Winston Churchill’s Birthday and the CMA Facebook/Giphy Prohibition Decision

 

CMA & Winston, here. 

Tackling Digital Gatekeeper Power: A More Effective, Participatory Way

 @wavesblog, Study commissioned by MEP Martin Schirdewan, here. 

UK regulator expected to block Meta’s Giphy deal

 FT, here. 

Compendium of approaches to improving competition in digital markets

 UK G7 2021, here. 

Ahead of his time: the ideas and legacy of Giovanni Buttarelli

 Guest Lecture (online) by Christian D'Cunha

@BeterOpDeFiets

@UniTrento

3 December, 9 AM CET

For an invite: please send me an email (my name.surname@unitn.it)

Contributions to the public consultation on the draft revised Regulation on vertical agreements and vertical guidelines

 Here. 

Ecosystems and competition law in theory and practice

M. Jacobides, I. Lianos, here. 

Data protection and privacy expectations for online advertising proposals

 ICO, here. 

Regulating ‘big tech’: Council agrees on enhancing competition in the digital sphere

 The European Council, here. 

Google agrees with UK’s CMA to deeper oversight of Privacy Sandbox

 TechCrunch, here. 

Sanzioni per 20 milioni a Google e ad Apple per uso dei dati degli utenti a fini commerciali

 AGCM, qui. 

Privacy Sandbox - Consultation on modified commitments

 CMA, here. 

Alle datenpolitischen Vorhaben auf 32 Kacheln übersichtlich zusammengefasst

 Dataprotection Landscape, hier. 

The Promotion of Competitive Neutrality by Competition Authorities

 OECD, Background Note, here. 

Measuring environmental benefits in competition cases

 N. Watson for the OECD, here. 

Vestager, Kahn, Kanter

 

Judge dismisses Steam antitrust case for lack of factual support

 ArsTechnica, here. 

DMA Schwab's compromise amendments: my very first take

 Here.

EU Parliament’s key committee adopts Digital Markets Act

 Euractiv, here. 

Big Business Declares War on Lina Khan

 M. Stoller, here. 

Andreas Schwab - Digital Markets Act Version of 18-11-2021 - Compromise Amendments

 

Here. 

Press Conference, Video here.

Italy fines Amazon and Apple $230M over antitrust charges

 TechCrunch, here.

The Italian decision qui. 

Merger control and FDI interplay: Article 21 as a potential tool towards further convergence in FDI rules

 Clifford Chance, here. 

DISINFORMATION RISKS, REGULATORY GAPS AND ADEQUATE COUNTERMEASURES

 Expert Opinion Commissioned by the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, here. 

Google v Commission (Google Shopping): A Case Summary

 N. Moreno Belloso, here. 

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney calls for a universal app store to combat tech monopolies

 Protocol, here. 

EU Shopping judgment: what does equal access to Google's general results pages mean?

 Hausfeld, here. 

Stream your brain! Speculative economy of the IoT and its pan-kinetic dataveillance

 S. Ahn, here. 

MARKET STUDY ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR IN INDIA

 Competition Commission of India, here. 

WhatsApp privacy policy tweaked in Europe after record fine

 BBC, here. 

Noyb files another complaint against Amazon Europe – black box algorithm discriminates customers

 Noyb, here. 

Apple’s concession on the right to repair

 FT, here. 

Small business holds key to tech's antitrust fate

 Axios, here. 

The Future of Digital Spaces and Their Role in Democracy

 Pew Research Center, here. 

Synergies between Data protection law and competition law

W. Kerber, L. Specht, here. 

Wettbewerb und Datenschutz: Wie Kastor und Pollux, hier.

Coalition for App Fairness Statement on Digital Markets Act (DMA) Vote by European Parliament

 Here. 

"Wir verlieren die digitale Souveränität...auch in Bezug auf unsere mentale Autonomie"

 TAZ, hier. 

Competition Espresso: With Elettra Bietti on "A Genealogy of Digital Platform Regulation" (and also on books that change your life)

 Episode 3, Recording here. 

A competition policy fit for new challenges

EC, Communication here.  

The beautiful Annex here. 

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND EVIDENCE IN ABUSE CASES

 OECD Background Note by S. Roberts, here. 

Bundesrat verbietet Knebelverträge bei Hotelbuchungen

 NZZ, hier. [Gut - Meine Erklärung here]                          

Competition issues concerning news media and digital platforms

 OECD, Background Paper, here. 

Ex ante regulation of digital markets

OECD, Background Note here.  

Environmental Considerations in Competition Enforcement: Legal Assessment

 OECD Background Note, here. 

Joe to Lina re oil prices

 Here. 

Big Tech as Global Problem

The Grande Dame of Antitrust Law, Video here.  

CMA to open up electric vehicle charging competition on motorways

 CMA, here. 

7th CUTS-CIRC Biennial Conference on Competition, Regulation and Development-Day 01

 Day 01, Video here. 

Day 02, Live here. 

In Moscow’s Technological Advances, a ‘Double-Edged Sword’

NYTimes, here.  

Support study accompanying the Commission Notice on the evaluation of the definition of relevant market for the purposes of Community competition law

For the EC, here. 

Facebook goes after the creator of InstaPy, a tool that automates Instagram likes

 Algorithm Watch, here. 

Facial recognition: Huge risks for our societies

 EDPS, Video here. 

Judge Ginsburg: On the Proposed Digital Markets Unit and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority

 An American Friend, Here. 

Privacy as code: A new taxonomy for privacy

 iapp, here. 

