Indicators of consumer protection and empowerment in the digital world

ConPolicy, here. 

Vergaberecht als Waffe für Kartellopfer: SZA und Wuertenberger begleiten brisante EuGH-Vorlage

Juve, here. 

Report on fundamental rights implications of big data: privacy, data protection, nondiscrimination, security and law-enforcement

EP, here. 

Not for the under-aged: Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use

NPR, here. 

Google’s Allo app can reveal to your friends what you’ve searched

Recode, here.

Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in Japan

R. Aoki, here. 

Facebook tells developers to not use data for surveillance

TechCrunch, here. 

Snap Needs to Get Inside Your Head

C. O'Neil, here. 

Fixing Big Data’s Blind Spot

Stanford Business, here. 

EU zeigt sich zufrieden mit Gasprom-Zusagen

FAZ, hier. 

Intel to Buy Mobileye for About $15 Billion in Car Tech Push

Bloomberg, here. 

Artificial intelligence is ripe for abuse, tech executive warns: 'a fascist's dream'

TheGuardian, here. 

Trademark Scholars Letter to ICANN GNSO RPM Working Group

Here. 

You'll never shop alone again

csmonitor.com, here. 

Law and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and Robots - Conceptual Framework and Normative Implications

N. Petit, here.

DeepMind is building an auditing system for healthcare data.

Wired, Here.

AI Influencers 2017: Top 30 people in AI you should follow on Twitter

IBM, here.

Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it

TheGuardian, here.

DIGITAL GLOBALIZATION: THE NEW ERA OF GLOBAL FLOWS

McKinsey, here.

Antitrust Law is Not That Complicated

D. Melamed, here.

EU plans measures to block foreign takeovers of strategic firms

Reuters, here.

Will We Need A Chief Innovation Officer If We Have AI?

InnovationEnterprise, here. 

The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power

R. Calo, A. Rosenblat, here. 

GOP senators’ new bill would let ISPs sell your Web browsing data

ArsTechnica, here. 

Kommentar: Wenn die Künstlichen Intelligenzen Einstein und Watson sich paaren, finden User sich in einem Alptraum wieder

Heise, hier. 

DeepMind says no quick fix for verifying health data access

TechCrunch, here. 

OLG München zu Werbeblockern: Gute Zeichen für Adblock Plus

Heise, hier. 

Why the Trump administration hates multilateral trade agreements the most

WashingtonPost, here. 

Stephen Hawking: We need a 'world government' to stop the rise of dangerous artificial intelligence

BusinessInsider, here. 

Segnalazione in merito alla riforma del settore della mobilità non di linea

AGCM, here. 

Acquisition of Canexus by Chemtrade will not be challenged

Competition Bureau Canada, here. 

Framing the Issues: AI and Consumer Protection

D. Mulligan, here (heavy pptx) and here (pdf). 

ShyBot, le robot qui fuit tous les êtres humains

Numérama, ici. 

Bundestag stimmt über Änderungen im Wettbewerbsrecht ab

Deutscher Bundestag, hier.
S. auch Entschließungsantrag der Grünen, hier. 

Does Regulation Build Trust or Entrench Cliques? Lessons From Merchant Guilds and the Taxi Industry

ProMarket, here. 

CJEU: no right to be forgotten in respect of personal data in the companies register

Judgment in Case C-398/15, Press Release here. 

When Algorithms Don’t Account for Civil Rights

TheAtlantic, here. 

Merger control and innovation: are emerging concerns justified?

Chillingcompetition, here. 

Interoperability in the digital economy

W. Kerber, H. Schweitzer, here. 

Crossed Lines: Why the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Demands a New Approach to Antitrust

Roosevelt Institute, here. 

Google faces another antitrust complaint in Europe

PCWorld, here.
Summary of the complaint here. 

Artificial intelligence is quickly rolling into your personal finances

Salon,  here.

Bigger Data Isn’t Always Better Data

C. O'Neil, here.

Was die neuen Regeln im Zahlungsverkehr für Verbraucher bedeuten

FAZ, hier. 

What has competition ever done for us?

M. Grenfell, here. 

The big data revolution: embrace it but proceed with caution

A. Holt, here. 

IBM, Salesforce Strike Global Partnership on Cloud, AI

Fortune, here. 

Age of Algorithms: Data, Democracy and the News

Kavli Conversation, Video here (from 07:12).

('Outrage is the new porn'; 'everyone wants to hand off the responsability for extremely difficult decisions'; apps disentangling algorithms as transparency).

