AI: inhuman after all?

Spiked, here. 

Google Stadia has kicked off a new age of gaming data harvesting

Wired, here. 

Face aux GAFA

E. Combe.

Hotel Site Accuses Booking, Expedia of EU Antitrust Breaches

Bloomberg, here. 

Tech and Antitrust

Stratechery, here. 

Anger at Big Tech Unites Noodle Pullers and Code Writers. Washington Is All Ears

New York Times, here. 

Why Salesforce's Tableau Buy Might Be A Blunder

Forbes, here. 

Antitrust Probe Starts Today With Focus On Big Tech's Profits From News

Forbes, here. 

Warren Demands DOJ Antitrust Head Recuse Himself From Google, Apple Probes

Bloomberg, here. 

Datenökonomie

bpb, APUZ, hier. 

Kartellrecht in der Datenökonomie

R. Podszun, hier. 

Jeux vidéo : Ubisoft fait le pari de la blockchain

Les Echos, ici. 

Huawei's operating system in pipeline

China Daily, here. 

Revolut dials up Apple Pay

FinExtra, here. 

Thermo Fisher scraps Roper deal after U.K. antitrust hurdle

Reuters, here. 

Microsoft President Says 'Hipster Antitrust' Is Coming

Fortune, here.
Antitrust: Video, from 18:47.

General Principles of Law in EU Antitrust Law

M. Hjärtström, J. Nowag, here. 

By calling Huawei Android fork a security risk, Google contradicts its own open source arguments

Venture Beat, here. 

Account information now in Rabobank's PSD2 store

FinExtra, here. 

No License, No Chips? No Dice: Dissecting Judge Koh's Opinion in FTC v. Qualcomm

Washington Bytes, here. 

The different approaches to increasing access to data while retaining trust

J. Hardinges, P. Wells, here. 

Data Extra Commercium

V. Janeček, G. Malgieri, here. 

Sports Data Policies Could Represent Next Big Antitrust Challenge For Pro Sports Leagues

Forbes, here. 

Trump Questions Whether UTC-Raytheon Deal Hurts Competition

Bloomberg, here. 

Brave's Presentation to FTC tech taskforce

J. Ryan, here. 

PM speech opening London Tech Week

T. May, here. 

Roche's $4.3 billion Spark bid delayed again amid U.S., UK scrutiny

Reuters, here. 

The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined

S. Zuboff, here. 

Digital disruption in financial markets: Presentations available!

OECD (bravi), here.

(Links to several countries' contributions not working though).

And my ASCOLA 2018 presentation ICYMI here. 

Sir Tim versus Black Mirror

Still my fav

E. Zuckerman, here. 

Competition policy: access to data, and more

P. Wells, Presentation here.

What Duopoly? Why Amazon’s Sizmek Purchase Is Just The Next Step In Its March Toward Ad Dominance

AdExchanger, here. 

Bring Back the Golden Age of Broadcast Regulation: Especially for YouTube and Facebook.

Slate, here. 

Three ways that Big Tech could be broken up

FT, here. 

Blockchain's Appeal Is Limited for Retail Banks, McKinsey Says

Bloomberg, here. 

How to rein in the web of lies

Chatman House, here. 

Google to Buy Data Analytics Company Despite New Antitrust Scrutiny

NYtimes, here.

Machine Learning and AI as business tools: Threat or blessing for competition?

CCP 15th Annual Conference 6th – 7th June 2019, Blog post here

Facebook plant eigene Kryptowährung

FAZ, hier. 

Google übernimmt den BI-Spezialisten Looker für 2,6 Milliarden US-Dollar

Heise.de, hier. 

From Innovation Hub to Innovation Culture

FCA, here. 

Making Big Tech companies share data could do more good than breaking them up

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Facebook’s Anticompetitive Lean in Strategies

L. Lovdall Gormsen, J.T. Llanos, here. 

A duty of care to prevent online exploitation of consumers? Digital dominance and special responsibility in EU competition law

W. Sauter, here. 

IBM withdraws notification of its acquisition of staff, hardware and software from T-Systems’ mainframe business after the Bundeskartellamt expressed concerns

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

iOS developers file class-action against Apple over ‘profit killing’ App Store practices

9to5mac.com, here. 

Google erweitert die Pay API für umfangreichere Bezahloptionen

Heise, hier. 

