Switzerland: Tightening Antitrust Law

Wenger & Vieli AG, here. 

Vorerst weiter keine Verwendung personenbezogener Daten deutscher WhatsApp-Nutzer durch Facebook

AZ: 5 Bs 93/17, hier.

Repensar la competencia en la Economía Digital

COFECE, aquì

The Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power

NYTimes, here. 

La CNMC inicia la elaboración de un documento sobre el fenomeno Fintech

CNMC, aquì. 

UNITED STATES v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Transcript here. 

The Anti-Trust Case Against Google?

D. Balto, here. 

Fairness in Precision Medicine

Data & Society, here. 

Enforcing EU competition law in a time of change

J. Laitenberger, here.

Apple/Shazam promises to be an interesting merger control case...

A Europe that protects: Commission reinforces EU response to illegal content online

EC, here. 

From Diocletian to pay day loans: what can we learn from successful and unsuccessful price regulation?

M. Starks, here. 

Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017

EU Chief Economist Team, here. 

Susan Athey: Applying Machine Learning to the Economy

Stanford Business, here. 

Klöckner darf digitale Plattform für Stahlprodukte starten

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Inside the Engine Room of Digital Platforms: Reviews, Ratings, and Recommendations

P. Belleflamme, M. Peitz, here. 

Telegram Triples Price in Largest Initial Coin Offering

Bloomberg, here. 

Economic approach to privacy and data security issues

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

A. Kruger, E. Posner, here. 

Mobile Security Updates: Understanding the Issues

FTC, here. 

Amazon circles home security market with $1bn Ring deal

FT, here. See also here (Reuters).

Daten einfach übertragen: Ihr Recht auf Datenportabilität

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier. 

Content Analysis of Cyber Insurance Policies: How do carriers write policies and price cyber risk?

S. Romanosky et al., here. 

Is the Market for Digital Privacy a Failure?

C. Fuller, here. 

Privacy Expectations and Preferences in an IoT World

P. Emami-Naeini et al., here. 

Bayer to win EU approval for $62.5 billion Monsanto deal

Reuters, here. 

Italian marketplace Eataly gets own payments app with Mastercard

FinExtra, here. 

Antitrust enforcement: equal contributions of legal and economic analysis

M. Delrahim, here. 

Google Shopping: letter from comparison shopping services and others calling on the EC to reject current

Here. 

EU: Ban on unjustified geo-blocking expected to apply as of late 2018

BakerMcKenzie, here. 

GDPR will have positive ripple effect, says US consumer group

ComputerWeekly.com, here. 

Switzerland: Spotlight On Copyright Issues Of Blockchain Technology

Mondaq, here. 

Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law

Iapp, here. 

Goethe-Uni entwickelt Datenschutz-App für das Smartphone

Aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de, hier.

Opening statement at the PC public hearing into Competition in the Australian Financial System

ACCC, here. 

Facebook’s data collection in Germany caught in antitrust spotlight

MLex Podcast, here. 

Patenting the Future of Medicine: The Intersection of Patent Law and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

S. Tull, here.

In response to EU antitrust ruling, Google Shopping now shows ads from competing shopping engines

Searchengineland.com, here.

Kartell-Man

Hochschule Düsseldorf und Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Open Banking: Opening New Opportunities

Meeco, here. 

Blockchain: What is it good for?

E. Felten, here. 

Economists and the Emergence of Antitrust

Mises Institute, here. 

Ohio v. AmEx - SCOTUS Oral arguments transcript

Here. 

Data Protection and data analytics: what is Art. 29 WP really saying to businesses wanting to innovate with data?

Peep Beep! , here.

Das nächste Instagram? Social-App Vero lockt immer mehr Nutzer an

Heise.de, hier. 

Digital Platforms Inquiry - Issues Paper

ACCC, here. 

EBA Rules out Secure Open Banking?

KuppingerCole, here. 

Why Financial Institutions Are Turning To Chief Data Officers To Generate More Value Out Of Data

Forbes, here. 

How GDPR could weaken, not strengthen, the duopoly

DigiDay, here. 

Data Ready

FSB, here. 

Aura: Telefónica lässt eigenen digitalen Assistenten von der Leine

Heise.de, hier. 

Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us

Ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org, here. 

Antitrust World Eyes Justices On AmEx Steering Case

Law360, here. See also this argument preview.

Medicines Innovation And Access: Swiss Stimulate New Thinking

IP-Watch, here. 

