the Ascola 2020 Conference here, si jamais. 

Monday, September 21, 2020

Russischer Internetriese Yandex zieht sich aus Türkei zurück

Heise.de, hier

Aline Blankertz: «Das Internet wird zum geopolitischen Spielball»

SRF.ch, hier

DIE ZUKUNFT DER DATENSCHUTZAUFSICHT

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier

Humanising Machine Intelligence

Conference Videos, here. 👀

Google to pass on [regulatory operating cost] to advertisers

CityAm, here

Data institutions play critical role in solving global social problems

ComputerWeekly, here

Amazon staffers took bribes, manipulated marketplace, leaked data including search algorithms – DoJ claims

The Register, here

Ireland’s data watchdog slammed for letting adtech carry on ‘biggest breach of all time’

TechCrunch, here

This Deal Helped Turn Google Into an Ad Powerhouse. Is That a Problem?

NYTimes, here

U.S. app maker Blix in letter to EU's Vestager says Apple not playing fair

Reuters, here.
"The founders of Blix, an email app maker that has fought with Apple, suggested to me that Apple create an independent app review process to make sure it isn’t unfairly punishing rival apps" here

Privacy Experts Alarmed at Oracle’s Role in Proposed TikTok Deal

Digital Privacy News, here

The impact of algorithms for online content filtering or moderation

Study for the EP, here

Friday, September 18, 2020

Digitale Ordnungspolitik

Interdisziplinäre Konferenz, hier

The Case of Google ‘Snippets’: An IP Wrong that Competition Law Cannot Fix

V. Kathuria, J. Lai, here

Vins d’Alsace : l’Autorité de la concurrence sanctionne 3 organisations professionnelles pour entente

ADLC, ici

Google’s Call for Enforcement Action?

Foundem, here

Exploring principles for data stewardship: a case study analysis

Ada Lovelace Institute, here

Banksy trademark 'at risk' after street artist loses legal battle

The Guardian, here

Bringing an end to Apple’s anti-competitive practices on the App Store: A response to Völcker & Baker

D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here

Apple Pay tech likely to be open to rivals in rules mulled by EU

TheStar, here

Tech investor Fred Wilson says Apple and Google ‘monopolies’ on app sales ‘must stop’

9to5Mac, here

Thursday, September 17, 2020

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

C. Doctorow, here (and pdf, if you want to speechify it for the gym, here). 

How can we fight surveillance capitalism?

Columbia Journalism Review, here

How to Govern Facebook: A Structural Model for Taxing and Regulating Big Tech

S. Benzell, A. Collis, here

DRAFT STAFF DISCUSSION PAPER ON SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES AND COMPETITION LAW

 Hellenic Competition Commission, here

Not a Monopoly


The Potential of Open Digital Ecosystems

ODE, here

Angriff auf das Monopol: Streit von Amazon mit Marktplatzhändlern eskaliert

Handelsblatt, hier

DSA: Google

 Here.

„Datenzugang, Verbraucherinteressen und Gemeinwohl“

J. Globocnik, S. Scheuerer, hier.

Der Facebook-Fall vor dem BGH: Kein kompletter Austausch der rechtlichen Begründung 😉

FRAND-Einwand: Bundesgerichtshof, Urteil vom 5. Mai 2020 - Az. KZR 36/17

 Hier

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

BIg Tech Hearing: GAFA’s responses for the record

 Here.

FTC takes aim at Google’s OS monopoly

The Korea Herald, here

Investiga COFECE posibles prácticas monopólicas relativas en el mercado de servicios de publicidad digital y servicios relacionados

COFECE, aquì

Rise of the central bank digital currencies: drivers, approaches and technologies

BIS, here

How to destroy surveillance capitalism

C. Doctorow, here

The ACCC’s ‘bargaining code’: A path towards ‘decentralised regulation’ of dominant digital platforms?

C. Caffarra, here

The effects of narrow price parity clauses on online sales – Investigation results from the Bundeskartellamt’s Booking proceeding

Bundeskartellamt, here

Competition in digital markets: a review of expert reports

F. Lancieri, P. Sakowski, here

On concentration screens in horizontal merger review

V. Nocke, M. Whinston, here

Statement on Facebook

ACCC, here

Emerging health data platforms: From individual control to collective data governance

T. Kariotis et al., here

Wie Europas digitale Wettbewerbspolitik verschärfen?

With A. Fletcher, here

Digital platform services Inquiry – March 2021 report on app marketplaces: Issues Paper

ACCC, here

Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox probed over ‘unfair’ T&Cs in Italy

TechCrunch, here

COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EVALUATION of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation

EC, here

Remèdes aux problèmes posés par les plateformes numériques structurantes

Arcep, ici

Arcep’s contribution to the public consultation on the DSA Package and the New Competition Tool

Here

Altmaier: Mit dem GWB-Digitalisierungsgesetz schaffen wir neue Wettbewerbsregeln für große Internetunternehmen und entlasten den Mittelstand

BMWI, hier

How competition impacts data privacy

A. Blankertz, here

Industrie 4.0: Innovationen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung

BMBF, hier.

Traitement de la DMLA : l'Autorité sanctionne 3 laboratoires pour des pratiques abusives

ADLC, ici

5G: a cosa serve davvero? Quintarelli: “Ecco quale sarà il vero traino delle nuove reti”

AgendaDigitale, qui

The technical components of interoperability as a tool for competition regulation

I. Brown, here

Essential requirements for establishing and operating data trusts: practicalguidance co-developed by representatives from fifteen canadian organizationsand initiatives

A. Paprica et al., here

The future of EU merger control

M. Vestager, here

CMA: EC public consultations on the Digital Services Act package and the New Competition Tool

CMA, here

ICN 2020 Virtual Annual Conference

ICN, here

À VOTRE ÉCOUTE

CNIL, here

Evidence and scenarios for global data systems

Gov Office for Science, here

GOOGLE’S SUBMISSION IN RESPONSE TO SUBCOMMITTEE QUESTIONS FOR THE RECORD FOLLOWING JULY 29, 2020 HEARING

Google, here

BGH setzt Facebook Grenzen für die Datennutzung

Noerr, hier

AI Governance through Political Fora and Standards Developing Organizations

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, hier

Nvidia's CEO argues that buying Arm won't threaten CPU neutrality

PCWorld, here

La justice européenne confirme que le « trafic gratuit » enfreint les règles sur la neutralité du net

Numérama, ici

Radical Restorative Remedies for Digital Markets

N. Petit, M. Gal, here

Russian Apple decision(s)

FAS, here