Kann die Demokratie im 21. Jahrhundert bestehen?

F.W.-Steinmeier, hier. 

Online platforms: Commission takes legislative steps to ensure transparency and fairness for platform users

EC, here. FAQs here.
Regulation here.
Impact Assessment, here. Annexes, here.

Why does the Commission propose a Communication on online disinformation

EC, here. 

Pour une régulation européenne des plates-formes numériques

LesEchos.fr, ici. 

Facebook and the GDPR

J. Carr, here. 

Vestager zoekt meer grip op snelle techwereld

FD, hier.

Norwegian Air had ‘several inquiries’ since IAG stake revealed

FT, here. 

Digital banking startup Revolut raises $250M at a valuation of $1.7B

TechCrunch, here. 

Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism

LAReviewofbooks, here.

"We are seeing just the tip of the iceberg"

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Warum Daten unter die Kontrolle der Bürger gehören

E. Hafen, hier.

eBay To Offer PayPal Through July Of 2023

Pymnts, here.

Altaba, Formerly Known as Yahoo!, Charged With Failing to Disclose Massive Cybersecurity Breach; Agrees To Pay $35 Million

SEC, here.

Study in Support of the Evaluation of the Database Directive

EC, here.

Guidance on sharing private sector data in the European data economy

Commission Staff Working Paper, here.

Future of Identity and getting there

Mydex, here. 

Liability for emerging digital technologies

Commissiion Staff Working Paper, here.

Artificial Intelligence for Europe

EC, Communication, here. 

Data in the EU: Commission steps up efforts to increase availability and boost healthcare data sharing

EC, here. 

Proposal for a revised Directive on the reuse of Public Sector Information

EC, here. Impact Assessment and related documents here.

Artificial intelligence: Commission outlines a European approach to boost investment and set ethical guidelines

EC, here. 

Towards a common European data space

EC, Communication, here.

"Cordoba-Fall"

C-161/17, Schlussanträge des Generalanwalts Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, hier. 

COMPETITION IS AT THE HEART OF FACEBOOK’S PRIVACY PROBLEM

D. Cicilline, T. McSweeny, here. 

Spotify Targets 1.5 Billion YouTube Users With New Free Service

TechCrunch, here. 

Beyond yes or no: Judge Richard Leon's options in the AT&T antitrust case

Cnn, here.

How Europe’s Banking Revolution Will Boost Fintech

Knowledge Wharton Penn, here.

Yolt completes Open Banking integration with RBS

Finextra, here. 

EU Code of conduct on agricultural data sharing by contractual agreement

Here.  Remarks by EU Commissioner Hogan here. 

Commission opens in-depth investigation into Apple's proposed acquisition of Shazam

EC, here.

Mercedes setzt KI von Alibaba ein

FAZ, hier.

Facebook's hidden data haul troubles German cartel regulator

Reuters, here. 

Global fintech funding hits record $5.4bn in Q1

FinExtra, here. 

Who’s Benefiting? Revisiting the Innovation and Start-Up Ecosystem

Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

Art imitates life in the digital age

FT, here. 

Privacy and Personal Data Collection with Information Externalities

J. Choi, D.-S. Jeon, B.-C. Kim, here. 

Protecting competition, Reinforcing Consumer Protection, Rethinking Regulation

J. Tirole, Video here.

Some Memorable Quotes:
"Potential competition...if you don't know...the wise thing to do is not to let the merger operate"
"mfn...one of the cleverest strategies I've ever encountered, and people don't get it somehow"
"the important thing is, you can tax people who don't use you"
"I don't have a personal assistant, I don't want a personal assistant"
"What is the right fee for Booking?...I don't know"
"Defaults matter"
"We need the help the consumer...help me...self-regulation is going nowhere"
"Competition policy is slow, and often too late"
"Back and forth process" of regulation "you need to have guidelines and supervision"
"Participative antitrust" (droit de la concurrence participatif, this is the idea, my bet), "regulation reactive to ideas...proposed by the industry"
"You should make regulation agile...and listen to the industry"
"I'm not against breaking up those firms...my gut feeling right now is that it's difficult...harder that it used to be in the past because the technology is moving faster"

Brief discussion of Choi, Jeon, Kim Paper from 29:01

(tbd)

The Amazon Phenomenon

Stigler Center, Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

US vs EU: Antitrust, Data, and Privacy Policy

Stigler Center, Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

A Google Breakup Would Fit the EU's Logic

Bloomberg, here. 

