Inside Gaia-X

 Politico.eu, here. 

Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company

 Motherboard, here. 

Commission adopts interim measures to prevent harm to competition following Illumina's early acquisition of GRAIL

 EC, here. 

A new route forward for regulating digital markets

 CMA, here.

Regulating Big Tech: From Competition Policy to Sector Regulation?

 Dear Oliver and Juliane Mendelsohn, here. 

Ecosystems and Competition Law

 Hellenic Competition Authorities, Video here. 

Visa's Abandoned Plan to Acquire Plaid: What Could Have Been a Textbook Case of a Killer Acquisition

 F. Marty, T. Warin, here. 

Rat der EU stellt sich Tech-Konzernen in den Weg

 Netzpolitik, hier. 

What do Member States really think of the EC's DMA Proposal?

 Here (thanks to Netzpolitik). 

Lancet/FT on the Future of Health

 Here.

Digital Services Act: The EDRi guide to 2,297 amendment proposals

 EDRi, here. 

Democratic values in a digitalised Europe

 M. Vestager, Video here. 

Big Tech platforms stifle innovation through anticompetitive conduct

 A. Harman, here. 

A coordinated approach to overseeing modern digital markets

 CMA & Friends, here. 

DMA: A side-by-side comparison of the Commission and Council proposals

 Here. 

"Black box" Amazon: algorithm discriminate customers

Noyb, here.  

The future is in your hands - Let's Organize a Conference on the Future of Europe!

 EC, Here. 

Interview with Joe Turow

 Here. "Where do we go next?" It shouldn't be left to them.

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

 The Register, here. 

Labour union urges European authorities to widen Amazon antitrust probe after Reuters story

 Reuters, here. 

La commissaria Vestager: “Democrazie alleate contro i giganti del web”

 

Message to MIM Students: We'll talk about it this week...

A new Europe: Competition, Industrial Policy, Taxation

 M. Vestager, here. 

Big techs in finance: on the new nexus between data privacy and competition

 BIS, here. 

A new era of cartel enforcement

 

M. Vestager, here. 

(Warning: pic from another conference, same day, same town - and an amazing Roman brick wall in the background)

Rome or Babylon?

(Source)

EU-US Trade and Technology Council: Commission launches consultation platform for stakeholder's involvement to shape transatlantic cooperation

 EC, here. 

Translation: Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Overall Governance of Internet Information Service Algorithms

 Nine Chinese Agancies, here

The Technopolar Moment

 Foreign Affairs, here. 

Antrittsvorlesung | Inaugural Lecture Prof. Viktoria Robertson

 Here. 

1st Giovanni Buttarelli Award at Global Privacy Assembly goes to...Shoshana Zuboff!

 Video here. 

1970-2021 : la protection des données essaime le monde

 LINC, ici.

Plaid Pushes Into Payments Business After Scuttled Visa Deal

 WSJ, here.

Unique on Facebook: Formulation and Evidence of (Nano)targeting Individual Users with non-PII Data

 J. Gonzales-Cabañas et al., here. More here. 

Should platforms be allowed to sell on their own marketplaces?

 A. Hagiu et al., here. 

Regarding the CFPB’s Inquiry into Big Tech Payment Platforms

 R. Chopra, here. 

Google slashes service fees in its app store after similar move by Apple

 CNBC, here. 

Facebook agrees to pay French publishers for news reuse

 TechCrunch, here. 

YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku, and the fight is going all the way to Congress

 CNBC, here. 

Amazon Warns Sellers: Marketplace Could Shut Down If Congress Tries to Regulate It

 The Prospect, here. 

In re: Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation (Amended Complaint)

 Here. 

Nudging Humans

 B. Frischmann, here. 

Retour sur un mandat : la présidence de l’Autorité de la concurrence, 2016-2021 (le seul quinquennat qu'on ne oubliera jamais)

 

La bravissima Isabelle de Silva, ici and here.

Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business

 FT, here. 

A letter to Amazon (final opportunity to provide exculpatory evidence)

 Here. 

The future of online advertising

 McCann/Stronge/Jones for the Greens/EFA, here. 

Biden pick for bank regulator says critics ‘demonise’ her identity

 FT, here. 

DSGVO: Irische Datenschutzbehörde nickt Facebooks Einwilligungstrick ab

 Heise, hier and here. 

Competition in Australia faces big challenges

 R. Sims, here. 

Google's practices in the online advertising sector

 L. Hoffmann, here. 

AI's technological Diversification to counter the market concentration

 S&D AIDA Webinar, here.

PROTECTING EUROPEAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD OF CONNECTED DEVICES

 BEUC, here. 

When Amazon Takes the Buy Box, It Doesn’t Give It Up

The Markup, here and here.

Lawmakers seek to rein in big tech with bills aimed at competition and liability

 The Guardian, here. 

Tech Companies Don't Need to Be Creepy to Make Money

 Wired, here. 

U.K. Pays Price for Energy Market That Anyone Could Join

 Bloomberg, here. 

