Antitrust Reading List Proposed by Chris Hughes

Here. And more suggestions here. 

Mark Zuckerberg has to go. Here are 25 reasons why

The Guardian, here. 

The German Facebook Antitrust Case Viewed from Brussels?

M. Vestager, here.

Asnef-Equifax is an "interesting" ruling, to be understood in the specific context of the case. My impression is that EU judges would be willing to view things differently today...

Dublin-based Ion Group in talks to buy Mergermarket owner

FT, here. 

Fintech and Blockchain: Where Silicon Alley Meets Hyperconverged Infrastructure

BankInnovation.net, here. 

2019 Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Can We Hold Machines Accountable?

Silicon Flatirons Conference, Videos here. 

GOOGLE’S NEW PRIVACY FEATURES PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY ON USERS

Wired, here. 

Expedia Under Investigation by Utah Over Hotel Collusion Claims

D. McLaughlin, here.

Not the first time that Expedia and TravelPass lock horns, here. 

2019 ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION CONFERENCE - DIGITAL PLATFORMS, MARKETS, AND DEMOCRACY: A PATH FORWARD

Stigler Center, 15-16 May 2019,  here. Live streaming!

Regulating Facebook and Google Pt 1: Markets

Capitalisn't Podcast, here. 

Japan's 'information banks' to let users cash in on personal data

Nikkei, here. 

Deep Dive into Real-Time Bidding (RTB)

R. van Eijk, Video here. 

Zuboff's book everywhere

My provisional take (but sadly no Ascola paper on the topic - max one individual paper pp - but apparently *two* co-authored papers are fine), here. 

Essential California: Why San Francisco banned cashless stores

LATimes, here. 

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

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

Evaluating the EC Private Data Sharing Principles

B. Gonzalez Otero, here. 

A FRAND Regime for Dominant Digital Platforms

M. Heim, I. Nicolic, here. 

Exploring the Interfaces Between Big Data and Intellectual Property Law

D. Gervais, here. 

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

NyTimes, here. 

2. Öffentliche Sitzung der Datenethikkommission

Live-Stream hier. 

Tencent and Alibaba granted licences to offer Hong Kong banking

FT, here. 

Establishing the rules for building trustworthy AI

L. Floridi, here. 

Ethically Aligned Design

IEEE, here. 

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

NYTimes, here. 

Microsoft, Starbucks Team On AI-Powered Predictive Orders

Pymnts.com, here. 

How Digital Platforms Have Become Double-Edged Swords

MIT Sloan MR, here. 

Consumers as prey for AI

Competition Lore Podcast, here. 

Accountability without liability: ‘to whom’ and ‘with what consequences’? (Questions for the 2019 OECD privacy Guidelines review)

G. Greenleaf, here. 

Competitive Edge: Principles and presumptions for U.S. vertical merger enforcement policy

J. Baker, N. Rose, S. Salop, F. Scott Morton, here. 

Facebook stops blocking some blockchain ads

TechCrunch, here. 

ASCOLA 2019 Aix-en-Provence Faculty of Law

Programme, here. 

HEARING ON “OVERSIGHT OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: STRENGTHENING PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICANS’ PRIVACY AND DATA SECURITY”

Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Hearing on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, live now here.

Is competition enough? Competition for consumers, on behalf of consumers.

A. Tyrie, here.

Google Face Match brings privacy debate into the home

FT, here. 

Facebook has hired several former PayPal employees for its mysterious blockchain project.

Bloomberg, here.

M.B., for you...

Facebook picks London as base for WhatsApp push into payments

FT, here. 

The Case for the Digital Platform Act: Market Structure and Regulation of Digital Platforms

H. Feld, here. 

Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy

US Senate Committee Hearing, here. 

ACCESO DE APLICACIONES A LA PANTALLA EN DISPOSITIVOS ANDROID

AEPD, aquì.

CONTROL DEL USUARIO EN LA PERSONALIZACIÓN DE ANUNCIOS EN ANDROID

AEDP, aquì.

The Data Mobility Sandbox and a peek at the future of personal data

Digi.me, here. 

Fairness and Competitiveness in a Digitised World

M. Vestager, Live streaming, today 12:30 re:publica 2019, here. 

Free translation: L'Europa non è perfetta ma è una figata di inizio. (warning: strong language)

IAB internet advertising revenue report

IAB, here. 

The creeping threat of facial recognition

FastCompany, here. 

Android now has 2.5B users

TechCrunch, here. 

How can more people benefit from the knowledge economy?

Future curious, Podcast here.
Nesta, Imagination unleashed: Democratising the knowledge economy here.
Roberto Unger's book here.
OECD Discussion here. 

