Why Google Could Be in Trouble Over the Google Plus Bug

Slate, here.

Why GDPR is Kryptonite to Google & Facebook on Anti-Trust

Brave, here.

Woman who bought shredded Banksy artwork will go through with purchase

The Guardian, here.

Alibaba passes blame for Alipay thefts to Apple

Asia Times, here.

Werbeagenturen hinter Preisvergleichsseiten – Untergräbt Google das EU-Recht?

OnlineMarketing.de, hier.

A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is as Creepy as You Feared

NYTimes, here. 

Amazon's new recruiting machine learning algo did not like women.

Reuters, here. 

Nos plaintes contres les GAFAM avancent !

La Quadrature Du Net, ici. 

Mastercard brings real-time bill payments to mobile banking apps

Finextra, here. 

Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR

Cliqz.com, here. 

KI und die ewige Suche nach der richtigen Frage

Heise.de, hier. 

Expediente sancionador contra Acciona Construcción, Corsán-Corviam, Dragados, FCC Construcción, Ferrovial Agromán, OHL y Sacyr Construcción

CNMC, aquì.

The Facebook breach – a GDPR test-case

EDRi, here. 

Investigation of the Atlantic Joint Business Agreement

CMA, here. 

In the EU Blockchain Resolution we Trust

Daily Fintech, here. 

Microsoft tritt Open Invention Network bei

Linux-Magazin.de, hier. 

Judicial Infringements at the Court of Justice – A brief comment on the phenomenal Commission/France (C-416/17)

Despiteourdifferencesblog, here. 

Amazon patents new Alexa feature that knows when you're ill and offers you medicine

Telegraph.co.uk, here. 

FÜR IMMER ANONYM: WIE KANN DE-ANONYMISIERUNG VERHINDERT WERDEN?

ABIDA, hier. 

Walmart Patented a Cart That Reads Your Pulse and Temperature

MotherBoard, here. 

Plateformes de commerce en ligne et abus de position dominante Réflexions sur les possibilités d’abus d’exploitation et de dépendance économique

F. Marty, ici. 

Intelligence Artificielle et Organisation Industrielle : quels enjeux pour l’économie numérique

F. Marty, ici. 

Alipay Says Hackers Used Stolen Apple IDs to Siphon Off Money

Bloomberg, here.

Consumer Data Right Rules Framework

ACCC, here. 

This Is How Amazon Loses

Shift.newco.co, here. 

Consumer Data Privacy: Examining Lessons From the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act

Video and written statements here. 

The Social Credit System and Governmentality in China

Soziologieblog, here. 

Microsoft has signed up to the Open Innovation Network. We repeat. Microsoft has signed up to the OIN

The Register, here.

EU hijacking: self-driving car data will be copyrighted...by the manufacturer

BoingBoing, here. 

EP: DRAFT REPORT on the Annual Report on Competition Policy

Here. 

The Indian Supreme Court's Aadhaar judgment — A privacy analysis

iapp, here. 

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Privacy and Freedom of Speech

Vice, Video, here (if you can stand the annoying "music" in the background and the rather empty questions).

Google+ Flaw Sparks German Privacy Probe

Bloomberg, here. 

Bayer-Monsanto-Fusion in Anhörung zur Agrarmarkt­konzentration

Video hier. 

Competition Commissioner Vestager discusses with MEPs. "These are formative years when it comes to data"

Poof! 

Video, here (from 10:37:23).
- Car emissions technologies cartel at 10:43:22; 11:24:35;
- Android 10:48:52;
- Google Shopping remedies Q 10:55:30; A 10:57:30 (looking into allegations of cooked up PCWs); 11:08:52 "we have no position yet";
- Merger control and data 11:04:16;
- Competition and innovation 11:17:09
- Tying and Android 11:18:24
- Apple Pay NFC 11:43:21; Amazon Alexa 11:43:47: "follow this quite closely" but also restricting possible intervention to 102; no room for 101, here?
- Digitization of Competition Enforcement 11:46:30.

Approach to final Regulatory Technical Standards and EBA guidelines under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2)

FCA, Consultation Paper, here. 

TicketOne: AGCM spiega (brevemente) l'indagine

Bollettino dell'Antitrust, Audio qui.
Buona Giornata dall'Autorità Antitrust...

Deroghe ai principi e alle regole in materia di concorrenza e crollo del ponte di Genova

AGCM, qui.

Google will not bid for the Pentagon’s $10B cloud computing contract, citing its “AI Principles”

TechCrunch, here.

THE NEXT GREAT (DIGITAL) EXTINCTION

 J. Ito, here. 

Statutory audit market: Invitation to Comment

CMA, here. 

Tencent buys minority stake in Brazil's Nubank

FinExtra, here. 

Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal: What do we know – and who is telling the truth?

The Register, here. 

Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation: predatory innovation & blockchain

T. Schrepel, here. 

Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public

WSJ, here. Google's reaction and further news here.

March 2018...Just in time for (avoiding) the GDPR (no data audit before? What about a settlement with the FTC? See here).

What should EU competition policy do to address the concerns raised by the Digital Platforms’ market power?

D. Geradin, here. 

In letter to Congress, Apple sends strongest denial over ‘spy chip’ story

TechCrunch, here. 

FTC Hearing #3: Multi-Sided Platforms, Antitrust in Labor Markets, and Acquisitions of Nascent and Potential Competitors in Digital Technology Markets

16-18 October 2018, Terrific Agenda here. 

