Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experience

Blog.mozilla.org, here

People's Deepest, Darkest Google Searches Are Being Used Against Them

TheAtlantic, here

Creating a copyright exception for education — four principles to keep in mind

Communia, here

Verbraucher würden für mehr Datenschutz zahlen

Vzbv.de, hier. . 

Trunki v Kiddee: battle over children's luggage reaches supreme court

Theguardian, here

Filmrezension: „Democracy – Im Rausch der Daten“

Netzpolitik, hier

Lufthansa touts Google as big-name partner, direct-connects starting elsewhere

Tnooz.com, here

Axel Springer: Adblock-Sperre ist ein Erfolg

Heise.de, hier

A cartoonist transforms the iTunes Terms & Conditions into a graphic novel. It's amazing.

Boingboing.net, here

Google Sued by Rival Whose Maps Got Lost on the Internet

Bloomberg.com, here

Towards comprehensive public & private sector whistleblower protection

OECD, Presentation here

Commission consults on boosting enforcement powers of national competition authorities

EC, here

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Roadmap to modernise copyright rules

European Commission, here

Who Owns the Patent on Nutmeg?

Newyorker.com, here

Das digitale Leben nach dem Tod wird zum Geschäft

Heise.de, hier

Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps

J. Zang, K. Dummit, J. Graves, P. Lisker, and L. Sweeney, here

Competition and Antitrust in Internet Markets

J.Haucap, T.Stühmeier, here

Kartellrecht und Wettbewerbspolitik für Online-Plattformen

Lisa Hamelmann, Justus Haucap, hier

Amazon opens its first real-world bookshop in Seattle

ArsTechnica, here

UOKiK concludes proceedings in the hotel online booking case

Uokik.gov.pl, here

Vertical restraints

International Seminar, Programme here; Videos here.
L. Peeperkorn (38:27)
- intrabrand matters, s. softening of competition;
- advice: pick up newer economic literature;
- RPM: inefficient means to achieve efficiencies;


Open Data: Six Stories About Impact in the UK

Omidyar Network, here

Competition Authorities: Views on Disruptive Innovations

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, here.
Competition Commission of Singapore, here.
European Commission, here
Canadian Competition Bureau, here

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

La Audiencia Nacional dictamina que Oracle cometió infracción por abuso de posición de dominio

Poderjudicial.es, aquì

High-Cost Short-Term Credit Price Comparison Websites

London Economics for the  for the UK Financial Conduct Authority, here

Developing a Franco-­German API: Action Plan for Innovation

«Junge Digitale Wirtschaft» beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, Conseil national du numérique, hereici, hier

Federal Investigators Looking at Valeant’s Contact Lens Dealings

ProPublica, here

Chinese Taomike Monetization Library Steals SMS Messages

PaloAltoNetworks, here

As GDPR Looms, Industry Worries

Iapp.org, here

The rating game

TheVerge, here

Dutch ACM launches awareness campaign called ‘Each app has its price’

Acm.nl, here

Oracle now keeping European data within its EU-based centres

Irishtimes.com, here

Économie numérique

N. Colina , A. Landierb , P. Mohnenc et A. Perrot, ici

Google’s Court Victory Is Good for Scholarly Authors. Here’s Why.

P. Samuelson, here

Monday, October 26, 2015

‘Disruptive innovation’ theory comes under scrutiny

BostonGlobe, here.

Google Books and Fair Use: From Implausible to Inevitable?

J. Ginsburg, here

Why We Should Join the Movement to Save the Internet in Europe

L. Lessig and B. van Schewick, here

Macron Law: A Focus on Online Hotel Reservation Platforms

Eversheds, here

This is what YouTube is telling labels who haven’t agreed its new terms

Musicbusinessworldwide.com, here

ECJ Judgment in AC-Treuhand (C-194/14 P) – On the scope of Art. 101 (1) TFEU

A. Lamadrid and S. Villiers, here

Exposición de Motivos del Decreto Legislativo 1205, que modifica la Ley Peruana de Represión de Conductas Anticompetitivas

Indecopi, aquí

Serial offenders: Why some industries seem prone to endemic collusion

Background Note by the OECD Secretariat, here

The impact of disruptive innovations on competition law enforcement

A. de Streel and P. Larouche for the OECD, here

Participation In Multiple Cartels Through Time

C. Marshall and L. Marx for the OECD, here

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Follow the user - digital news in a digital world

Googlepolicyeurope, here

Users are the real winners of the Google books case

K. Brown, here

Switching Principles

CMA, Call for Evidence here.

Development of the Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement

Google, here

AC‑Treuhand AG v.European Commission

Case C‑194/14 P, here

Open Data Handbook

Opendatahandbook.org, here

Hotel chains disagree over open marketplace concept

TNooz, here

Net Neutrality in Europe: Now or Never!

LaQuadrature.Net, here

Appeals court reverses itself, gives Amazon a trademark win over watchmaker

ArsTechnica, here

How Walmart Can Start Competing Online

HBR.org, here

Retail banking market investigation

CMA, Summary of provisional findings report, here.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Irish privacy regulator concedes must investigate Facebook data

Reuters.com, here

Gesellschaftliche Konfliktlinien im Kontext von Big Data am Beispiel von Smart Health und Smart Mobility

 H. Lahmann, hier

Pour les VTC, gérée par les VTC: Des chauffeurs Uber lancent une application "made in France"

Franceinfo.fr, ici

UK’s largest online pharmacy fined £130,000 for selling patients’ data to scammers

MedConfidential, here.

ICO's "Monetary Penalty Notice" here.

"35. Pharmacy2U has obtained personal data unfairly because its online registration form and privacy policy did not inform its customers that it intended to sell their details to third party organisations, in addition to sending out its own marketing material. It would not be within a customer’s reasonable expectation that this form of disclosure would occur, even if they were willing to agree to the receipt of marketing material from Pharmacy2U itself. If a customer wished to take up Pharmacy2U’s offer to opt out of “Selected company data sharing”, they also had to go to the trouble of logging into their account and changing the setting.
36. In addition, Pharmacy2U did not provide the further information that was necessary to enable the processing in respect of its customers to be fair.
37. In the circumstances, Pharmacy2U’s customers did not give their informed consent to the sale of their personal data to third party organisations. Therefore Pharmacy2U did not have a lawful basis for processing the data under Part I of Schedule 2 to the DPA.
73. The Commissioner has decided that it is appropriate to issue a monetary penalty in this case, in light of the nature and seriousness of the contravention, Pharmacy2U’s shortcomings in terms of its DPA duties and the risks posed to a number of individuals. He has also considered the importance of monetary penalties in dissuading future contraventions of the DPA and encouraging compliance, in accordance with his policy."

Researchers find 256 iOS apps that collect users’ personal info (in breach of platform's rules)

ArsTechnica, here