Digital Platforms: To Regulate or Not To Regulate?

A. Strowel, W. Vergote, here.

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Uber supplementary evidence

Uber, here.

Apple in ACCC's sights over bricked iPhones

ITNews, here.

Thinking Inside the Box

Impactcentre.ca, here.

Who Will Own The Virtual Reality Interface?

TechCrunch, here. 

“Happy Birthday” is public domain, former owner Warner/Chapell to pay $14M

ArsTechnica, here.

The Case That Won’t Be Forgotten

J. Powles, here. 

Optimising romance

TheEconomist, here. 

Online review sites commit to improve practices

CMA, here.

La impugnación de normas como instrumento para eliminar barreras a la economía colaborativa

CNMC, aquí

The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

The Atlantic, here.

Why Uber’s surge pricing is naive economics

S. King, here.

The internet of things: how your TV, car and toys could spy on you

TheGuardian, here.
Clapper's testimony here.

Google's self-driving systems legally qualify as a driver under US federal law

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, here.

Professions in an Era of Algorithmic Power

F. Pasquale, here.

License Compatibility and Relicensing

R. Stallman, here.

Disclosing the lowest prices for generics to allow comparison-shopping

NYTimes, here.

The open banking standard

ODI, here.

All the Places Personal Data Goes

News.harvard, here.

The phone call that saved safe harbor

Politico, here.

Paypal bans VPN and DNS services

Wired, here.

Schweres Gelände

SZ, hier.

The Great Data Race

Norwegian Data Protection Authority,  here.

After the sharing economy

Transmediale Panel, Audio here (from 01:32).

Bittersweet Mysteries of Machine Learning (A Provocation)

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here. 

Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

J. Fruchterman, here. 

Wie Google User für sich arbeiten lässt - unbewusst und unbezahlt

E. Morozov, here. 

The UK competition regime

National Audit Office, here. 

The adblocker dispute is going to become one of the fundamental battles on privacy

Zdnet.com, here. 

Data protection has gone global

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Facebook cripples chat encryption app that promised users extra privacy

TheNextWeb, here.

Developments in the Prescription Drug Market: Oversight.

M. Merritt, here. 

Living fully human lives online is all about taking control

Medium.com, here. 

AI is Trasforming Google Search

Wired.com, here. 

Google removes Samsung's first Android ad blocker from the Play Store

TheVerge, here. 

Using Antitrust Law to Challenge Turing's Daraprim Price Increase

M. Carrier, N. Levidow, A. Kesselheim, here. 

Drug Firms Expected to Defend Huge Price Increases in House Testimony

NYTimes, here. 

Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion

TechCrunch, here. 

How Age UK pocketed £6m bung from E.ON and pushed expensive power deals to OAPs

TheSun, here. 

Fertility Industry Group Settles Lawsuit Over Egg Donor Price Caps

Blogs.wsj, here. 

Privacy in the EU and US: A Debate between Max Schrems and Peter Swire

Audio here. 

Apple Ordered To Pay $625M To Patent Troll In FaceTime Lawsuit

TechCrunch, here. 

UK challenger bank Mondo releases API to let customers play with their own data

Finextra, here. 

Power to the people – is privacy the future of online marketing?

moreaboutadvertising, here.

Wait, Google's 'moon shots' cost how much??

CNet, here.

“EU US Privacy Shield” (Safe Harbor 1.1) “European Commission may be issuing a round-trip to Luxemburg

M. Schrems, here. 

EU Commission and United States agree on new framework for transatlantic data flows: EU-US Privacy Shield

Press Release, here.

Here It Comes: The Myanmar Competition Act

Allenovery, here. 

Competition and innovation

A. Crisholm, here, 

Gorgeous New 4-D Printing Process Makes More Than Just Eye Candy

Technologyreview.com, here. 

“Of data and men”: fundamental rights and freedoms in a world of big data

A. Rouvroy, here. 

Investigation into Tesco

Groceries Code Adjudicator, here. 

Don’t Panic. Making Progress on the “Going Dark” Debate

Berkman Center for Internet & Society, here.
Keys under doormats Report here. 

People are turning their smartphones into spying devices for just $5/month

Fusion.net, here. 

Winners & Losers in the Global App Economy

Caribou Digital, here. 

Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security

Open Effect, here. 

Monitoring the Digital Economy & Society 2016 - 2020

EC, here. 

Alphabet: Suchmaschine treibt das Geschäft

Heise.de, hier. 

Google Search Probe by U.S. Should Get New Look, Utah Says

Bloomberg, here. 

The Internet of Emotions: Putting the person back into personalization

Mashable, here. 

Mastering The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Designdiscontinuity.net, here. 

HRS kritisiert fehlende Gleichberechtigung

Tophotel, hier.

Lists are the new search

B. Evans, here.

Is Big Data Still a Thing?

M. Turck,  here.

The Neural Network That Remembers

Spectrum.ieee.org, here.

GDPR: The End for the Marketing List Industry?

SCL.org, here.

Digital assistants: a new brand platform

TheGuardian, here. 

Facebook has a clever idea to turn itself into a ride-sharing platform

Techinsider.io, here.

Richard Thaler in the Big Short

Video here. 

Individuelle Preise? Bitte nicht!

FAZ, hier.

Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Uber’s true cost

TheGuardian, here.

How Europe is fighting to change tech companies' 'wrecking ball' ethics

TheGuardian, here,

Apple builds secret VR unit

FT, here.

¿Un robot para cada persona mayor?

E. Morozov, aquí.
Ver también aquí. ("nuevo proyecto de colaboración entre IBM, Apple y Japan Post")

How Data Brokers Make Money Off Your Medical Records

ScientificAmerican, here.

EDPS starts work on a New Digital Ethics

EDPS, here.

A Search Engine for Your Personal Memories (and Data)

TheAtlantic, here.

12 Big Industries Where Blockchain Could Be Used

CB Insights, here.

The Promise (and Threat) of Algorithmic Accountability

F. Pasquale, Video here. 

The Future of Legal Services

The Law Society, here. 

US health insurer Centene loses 950,000 people's records

BBC.com, here. 

Movidius chips promise to enable real-time image recognition in Android devices

ComputerWorld, here.

The Internet of Arrogant Things (or My First Month with a Nest)

Nick-taylor.co.uk, here. 

Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future

R. Thaler, Webcast here. 

Why do technology companies hire economists, and what is their contribution? What kinds of problems do they work on?

S. Athey, here. 

What will be the impact of machine learning on economics?

S. Athey, here.
NBER session's syllabus here.

The Automation Paradox

J. Bessen, here. 

Uber condamné à verser 1,2 million d’euros à l’Union nationale des taxis

Lesechos.fr, ici. 

"Online Platforms" Etc. Public Consultation: First Brief Results

EC, here. 

« Pretty Easy Privacy », le chiffrement automatique par défaut pour tous

LeMonde, ici. 

The Privatization of Human Rights: Illusions of Consent, Automation and Neutrality

E. Taylor, here.

EC fines car parts producers € 137 789 000 in cartel settlement

Press Release, here. 

Apple Can Still See Your iMessages If You Enable iCloud

MotherBoard, here. 

Facebook looks to its messaging service Whatsapp to gather more personal data

TheDrum, here.

See also Fortune, here. 

Ad blocking is more about personal data than on-target ads

Inma.org, here. 

Google y derecho al olvido: bloqueo por dirección IP

ElFuturo, aquì. 

International Survey on Private Copying

WIPO and Stichting de Thuiskopie, here. 

Fair Share - Reclaiming power in the sharing economy

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), here.

La CNMC recurre las Ordenanzas del taxi de las ciudades de Málaga y Córdoba

CNMC, aquì.

Google’s Waze launches API for third-party transportation apps (invite-only, free)

VentureBeat, here. 

A European survey on the opportunities and risks of data analytics

Vodafone, here.

The Teladoc Case: Antitrust and Telemedicine as "Disruptive Innovation"

Lexology, here.

Le contrôle juridictionnel du Tribunal de l'Union dans le contentieux concurrence,

Concurrences, ici.

End-User Development in Internet of Things: We the People

M. Burnett, T. Kulesza, here.

Datenschutzrechtliche Aspekte bei der Nutzung vernetzter und nicht vernetzter Kraftfahrzeuge

Konferenz der unabhängigen Datenschutzbehörden und Verband der Automobilindustrie, hier.

