Thursday, January 19, 2017

The Silver Lining Of Anti-Globalism Might Be The Creation Of A True Digital Economy

D. Rushkoff, here

GDPR and accountability (for accountants)

E. Denham, here.

AI: Aufstieg der Computer-Gehirne

FAZ, hier

EC welcomes steps taken by Amazon/Audible and Apple to improve competition in audiobook distribution

Press Release, here.

(Investigation opened in Germany the 16 November 2015: that was quick!)

Economics in Antitrust Enforcement and the Private Benefit of Scholarly Commentators

J. Broulik, here.

This almost 6-year old post is still rather apropos, if I may.

MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance

MIT News, here

Access to data and competition

Interview with A. Mundt, here

Artificial Intelligence at WEF17

Video here.


"the market is not the right way to make certain decisions"
"most engineers don't even know why governments exist"
"a corporation is a kind of AI, already "

Transparency and Trust in the Cognitive Era

IBM, here

The distributed future is personal

D. Searls, here

Mallinckrodt Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC, State Charges It Illegally Maintained its Monopoly of Specialty Drug Used to Treat Infants

FTC, here.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Artificial Intelligence: Balancing Opportunity and Responsibility

WEF17, Accenture, Video here.

WEF Davos: Who Will Own The Knowledge Produced From “Our” Data By Machines?

IP-Watch, here.

On technology and competition

Interview with W. Allan, here.

Why Is Everyone Talking About Algorithms?

DiscoverSociety, here

Une intelligence artificielle globale et agnostique peut-elle exister ?

Numerama, ici

App Store app prices to rise in the UK by >25% following Brexit exchange rate fluctuations

9to5mac, here

Qualcomm allegedly bribed Apple into not making a WiMAX iPhone

TheVerge, here

Trump, Corporatism, and the Dearth of Innovation

E. Phelps, here

VW Diesel Rigging Compared to Horse-Meat Lasagna by Court

Bloomberg, here

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

FTC Charges Qualcomm With Monopolizing Key Semiconductor Device Used in Cell Phones

FTC,  here. Qualcomm's response here.

Five things you should know about Charles Dickens and copyright law

Trademarkandcopyrightlawblog, here

Your research can help the FTC protect consumers

L. Cranor, here

Drugmakers Manipulate Orphan Drug Rules To Create Prized Monopolies

KHN.org, here

L'usine du futur

CIGREF, ici

Devices sprout ears

The Christian Science Monitor, here

New approach needed to tackle rising drug prices

OECD, here

Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications

EC, Presentation here

Kartellsünder zahlen Bahn 400 Millionen Euro

Rp-online.de, hier

Pokémon Go generated revenues of $950 million in 2016

VentureBeat, here

Monday, January 16, 2017

The Missing Role of Economics in FTC Privacy Policy

J. Cooper, J. Wright, here

Trump’s vision for behavioral science in the White House is anyone’s guess

NewYorker, here.

"The President-elect, it turned out, had a gift for the behavioral arts. He intuitively grasped “loss aversion” (our tendency to give more weight to the threat of losses than to potential gains), and perpetually maximized “nostalgia bias” (our tendency to remember the past as being better than it was). He made frequent subconscious appeals to “cultural tightness” (whereby groups that have experienced threats to their safety tend to desire strong rules and the punishment of deviance), and, perhaps most striking, his approach tapped into what psychologists call “cognitive fluency” (the more easily we can mentally process an idea, such as “Make America great again” or “Lock her up!,” the more we’re prone to retain it). Even his Twitter game was sticky: “Crooked Hillary!” “build the wall.”

Ces avantages majeurs que détient Amazon par rapport à ses concurrents Google et Apple en matière d’innovation

F. Marty, ici (et ici). 

Facebook to roll out fake news tools in Germany

BBC, here

Why Los Angeles made an Alexa skill, and what the city wants to do with it

VentureBeat, here

European Commission finally admits their copyright proposal would levy a link tax for articles shared on social media

OpenMedia, here

6 areas of artificial intelligence to watch closely

N. Benaich, here

Microsoft-Chef Nadella: Künstliche Intelligenz ist eine demokratisierende Technik

Heise.de, hier

What if we could reimagine copyright?

