We’re all being manipulated by A/B testing all the time

Fast Company, here. 

Ad IDs Behaving Badly

S. Egelman, here. 

Non, vous ne pouvez pas reprendre du code open source

ZDNet, ici. 

Internet Platforms’ Rising Dominance, Evolving Governance

Videos here.

How to Stop Facebook’s Dangerous App Integration Ploy

NYTimes, here.

Capitalism’s New Clothes

E. Morozov, here.

Assessing the Facebook Problem

Roger McNamee talks about "Zucked," here. 

“A Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice”

The Intercept, here.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns

The Guardian, here.

Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

UpNextPodcast, here.

Amazon forced to pull products in India as new rules bite

BBC, here.

(Not quite away yet)

Off-ish

Here. 

The whistleblower, politician and journo who hauled the banks before a royal commission

ABC News, here. 

Robotaxis: can automakers catch up with Google in driverless cars?

FT, here. 

Our Thoughts on Facebook’s WhatsApp + Messenger + Instagram Integration

Public Knowledge, here. 

Proceeding with caution – a survey on central bank digital currency

BIS, here. 

Now Your Groceries See You, Too

The Atlantic, here. 

The Tech Industry Is Dead! Long Live the Tech Monopolies!

TabletMag, here. 

FTC Decision on Staples' Acquisition of Office Supply Wholesaler Essendant

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, here. 

The Data Inspectorate initiates supervision against Google

Swedish Data Protection Authrity (Google translate), here. 

Innovation Policy Pluralism

D. Hemel, L.Larrimore Ouellette, here. 

GUIDELINES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA PROTECTION

COE, here. 

German Court determines the limits of private copying

IPKitten, here. 

Response to IAB statement

Open Rights Group, here. 

Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University School of Law, on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's Digital Platforms Inquiry, Preliminary Report

Here. 

Entscheidungen in Zeiten des Internets: "Es braucht den Mut zum Scheitern"

Heise.de, hier. 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Delusion of Consumer Consent

J. Turow, C. Hoofnagle, here. 

Apple restores Google’s own internal iPhone apps after privacy brouhaha

ArsTechnica, here. 

Regulatory Sandbox and Competition of Financial Technologies in Taiwan

A. Chen, here. 

Web Privacy Measurement in Real-Time Bidding Systems. A Graph-Based Approach to Rtb System Classification.

R. van Eijk, here. 

Tech giants are the new gatekeepers

Axios, here. 

Wettbewerb schützen

J. Haucap, hier. 

Andreas Mundt auf Podcast!

LTO, hier. 

The American Express Opinion, Tech Platforms & the Rule of Reason

T. Wu, here.

Warning! Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

NYTimes, here.

Huge surge in AI patent applications in past 5 years

FT, here.

Italy 4.0

Deloitte, here. 

Google a aussi donné des cartes cadeaux à des internautes contre leurs données personnelles

Numérama, ici. 

Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) launched

FCA, here. 

Artificial Intelligence - Technology Trends 2019

WIPO, here. 

L'Autorité de la concurrence ordonne des mesures d'urgence à l'encontre de Google

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Die Zuckerberg-Sandberg-Connection funktioniert doch

FAZ, hier. 

Competition and engineering

Competition Lore Podcast, here. 

Two-Thirds of Financial Decision-Makers Believe Tech Giants Will Offer Retail Banking in Five Years

The Fintech Times, here. 

Sencrop is a data platform to help farmers manage their lands

TechCrunch, here. 

How to make Google stronger: Punish it

Politico.eu, here. 

Google and IAB ad category lists show ‘massive leakage of highly intimate data,’ GDPR complaint claims

TechCrunch, here. 

Google and adtech body criticised over data protection

FT, here. 

Competition Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Sector (2009-2017)

EC, here. 

Gripe to UK, Ireland, Poland: Ad tech industry inhales, then 'leaks' sensitive info on our health, politics, religion

The Register, here. 

Another tech bubble could be about to burst

FT, here. 

The Copyright Killer

GCR, here. 

Bußgeld gegen Fahrradgroßhändler ZEG wegen vertikaler Preisbindung

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Automating Society: Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU

AlgorithmWatch in cooperation with Bertelsmann Stiftung, supported by the Open Society Foundations, here. 

Japan Introduces ”Commitment Procedure” for Alleged Antitrust Violations

Orrick, here. 

How To Stop Amazon From Swallowing The Internet

H. Singer, here. 

Apple and Aetna are teaming up on a new app to help track and reward healthy behavior

CNBC, here. 

GOOGLE’S SIDEWALK LABS PLANS TO PACKAGE AND SELL LOCATION DATA ON MILLIONS OF CELLPHONES

The Intercept, here. 

Public Understanding of GDPR

Open Rights Group, here. 

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

TechCrunch, here. 

Google rejects regulator checks on search algorithms

AFR, here (and here).

Ein EU-Gesetz mausert sich zum globalen Standard

NZZ, hier. 

Daten teilen – mit dem Staat?

FAZ, hier. 

Brussels set to block rail merger between Alstom and Siemens

FT, here. 

The video of #CPDP2019 Opening Night Book Launch of "Surveillance Capitalism"

Here. 

Buchungsportale - "intransparent und unfair"?

Tagesschau.de, hier. 

Surveillance Capitalism: A Competition Policy Assessment

This is finally (on very last day, of course, and this after an already generous deadline extension - am I the only one?) my submission to the Ascola 2019 Conference (extended abstract). Any comments from @wavesblog Readers? I’d be extremely grateful (my email address is mentioned in the first footnote, thank you!).

Update on GDPR complaint (RTB ad auctions)

Brave, here. 

PRIVACY GROUPS CLAIM ONLINE ADS CAN TARGET ABUSE VICTIMS

Wired, here. 

China’s threat to Europe’s rail is a ‘straw dragon’

FT, here. 

Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

QC.com, here. 

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

FCA, here.

UK watchdog proposes tougher rules for peer-to-peer lending

Reuters, here.

#CPDP2019

YouTube channel here. 

The First major truly "open" Android phone in the wake of the Android remedies?

« C’était surhumain » : des joueurs professionnels ont perdu contre une IA à Starcraft 2

Numérama, ici. 

An Alternative Vision for Antitrust in the Digital Age with Cristina Caffarra

Techopoly, Podcast here. 

A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

MIT News, here. 

Merging WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram could kill Facebook

Wired, here. 

The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite

NYTimes, here. 

Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Fix That Op-Ed You Wrote

K. Swisher, here. 

Quel est le rôle des plateformes dans l’économie numérique ?

Le Monde, ici. 

NHS to offer paid-for DNA tests if patients share data

BBC, here. 

The facts about Facebook

TechCrunch, here. 

Algorithmic regulation and the rule of law

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

Italy Makes First-Ever Official Move Toward Blockchain Regulation

Finance Magnates, here. 

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.