Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Google Now Card Offers Movie Piracy Advice

Torrentfreak, Here.

Platform regulation — ex-ante versus ex-post intervention: evolving our antitrust tools and practices to meet the challenges


A. Chisholm & N. Jung, Here.

Bußgelder im Sanitär-Kartell

Bundeskartellamt, hier

CrowdSignals Aims to Create a Marketplace for Smartphone Sensor Data

NYTimes, here

Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong

TechCrunch, here

Kartellamt nimmt DFB ins Visier

FAZ, hier

My Take on FBI’s “Alternative” Method

J. Zdziarski, here

Energy market investigation - Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here (758 pages).

PCW: 357-391.

Consumers’ Privacy Choice in the Big Data Era

S. Dengler, J. Prüfer, here.

Regulierung von Digitalen Vermittlungsplattformen für Privatfahrer

vzbv, hier

Google’s right-side Adpocalypse: What really happened (DATA)

SearchEngineLand, here.

On newspapers and ebooks, the Justice Department's antitrust theory is obsolete

LATimes, here.

Monday, March 21, 2016

The Global Privacy Enforcement Network

Annual Report (2015), here

Automating the Professions: Utopian Pipe Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?

F. Pasquale, here

Taxi And Private Hire Car Licensing – Consultation on The Impact of Modern Technology

The Scottish Government, here

Lufthansa says other airlines will follow GDS surcharge move

Tnooz, here

How the FCC's Privacy Proposal Could Affect More Than ISPs

AdAge, here. 

Data Protection Practitioners' Conference 2016

Recordings and Presentations here

Apple ‘privacy czars’ grapple with internal conflicts over user data

VentureBeat, here

La menace d’une saisie du code source des iPhone serait crédible

Numerama, ici

Google looks to big data to cut traffic and create new product

SiliconBeat, here

Why real-time search algorithm updates may be bad news

SearchEngineLand, here

Spotify inks “no copyright claim” royalty deal with music publishers

ArsTechnica, here

No, the On-Demand Economy Isn’t About to Implode

WIRED, here

The death of Instagram for brands

TechCrunch, here

Newsonomics: In Southern California’s newspaper chaos, is anyone really speaking for the readers?

NiemanLab, here

Renzi puts brakes on Italy taxi reform

FT, here

Geo-blocking practices in e-commerce

EC, here

EU-Kartellrechtsuntersuchung: Geoblocking grassiert im Netz

Heise.de, hier

Data Wars: The banks awaken

AFR, here

Friday, March 11, 2016

The CMA’s Energy Market Provisional Remedies: Right Direction but Inadequate, and Missing an Important Trick

D. Deller, here.
Also here.

LG Düsseldorf: Like-Button und Social-Plugins sind rechtswidrig (FAQ zum Urteil)

T. Schwenke, hier

Online Privacy and ISPs: ISP Access to Consumer Data is Limited and Often Less than Access by Others

P. Swire, J. Hemmings, A. Kirkland, here

Google says 'not now, not ever' will it become an OTA

Travelweekly, here

Resultados preliminares del estudio sobre los nuevos modelos de prestación de servicios y la economía colaborativa

CNMC, aquì.
Consulta pública aquì

UK and the EU: Benefits, Misconceptions and Alternatives

Lawyers-In for Britain, here.


Berichtsflut über Preisinsel Schweiz

NZZ.ch, hier

Strategia per il mercato unico digitale in Europa

G. Pitruzzella, here

Italy to adopt first "Sharing Economy Act" in Europe -- but does it share EU law principles?

R. Cohen, here.
See also here (in Italian)

Uber seems to offer better service in areas with more white people. That raises some tough questions

WashingtonPost, here

A vision for Market Research in an Information Age

CitizenMe, here

Two Powerful Mental Models: Network Effects and Critical Mass

T. Griffin, here

Bitcoin and Diversity

Stratechery.com, here

The intersection of data protection and antitrust law - finally a spot on case in the EU

M. Hall, here.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Counterfeit crackdown: Microchips hidden in luxury heels & bags

TheMemo, here.
See also here.

