Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020

Bloomberg, here. 

Resolution on the right to privacy in the digital age

UN, here. 

Want Faster Airline Customer Service? Try Tweeting

NYTimes, here. 

Google: Three Thoughts

R. Picker, here. 

La irrupción de las fintech en el sector bancario generará precios más asequibles, según la CNMC

EuropaPress, aquì. 

We Need to Move Beyond Competition Policy

Forbes, here. 

Platform Accountability and Contemporary Competition Law: Practical Considerations

P. Verveer, here. 

How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good

TechCrunch, here.

Un cártel de empresas catalanas encarecía los contratos de la Generalitat a espaldas de la Administración

Cadenaser, aquì. 

State of the Google Shopping auction heading into the 2018 holiday season

Search Engine Land, here. 

Regimes Regulatórios Promotores de Inovação no Setor Financeiro

Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC), aqui. 

Visa, AmEx, Mastercard Face Antitrust Charges In Brazil

Pymnts, here. 

China alleges ‘massive’ evidence of chipmaker violations

FT, here. 

Android remedies: tearing down the wall?

Yours very truly, here. 

Stellar new board appointed to lead world-first Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

Gov.uk, here.  See also here. 

Google has a responsibility to protect DeepMind data

FT, here. 

Strength in diversity

M. Vestager, here. 

There is a ‘third way’ for Europe to navigate the digital world

FT, here. 

Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung zeigt hohe Risiken bei Microsoft Office ProPlus Enterprise

Privacy Company, hier. Video here.

Paula Forteza : « Les citoyens doivent participer à la régulation des plates-formes numériques »

Le Monde, ici. 

How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

J. Bessen, W. Frick, here. 

Microsoft/GitHub

Decision here.

What Are We Learning about Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services?

L. Brainard, here. 

DATA MOBILITY: The personal data portability growth opportunity for the UK economy

Ctrl-Shift for the UK  the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), here. 

Amazon: EC Investigation to Focus on Whether Amazon Uses Data to Develop and Favor Private Label Products

Capital Forum, here. 

ePrivacy-Verordnung (ePVO): Tickende Zeitbombe für Ihr Online-Marketing? – So bereiten Sie sich vor!

PIWIK, hier. 

The intensity of judicial review in complex economic matters—recent competition law judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU

J. L. da Cruz Vilaça, here.

Décision: VECTAURY

CNIL Décision n°MED-2018-042 du 30 octobre 2018, ici.

And this "much older" blog post for some context.

KI als Markenzeichen für Deutschland

Bundesregierung, Presse Mitteilung hier. Bericht hier.

Is technology re-engineering humanity?

The Economist, here. 

Want To See Your Dystopian Future? Look at China

C. O'Neil, here. 

WIPO Conference on the Global Digital Content Market

Videos here. 

Microsoft menaced with GDPR mega-fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Office

The Register, here.

Apple’s influence is greater than iPhone sales figures suggest

FT, here.

The EU 2018 Draft Directive on UTPs in B2b Food Supply Chains and the Polish 2016 Act on Combating the Unfair Use of Superior Bargaining Power in the Trade in Agricultural and Food Products

A. Piszcz, here.

Private Antitrust Enforcement Without Punitive Damages: A Half-Baked Reform?

C. Massa, here.

The Curse of Bigness by Timothy Wu — why size matters

FT, here. 

UK watchdog has eyes on Google-DeepMind’s health app hand-off

TechCrunch, here. 

Consumer Welfare in Financial Services: A View from EU Competition Law

V. Robertson, here. 

JOURNALISM, ‘FAKE NEWS’ & DISINFORMATION

UNESCO, here. 

Dutch government report says Microsoft Office telemetry collection breaks GDPR

ZdNet, here. 

Google Maps will let you chat with businesses

The Verge, here. 

Emerging Competition, Innovation, and Market Structure Questions Around Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics

FTC Hearing, Video here. 

Algorithmic Collusion

FTC Hearing, Video here. 

Comments on Developing the Administration’s Approach to Consumer Privacy

Submissions to NTIA here. 

FTC Commissioners Find that 1-800 Contacts Unlawfully Harmed Competition in Online Search Advertising Auctions, Restricting the Availability of Truthful Advertising to Consumers

FTC, here. 

WEKO eröffnet Untersuchung gegen Schweizer Finanzinstitute

WEKO, hier. 

