Computational Antitrust: An Introduction and Research Agenda

 T. Schrepel, here. 

Data Protection by Design and by Default

 L. Jasmontaite et al., here. 

Uber has a wild new plan for global ride-hailing domination

 Wired, here. 

New digital payment rules likely to hit Ant Group, Tencent

TechNode, here.  

Everalbum, Inc: In first facial recognition misuse settlement, FTC requires destruction of algorithms trained on deceptively obtained photos

Z. Sorenson, here.  

Developer complains to EU over Apple, Google app rules after COVID game rejected

 Reuters, here. 

Deutscher Bibliotheksverband fordert verbesserte Bedingungen zur Ausleihe von E-Books

 iRights, hier. 

AI and Security

 NSCAI, Draft Final Report here

Justizministerium weist Scheuers Gesetzentwurf zum autonomen Fahren zurück wegen offener Fragen zum Datenschutz

 Heise, hier. 

Antitrust watchdogs around the world are going back to school to study blockchain and AI

 CoinTelegraph, here. 

Reviving Purpose Limitation and Data Minimisation in Personalisation, Profiling and Decision-Making Systems

 M. Finck, A. Barga, here. 

Stellungnahme zum Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Änderung des E-GovernmentGesetzes und zur Einführung des Gesetzes für die Nutzung von Daten des öffentlichen Sektors vom 17.12.2020

 MPI, hier. 

THE EFFECTS OF ONLINE DISCLOSURE ABOUT PERSONALISED PRICING ON CONSUMERS

 OECD, here. 

Getting under your skin(s): A legal-ethical exploration of Fortnite’s transformation into a content delivery platform and its manipulative potential

 M. Sax, J. Ausloos, here. 

New lawsuit accuses Amazon of e-book price fixing

 The Verge, here. 

Computational Antitrust

 Stanford, here. 

“An Offer We Can’t Refuse”: How We Gave Away Our Data and Made Big Tech What It Is Today

 T. Valletti, here. 

Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook

 NYTimes, here. 

Individual, collective and intermediated: three roads to data empowerment

 Data empowerment, here. 

New Draft Paper: The Dawn of Pro-Competition Data Regulation for Gatekeepers in the EU

 Here.

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Google Play is unsportsmanlike, U.S. states likely to argue in potential lawsuit

 Reuters, here. 

This Was WhatsApp's Plan All Along

 GizModo, here. 

Google cracks down on personal loan apps in India following abuse and outcry

 TechCrunch, here. 

GWB-Digitalisierungsgesetz im Bundestag

 Hier. 

Grab raises $300 million to grow fintech business

 FinExtra, here. 

How to Make Google and Facebook Care About Privacy

 C. O'Neil, here. 

Why the CMA is digging into the Privacy Sandbox, Google’s cookie-killer

 The Drum, here. 

Data trusts in Germany and under the GDPR

 Algorithm Watch, here. 

Die Vereinbarkeit von Data Trusts mit der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO)

 Algorithm Watch, hier. 

Epic Games going to the UK

 Here. 

Digitaler Euro: Bürger sorgen sich vor allem um Privatheit von Zahlungen

 Heise.de, here. 

Google’s Fitbit acquisition is official...but

 TechCrunch, here. 

TikTok makes under-16s' profiles private by default, blocks comments from strangers on their videos and prevents 'stitching' and 'duetting' in new privacy crackdown

 Mail Online, here. 

Delivery Platform Algorithms Don’t Work Without Drivers’ Deep Local Knowledge

 Slate, here. 

YOU CAN LOG OUT, BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE

 Norwegian Consumer Council, here. 

THE COURAGE TO LEARN

 American Economic Liberties Project, here. 

Platform Mergers and Antitrust

 G. Parker et al., here. 

Artificial Intelligence and Unfair Competition – Unveiling an Underestimated Building Block of the AI Regulation Landscape

 S. Scheuerer, here.  Paper here. 

Le Digital Markets Act, un nouveau chapitre dans l’histoire du droit de la concurrence

 C.O, ici. 

FTC settles with photo storage app that pivoted to facial recognition

 The Verge, here. 

WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually

 Wired, here. 

Google’s plan to replace tracking cookies goes under UK antitrust probe

 TechCrunch, here. 

La société des boîtes noires s’étend

 InternetActu, ici. 

U.K. competition regulator to probe Nvidia’s $40 billion Arm takeover

 VentureBeat, here. 

The European Commission Digital Markets Act: A translation

 C. Caffarra, F. Scott Morton, here. 

IIA: Collective bargaining agreements for self-employed – scope of application of EU competition rules

 EC, here. 

Ex-ante regulation for digital markets in India

 V. Kathuria, here.