Edward Snowden Explains Blockchain to His Lawyer — and the Rest of Us

ACLU, here. 

NFC im iPhone: Lufthansa erstes bekanntes Unternehmen, das die Schnittstelle nutzt

ComputerBild, hier. 

Sabbiere, Innovazione e Concorrenza: Il Caso Fintech

S. Vezzoso (autrice del blog), qui. Primissima bozza, commenti più che graditi!

INNOVATION POLICIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

OECD, here. 

Geld lenen? Dan worden eerst je social media-accounts gescreend

de Volkskrant, hier, 

Competition Law in the Eurovision Song Contest

P. Marsden, here.

„Die Gefahr besteht, dass wir ein Zwei-Klassen-Internet schaffen“

FAZ, hier. 

You Snooze, You Lose: How Insurers Dodge The Costs Of Popular Sleep Apnea Devices

NPR, here. 

Google Spleen

Ici. 

Competition in (data) privacy: ‘zero’-price markets, market power, and the role of competition law

S.Y. Esayas, here. 

The Norwegian Ski Federation before the EFTA Court

Ruling here, more here. 

Comparison sites cry foul over Google Shopping service

The Register, here, 

Visa, Mastercard offer tourist card fee cut in EU antitrust probe

Reuters, here. 

Update on the German Facebook Case

COMPETITION LAW AND STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES

OECD  Secretariat, here. 

Quality considerations in digital zero-price markets

OECD Secretariat, here. 

Personalised Pricing in the Digital Era

Note by the United Kingdom to the OECD, here. 

How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy

 F. Lützow-Holm Myrstad, TedTalk here.

More about Cayla, here. 

Competition and fairness in a digital society

M. Vestager, here. 

Inside Tech’s “Kill Zone”: How to Deal With the Threat to Edge Innovation Posed by Multi-Sided Platforms

H. Singer, here. 

The dos of data: data trusts

The Economist, Podcast  here (at 08:22).

Algorithmic Price-Setting by Platforms

J. Nowag, here. 

How Facebook’s P.R. Firm Brought Political Trickery to Tech

NyTimes, here. 

Google, our "God"?

Competition Lore with Caron Beaton-Wells and Hal Varian, Podcast here. 

Nielsen/Ebiquity Merger

CMA, Final Report here. 

The war on cash in Belgium and The Netherlands: a state of play on contactless mobile payments

FinExtra, here. 

France is ditching Google to reclaim its online independence

Wired, here. 

Conclusions from the Cryptoassets Taskforce

FCA, here. 

The CNIL’s VECTAURY Decision and the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework

IAB, here. 

Break up Facebook (and while we're at it, Google, Apple and Amazon)

R. Reich, here. 

La CNMC incoa expediente sancionador contra Adidas España por posibles prácticas restrictivas de la competencia

CNMC, aquì.

Open Letter to Commissioner Vestager from 14 European CSSs Re Google Shopping

Here.

Apple reportedly buys AI startup focused on building on-device machine learning software

The Verge, here. 

Data Governance in Connected Cars: The Problem of Access to In-Vehicle Data

W. Kerber, here. 

BIG DATA AND COMPETITION POLICY

A. Claici, here, pp. 423-457.

Personalized Prices in the Digital Economy

J.-J. Ganuza and G. Llobet, here. 

The Economics of the Gig Economy – with an Application to the Spanish Taxi Industry

M. Silos Ribas, here., pp. 305-342.

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION

Book, here.

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.