Two-Way Street: U.S.-EU Parallels Under the General Data Protection Regulation

J. Brill, here.

Nothing for money

Deloitte, here.

The importance of Misbehaving

Deloitte, here.

Consumer privacy in network industries

CERRE, here. 

Consumer engagement in a digital world

A. Crisholm, here (pdf here). Book mentioned here.

The EU And The Digital Economy [What Think Tanks Are Thinking]

EPthinktank.eu, here. 

Internet Fragmentation: An Overview

W. Drake V. Cerf, W. Kleinwächter, here.

L'informatisation de la Société

S. Nora, A. Minc ici. Vidéo ici. 

Data Exchange website launch adds to personal data debate

FT, here.

Internet of Things: search engine for sleeping kids

ArsTechnica, here.

Off-Topic: Sending the Elevator Back Down

K. Spacey at Davos 2016, Video here.

Alphabet's Page: How to make a sizable business out of whatever problem this or that technology might solve

NYTimes, here.

Wende im Milliardenpoker um Fußballrechte

FAZ, hier.

TfL is quietly testing a system to track every single person on London Underground

TheMemo, here.

Big data : l’enjeu est moins la donnée personnelle que la disparition de la personne

LeMonde, ici.

Online Tracking: What's In It For Consumers?

J. Brill, here.

What is the impact of blockchains on privacy?

TheODI.org, here.

European Patent Office revokes Monsanto patent on melons

No-patents-on-seeds.org, here.

The Collaborative Economy

Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA), European Parliamentary Research Services, here and here and short video here.

An Emerging Competition Law for a New Economy?

K. Coates, here.

How blockchain tech could change the way we do business

BBC.com, here.

Android OS has generated revenue of $31 billion and $22 billion in profit, Oracle says

Bloomberg, here.

Economics and Ideology

The Economist, here.
"Meaningless number-crunching to give a veneer of academic credibility to near-useless theories".

One Click Away? Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to Keep Search Bar on IPhone

Bloomberg.com, here.

Digital DNA: The Nagoya Protocol, Intellectual Property Treaties, and Synthetic Biology

M. Bagley, here. 

Study hints at how e-Privacy Directive might be reformed – major changes on the way

Out-law.com, here.

Study mentioned here.

Sharing Economy, Blockchain Markets & Crowd-Based Capitalism

A. Sundararajan, Video here. 

Digitale Wirtschaft und Privatsphäre: Der Preis der Personalisierung

N. Jentzsch, hier. 

The FCO prohibits booking.com’s “narrow” best-price clause

S. Heinz, here. 

The fourth industrial revolution: what does WEF’s Klaus Schwab leave out?

A. Maynard, here. 

Apple Presses Supreme Court for Appeal Over eBooks Price Fixing

Fortune.com, here. 

The Final GDPR Text and What It Will Mean for Health Data

Hogan Lovells, here. 

Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain

UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, here.

Internet providers want to know more about you than Google does, privacy groups say

Washington Post, here.

Towards a material ecology

N.Oxman,  here.

Blockchain Technology: Principles and Applications

M. Pilkington, here.

Disrupting the Disruptors

Nesta, here.

Emerging Competition Issues: Keeping Pace in a Changing World

CA Competition Bureau, here.

Towards a Digital Single Market Act

EP, here.

How I peeked at the personal data a billion dollar company holds about me

P.-O. Dehaye, here.

As More Pay by Smartphone, Banks Scramble to Keep Up

NYTimes, here. 

Digital transformations: An introduction

F.-X. Olleros, M. Zhegu, here. 

WhatsApp as a business channel

Whatsapp.com, here. 

Competition Law for a Post-Scarcity World

S. Mehla, here.

Privacy and Drone Spying

NYTimes, here. 

Welcome to the Jungle: The Liability of Internet Intermediaries for Privacy Violations in Europe

B. van der Sloot, here. 

Information as Property

H. Zech, here. 

The law and economics of most-favoured nation clauses

F.Gonzalez-Diaz, M. Bennett, here. 

Which Future for Competition in the Global Trade System: Competition Chapters in FTAs

V. Demedts, here. 

Drug Wars:A New Generation of Generic Pharmaceutical Delay

R. Feldman, E. Frondorf, here. 

Antitrust Overhaul

R. Steiner, here. 

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data

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

Your comments are more than welcome!