The unintended consequences of Vestager’s tougher take on ‘killer acquisitions’

 Politico, here. 

Competition Espresso: Rob Nicholls on the ACCC's AdTech Final Report

 Here. 

Embedding European values in data governance: a case for public data commons

 P. Nemitz et al., here. 

BEREC Report on the ex ante regulation of digital gatekeepers (Final)

 BEREC, here. 

We need to talk about how Apple is normalising surveillance

 Wired, here. 

France finds growth prescription with health app Doctolib

 FT, here. 

To Break Up or Regulate Big Tech? Avenues to Constrain Private Power in the DSA/DMA Package

 MPI und Verfassungsblog, here. 

Global Economic Resilience: Building Forward Better

 G7, here. 

20 Years ICN Conferences

 ICN, here. 

Missing the Point

 L. Lessig, here. 

Some thoughts on the Google Android hearing before the General Court

 The Platform Law Blog, here. 

CMA welcomes government proposals on new powers

 CMA, here.

Via libera al “progetto antifrode” dell’ANIA nei rami danni e vita

 AGCM, here.

Can competition be toxic? And if so, who’s pushing this toxic competition?

 A. Ezrachi, here.

Apple and Google under antitrust scrutiny in Japan for mobile OS

 Nikkei Asia, here.

RECOMMENDATION OF THE COUNCIL ON ENHANCING ACCESS TO AND SHARING OF DATA

 OECD, here.

NFT-Deal mit Sorare: Fußball-Bundesliga kriegt Blockchain-Sammelbilder

 Heise.de, hier.

What if deepfakes made us doubt everything we see and hear?

 EPRS, here. 

Response to DCMS consultation “Data: a new direction”

 ICO, here.

What do iOS and Android have in common? Their apps suck at privacy, boffins say

 The Register, here. 

How Lina Khan Debunked the DOJ Antitrust Case against Google

 NR, here.

Google rivals want EU lawmakers to act via new tech rules

 Reuters, here. 

BUSTING THE DANGEROUS MYTHS OF BIG ID PROGRAMS: CAUTIONARY LESSONS FROM INDIA

 Access Now, here.

Daten, Demokratie und Kartellrecht – Zur Entwicklung eines evidenzbasierten Umgangs mit Demokratiedefiziten in digitalen Märkten aus kartellrechtlicher Sicht

 V. Robertson, hier.

Überwachung in Venedig: Smart City auf dem Wasser

 Netzpolitik, hier. 

DMA IN IMCO: SHADOWS PRESENT IDEAS, RAPPORTEUR SHOWS A COMPROMISE

 A. Mazgal, here. 

China's experience with regulating big tech

 Y. Gang, Video here. The whole, excellent Conference here.

Si vos GIFs sont gratuits, savez-vous qui est le produit ?

 LADN, ici.

Change is needed in the next generation of economists

 FT, here. 

India can benefit from China’s regulatory crackdown, says Ola chief

 FT, here. 

Chinese AI gets ethical guidelines for the first time, aligning with Beijing’s goal of reining in Big Tech

 SCMP, here. 

Analysis of Google’s Privacy Budget Proposal

 Mozilla, here. 

Why the Digital Markets Act (DMA) should be enforceable under the Representative Actions Directive

 BEUC, here. 

CMA response to the government’s consultation ‘A new pro-competition regime for digital markets’

 Here. 

Disputing the Dogmas of Surveillance Advertising

 FTC, here. 

Recommendations for an effective and efficient Digital Markets Act

 Monopolkommission, here. 

EU-US Trade and Technology Council New forum for transatlantic cooperation

 EPRS, here. 

Richard Blumenthal Was Right to Ask Facebook About “Ending Finsta”

 Slate, here. 

“Wayforward Machine” provides a glimpse into the future of the web

 ArsTechnica, here. 

Funding for fintechs: patterns and drivers

 G. Cornelli et al., here. 

Monopole und Preiswirrwarr: Was an deutschen Ladesäulen schiefläuft

 PlusMinus, hier. 

What if objects around us flocked together and became intelligent?

 EP Thinktank, here. 

Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants

 C. Doctorow, here. 

Why you shouldn’t buy Facebook Ray-Ban smart glasses

 AccessNow, here. 

Experimental Regulations and Regulatory Sandboxes: Law without Order?

 S. Ranchordas, here. 

Private Carbon Payment Programs Funnel Farm Data to Big Ag

 Food and Power, here. 

AI’s Legal and Ethical Implications with Sandra Wachter

 Video, here. 

“Reviving Competition Part 4: 21st Century Antitrust Reforms and the American Worker

 L. Khan, here. 

Confidential medical records at the centre of a new claim against Google

 Mishcon, here. 

EU looks to make data sharing easier: Council agrees position on Data Governance Act

 The Council, here. 

I've gone to look for American Antitrust

 Read M. Vestager's speech while listening to the song. 

Investigation of Open Banking Limited

 An Independent, here. 

Reimagining the Platform Economy

 M. Mazzucato et al. here. 

Non-paper on the Data Act

 The Dutch, here.