Even the UNWTO is talking about the sharing economy

TNooz, here

Potential Antitrust Implications of MFN Clauses

It's Your Data: Empowering Broadband Consumers to Protect Privacy

T. Wheeler, here

Do stricter environmental policies hurt export competitiveness?

OECD, here

Competing fairly in business – why it matters to start-ups

CMA, here.

Yeah, sure, think Skoosh for instance.

A State-Powered Green Revolution

M. Mazzucato, here

German Regional Court: Consent necessary when implementing the Facebook Like-Button

C. Piltz, here

The evolution of advertising: a technology tipping point

Ctrl-shift.co.uk, here

Appfail:Threats to Consumers in Mobile Apps

Norwegian Consumer Council, here

The New Mind Control

R. Epstein, here.

Cited article here

Opera integriert Adblocker

Heise.de, hier.

La donnée, nouveau carburant de l’économie

Lenouveleconomiste, Ici.

What Airbnb’s blockchain authentication proposal means for privacy online

TheStack, here.

CMA sets out energy market changes

CMA, here.

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

The inner workings of Digital Disruption

@PlatRevolution, here

Biometrics Are Coming, Along With Serious Security Concerns

Wired, here

Services de géolocalisation des VTC

Conseil d’État, ici

Instagram kills newly launched ‘Being’ app, which saw 50K downloads its first week

TechCrunch, here

Lonely Journey: From Economics to Law and Back

F. Jenny, Video here

Web Scale Analysis of Third-Party Tracking

T. Libert, Video, here.

Google’s New Mobile Tool Lets You Compare Destinations by Price

Skift.com, here

Facebook se lance dans la course aux droits sportifs

Numérama, ici

Data brokers and profiling in the Netherlands

F. Kreiken, here

Crowd-Based Capitalism? Empowering Entrepreneurs in the Sharing Economy

A. Sundararajan, here

The One-Way Mirror: Public attitudes to commercial access to health data

Ipsos Mori for the Wellcome Trust, here.

liqz-Studie beleuchtet die Gefahren von Tracking für die Privatsphäre

Mittelstand-nachrichten.de, hier

Competition: raising the anti

Lawgazette.co.uk, here

Google Search gets Destinations

VentureBeat, here.

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Google Sides With Facebook Amid Data Dominance Probe

Bloomberg, here.

Brexit - Gaining or losing the competitive edge?

Allen & Overy, here.


Highlights from the Competition Bureau’s Workshop on Emerging Competition Issues

Competition Bureau Canada, here

Copyright, Competition, and  the Digital Single Market

P. Ibanez Colomo, here

Google nimmt Anzeigen direkt auf seine Seite

FAZ, hier

Passenger rail services: competition policy project

CMA, here

ACLU Urges Feds To Adopt Privacy Rules For Broadband And Cable

FastCompany, here

Did Apple do a shady deal to get more movies/music in the Middle East?

VentureBeat, here

IAB Creates Guide for Publishers to Combat Ad Blocking

AdAge.com, here

Complaint regarding unfair contractual terms in the Terms of Use for the mobile application Tinder

 Norwegian Consumer Council, here.

Does working at Google give you access to the data of users?

B. White, here.

(In the "good reasons" we trust).

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Competition Challenges in the Consumer Internet Industry

CEP, here.

Mitigating the existing imbalance between data-rich and data-poor companies

G. Oettinger,  here.

Google’s AMP Is Speeding Up the Web By Changing How It Works

Wired, here

Bruxelles adresse ses critiques à l’encontre du projet de loi Lemaire

NextImpact, here.

Quick Take on Justice Scalia’s Legacy on Antitrust Law

A. Naik, Here.

Daten­schutz im Check: Viele Hintertüren bei Google, Netflix & Co

Stiftung Warentest, hier

CMA responses to consultations on the Digital Single Market (all in one place)

CMA, here

Landgericht Berlin: Urteil im Kartellrechtsstreit von Presseverlagen gegen Google (PM 14/2016)

Berlin.de, hier.

