Microsoft retreats from EU antitrust fight against Google (?)

ArsTechnica, here. 

74 OEMs pre-install MS apps and services on Android devices

BusinessInsider, here.

(OEMs/MS agreements anyone?)

Personal data in exchange for free services: an unhappy partnership?

Norwegian Data Protection Authority, here.

The European Collaborative Economy Industry to the Presidency of the EU Council

Letter, here.

(Inspiring list of signatories).

Error 53 lawsuit

Here.

'Pay for delay' fined in the UK

CMA, here.

Facebook and the New Colonialism

The Atlantic, here.

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Mydex supplementary evidence

Mydex, here. 

The Big Data Dilemma

UK Parliament, here.

Drive Motors Lets You Actually Buy A Car Online. How Did This Not Exist?

TechCrunch, here.

Digital Platforms: To Regulate or Not To Regulate?

A. Strowel, W. Vergote, here.

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Uber supplementary evidence

Uber, here.

Apple in ACCC's sights over bricked iPhones

ITNews, here.

Thinking Inside the Box

Impactcentre.ca, here.

Who Will Own The Virtual Reality Interface?

TechCrunch, here. 

“Happy Birthday” is public domain, former owner Warner/Chapell to pay $14M

ArsTechnica, here.

The Case That Won’t Be Forgotten

J. Powles, here. 

Optimising romance

TheEconomist, here. 

Online review sites commit to improve practices

CMA, here.

La impugnación de normas como instrumento para eliminar barreras a la economía colaborativa

CNMC, aquí

The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

The Atlantic, here.

Why Uber’s surge pricing is naive economics

S. King, here.

The internet of things: how your TV, car and toys could spy on you

TheGuardian, here.
Clapper's testimony here.

Google's self-driving systems legally qualify as a driver under US federal law

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, here.

Professions in an Era of Algorithmic Power

F. Pasquale, here.

License Compatibility and Relicensing

R. Stallman, here.

Disclosing the lowest prices for generics to allow comparison-shopping

NYTimes, here.

The open banking standard

ODI, here.

All the Places Personal Data Goes

News.harvard, here.

The phone call that saved safe harbor

Politico, here.

Paypal bans VPN and DNS services

Wired, here.

Schweres Gelände

SZ, hier.

The Great Data Race

Norwegian Data Protection Authority,  here.

After the sharing economy

Transmediale Panel, Audio here (from 01:32).

Bittersweet Mysteries of Machine Learning (A Provocation)

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here. 

Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

J. Fruchterman, here. 

Wie Google User für sich arbeiten lässt - unbewusst und unbezahlt

E. Morozov, here. 

The UK competition regime

National Audit Office, here. 

The adblocker dispute is going to become one of the fundamental battles on privacy

Zdnet.com, here. 

Data protection has gone global

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Facebook cripples chat encryption app that promised users extra privacy

TheNextWeb, here.

Developments in the Prescription Drug Market: Oversight.

M. Merritt, here. 

Living fully human lives online is all about taking control

Medium.com, here. 

AI is Trasforming Google Search

Wired.com, here. 

Google removes Samsung's first Android ad blocker from the Play Store

TheVerge, here. 

Using Antitrust Law to Challenge Turing's Daraprim Price Increase

M. Carrier, N. Levidow, A. Kesselheim, here. 

Drug Firms Expected to Defend Huge Price Increases in House Testimony

NYTimes, here. 

Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion

TechCrunch, here. 

How Age UK pocketed £6m bung from E.ON and pushed expensive power deals to OAPs

TheSun, here. 

Fertility Industry Group Settles Lawsuit Over Egg Donor Price Caps

Blogs.wsj, here. 

Privacy in the EU and US: A Debate between Max Schrems and Peter Swire

Audio here. 

Apple Ordered To Pay $625M To Patent Troll In FaceTime Lawsuit

TechCrunch, here. 

