Großes Kino am OLG Düsseldorf: Facebook vs. Bundeskartellamt

 Bei Anruf Wettbewerb, Podcast hier.

Commission announces evaluation results and follow-up measures on jurisdictional and procedural aspects of EU merger control

 EC, here.

Personal Data Governance

 

Harry van der Velde of Zicht 

Digitale Souveränität: acatech IMPULS entwirft Schichtenmodell als Handlungsrahmen für die EU

 Acatech, hier. 

Facebook interdicted in fight with South Africa’s GovChat

 Tech Central, here. 

Facebook’s purchase of Giphy raises competition concerns

 CMA, here. 

Artificial intelligence and intellectual property: Consultation Results

UK Gov, here. 

Commission clears acquisition of GrandVision by EssilorLuxottica, subject to conditions

 EC, here. 

European competitiveness in the digital future

 M. Vestager, here. 

The Case for Data Portability as a Privacy Protection in the Digital Age

IWGDPT, here. 

Lego-Bausteine sind für das Europäische Gericht schützenswert

 Heise.de, hier. 

FACEBOOK: NEXT STOP EUROPE

 R. Podszun, here. 

A Proposal for an International Agreement: The International Instrument on Permitted Uses in Copyright Law

 R. Hilty, V. Moscon, here. 

French data protection watchdog casts doubt on Apple’s privacy compliance

 Politico.eu, here. 

The Justice Department is worried about an anime monopoly after the Sony deal

 The Verge, here. 

And now for something totally different: Friedrich von Hayek and Robert Bork

 Part I, Part II, Part III.

Islands in the Stream: Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.

 D. Dayen, here. 

The EU, Competition Law and Workers’ Rights

 N. Countouris, V. De Stefano, I. Lianos, here. 

On the governance of privacy-preserving systems

 L. Olejnik, here. 

Italian Section 19a GWB on AGCM's wishlist

SEGNALAZIONE ai sensi degli artt. 21 e 22 della legge 10 ottobre 1990, n. 287
in merito a: Proposte di riforma concorrenziale, ai fini della Legge Annuale per il Mercato e la Concorrenza anno 2021, qui.

Decent DeepL translation of the proposed provision here. 

What Google’s Privacy Sandbox Means for Internet Governance

 CIGI, here. 

Facebook faces antitrust probe by UK regulator

 FT, here. 

Why I agree with the Google-Fitbit decision

 P. Régibeau, here. 

ADIs: New entrants – a pathway to sustainability

 APRA, here. 

Ruling and remedies on the case No.110110-242019 against Apple Inc. (abuse of dominant position in the market for distributing mobile apps on the iOS operating system)

 FAS, here. 

Reviving Competition, Part 3: Strengthening the Laws to Address Monopoly Power

 House Committee on the Judiciary, here. 

Multi-CBDC arrangements and the future of crossborder payments

 BIS, here. 

DPC correspondence with LIBE Committee

 Here. 

Data for Good

 DCC, here. 

Notice on tools to fight collusion in public procurement and on guidance on how to apply the related exclusion ground

 EC, here. 

Privacy washing, dites vous?

 Yahoo, here. 

You can be heroes

 M. Vestager, here. 

The EDPS not happy with the DGA

 Speech here. 

Inteligencia Artificial: retos y oportunidades

CNMC, aquì.  

The Neglected Concern of Firm Size in Pharmaceutical Mergers

 P. Danzon, M. Carrier, here. 

La CNIL ouvre une enquête sur l’application Clubhouse

 Ici. 

Décision Apple ATT (mesures conservatoires)

 AdlC, ici. 

The FTC Google Memos

 Here and here. 

FTC Announces Multilateral Working Group to Build a New Approach to Pharmaceutical Mergers

FTC, here. 

Google Play drops commissions to 15% from 30%, following Apple’s move last year Manish Singh

 TechCrunch, here. 

Amended AGs Google Complaint

 Here. 

BEREC on the DMA and Ex-Ante

 Here. 

Google wanted to ‘own’ the mobile search market. The U.S. let it.

 Politico.com, here. 

How Washington fumbled the future: The Google Files

 Politico.com, here. 

Big techs in finance: regulatory approaches and policy options

 BIS, here.

News Corp Australia, Nine strike Facebook content deals

 SMH, here. 

China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules

 FT, here. 

EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 03/2021 on the Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European data governance (Data Governance Act)

 Here.

Why we need new, nationwide personal data infrastructure

 Mydex, here. 

Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum: Plan of work for 2021 to 2022

Here.  

Copyright Protection for Algorithm Products?

 L. Specht, here. 

‘An invaluable asset’: Participants praise opportunity for feedback via GDPR sandboxes

 Compliance Week, here. 

CCIA Position Paper on the EU Digital Markets Act

 Here. 

Opinion 5/2021 on the Cybersecurity Strategy and the NIS 2.0 Directive

EDPS, here.  

EU CONSUMER PROTECTION 2.0 Structural asymmetries in digital consumer markets

 BEUC, here. 

Online platforms: Economic and societal effects

 EPRS, here. 

Rising Corporate Market Power: Emerging Policy Issues

 IMF Staff Discussion Note, here. 

Uncovering blindspots in the policy debate on platform power

 Expert Group for the Observatory on the Online Platform Economy, here. 

EU proposals to shape the digital landscape, a step forward for consumers

 BEUC, here. 

Andrea Coscelli, the watchdog taking on the tech giants

 BBC 4, here. 

Jack Ma’s Ant defies pressure from Beijing to share more customer data

 FT, here. 

Commission publishes study on geographical indications (GI) and traditional specialities guaranteed (TSG) protected in the EU

 EC, here. 

Music Streaming: Is It a Level Playing Field?

 D. Antal et al., here. 

“The Digital Markets Act - how to break the market dominance of Big Tech”

 Panel, here. 

CMA investigates Apple over suspected anti-competitive behaviour

 CMA, here. 

RELATIF AUX TRAITEMENTS DE DONNÉES A CARACTÈRE PERSONNEL MIS EN ŒUVRE A DES FINS DE CRÉATION D’ENTREPÔTS DANS LE DOMAINE DE LA SANTÉ

 CNIL, ici. 

Critical notes on ‘platformised’ education: untangling privacy and data protection in postpandemic universities

A. Giannopoulou et al., here.  

Arizona House passes bill that threatens Apple and Google’s app stores

 CNBC, here. 

Exploring legal mechanisms for data stewardship

 Ada Lovelace Institute, here. 

Commission invites stakeholders to provide comments on the application of EU competition law to collective bargaining agreements for self-employed

 EC, here.

OECD Competition Open Day

 Here.

The Draft Digital Markets Act: a legal and institutional analysis

 P. Ibáñez Colomo, here.