Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?

TechCrunch, here.

Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

NYTimes, here.
Read also here.

Reminder: #EUcompdigit Students Challenge

Rules here.

Good Data

Edited by A. Daly, K.  Devitt and M. Mann, here.

World Leaders at Davos Call for Global Rules on Tech

NYTimes, here.

Les « brevets blockchain » : état des lieux et perspectives

August-debouzy.com, ici. 

« Amazon, Netflix : le retour de l’intégration verticale ? »

E. Combe, ici.

Surveillance capitalism’ has gone rogue. We must curb its excesses.

The Washington Post, here.

Google's cert petition in Google v. Oracle

Here.
More here.
And what I wrote on the topic centuries ago is here.

Amazon Can’t Fix Facial Recognition

C. O’Neil, here.

Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence

H. Kim, M. Luca, here.

Perspectives on Issues in AI Governance

Google, here.

Max Schrems Files New Privacy Complaints That Seem To Show The Impossibility Of Complying With The GDPR

TechDirt, here.

PhD Candidate Robbert van Eijk measures privacy component in online advertising

Uni Leiden, here.

How Do You Govern Machines That Can Learn? Policymakers Are Trying to Figure That Out

NYTIMES, here.

‘The industry can’t say it hasn’t been warned’: Media execs react to Google’s GDPR fine

DigiDay, here.

Apple's Security Expert Joined the ACLU to Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever'

Motherboard, here.

The Canal+ Judgment (T-873/16), and the end of the Pay-TV Case (or the illusion of precedent)

A. Lamadrid, here.

CNIL: Millionenbußgeld gegen Google wegen DSGVO-Verstößen

P. Hense, Video hier.

Blockchain’s Occam problem

McKinsey, here.

The New Madison Approach Goes to Court

Orrick, here.

DIGITALISIERUNG BRAUCHT ZIVILGESELLSCHAFT

Phineo.org, hier.

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

The Register, here.

COLLUSION BY BLOCKCHAIN AND SMART CONTRACTS

T. Schrepel, here.

China blocks Bing access in curb on last foreign search engine

FT, here.

Cooperation, Dependence and Eviction - How Platform-To-Business Relationships in Mobile Telephony Ecosystems Should Be Addressed in A Competition Law Perspective?

F. Marty, J. Pillot, here.

Merger Review in the 2020s: Do Digitalization and Globalization Change the Analysis?

T. Igarashi, here.

Privacy and Manipulation in the Digital Age

T. Zarski, here.

Google’s European Monopoly (& Shrinking Click-Through Opportunities)

SparkToro, here.

Data Broker That Sold Phone Locations Used by Bounty Hunters Lobbied FCC to Scrap User Consent

MotherBoard, here.

Millions of bank loan and mortgage documents have leaked online

TechCrunch, here.

Suppose TV can now alert you to changes in TV packages, so you get the best deal

TechCrunch, here.

Et voilà:

Dreamstime v. Google

Google’s response, here.

Data protection in the age of big data

S. Wachter, here.

Délibération n°SAN-2019-001 du 21 janvier 2019

Ici. 

New technology as a disruptive global force

M. Vestager, here.

Abuse of dominance through data overcharges and EU competition law enforcement

CoreBlog, here.

Brussels takes a welcome lead on AI regulation

FT, here.

Guess

Datainspektionen, here.

Amazon Knows What You Buy. And It’s Building a Big Ad Business From It.

NYTimes, here.

Brave alerts the FTC about two major problems in digital media & services markets

Brave, here. 

EU’s antitrust cop lays groundwork for more tech scrutiny

Washington Post, here.

Die Zukunft des Internets: Mozilla und Co. wollen es besser machen als die Großen

FAZ, hier.

Proceeding against whitelisting contract between Google and Eyeo terminated after amendments to the contract

Bundeskartellamt, here.

First sanction against Google following our collective complaints

La Quadrature, here.

Brussels fines Mastercard €570m for restricting competition

FT, here.

Google Is Fined $57 Million Under Europe’s Data Privacy Law

NYTimes, Here.

What data counts in Europe? Towards a public debate on Europe’s high value data and the PSI Directive

OKI Blog, here. 

Is IoT inevitable?

From S. Zuboff‘s Surveillance Capitalism.

'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

The Guardian, here.

Is Google an evil genius?

The Economist, here  (and here)

O.K., Google: How Much Money Have I Made for You Today?

NYTimes, here.