Weighing the value of data – trade-offs, transparency and competition in the digital marketplace

R. Finer, here. 

AI in law enforcement needs clear oversight

FT, here. 

Intellectual Property and the Price of Prescription Drugs: Balancing Innovation and Competition

Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing here. With the great Prof. Michael Carrier. 

On the Algorithmic Accountability Act - Opinion

M. Kaminski, A. Selbst, hier. 

THE EUROPEAN UNION: A PEOPLE-CENTRED AGENDA: SECTION 12

OECD, here. 

Big Tech im Check

Video hier. 

Review of Online Targeting

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, here.

Review on Bias in Algorithmic Decision Making

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, here. 

Automated Decision-Making in the EU Member States Laws: The Right to Explanation and Other 'Suitable Safeguards'

G. Malgieri, here. 

Big Tech Is Spying on Your Wallet

WashingtonMonthly, here.

Sanders Calls for Breaking Up Big Agriculture Monopolies

NYTimes, here. 

Tristan Harris says tech is “downgrading” humanity — but we can fix it

Recode, Podcast here. 

Administration by Algorithm? Public Management Meets Public Sector Machine Learning

M. Veale, I. Brass, here. 

Bergen Competition Policy Conference 2019

Video recordings and slides here. 

Bitkom warnt vor bedingungsloser Datenweitergabe

Golem, hier. 

Alex Rosenblat on the cultural impact and influence of Uber

The Rideshareguy, Podcast here. 

New report calls out failing Open Banking API services

FinExtra, here. 

First Draft! A pro-competition data sandbox for the digital world

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here.

Comments would be great, please write to simonetta.vezzoso@unitn.it, many thanks!

F.T.C. Wants to Punish Facebook, but the Divided Agency May Go Only So Far

NYTimes, here. 

Project Libra: Facebook to launch stablecoin-based payments network

TheBlockCrypto, here.

A broadly-shared sin: hindsight bias

BBC, here. 

Enforcing European Competition Law in a Global Digital Economy

A. Ezrachi. A. Reyna, here. 

EU E-Commerce Proposal Seeks Data Privacy Rules for WTO Members

Bloomberg, here. 

Competition in Television and Digital Advertising

M. Delrahim, here. 

Life Fitness’s Advertising Platform Brings Programmatic Ads to the Gym

AdWeek, here. 

A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

C. Zacharias, here. 

AI and Education

Interview with T. Escrig, here. 

Ireland's Data Protection Commission opens statutory inquiry into Quantcast International Limited

Here.
For more info here. 

In praise of antitrust compliance programs

M. Delrahim, here (who among us @WavesBlog Readers wouldn't join in?).

Peloton Fires Back At Music Publishers With Antitrust Allegations

Forbes, here. 

Zuckerberg's privacy joke

Here. 

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook

D. Srinivasan, here. 

Facebook opens its data to academics for first time

FT, here. 

The economics of the security of consumer-grade IoT products and services

Internet society, here. 

KEY DRIVERS, EMERGING TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN CORPORATE BANKING

FinExtra/Oracle, here. 

Beware of 'Algorithmic Regulation'

S. Delacroix, here. 

The new division of labor

Deloitte, here. 

Economic Measurement of AI

K. McElheran, here. 

A look at the proposed Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019

iapp, here. 

AAI Interview With Antitrust Expert Jonathan Baker – A Preview of His Forthcoming Book: The Antitrust Paradigm

AAI, here. 

Facebook Is Turning Instagram Into The New Facebook

BuzzFeedNews, here. 

Concerns Over Privacy and Security Contribute to Consumer Distrust in Connected Devices

Internet Society, here. 

Kenya Signs $665.4m Deal With China For Konza Data Centre And Smart City Plan

Data-economy, here. 

Ausschluss von Vergabeverfahren: Gleiss-Mandantin Daimler und andere Kartellanten unter Druck

Juve.de, hier. 

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENHANCE OR HACK HUMANITY?

Wired, here. 

A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end well

NiemanLab, here. 

Whistleblowers: Company at heart of 97,000% drug price hike bribed doctors to boost sales

CNN, here. 

UK competition regulator approves $2.2bn PayPal-iZettle deal

FT, here. See also here and here and the whole decision here. 

What can the first blockchain antitrust case teach us about the crypto-economy?

K. Stylianou, here.

Live comments here. 

The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million

Recode, here. 

According to Advocate General Szupunar a service such as that provided by the AIRBNB portal constitutes an information society service

CJEU, Case C-390/18, here. 

The Schweitzer Review

Achat de crypto-monnaies: compte bloqué par une banque

Ici.