Competition in a big data world

M. Vestager, here. 

Ad Blocking: A Primer

TechCrunch, here. 

Tarifs bancaires : Bercy va lancer un comparateur sur Internet

LeParisien, ici. 

A Note on the Ethics of Nudge

C. Schubert, here. 

Building the intention economy

ctrlio, here. 

European Antitrust Chief Takes Swipe at Privacy Issue

NYTimes, here.

Unilever CMO predicts that consumers will be using some sort of virtual assistant in the near future

Adage.com, here.

Stop Chug-a-Lug-a-Lugin 5 Miles an Hour on Your International Harvester: How Modern Economics Brings the FTC's Unfairness Analysis Up to Speed with Digital Platforms

J. Wright, J. Yun, here.

Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies: Elites Who Advocate Free-Market Competition

L. Lessig, here.

UK Government Response to EU public consultation on Digital Platforms

HMGovernment, here.

Un chauffeur de taxi peut aussi être sur Uber. L'article de loi l'interdisant censuré

Conseil constitutionnel, Décision n° 2015-516 QPC du 15 janvier 2016, ici. 

The Rise of the Platform Enterprise: A Global Survey

P. Evans, A. Gawer, here. 

IT giants debate on Big Data

Vodafone-institut.de, Video here

Some Reflections on ‘Switching Principles’ for key regulated sectors

The Centre for Competition Policy (CCP), here.  

Open Letter on Ethical Norms in Intellectual Property Scholarship

R. Feldman, M. Lemley, J. Masur, A. Rai, here. 

Fair Share: Reclaiming power in the sharing economy

B. Balaram, here. 

The economic impact of enforcement of competition policies on the functioning of EU energy markets

EC, here. 

Preisvergleichs- und Bewertungsportale als Verbraucherinformation

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. 

Do Consumers Care About Their Privacy In Practice? The FTC Digs Into The Debate

Adexchanger, here. 

Digital dividends

World Bank, here. 

This Rectal Thermometer Is the Logical Conclusion of the Internet of Things

Motherboard, here. 

Bundesgerichtshof: Facebooks "Freundefinder" ist unzulässiger Spam

Heise.de, hier. 

The Tradeoff Fallacy (Or the Privacy 'Paradox' Elucidated)

N. Draper M. Hennessy, J. Turow, here.

Privacy and Information Sharing

Pewinternet.org, here. 

In Letter To Google CEO, Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Student Data Collection

TechCrunch, here. 

Google Maps will soon work out where you're going by itself

Wired.com, here. 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respond

WEForum, here. 

Recommendation on protecting and promoting the right to freedom of expression and the right to private life with regard to network neutrality

Council of Europe, here. 

Innovation de rupture, droit et concurrence

Microeconomix, Conférence vendredi 29 janvier 2016, ici. 

Shops could soon be targeting ads according to your feet

TheGuardian, here. 

America's top privacy regulator refuses to wear a Fitbit

Theguardian.com, here. 

How Hotels.com uses email to keep me as a loyal customer

Econsultancy, here.

"So what is it about the Hotels.com offers and vouchers that get me? They feel relevant. They feel timely. They’re just the right amount of pushy". Email are "personalised, and relevant to trips I have browsed and taken in the past".

Market Study Into the Supply of Legal Services in England and Wales

CMA, here. 

Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel verringern die Produktvielfalt

E. Argentesi, P. Buccirossi, R. Cervone, T. Duso, A. Marrazzo, hier. 

The sorry legacy of Internet Explorer

Wired.com, here. 

In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet for the Blind

Technologyreview, here. 

Meet the Company That Doesn't Want to Know Who You Are

Zdnet, here. 

A Few Keystrokes Could Solve the Crime. Would You Press Enter?

J. Zittrain, here. 

Apple’s Android switching plan

Telegraph, here. 

Skratch Bastid's David Bowie remix takes off on Facebook

CBC.ca, here. 

Italian consumer organizations seek EU antitrust probe into McDonald's franchise

Reuters, here. 

The College With Mandatory Fitness Tracking Devices

Thedailybeast, here. 

Intelligent Virtual Assistant Market Worth $3.07 Billion By 2020

iCrunchdatanews, here.