Marktmacht und Ohnmacht – Wettbewerbsrecht hält mit Oligopolen nicht Schritt

 I. Lianos, hier. 

You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation

 S. Zuboff, here. 

When do consumers prefer algorithmic versus human decisionmakers?

 Brookings, here. 

Everything You Need To Know About The Metaverse

 Protocol, here. 

Lessons from the Past? How Ordoliberal Competition Theory Can Address Market Power in the Digital Age

 I. Oakes, A. Küsters, here. 

Q&A: How the EU’s Flawed Artificial Intelligence Regulation Endangers the Social Safety Net

 Human Rights Watch, here. 

Industry concentration and competition policy

 EC, here. 

MYDATA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION’S LATEST DATA DEVELOPMENTS

 MyData, here. 

Datenlieferant Auto: Hersteller wollen Informationen zentral vermarkten

 Handelsblatt, hier. 

Google’s Anti-Competitive Search Manipulation Practices

 Foundem & SearchNeutrality, here. 

Commission to invest nearly €2 billion from the Digital Europe Programme to advance on the digital transition

 EC, here. 

From ‘walled gardens’ to open meadows

 I. Brown, here. 

Apple told to comply with order to open up App Store

 FT, here. 

The New Frontier: Artificial Intelligence at Work

  APPG, here. 

COP26: To fix the climate, we must fix the economy. Here’s why.

 Circularonline, here. 

Unzureichende digitale Souveränität gefährdet die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit deutscher Unternehmen

 ZEW, hier. 

The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum: working for greater cooperation in regulating online platforms

 Ofcom, here. 

Want your Grindr data? Show your ID and take a selfie!

 Noyb, here. 

Data and Democracy

A. KAPCZYNSKI, here. 

Google Shopping

 Final (?) Cut, here. 

Everything you wanted to know about the EU Data Strategy and never dared to ask

 Video here (@BeterOpDeFiets from 18:27).

New Klobuchar, Cotton bill could block Big Tech mergers

 Axios, here. 

Tracking-industry body IAB Europe told that it has infringed the GDPR, and its “consent” pop-ups used by Google and other tech firms are unlawful.

 ICCL, here. 

Ddl Concorrenza

 Qui.

The Cost of Data

G. Neff, Video here (from 5:50). 

Google plans to allow third party payments systems in South Korea

 Economic Times, here. 

The battle to control the metaverse: Microsoft vs Meta

 FT, here. 

Vertical Agreements Block Exemption Regulation:CMA’s recommendation

CMA, here. 

"It’s interesting how familiar [some of] these issues are"

 M. Vestager, here. 

Sektoruntersuchung Messenger- und Video-Dienste

 Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Should competition authorities intervene in digital markets?

 M. Grenfell, here. 

Press publishers’ right: social media enter the stage

 U. Furgal, here. 

Moderne Messenger – heute verschlüsselt, morgen interoperabel?

 Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, hier. 

Google News to relaunch in Spain after mandatory payments to newspapers scrapped

 The Verge, here.

Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System

 NYT, here and here (pdf).

The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants

 P. Hanspach, N. Petit, here. 

Fixing Digital Capitalism: Learning from China’s Playbook

 Bot Populi, here. 

Europe’s Digital Decade and Autonomy

 Study requested by the EP ITRE, here. 

Justice Department Sues to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Rival Publisher Simon & Schuster

 DOJ, here. 

And the UK decision here. 

Draft impact assessment sheds some light on upcoming Data Act

 Euractiv, here. 

Clearview AI breached Australians’ privacy

 OAIC, here. 

Facebook says it will delete facial recognition data on more than a billion users

 TechCrunch, here. 

Meta to Meta (Sudans)

 

Report on Stablecoins

 Federal Reserve, here. 

China’s new platform guidelines translated

 H/T I. Brown, here.

BECOMING THE DMA: THE PARLIAMENT’S COMPROMISE (FOR NOW)

 D'Kart, here. 

Leitlinien für die Vereinbarkeit des Genossenschaftswesens mit dem Kartellrecht

 Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

La mia "Cooperativa di fronte al diritto antitrust" qui (*2008*) : chissà cosa scriverei di diverso? 

Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors?

 J. Drexl at al., here. 

MARKET DESIGN

 N. Agarwal, E. Budish, here. 

Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction

 M. Jacobides, I. Lianos, here. 

Smart Contracts and the Digital Single Market Through the Lens of a 'Law + Technology' Approach

 T. Schrepel, here. 

Truck cartel in Spain: Advocate General Rantos clarifies the temporal scope of the directive on the compensation of victims of anti-competitive practices

 CJEU, here. 

Open Logistics Foundation gegründet

 Frauenhofer, hier. 

AI and Governance

 DigitalEU, here. 

Completed acquisition by Facebook, Inc. of GIPHY, Inc.

 CMA, the decision here.

Pomodoro costoluto fiorentino salvato dai cinesi grazie al “Golden Power” di Draghi

InToscana, qui.  

Italy vetoes sale of seed producer to Chinese-owned Syngenta, officials say

 CNA, here. 

Australia also wants Google to unbundle search from Android

 ArsTechnica, here. 

The Interim Report, here. 

Computational Competition Law and Economics

 Hellenic Competition Commission, here. 

Easier cartel rules for packaging, logistics companies, EU's Vestager says

 Reuters, here. 

Digging into Google’s push to freeze ePrivacy

 

Natasha the Great (TechCrunch), here. 

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: copyright and patents

 UK Gov, here. 

Why are you on Facebook?

 S. Vergnolle, here.