Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Epic Games hits Apple with new antitrust complaint, this time in Brussels

 Politico.eu, here

Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia

 Facebook, here

News Corp agrees deal with Google on payments for its journalism

 FT, here

A letter to Mr. Cook

 Here.

Sanzione a Facebook per 7 milioni

 AGCM, qui

Google’s search choice screen had virtually no effect on search market share, perhaps by design

 Search Engine Land, here

Indian trader group calls for ban on Amazon following damning report

 TechCrunch, here

Dutch position on the Digital Markets Act

 Here

Big Tech opens wallet for publishers as Australian news code looms

 FT, here

Google condamné à payer un million d'euros pour abus de position dominante dans la publicité

 Les Echos, ici

Choice Screen Auctions

 M. Ostrovsky, here

BEUC files complaint against TikTok for multiple EU consumer law breaches

 BEUC, here

Protecting Consumer Privacy in a Time of Crisis

 FTC, here

A New Era for Antitrust Market Definition

 V. Robertson, here

Why Big Tech deplatforming should be deeply disturbing for everyone, regardless of your politics

 ProtonMail, here

Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability

 EFF, here

The European Commission’s expert group Report on SEP licensing and valuation: What did we achieve? What did we miss?

 D. Geradin, here

The UK digital identity and attributes trust framework

 Here

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Can rentier capitalism explain big tech?

 S. Gilbert, here

Commission accepts commitments by Aspen to reduce prices for six off-patent cancer medicines by 73% addressing excessive pricing concerns

 Here

Public policy for big techs in finance

 BIS, here

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey wants to build an app store for social media algorithms

 The Verge, here

The EDPS on the DMA and DSA

 On the DMA, on the DSA

Netdoktor gegen BRD und Google: Vereinbarung über Knowledge Panels kartellrechtswidrig

 


Landgericht München, hier

Oversight of algorithms

 ACM, here

Clearview’s Biometric Database Ruled ‘Illegal’ in Canada

 DigitalPrivacyNews, here

Commission proposal on the temporary derogation from the e-PrivacyDirective for the purpose of fighting online child sexual abuse

EPRS, here.  

Tuesday, February 09, 2021

The CMA’s Digital Markets Strategy: February 2021 refresh

 CMA, here.

Ahead of the curve

 A. Coscelli, here

The EU Digital Markets Act: A Report from a Panel of Economic Experts

 JRC, here

Banks and fintechs battle over financial data

 Protocol, here

Why the ACCC is rightly zeroing in on Google’s ad tech monopoly

 D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here

Do All Roads Lead to Datocracy?

EDPS Podcast, here.  

Reimagining the Platform Economy

 M. Mazzucato et al., here

From TikTok to Instagram: Data is key to adapting ad creative to every platform

 VentureBeat, here

You can set Spotify as your default music player in iOS 14.5 beta

 9to5Mac, here

The Digital Markets Act: the role of gatekeepers

 EIF, here

The European proposal for a Digital Markets Act: A first assessment

 CERRE, here

Friday, February 05, 2021

EDPB Document on response to the request from the European Commission for clarifications on the consistent application of the GDPR, focusing on health research

 Here.

Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, The Internet, And The Metaverse

 MatthewBall.vc, here

Ostrom Data Trusts

 Panel, here

Gaia-X: "Wir brauchen niemand aus dem Silicon Valley oder China"

 Heise.de, hier

Regulatory Sandbox Final Report: Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd

 ICO, here

European Data Governance Act consultation response

 ODI's response here (pdf).

Distributors that also act as agents for certain products for the same supplier

 European Commission, here

The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review

 Here. Video here.

The geopolitics of the European Green Deal

 Bruegel, here

The Contradictions of Platform Regulation

 M. Lemley, here

Data Talks - Recommended Contract Terms

 European Data Portal, Video here

Beijing wants a market for data trading: the question is how?