Forex scandal comes down to case against the ‘Cartel’

FT, here. 

Digital Platforms and Antitrust: Towards a More Techno-Economic Approach (TEA)

Me, very first draft, here.

Please let me know if you have any comments!

Consumer Data Privacy: Examining Lessons From the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 4 pm Trento Time.

US Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, here. 

An Internet Bill of Rights? One California representative says the time has come

Los Angeles Times, here.
Read/listen to also here and here. 

Now science was firmly seen as an engine of economic growth

J. Gans, here.
Telephone Interview with Paul Romer, here. Scientific Background here. 

Reasserting cyber sovereignty: how states are taking back control

E. Morozov, here. 

Vorprüfung Preishöhenmissbrauch – Flugpreise Lufthansa

S. Hossenfelder, hier. 

Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub deal set for EU approval - sources

Reuters, here. 

Die Google Android Entscheidung der Kommission

G. Wolf, Präsentation hier. 

Modernisierung der Missbrauchsaufsicht

J. Haucap, Präsentation hier. 

Was kann und soll die kartellrechtliche Missbrauchsaufsicht?

Tagung des Arbeitskreises Kartellrecht, Hintergrundpapier, hier.

Pricing algorithms

CMA, here.
See also this recent CMA's Presentation, here. 

Europe’s Android Ruling Gives Google Rivals a Glimmer of Hope

Bloomberg, here. 

UK court blocks Google class action lawsuit over iPhone data

FT, here. Judgment here.
"Regulatory action was then taken against Google in the USA. In August 2012 the company agreed to pay a US$22.5 million civil penalty to settle charges brought by the United States Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) that it misrepresented to users of the Safari browser that it would not place tracking cookies or serve targeted advertisements to those users...In this jurisdiction, these matters would fall under the regulatory jurisdiction of the Information Commissioner, but it appears that there has been no regulatory action taken here. The Safari Workaround has however been the subject of high profile civil litigation against Google in this jurisdiction."

Amazon Fires Employee for Sharing Customer Emails

WSJ, here.

Angebliche Spionage-Chips aus China: Bundesamt fordert Stellungnahme von Apple und Amazon

FAZ, hier.

New ICO hub to support innovation

ICO, here.

The Tethered Economy

C. Hoofnagle, here.

Banksy auction prank leaves art world in shreds

The Guardian, here. Video here.

Store, interface, package, connection: Methods and propositions for multi-situated app studies

M. Dieter et al., here.

See also A. Helmond, The Web as Platform, here.

Blockchain Technology Overview

NIST, here.

Top antitrust cops speak with Axios (but not with each other?)

Video  here.

On the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, we give you 7 times he served humanity and acted as an example to others

Register, here (at least two antitrust related).

Google shows progress in addressing competition concerns, says EU's Vestager

Reuters, here.

The Big Disruption

J. Powell, here.

Google 'trying to circumvent EU ruling' with price comparison sites run by ad agencies

Sky News, here. Video here. 

Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook

The Verge, here.

Spotify Integrates With Google Maps for Music on Every Mile of Your Journey

Spotify, here.

See also here “The update also includes the ability to control Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play Music through the Maps app so that users don’t have to switch between screens if they’re driving or checking your ETA on the bus.

To be able to use the features, users must set their home and work address as well as activating “web and app activity,” which gathers much more personal data including Chrome browsing history, location, credit card purchase history, and more.”

The Future Of Antitrust: Do Higher Profits Merit The Retirement Of the Consumer-Welfare Standard?

Forbes, here.

Competition restraints in online sales after Coty and Asics - what’s next?

Bundeskartellamt, here.

Antitrust laws must promote the true driver of growth: innovation

D. Teece, here.

First Ever Antitrust Condemnation For Excessive Pricing In Online Platform Services: Turkish Competition Authority Fines In Markets For Online Ads In Real Estate And Vehicle

ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law, here. 

Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics - Canada

M, Stucke, testimony here (from 11:13:50)

Britain is coming for Silicon Valley’s unruly tech giants

Business Insider, here. 

Private Businesses Built Modern China. Now the Government Is Pushing Back.

NYTimes, here. 

How Humans Get Hacked

Wired, Video here. 

Tencent backs fintech firm Voyager to set up battle with Alibaba in the Philippines

TechCrunch, here. 

First GDPR fines coming this year is just the start, says data protection supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli

Techcrunch, here. 

Brazil: Antitrust Watchdog Sends Questions to Crypto Exchanges After Bank Account Closures

Cointelegraph, here. 

Are EU Markets More Competitive than Those in the U.S.?

NBER Digest, here. 

Alibaba investiert stark in Künstliche Intelligenz

FAZ, hier. 

Shaping competition policy in the era of digitization

TILEC, here. 

Publishers Escalate Legal Battle Against ResearchGate

Inside Higher Education, here. 

Antitrust Standing – Is There An App for That?

National Law Review, here. 

EU rules facilitating the free flow of non-personal data

EC, Press Release here. 

Collective redress in the Member States of the European Union

JURI Committee, here. 

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

Bloomberg, here.

Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

The Verge, here. 

Open Markets amicus in Apple v. Pepper

Here. 

Oversight of the Enforcement of the Antitrust Laws

Judiciary.senate.gov, here. 🎬

Why your online data isn’t safe

Harvard Gazette, here. 

EBay Accuses Amazon of Poaching Sellers on Its Marketplace

Bloomberg, here.