Announcing A New Open-Source Privacy Standard For The Internet Of Things

Consumerist, here. 

Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft: Market concentration - competition - innovation strategies

U. Dolata, here. 

L’économie fantôme de l’opéra

F. Lévêque, ici. 

Good things come to those who wait? – The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy submits a draft bill for a so-called “register of competition”

Blomstein, here. 

Retractable Technologies, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Co.

ScotusBlog, here. 

Facebook suspends location-sharing feature after Italian copyright suit

Reuters, here. 

The Antitrust Jurisprudence of Neil Gorsuch

J. Newman, here. 

Competing with Big Data

J. Prüfer, C. Schottmuller, here. 

The Myth of Data Monopoly: Why Antitrust Concerns About Data Are Overblown

ITIF, here. 

Watchdog to launch inquiry into misuse of data in politics

TheGuardian, here. 

Les actions privées en réparation du dommage concurrentiel

Entretien avec Irène Luc, ici. 

The FCC Helped Make the Internet Great: Now, It’s Walking Away

K. Werbach, here. 

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

D. Dennett, Video here. 

‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless

The Atlantic, here. 

Bierpreisdeckel für Münchner Wiesn rechtlich zulässig

BR.de, hier. 

EU's Margrethe Vestager on Facebook Probe, Google Cases

Bloomberg, Video here. 

Droit à la désindexation : le Conseil d’Etat s’en remet à la CJUE

Legalis, ici. 

Daten als neue Währung?

H. Schweitzer, hier. 

"DEAL" gefährdet Publikationsvielfalt bei Fachzeitschriften

Boersenblatt.net, hier. 

Big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data protection

ICO, here. 

Artificial data give the same results as real data — without compromising privacy

MIT News, here. 

Google's Featured Snippets are worse than fake news

TheOutline, here. 

Turkey to Investigate Antitrust Complaint Against Google

NYTimes, here. 

Code of Practice on Search and Copyright

Here.

Uber's use of Greyball tool: Written question to the European Commission

M. Schaake, here. 

Should economists be more concerned about Artificial Intelligence?

Bank Underground, here.
Deloitte's Report here. 

Updated guidance on the CMA’s approach to market investigations

CMA, here. 

Betting on the Bayer-Monsanto Merger

Global.handelsblatt, here. 

Microsoft Faces European Privacy Probes Over Windows 10

Bloomberg, here. 

SC to hear Uber’s plea against Compat order on March 1o hear Uber’s plea against Compat order on March 1

IndianExpress, here. 

The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight

NewYorker, here. 

Qualcomm Says Samsung Scandal Weakens Korea Antitrust Ruling

Bloomberg, here. 

Combative French Plaintiff Obtains Extended Jurisdiction Over Cross-Border Online Marketplace Sales

Bryan Cave, here. 

Narrow MFN clauses in the EU: Both types of measure (i.e. allowing or prohibiting them) go in the right direction

ECN DGs, here.

(Read the press release for yourself if you don't believe me).

Stunning 'AI brain scans' reveal what machines see as they learn new skills

Wired, here. 

Can we machine-learn Google’s machine-learning algorithm?

SearchEngineLand, here. 

On sausages and Facebook/WhatsApp – Germany reforms its antitrust act (part 1 of 2)

R. Podszun, here. 

The GDPR and All That

B. Tretick, here. 

Towards a Magna Carta for Data

RIA, here. 

Bundeskartellamt wird doch keine Verbraucherbehörde

Tagesspiegel, hier. 

Alexa Skills ecosystem analysis

GetRevue, here. 

How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree

M. Watzinger, T. Fackler, M. Nagler, M. Schnitzer, here. 

Eric Schmidt: AI research needs to be done in the open, not in military labs

ZDNet, here. 

Wettbewerbshüter sieht Opel-Übernahme gelassen

FAZ, hier. 

Search engines and creative industries sign anti-piracy agreement

UK IPO, here. 

Erfolgreiche Kartellverfolgung: Nutzen für Wirtschaft und Verbraucher

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Netzagentur ruft Eltern auf, Puppe "Cayla" zu zerstören

SZ, hier.
Gutachten hier.

The Privacy Enthusiast's Guide to Using Android

Lifehacker, here.

Will the ePrivacy Reg overshadow the GDPR in the age of IoT?

Iaap.org, here.

Yandex reports 22% YoY increase in revenue for Q4 2016

SearchEngineLand, here. 

IBM and Visa want you to pay from your car

USA Today, here. 

Gesetzentwurf zum automatisierten Fahren veröffentlicht

Reuschlaw.de, hier.