Apple darf nicht behaupten, alle iPhones seien verfügbar

Heise.de, hier. 

EU to veto Siemens, Alstom rail merger: sources

Reuters, here.

#EUcompdigit: some (personal) visual memories

  
 

Privacy campaigner Schrems slaps Amazon, Apple, Netflix, others with GDPR data access complaints

TechCrunch, here. 

Netflix: Fortnite is a bigger rival than HBO

WashingtonPost, here. 

In Utrecht or thereabouts next Monday afternoon? Come and join us for a BIG discussion!

Workshop: Smart data and Competition Law, Utrecht University, more info here. 

La forme des choix

LINC, ici. 

Smart glasses and data protection

EDPS, Technology Report No 1, here. 

Responsibility in the Age of Emerging Technology

P. Nemitz, here. 

Examining Copyright Protection of AI-Generated Art

C. Dee, here (p. 31 ff.).

The Unwanted Sharing Economy: An Analysis of Cookie Syncing and User Transparency under GDPR

T. Urban et al., here. 

Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation

You can re-watch THE EU Competition Conference here 

Jean Tirole at #EUcompdigit

Video, here. 

Margrethe Vestager's Addresses #EUcompdigit

Video, here. 

Tracking technology to reveal whether food produced legally and sustainably

The Guardian, here. 

Commission approves BASF's acquisition of Solvay's nylon business, subject to conditions

EC Press Release, here. 

For teens, digital technology is good. Or bad. Or maybe neutral?

Ars Technica, here. 

Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

BBC News, here. 

Netflix, Spotify & YouTube: Eight Strategic Complaints filed on “Right to Access”

Noyb, here. 

ICYMI (and ICIFAT - In Case I Forget About Them)

Amazon and the Law of the Jungle, here.
Android Remedies: Tearing Down the Wall, here.
Geo-blocking of Audio-visual Services in the EU: Gone with the Wind?, here.
Sabbiere, innovazione e concorrenza: il caso fintech, qui.

Google Spends $40 Million for Fossil Watch Tech to Fight Apple

Bloomberg, here. 

Congress needs to address consumer data privacy in a responsible and modern manner

The Hill, here. 

How Tracking And Selling Our Data Became A Business Model

WBUR, Audio here. 

Capturing the Classroom

GTP, here. 

Facebook and Google Are the New Data Brokers

C. Hoofnagle, here. 

Ist die Bank N26 wirklich so toll?

FAZ, hier. 

Disruption is thriving in unexpected areas

FT, here. 

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that quotation exception is not limitless and that there is no fair use in the EU

IPKitten, here. 

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

Stratechery, here. 

Wyoming Lawmakers Advance Blockchain ‘Sandbox’ Bill

Coindesk, here. 

A Grand Bargain on Data Privacy Legislation for America

ITIF, here.
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Der Jäger der missbrauchten Daten

Republik.ch, hier. 

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review: The New Big Brother

WSJ, here. 

Die zweite EU-Richtlinie zu Zahlungsdiensten hat eine Revolution im Verborgenen ausgelöst

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Fake News, Real Money: Ad Tech Platforms, Profit-Driven Hoaxes, and the Business of Journalism

J. Braun, J. Eklund, here. 

Große Koalition nimmt WhatsApp ins Visier

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Gartner Predicts for the Future of Privacy 2019

Gartner, here. 

Colonised by data: the hollowing out of digital society

M. Pirogan, here. 

Fusion Alstom-Siemens : « La constitution d’un Airbus du ferroviaire sera-t-elle favorable pour le consommateur européen ? »

Le Monde, ici. 

Buying a new purse? This startup wants to help you pay for it — but could also get you into debt.

Vox, here. 

Market Dominance in Chip Manufacturing Will Mean Higher Prices

InsideSources, here. 

Facial and emotional recognition; how one man is advancing artificial intelligence

CBS, video here. 

Japan’s Robot Hotel Just Laid Off Half Its Robots

Futurism, here. 

Facebook’s Privacy Problems Get Real in Germany

Bloomberg, here. 

WeChat is quietly ranking user behavior to play catch-up with Alibaba

TechCrunch, here. 

PRESSURE MOUNTS ON AMAZON, MICROSOFT, AND GOOGLE AGAINST SELLING FACIAL RECOGNITION TO GOVERNMENT

ACLU, here. 

Antitrust’s Messy Breakup Fallacy

R. Woodcock, here. 

The Most Powerful Person in Tech Is … David Cicilline?

Bloomberg, here.