 R. Giblin & K. Weatherall, here

Friday, January 13, 2017

#makeantitrustexcitingagain


"So to you, our dear readers who took the time to join this endeavor, we thank you. Few get excited about antitrust anymore. But apathy has a price. We cannot assume that the digitized hand will always protect our welfare. It is ultimately up to us to start asking our elected officials and agencies what they are doing to prevent these scenarios from happening." 

Updated Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property

FTC, DOJ, here.

(Still "curiously unhelpful", at first glance).

Bornes pour voitures électriques : l’Open Data devient la règle, sauf pour les données en temps réel

NextImpact, here

A Future That Works: Automation, Employment, and Productivity

McKinsey, here

The Watchers: Assaults on privacy in America

J. Shaw, here

“OK Facebook”—Why stop at assistants? Facebook has grander ambitions for modern AI

ArsTechnica, here

Artificial Intelligence - Law, Policy, & Ethics eJournal

Here

Turkish Competition Authority fines Booking.com

Dailysabah, here

Autonomy and the Collection of Personal Data: Measuring the Privacy Impact Google’s Privacy Policy Change

J. Cooper, here.

A User-Centered Perspective on Algorithmic Personalization

A. Lange,  R. Coen, E. Paul, P. Vanegas, G. Hans, here

Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability

Association for Computing Machinery, here.  

Software Copyright Litigation After Oracle v. Google

J. Band, here

U.S. appeals court revives Apple App Store antitrust lawsuit

VentureBeat, here.

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Global Risks Report 2017: Emerging Technologies

WEF, here

New rules for robots backed by European Parliament committee

Out-law.com, here

A course for these troubled times: Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data

C. Bergstrom and J. West, here

Europe’s Data Marketplaces – Current Status and Future Perspectives

IDC, Open Evidence for the EC, here

EPA: Fiat Chrysler diesels have illegal software to thwart emissions controls

ArsTechnica, here

Bayer says had productive meeting with Trump over Monsanto deal

Reuters, here

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder wegen vertikaler Preisbindung bei Möbeln

Bundeskartellamt, hier. Fallbericht hier.

"Teilweise ergänzt wurde die Praxis um spezielle „Spielregeln“ für den OnlineHandel, deren formuliertes Ziel es war, ein festes und stabiles Preisgefüge am Markt durchzusetzen und deren Einhaltung überwacht und mit dem Mittel der Androhung und Umsetzung von Liefersperren bzw. der Kündigung der Liefervereinbarung durchgesetzt wurde."

France’s ‘right to disconnect’ is a nice idea, but it’s also pretty vague

TheVerge, here

The Problem with Legacy Ecosystems

M. Wessel, A. Levie, R. Siegel, here

Enter the Data Economy

EPSC Strategic Notes, here.

Amazon changes pricing practices and pays $1.1 million to settle price advertising case

Competition Bureau, here

Flying cars: transforming a dream into reality

WIPO Magazine, here

Data-Driven Discrimination at Work

P. Kim, here

The demand for AI is helping Nvidia and AMD leapfrog Intel

TheVerge, here

Nobel Laureates: Eliminating Rent Seeking and Tougher Antitrust Enforcement Are Critical to Reducing Inequality

Promarket, here

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Who’s responsible for building trust with personal data?

Nesta, here

Windows 10 et vie privée : un nouveau panneau de contrôle en préparation

CNetFrance, ici

Datenschützer schliesst Sachverhaltsabklärung zu Windows 10 ab

Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB), hier

Paid Internet advertising in the EU

Eurostat, here

Android, iOS and Market Power – What Does Mobile Platform Competition Really Look Like? – Part Ii

Project-disco.org, here

How Your Medical Data Fuels a Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

Time, here

‘AI-powered’ is tech’s meaningless equivalent of ‘all natural’

TechCrunch, here

Privacy in Mobile Devices and Web-Applications

DG-JRC, here (p. 36 ff.). 

Mobile Apps Study

FPF, here