Towards a Digital Single Market Act

EP, here.

How I peeked at the personal data a billion dollar company holds about me

P.-O. Dehaye, here.

As More Pay by Smartphone, Banks Scramble to Keep Up

NYTimes, here. 

Digital transformations: An introduction

F.-X. Olleros, M. Zhegu, here. 

WhatsApp as a business channel

Whatsapp.com, here. 

Competition Law for a Post-Scarcity World

S. Mehla, here.

Privacy and Drone Spying

NYTimes, here. 

Welcome to the Jungle: The Liability of Internet Intermediaries for Privacy Violations in Europe

B. van der Sloot, here. 

Information as Property

H. Zech, here. 

The law and economics of most-favoured nation clauses

F.Gonzalez-Diaz, M. Bennett, here. 

Which Future for Competition in the Global Trade System: Competition Chapters in FTAs

V. Demedts, here. 

Drug Wars:A New Generation of Generic Pharmaceutical Delay

R. Feldman, E. Frondorf, here. 

Antitrust Overhaul

R. Steiner, here. 

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data

S. Vezzoso, here (this blog's author).

Your comments are more than welcome!

Competition in a big data world

M. Vestager, here. 

Ad Blocking: A Primer

TechCrunch, here. 

Tarifs bancaires : Bercy va lancer un comparateur sur Internet

LeParisien, ici. 

A Note on the Ethics of Nudge

C. Schubert, here. 

Building the intention economy

ctrlio, here. 

European Antitrust Chief Takes Swipe at Privacy Issue

NYTimes, here.

Unilever CMO predicts that consumers will be using some sort of virtual assistant in the near future

Adage.com, here.

Stop Chug-a-Lug-a-Lugin 5 Miles an Hour on Your International Harvester: How Modern Economics Brings the FTC's Unfairness Analysis Up to Speed with Digital Platforms

J. Wright, J. Yun, here.

Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies: Elites Who Advocate Free-Market Competition

L. Lessig, here.

UK Government Response to EU public consultation on Digital Platforms

HMGovernment, here.

Un chauffeur de taxi peut aussi être sur Uber. L'article de loi l'interdisant censuré

Conseil constitutionnel, Décision n° 2015-516 QPC du 15 janvier 2016, ici. 

The Rise of the Platform Enterprise: A Global Survey

P. Evans, A. Gawer, here. 

IT giants debate on Big Data

Vodafone-institut.de, Video here

Some Reflections on ‘Switching Principles’ for key regulated sectors

The Centre for Competition Policy (CCP), here.  

Open Letter on Ethical Norms in Intellectual Property Scholarship

R. Feldman, M. Lemley, J. Masur, A. Rai, here. 

Fair Share: Reclaiming power in the sharing economy

B. Balaram, here. 

The economic impact of enforcement of competition policies on the functioning of EU energy markets

EC, here. 

Preisvergleichs- und Bewertungsportale als Verbraucherinformation

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. 

Do Consumers Care About Their Privacy In Practice? The FTC Digs Into The Debate

Adexchanger, here. 

Digital dividends

World Bank, here. 

This Rectal Thermometer Is the Logical Conclusion of the Internet of Things

Motherboard, here. 

Bundesgerichtshof: Facebooks "Freundefinder" ist unzulässiger Spam

Heise.de, hier. 

The Tradeoff Fallacy (Or the Privacy 'Paradox' Elucidated)

N. Draper M. Hennessy, J. Turow, here.

Privacy and Information Sharing

Pewinternet.org, here. 

In Letter To Google CEO, Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Student Data Collection

TechCrunch, here. 

Google Maps will soon work out where you're going by itself

Wired.com, here. 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respond

WEForum, here. 

Recommendation on protecting and promoting the right to freedom of expression and the right to private life with regard to network neutrality

Council of Europe, here. 

Innovation de rupture, droit et concurrence

Microeconomix, Conférence vendredi 29 janvier 2016, ici. 

Shops could soon be targeting ads according to your feet

TheGuardian, here. 

America's top privacy regulator refuses to wear a Fitbit

Theguardian.com, here. 

How Hotels.com uses email to keep me as a loyal customer

Econsultancy, here.

"So what is it about the Hotels.com offers and vouchers that get me? They feel relevant. They feel timely. They’re just the right amount of pushy". Email are "personalised, and relevant to trips I have browsed and taken in the past".

Market Study Into the Supply of Legal Services in England and Wales

CMA, here. 

Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel verringern die Produktvielfalt

E. Argentesi, P. Buccirossi, R. Cervone, T. Duso, A. Marrazzo, hier. 

The sorry legacy of Internet Explorer

Wired.com, here. 

In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet for the Blind

Technologyreview, here. 

Meet the Company That Doesn't Want to Know Who You Are

Zdnet, here. 

A Few Keystrokes Could Solve the Crime. Would You Press Enter?

J. Zittrain, here. 

Apple’s Android switching plan

Telegraph, here. 

Skratch Bastid's David Bowie remix takes off on Facebook

CBC.ca, here. 

Italian consumer organizations seek EU antitrust probe into McDonald's franchise

Reuters, here. 

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.