Regulating Facebook merely nips at the edge of a bigger problem

FT, here. 

Australian regulator flags scrutiny of Uber Eats

Reuters, here. 

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Blockchains and the Right to be Forgotten

M. Finck, here. 

Blockchain Is About to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry

Bloomberg, here. 

Property is theft (and allocatively inefficient too)

D. Coyle, here. 

Facebook parries ad market 'dominance' claims

AFR, here. 

Australia needs tougher penalties for banks, financial institutions, ACCC says

ABC.net.au, here. 

Werbekunden verpflichten sich zu mehr Daten-Transparenz

WuW, hier. 

The challenges for present and future competition enforcement

Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, here. 

Lagarde urges greater scrutiny of big tech companies

FT, here. 

Transcript of the CNBC's interview here:

"EISEN: ALL RIGHT. YOU’VE CERTAINLY BEEN WARNING ABOUT THAT. I KNOW YOU LOOK AT BANK REGULATIONS. WHAT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY REGULATIONS? DO YOU THINK WE’RE ABOUT TO SEE A WAVE OF INCREASED SCRUTINY— OBVIOUSLY WE’VE SEEN SCRUTINY, BUT REVELATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO TECH GLOBALLY AND REVELATIONS INTO THEIR COMPETITIVENESS, AND COMPANIES LIKE FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND AMAZON.

LAGARDE: WELL, AS YOU SAID IN THE IMF, WE SUPPORT FREE MARKET. WE SUPPORT COMPETITION. WE SUPPORT IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY. WE SUPPORT INNOVATION. AND WE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH MARKET CONCENTRATION IN THE HANDS OF TOO FEW, WE’RE NOT SEEING COMPETITION, WE’RE NOT SEEING INNOVATION. AND OVER TIME WE ARE SEEING, YOU KNOW, GRADUAL --

EISEN: IS THAT WHEN FACEBOOK IS?

LAGARDE: IT DEPENDS HOW YOU DEFINE THE MARKET. IT DEPENDS WHO SUBSTITUTES. I MEAN, IT’S A VERY COMPLICATED DEBATE.

EISEN: YOU’RE NOT GOING TO CALL ANYONE OUT.

LAGARDE: BUT WE SHOULD ACTUALLY DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS THAT LEVEL OF ACCESS TO MARKET, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE ACCUMULATION OF THAT DATA IN THE HANDS OF A FEW IS NOT GOING TO BE SUCH A BARRIER THAT OTHER ENTREPRENEURS SIMPLY CANNOT ACCESS. SO THE SITUATION IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT WAS IN THE TELECOM AGE OR IN THE GILDED AGE. WE NEED TO REALLY RE-THINK THE WAY IN WHICH THAT SITUATION IS ADDRESSED. COMPETITION IS ENCOURAGED AND IF THAT REQUIRES A NEW SET OF RULES TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE Intangibility OF THOSE ASSETS, IT NEEDS TO BE DONE. LOOK AT TAX, FOR INSTANCE. IT’S ONE IN WHICH ALL POLICYMAKERS AROUND THE WORLD NEED TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT: WHERE IS VALUE LOCATED? WHERE IS VALUE GENERATED? HOW SHOULD IT BE TAXED AND WHAT REVENUE SHOULD BE CONTRIBUTED BY THOSE PLAYERS?"

Information Technology and Industry Concentration

J. Bessen, here. 

Data as Destiny? Palantir Knows Everything About You

Bloomberg, here. 

Don’t Stop Believin’: Antitrust Enforcement in the Digital Era

M. Delrahim, here.

The Digital Heroes That Fought Against Government Surveillance Are Quiet About Facebook. They’re Missing Their Moment

Slate, here.

