The College With Mandatory Fitness Tracking Devices

Thedailybeast, here. 

Intelligent Virtual Assistant Market Worth $3.07 Billion By 2020

iCrunchdatanews, here. 

The three stages of printed pizzas and other wonders

Deloitte, here. 

Travel Search Site Skyscanner Raises $192M For International Expansion

TechCrunch, here. 

Auswirkungen der Safe Harbor Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. 

General Data Protection Regulation: A Milestone Of The Digital Age

IAPP, here. 

What Mobile Ads Know About Mobile Users

S. Son, D.Kim V. Shmatikov, here.

Der erfasste Mensch

SZ.de, here.

Off-Topic: A Different Kind of Cartel

Rollingstone, here.

Capturing value in the evolving mobility ecosystem

Deloitte, here.

Unlocking the Value of IoT Through Big Data

GSMA, here. 

Richard Langlois to Lords and Baronesses re online platforms

here.

Digital platforms: an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating policy options

TNO Report, here.

VG Media reicht weitere Klage gegen Google ein

Leistungsschutzrecht.info, hier. 

Insurance companies prepare to insure Uber drivers

OttawaCitizen, here. 

Auto Distribution: Current Issues and Future Trends

FTC, here. 

Law & Order 2045: Here are 3 legal cases from the future

FusionNet, here.

3 Products That Turn Your Fitness Data Into Training Tips

.consumerreports.org, here.

Recht auf Nutzung der persönlichen Daten. Recht auf Kopie

Postulat (vom CH Bundesrat angenommen), hier. 

Misleading patent office as abuse of dominant position (Israel)

Internationallawoffice, here or here. 

OLG Frankfurt: Einsatz von Cookies für Werbezwecke erfordert kein Opt-in

Delegedata.de, hier. 

Google is Microsoft, after all

Politico.eu, here. 

San Francisco’s largest taxi company is edging toward filing for bankruptcy

SFExaminer, here.

Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues

FTC, here.
Read also the Separate Statement of Commissioner Ohlhausen, here. 

Supermarkt-Fusionen schaden der Produktvielfalt

Handelsblatt, hier.

Studie hier. 

Forbes, ad blocking, and the promise of an "ad-light experience"

Forbes, here. 

Artificial Intelligence: What Will the Next 20 Years Bring?

B. Hodjat, here. 

What We Can Do with Ad Blocking's Leverage

LinuxJournal, here. 

MLB Faces Antitrust Trial Over Telecasts: Are Small-Market Clubs Doomed By Cord-Cutters?

HollywoodReporter, here. 

vzbv mahnt Datenschutzerklärung von Google erneut ab

vzbv.de, hier.

Aptoide Lands $4M To Grow Its Alternative Android App Store In Emerging Markets

TechCrunch, here.

The Power of Data Network Effects

M. Turck, here. 

Facebook just gave us one more reason never to trust it

Theverge.com, here. 

GDPR: The hard way and the easy way

Ctrl-shift.co.uk, here. 

Can Robots Be Lawyers? Computers, Lawyers, and the Practice of Law

D. Remus, F. Levy, here. 

The Internal and External Constraints of Data Protection on Competition Law in the EU

F. Costa-Cabral, O. Lynskey, here. 

Looking Beyond the Internet of Things

NYTimes, here.

Beware: Silicon Valley’s cultists want to turn you into a disruptive deviant

E. Morozov, here.

In Silicon Valley Now, It’s Almost Always Winner Takes All

NewYorker, here.

Enigma, MIT Media Lab’s Blockchain-based Encrypted Data Marketplace, to Launch Beta

Bitcoinmagazine.com, here.
Enigma Whitepaper here. 

Everyone Hates Uber’s Surge Pricing – Here’s How to Fix It

U. Dholakia, here.

Online Services and the Analysis of Competitive Merger Effects in Privacy Protections and Other Quality Dimensions

K. Waehrer, here.

Differential pricing: Rarely anything free about our basic freedoms

E. Moglen & M. Choudhary, here.

Google confirms next Android version won’t implement Oracle’s proprietary Java APIs

VentureBeat, here.

The GAI on the EU Platform Consultation

Here.

More on data protection and economics here. 

Dutch court rules Anne Frank’s diary can be used for scientific research

Future of Copyright, here.

La lettre de l'avocat du fonds Anne Frank

Affordance.typepad.com, ici. 

Ignore the hype. ISP adblocking is a no-go in Europe

PageFair, here. 

The startup that’s ruffling the feathers of Booking.com

CNBS.com, here. 

First fast track, stand alone damages action and application for injunction brought before the CAT

NCRQ Ltd against the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, here. 

Auch „enge“ Bestpreisklauseln von Booking sind kartellrechtswidrig

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

OLG Frankfurt: Hersteller dürfen Händlern Vergleichsportale nicht verbieten, Amazon schon

Online-marketing-recht.de, hier. 

Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access

R. Schimmer, K. Geschuhn, A. Vogler, here. 

Missteps in Europe’s Online Privacy Bill

NYTimes, here. 

Of Homo Economicus and Superintelligence

J. Gans, here. 

Big Data : quand l’Insee s’intéresse aux données des opérateurs de téléphonie mobile

Nextinpact.com, ici. 

Value Exchange from Data Exchange

acxiom, here. 

Online Platforms Consultation: Response by the EDPS

Here. 

In a first, East Texas judge hits patent troll with attorneys’ fees

ArsTechnica, here. 

American Express can enforce anti-steering rules

Reuters, here.

L'UFC-Que Choisir assigne la société Valve

QueChoisir, ici. 

Predicting someone’s risk of a heart attack based upon their Visa bill

StatNews, here. 

Australian government wins plain packaging case against Philip Morris Asia

Smh, here.

What Will It Take to Build a Virtuous AI?

TechnologyReview, here. 

Drawing Causal Inference from Big Data

Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia, Videos here. 

Smarte Neue Welt

Hier. 

Online privacy tools for the general public

ENISA, here. 

Competition law at the crossroads in the Digital Economy: is it all about Google?

G. Surblytė, here.

Avis de l'Autorité de la concurrence sur le projet de loi pour une République Numérique

Ici. 

Tesla hacked off by lone hacker’s claims that he made a self-driving car

Arstechnica.co.uk, here. 

Projet de loi République numérique : publication de l’avis de la CNIL

CNIL, ici.
Voir aussi l'avis du Conseil National du Numérique, ici.
Présentation du projet de loi à l'Assemblée Nationale, Vidéo ici.
Voir aussi le point de vue de Bruno Lasserre au sujet de la loyauté des plateformes (platform fairness) (juillet 2015) ici (depuis 25:21).

The UK Supreme Court makes clear its belief that competition law should be interpreted in terms of its economic substance

P. Davis, here.

EU Data-Privacy Law Raises Daunting Prospects for U.S. Companies

WSJ, here.

The next opportunity for app developers: Turning anonymous data into ad sales

VentureBeat, here. 

Purchase details leaked to PayPal

S. Preibusch, T. Peetz, G. Acar, B. Berendt, here. 

Computer learns like a human and (sort of) beat the Turing Test

Mashable.com, here. 

3D Printing: Looking Through the Hype

Deloitte, here. 

Why Ebooks Will Eventually Replace Print

Bookbusinessmag, here. 

Compensation and the Damages Directive

S. Peyer, here. 

Einsatz von Uber Black wettbewerbswidrig

Kammergericht, Urteil vom 11. Dezember 2015 - 5 U 31/15, hier.

Mobile Identity – The Fusion of Financial Services, Mobility and Identity

Telstra, here. 

Patterns of disruption

Deloitte, here. 

BBC Uses Artificial Intelligence to Track Down New Audiences for ‘Sherlock’

Recode.net, here. 

Online platforms and data protection

EDPS, here.

"Despite the essential role cloud services play for the deployment of online services, EU consumers still do not seem to fully trust cloud-based services...As a result, finding privacy-friendly solutions for cloud computing services represents one of the main challenges for online platforms... Boosting research and marketing of solutions increasing transparency and user's control over their data (such as “personal data management systems”) is essential to offer a higher level of protection and thus increasing users' trust.

After Spending A Day As The Internet's Punching Bag, Philips Walks Back Firmware Update That Locked Out Third-Party Products

TechDirt, here. 

General Court annuls airfreight cartel decision

Press release here.

The Human Condition and The Black Box Society

N. Dewandre, here.

Mergers in the Dutch grocery sector: an ex-post evaluation

Lear for the ACM, here. 

Agreement on Commission's EU data protection reform will boost Digital Single Market

EC, Press Release, here. 

Personal Data Management Systems

R. Oostrum, here. 

Auto Distribution: Current Issues and Future Trends

FTC, here. 

Internet of Things: Another Industry Patent War?

K. Ho, here. 

Einheitliche Glühweinpreise: Kartellamt ermittelt

MDR.de, hier. 

Web Privacy Census 2015

I. Altaweel, N. Good, and C. Hoofnagle, here. 

Software-Enabled Consumer Products Study: Notice and Request for Public Comment

U.S. Copyright Office, here. 

Competition Tribunal Gives Go Ahead for Price Maintenance Claim Against Music Industry Giants

M. Geist, here. 

Is Privacy The Future of Online Marketing?

 S. Milyaeva and D. Neyland, here. 

Your Algorithmic Self Meets Super-Intelligent AI

TechCrunch, here. 

Web Scraping: Applications and Tools

EPSI, here. 

The European hospitality industry launches a campaign: ‘Book Direct’

Hotrec.eu, here.