DIGITALE PATIENTENAKTE

FAZ, hier.
“Wer einmal seine Daten auf einer Akte einer Kasse habe, der sei auch im Fall von Beitragssatzerhöhungen wenig geneigt, den Anbieter zu wechseln...Die Daten müssten übertragbar bleiben...”

Der Spion flirtet mit

FAZ, hier.

The British couple that cost Google £2.1 billion

Wired UK Podcast, here. And Jeff Jarvis discussing “The Case Against Google” here (from 1:02:18)

Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power

S. Naidu, E. Posner, G. Weyl, here.

Snips brings its privacy-focused voice assistant to cars

TechCrunch, here.

TESLA LUST UND DER VERLUST UNBEOBACHTETER MOBILITÄT

DMM,hier.

Car companies are preparing to sell driver data to the highest bidder

ArsTechnica, here.

Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?

Duck&DuckGo, here.

Digital R&D

Deloitte, here.

No free rides? Platform bans in light of the Coty case

Oxera, here.

To Give A.I. the Gift of Gab, Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You

NYTimes, here.

Les Agtech poussent les murs du Salon de l'agriculture

La Tribune, ici.

GOOGLE AND ANTITRUST

Discussion, Exponent Podcast here (from 04:30).

A Brief Sketch Of (Early Copyright) Privilegio In The Venetian Renaissance

IP-Watch, here.

AT&T fight: David beat Goliath for a reason

Cnbc, here.

BNP Paribas launches fintech investment fund

Finextra, here.

Google sagt den Kontostand – nicht nur bei der Sparkasse Stade-Altes Land

Handelsblatt, hier.

Concurrences conference on innovation economics 2018: two interviews

On excessive pricing, here; on Fintech ❤️ (the GDPR making data “more open” and “less proprietary”? An interesting view indeed!),  here.

Merger Policy and the Consumer Welfare Standard: Time for a Change?

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here. 

Revisiting Vertical Antitrust Enforcement

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here.

What are the Goals of Antitrust? What Should They Be?

v. 

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here (discussion from 47:36).

The Court of Justice of the European Union has reached a decision on the collusive practices carried out in Italy by Roche and Novartis when marketing the medicinal products Avastin and Lucentis

Osborne Clarke, here. 

Anticompetitive Mergers in Labor Markets

I. Marinescu, H. Hovenkamp, here. 

Die Wettbewerbs- Erklärer

FAZ, hier.

La CNMC incoa expediente sancionador contra Atresmedia y Mediaset

CNMC, aquí.

Good Times, Bad Times, Trust Will Take Us Far: Competition Enforcement and the Relationship Between Washington and Brussels

M. Delrahim, here.

The Antitrust Logic of Biologics

S. Ghosh, here.

A Solution in Search of a Problem at the Biologics Frontier

E. Lietzan, here.

Progressive Antitrust

H. Hovenkamp, here.

Brief comment : “channeling” innovation is not an antitrust goal, but “protecting” innovation is. 

Les monopoles : un danger pour les États-Unis ?

Banque de France, ici.

Dead Reckoning: Navigating Content Moderation After “Fake News”

Data Society, here.

UK’s FCA Inks FinTech Collaboration With CFTC

Pymnts, here. 

How consumers Value Digital Privacy: New Survey Evidence

C. Fuller, here. 

Datenschutz als Dienstleistung

Adzine, hier. 

"Diese Marken sind für Edeka zu wichtig"

Zeit.de, hier. 

Should we treat data as labor? Let’s open up the discussion

Brookings, here. 

Free flow of non-personal data in the European Union

EPRS, here. 

Supreme Court declines to review pay-for-delay ruling

Reuters, here.

Disney Misused 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Copyrights, Says Judge

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

Driverless cars: mapping the trouble ahead

FT, here.

Data, Innovation, and Potential Competition in Digital Markets – Looking Beyond Short-Term Price Effects in Merger Analysis

T. McSWEENY; B. O’DEA, here.

Unusually strong words and some concrete proposals. 

Opinion by Former Senior Government Officials and Leading Antitrust Experts on the Significant Antitrust Risks Posed by Broadcom’s proposed takeover of Qualcomm

Here.

Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again

Bloomberg, here. 

Alibaba’s social credit rating is a risky game

 FT, here.

Is MyData a Force or Counter Force?

A. Jogi Poikola, here.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

, here,

The Case Against Google

The NYTimes, here.