UK challenger bank Mondo releases API to let customers play with their own data

Finextra, here. 

Power to the people – is privacy the future of online marketing?

moreaboutadvertising, here.

Wait, Google's 'moon shots' cost how much??

CNet, here.

“EU US Privacy Shield” (Safe Harbor 1.1) “European Commission may be issuing a round-trip to Luxemburg

M. Schrems, here. 

EU Commission and United States agree on new framework for transatlantic data flows: EU-US Privacy Shield

Press Release, here.

Here It Comes: The Myanmar Competition Act

Allenovery, here. 

Competition and innovation

A. Crisholm, here, 

Gorgeous New 4-D Printing Process Makes More Than Just Eye Candy

Technologyreview.com, here. 

“Of data and men”: fundamental rights and freedoms in a world of big data

A. Rouvroy, here. 

Investigation into Tesco

Groceries Code Adjudicator, here. 

Don’t Panic. Making Progress on the “Going Dark” Debate

Berkman Center for Internet & Society, here.
Keys under doormats Report here. 

People are turning their smartphones into spying devices for just $5/month

Fusion.net, here. 

Winners & Losers in the Global App Economy

Caribou Digital, here. 

Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security

Open Effect, here. 

Monitoring the Digital Economy & Society 2016 - 2020

EC, here. 

Alphabet: Suchmaschine treibt das Geschäft

Heise.de, hier. 

Google Search Probe by U.S. Should Get New Look, Utah Says

Bloomberg, here. 

The Internet of Emotions: Putting the person back into personalization

Mashable, here. 

Mastering The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Designdiscontinuity.net, here. 

HRS kritisiert fehlende Gleichberechtigung

Tophotel, hier.

Lists are the new search

B. Evans, here.

Is Big Data Still a Thing?

M. Turck,  here.

The Neural Network That Remembers

Spectrum.ieee.org, here.

GDPR: The End for the Marketing List Industry?

SCL.org, here.

Digital assistants: a new brand platform

TheGuardian, here. 

Facebook has a clever idea to turn itself into a ride-sharing platform

Techinsider.io, here.

Richard Thaler in the Big Short

Video here. 

Individuelle Preise? Bitte nicht!

FAZ, hier.

Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Uber’s true cost

TheGuardian, here.

How Europe is fighting to change tech companies' 'wrecking ball' ethics

TheGuardian, here,

Apple builds secret VR unit

FT, here.

¿Un robot para cada persona mayor?

E. Morozov, aquí.
Ver también aquí. ("nuevo proyecto de colaboración entre IBM, Apple y Japan Post")

How Data Brokers Make Money Off Your Medical Records

ScientificAmerican, here.

EDPS starts work on a New Digital Ethics

EDPS, here.

A Search Engine for Your Personal Memories (and Data)

TheAtlantic, here.

12 Big Industries Where Blockchain Could Be Used

CB Insights, here.

The Promise (and Threat) of Algorithmic Accountability

F. Pasquale, Video here. 

The Future of Legal Services

The Law Society, here. 

US health insurer Centene loses 950,000 people's records

BBC.com, here. 

Movidius chips promise to enable real-time image recognition in Android devices

ComputerWorld, here.

The Internet of Arrogant Things (or My First Month with a Nest)

Nick-taylor.co.uk, here. 

Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future

R. Thaler, Webcast here. 

Why do technology companies hire economists, and what is their contribution? What kinds of problems do they work on?

S. Athey, here. 

What will be the impact of machine learning on economics?

S. Athey, here.
NBER session's syllabus here.

The Automation Paradox

J. Bessen, here. 

Uber condamné à verser 1,2 million d’euros à l’Union nationale des taxis

Lesechos.fr, ici. 

"Online Platforms" Etc. Public Consultation: First Brief Results

EC, here. 

« Pretty Easy Privacy », le chiffrement automatique par défaut pour tous

LeMonde, ici.