DOJ Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim: “American Antitrust Agencies Likely Have Made More Enforcement Mistakes Than Any of Their Foreign Counterparts”

Pro Market, here. 

EP’s Report on the Annual Report on Competition Policy

Here. 

Künstliche Intelligenz im Reality-Check

SAS, hier. 

Data experts on Facebook’s GDPR changes: Expect lawsuits

TechCrunch, here. 

Facebook to put 1.5bn users out of reach of new EU GDPR privacy law

"In Spirit"

Irish Times, here. 

Productivity and the Financial Sector – What’s Missing?

 C.D. Howe Institute, here. 

So ... you wanna talk about Facebook?

Make me smart, Interview with T. McSweeny, Audio here. 

Revolving doors at the EU commission's finance unit

EUObserver, here. 

Solutions to the Threats of Digital Monopolies

ProMarket, here. 

Data privacy, mergers key topics of discussion during ABA Antitrust Law spring meeting

ABA, here. 

5 questions sur l’action de la Quadrature du Net contre les géants du web

Numerama.com, ici. 

Uber exits Philippines despite antitrust review

AsiaNikkei, here. 

Apple Is Planning to Launch a News Subscription Service

Bloomberg Technology, here. 

High-Level Hearing: A European Union Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

Hearing, Video here. 

The European AI Landscape

EC, here.

Economía digital y competencia

A. Faya, aquì.

Net neutrality rules move past first hurdle in California

LATimes, here. 

The UAE Competition Committee is open for business

Hogan Lovells, here. 

Daten autonomer Autos sollten nicht gleich an den Hersteller gehen

SZ, hier. 

AT&T/Time Warner merger case

Interview with Brent Kendall, Audio here (from 05:30)

Style Is an Algorithm

Racked, here. 

This LinkedIn Lawsuit Proves The Left Doesn’t Really Care About Securing Your Data

The Federalist, here. 

OCBC Bank initiates conversational commerce with Google

Finextra, here. 

Central Banking in a Digital Age: Stock-Taking and Preliminary Thoughts

Brookings, here. 

Facebook admits tracking users and non-users off-site

TheGuardian, here. 

Platforms and Adjacent Market Competition: A Look at Recent History

R. Picker, here. 

Australian fintech firms call for competition watchdog to monitor open banking roll-out

FinExtra, here. 

Unlockd Applies For An Injunction Against Google, Citing Anti-Competitive Conduct

Which-50.com, here. See also here. 

I think more investigations for Facebook are coming...

Interview with M. Vestager, here. 

Santander chair calls EU rules on payments unfair

FT, here. 

The Principle of Purpose Limitation in Data Protection Laws

M. von Grafenstein, here. 

Use our personal data for the common good

H. Shah, here.

The illiberal vision of neo-Brandeisian antitrust

G. Manne, here.

Behavioural Study on the Transparency of Online Platforms

EC, here.

Singapore’s competition watchdog sets interim measures for Grab-Uber merger

Channelnewsasia, here. CCCS’s press release here.

Why Europe, not Congress, will rein in big tech

Washington Post, here.

Reining in Big Data’s Robber Barons

NYBooks, here. 

Hackers stole a casino's high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank

BusinessInsider.de, here. 

AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?

House of Lords, here.
CMA's written evidence here.
Interesting written evidence imho:
M. Lynch, here.
Article 19, here
CBI, here
Royal Academy of Engineering, here
The Alan Turing Institute, here
(tbd)


"O, there has been much throwing about of brains."

AI in banking: the reality behind the hype

FT, here.

The way global central banks work is about to fundamentally change — and technology is to blame

BusinessInsider, here.

Request for information regarding facial recognition on Facebook

WP29, here.

Cannibalisation effects, you said?

Picasso, La mujer que llora

#chillincompetitionfineart

Ernst Hafen: Our personal data should only be under our own control

CNN, here.

Facebook Uses Artificial Intelligence to Predict Your Future Actions for Advertisers, Says Confidential Document

The Intercept, here.

Why undertakers are worried

The Economist, here.