Kelkoo ready to take Google complaint to U.S. antitrust regulators - CEO

Reuters, here. 

Report: Facebook plans to create independent foundation to manage its cryptocurrency; will charge members $10M licensing fees for right to operate node

The Block, here. 

Amazon executive says company welcomes scrutiny of big tech

Reuters, here. 

How Big Tech funds the debate on AI ethics

NewStatesman, here. 

The Fintech Bubble Floats Toward a $64 Billion Pin

Bloomberg, here. 

Competition and Regulation in the Data Economy

Panel, videos here. 

Governance of Data in IoT Contexts

W. Kerber, Presentation here. 

Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set

FT, here. 

Facebook can be told to cast a wider net to find illegal content, says EU court advisor

TechCrunch, here. 

Konzern liest mit: Facebook trackt Nutzer auf drei Viertel aller deutschen Nachrichtenseiten

Netzpolitik.org, hier. 

Apple announces new sign-in tool to compete with Facebook and Google

The Verge, here. 

UK financial regulator clamps down on peer-to-peer investment

FT, here. 

"Daten müssen nicht böse sein"

SZ, hier. 

ASSISTANTS VOCAUX ET ENCEINTES CONNECTÉES: l’impact de la voix sur l’offre et les usages culturels et médias

Hadopi, CSA, ici. 

Uber’s Path of Destruction

American Affairs, here. 

Aptoide, a Play Store rival, cries antitrust foul over Google hiding its app

TechCrunch, here. 

Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System

The Law Society, here. 

Hotelbuchungen im Internet: "Enge" Bestpreisklauseln sind zulässig

OLG Düsseldorf, hier. 

Vertical Mergers in the Technology, Media and Telecom Sector

OECD Secretariat, Background Note here. 

The standard of review by courts in competition cases

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here. 

PayPal invests in Tink

FinExtra, here. 

Facebook in talks with US regulator over digital currency

FT, here. 

Vestager’s grand plan for regulating the digital economy

Euractiv, here. 

House Judiciary Committee Launches Antitrust Investigation of Tech Giants

Daily Beast, here.
More here. 

Project explAIn: Interim report

ICO, here. 

Apple Backs Off Crackdown on Parental-Control Apps

NYTimes, here. 

Digital disruption in financial markets

OECD Background Note (by X. Vives), here. 

Platforms and Ecosystems: Enabling the Digital Economy

WEF, here. 

Google and Amazon Shares Slide as Antitrust Concerns Mount

NYTimes, here.

When will Uber feel the techlash?

UnHerd, here. 

Europe’s record offers cautions for a U.S. battle with Google

Politico.eu, here. 

Rachat de WhatsApp: "Facebook a induit Bruxelles en erreur"

Le Monde, ici. 

Ex-post Assessment of Merger Control Decisions in Digital Markets

Lear for the CMA, here. 

Competition in the digital age: reflecting on digital merger investigations

A. Coscelli, here. 

Conference on Competition and the Digital Economy

OECD, Conference Live here. 

The FTC’s Big Tech Revolving Door Problem

Public Citizen, here.


<= from 1:12 ICYMI (pure genius)

From David to Makan

Letter, here. 

Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority for “suspected infringement” of the GDPR

Brave, here. 

The start-ups building ‘dark kitchens’ for Uber Eats and Deliveroo

FT, here. 

Canada announces Digital Charter, promises serious fines to business for not protecting privacy

IT World Canada, here. 

India antitrust probe finds Monsanto abused dominant position

Reuters, here. 

OECD Principles on AI

OECD, here. 

N26 under fire from BaFin over money laundering failures

FinExtra, here. 

How Silicon Valley gamed Europe’s privacy rules

Politico.eu, here. 

Apple pledges clearer information on iPhone performance

Gov.UK, here. 

Irish regulator opens first privacy probe into Google

Reuters, here. 

Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets*

C. Shapiro, here. 

Female voice assistants fuel damaging gender stereotypes, says a UN study

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Open Banking hobbled by outages

FinExtra, here. 

Drug firms accused of illegal market sharing over anti-nausea tablets

CMA, here. 

Speaking points on the occasion of the first anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

V. Jourová, here. 

GitHub launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors

TechCrunch, here. 

The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics

VOX, here.