AI & Global Governance: No One Should Trust AI

J. Bryson, here. 

How ZTE helps Venezuela create China-style social control

Reuters, here.

Privacy advocates sound the alarm after Google grabs DeepMind UK health app

The Verge, here. 

PFM app Fintonic to fund interest-free deferred payments at Amazon.es

FinExtra, here. 

Allergan Loses Appeal Over Validity of Restasis Patents

Bloomberg, here. 

COMPETITION IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

R Street, here. 

Free flow of data in the EU – a pathway into the cloud

R. Viola, here. 

Google 'betrays patient trust' with DeepMind Health move

The Guardian, here. 

FTC Secures Partial Victory Requiring SEP Holder to License to All Comers in Antitrust Case (Qualcomm)

McDermott Will & Emery, here. 

Market Study on the Impact on Competition of Technological Innovation in The Financial Sector (Fintech)

CNMC, here. 

IP for the Next Generation of Technology

Conference, video here. 

Consumer Choice and Fair Competition on the Digital Single Market in the Areas of Air Transportation and Accommodation

EP, Study here. 

Chrome oder Safari: Welcher Browser schützt unsere Daten?

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid.

T. Wu, here. 

Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”

Quartz, here. 

DPIA DIAGNOSTIC DATA IN MICROSOFT OFFICE PROPLUS

Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and Security for the benefit of SLM Rijk, here.  

The curse of bigness

Tim Wu, video here. 

Google retreats on controversial 'fake' price comparison site scheme

SkyNews, here. 

The Potential Unintended Consequences of Article 13

YouTube, here. 

Facebook Failed to Police How Its Partners Handled User Data

NYTimes, here. 

CADE; Fintech et al. public hearing

Video aqui.

Who Has the Copyright Over My Cheese?

Brillat-Savarin: Art

NYTimes, here.
CJEU Judgment here. 

How to Regulate Tech Platforms

The American Prospect, here. 

London’s transport regulator looks to startups to help fix urban mobility

TechCrunch, here. 

Apple/Shazam

EC, CASE M.8788, here. 

The law that lets Europeans take back their data from big tech companies

CBSnews, here and video here (from 02:06 - 15:00).

Sustainable and Unchallenged Algorithmic Tacit Collusion

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

„Wir müssen Daten, den Rohstoff für Innovation, breiter streuen“

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Future proofing your bank? Digital transformation and regulatory reform in the financial sector

O. Rehn, here. See also here.

Artificial intelligence and intellectual property: an interview with Francis Gurry

WIPO, here.

Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Disney in pay-TV investigation

EC, here. 

La comisaria de Competencia alerta de que el IAJD crea "diferencias" en la competitividad de los bancos españoles respecto a los europeos

Expansión, aquì.

Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies

AdExchanger, here. 

Competition Policy Reform in Europe and Germany – Institutional Change in the Light of Digitization

O. Budzinski, A. Stöhr, here. 

Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off Amazon Marketplace

Motherboard, here. 

Opinions by European Copyright Society in CJEU Cordoba and Cofemel cases

ECS, here and here. 

Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso

The Verge, here. 

Changes coming to Google News to help publishers ‘find their sites’

Search Engine Land, here. 

Freigabe des Zusammenschlusses von Karstadt und Kaufhof

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

The Economics behind Multi-Sided Markets

J. Crémer. here. 

Distributed Ledgers: what is so interesting about them?

G. Danezis, here.

Three Moral Economies of Data

American Interest, here. 

Facebook says, yes, Portal does track your calls, but it really isn't for snooping

USA Today, here.

Amazon lauches Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs

TechCrunch, here.

Résolution sur la propriété sur les données personnelles

AFAPDP, ici.

EC seeks feedback on commitments offered by Disney in pay-TV investigation

EC, here.

Applications mobiles : mises en demeure pour absence de consentement au traitement de données de géolocalisation à des fins de ciblage publicitaire

CNIL, ici.

Policy position on car connectivity

FIA1, here.

Urheberrecht: Ärger im EU-Parlament über verwässerten Schutz für Künstler

Netzpolitik, hier. 

China To Increase Regulation Of Financial Holding Companies

Pymts, here. 

Commission clears the creation of six joint ventures by Daimler and BMW, subject to conditions

EC, here. 

Frank Pasquale: How To Regulate Google, Facebook and Credit Scoring?

F. Pasquale, Video here. 

Tim Berners-Lee launches campaign to save the web from abuse

The Guardian, here.