Sci-Hub: How Does It Work?

Scholarlykitchen, here.

Making communications work for everyone

Ofcom, here

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The new new competition - How digital platforms change competitive strategy

M. Van Alstyne, S. Choudary, G. Parker, Presentation here

The right way—and wrong way—for cities to regulate Uber

Macleans.ca, here

Google AMP Is Less About Beating Facebook at News, More About Gobbling Up the Mobile Web

Recode, here

Streetmap.EU Limited v Google

J. Morrison, here

Fed Up With Uber And Lyft, Drivers Plan To Launch Competing App

FastCompany, here

Business models in the Peer-to-peer economy

P. Belleflamme, Presentation here

Government must help end 'heartbreaking' Amazon dominance, former Number 10 adviser says

TheTelegraph, here.

Google weiß, wo die Deutschen surfen

FAZ, hier.

Cyanogen’s New MOD Platform Will Allow Developers To Deeply Integrate Their Apps Into Its OS

TechCrunch, here

Why Authors Alliance Supports A Broader View Of Fair Use Than The Authors Guild

P. Samuelson, here

Uber and the economic impact of sharing economy platforms

Bruegel, here

The making available right in the United States

Register of Copyrights, here

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

PTO Weighs In on Digital First Sale

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here.

U.S.-EU Data Privacy: From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield

US Congressional Research Service, here.

Competition Commission of India suspects Monsanto abused dominant position

Timesofindia, here.

Getting Around Section 230

E. Goldman, audio here; slides here. . 

How will acceding to the Marrakesh Treaty benefit Canadians?

Government of Canada, here

World’s cheapest Android smartphone goes on sale for just $3.67

ArsTechnica, here.

Netflix says going global has improved its personal recommendations

VentureBeat, here

Données personnelles : le virulent réquisitoire de la CNIL contre Facebook

Le Monde, ici.

A message to our customers regarding backdoors

Apple, here.

Linux and White House together to improve open source security

CIO.com, here

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Nothing Is Free, Not Even Facebook Free Basics

O. Malik, here

What if we don’t need advertising at all?

D. Searls, here.

AU: Options to strengthen the misuse of market power law

Submissions here.
ACCC here

Platforms, is there a need to regulate?

Digital4EU 2016, Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:15 – 17:25, webstream here..

Juno hasn’t even launched, but it’s already creeping me out with its data collection

Medium.com, here

Stealth Startup Juno Will Take On Uber By Treating Drivers Better

Forbes, here

Why does everybody hate competition so much?

C. Sagers, here

Uber CEO delivers stinging attack to city regulators at TED

Wired, here

It’s time to break the teeth-whitening monopoly

Washington Post, here.

European Union Competition Law in the Digital Era

M. Kadar, here

CCI rejects complaints of unfair practices against Ola, Uber

Moneycontrol, here.
Orders here and here.

So dynamisch sind die Preise im Netz

WISO, hier

Friday, February 12, 2016

FCC chairman talks set-top boxes, consumers' right to choose

Washington Post, Video here.

UK's Streetmap loses 'anticompetitive' search abuse case against Google

The Guardian, here.
Decision here.

Microsoft retreats from EU antitrust fight against Google (?)

ArsTechnica, here

74 OEMs pre-install MS apps and services on Android devices

BusinessInsider, here.

(OEMs/MS agreements anyone?)

Personal data in exchange for free services: an unhappy partnership?

Norwegian Data Protection Authority, here.

The European Collaborative Economy Industry to the Presidency of the EU Council

Letter, here.

(Inspiring list of signatories).

Error 53 lawsuit

'Pay for delay' fined in the UK

CMA, here.

Facebook and the New Colonialism

The Atlantic, here.

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

Mydex, here

The Big Data Dilemma

UK Parliament, here.

Drive Motors Lets You Actually Buy A Car Online. How Did This Not Exist?

TechCrunch, here.