 South China Morning Post, here

Remote Teaching During the Emergency and Beyond: Four Open Privacy and Data Protection Issues of ‘Platformised’ Education

 C. Angiolini et al., here

Proctoring and data protection: decision by the Danish DPA

 Translated by Google, here

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Data brokers under the spotlight: A commentary on the ICO vs. Experian case

 iapp, here

The Woolard Review - A review of change and innovation in the unsecured credit market

FCA, here.  

Rethinking competition in light of the digital revolution

Autoritat Catalana de la Competència, Conferences here

Platforms or Aggregators: Implications for Digital Antitrust Law

 T. Schrepel, here.

ByteDance Sues Arch-Rival Tencent Over Alleged Monopolies

 Bloomberg, here

Court Orders Tim Cook to Sit for 7-Hour Deposition in Epic Case

 Gizmodo, here

The Twin Transition to a Digital and Green Economy: Doctrinal Challenges for EU Competition Law

 K. Majcher, V. Robertson, here

Microsoft says it would willingly participate in Australia's media code with Bing search engine

 The Guardian, here

DSA Package

 


 (Credits Damien Geradin)

Monday, February 01, 2021

From Research Data Ethics Principles to Practice: Data Trusts as a Governance Tool

 S. Delacroix, J. Montgomery, here

Daten richtig teilen: Warum Unternehmen mehr Anreize brauchen

 WiWo, hier

Die Datenstrategie der Bundesregierung hier

GameStop: what is going on with prices in the US stock market?

 Economics Observatory, here

Bundeskartellamt also assesses new Section 19a GWB in its Facebook/Oculus case

Bundeskartellamt, here (as correctly guessed by Rupprecht hier 👏).

Launch of the European Parliament tracking-free ads coalition

 Panel here.

The Government Didn’t Foresee How Facebook Would Behave

 R. Haw Allensworth, J. Newman, here

Tanner Lecture 2020 – Between Suffocation and Abdication: Three Eras of Governing Digital Platforms

 J. Zittrain, here

The Internet Country

 Tigerfeathers, here

MARKET STUDY ON THE TELECOM SECTOR IN INDIA

Competition Commission of India, here

The Coup We Are Not Talking About

 S. Zuboff, here

Lego prend des engagements devant l’Autorité de la concurrence afin de modifier son dispositif de remise tarifaire

 Autorité de la concurrence, ici

Commission opens formal investigation into possible trade restrictions by Mondelēz

 EC, here

PLATFORM MERGERS AND ANTITRUST

 G. Parker et al., here

Understanding the Data Governance Act: in conversation with Sylvie Delacroix, Ben McFarlane and Paul Nemitz

 Data Trusts Initiative, here

Environmental sustainability agreements and competition law

 CMA, here

Completed acquisition by Facebook, Inc of Giphy, Inc.: Launch of formal Phase 1 investigation

 CMA, here

Analysing algorithms: How they can reduce competition and harm consumers - a panel discussion

 CMA, Video here

Abolishing price secrecy to help make medicines affordable

 BEUC, here.

The algorithm audit: Scoring the algorithms that score us

 S. Brown et al., here

Clearview AI’s biometric photo database deemed illegal in the EU, but only partial deletion ordered

 noyb, here

Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice

 M. Jacobides, I. Lianos, here

Robinhood's Gamification of Investing Combines Surveillance Capitalism With Finance Capitalism

 Vice, here

Digital advertising services inquiry

 


ACCC, Interim Report here

Facial recognition: strict regulation is needed to prevent human rights violations

 Council of Europe, here

Data sovereignty: A review

 P. Hummel et al., here

Bracing for Another E-book Price-Fixing Case

 PublishersWeekly, here

Technical Report on Sustainability and Competition

Jointly commissioned by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC), here

AI REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND TRADE LAW

 K. Irion, here

Onlinewerbung: Google testet Cookie-Nachfolger

 Heise.de, hier

Emotional Entanglement

Article19, here