New ways of providing consent in data protection - technical, legal and economic challenges

Stiftung Datenschutz, here. 

AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning

L. Daly, here. 

AG Wahl: agricultural producer organisations and their associations may be held liable under competition law

Case C-671/15, Opinion here. 

Customer Sues Charter For Selling Their Data Without Consent

Consumerist, here. 

Two Artificial Neural Networks Meet in an Online Hub and Change the Future (of Competition, Market Dynamics and Society)

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

A Debate on Fair Use

Charles Clark Memorial Lecture 2017, Transcript here. 

How can competition authorities react to the antitrust threats of pricing algorithms?

Kluwer Competition Law Blog, here. 

The Airline Industry Is a Starving Giant That’s Gnawing At Our Economy

NYMag, here.

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

MIT Technology Review, here.

Qualcomm countersues Apple over iPhone and iPad royalties

EnGadget, here.
Qualcomm's Answer and Counterclaims here. 

Top 5 Antitrust Issues Facing Companies in the U.S. Today: #3 Pricing

National Law Review, here. 

Contact Lens Seller Harmed Search Engines And Consumers, Government Argues

MediaPost, here. 

AG Wahl on exploitative prices

Opinion here. 

Opinion 01/2017 on the Proposed Regulation for the ePrivacy Regulation (2002/58/EC)

Article 29 WP, here. 

The E-Scraper and E-Monopsony

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

Retail mergers commentary

CMA, here. 

Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind

T. Shaw, here. 

New anti-trust complaint looms over Microsoft

EUObserver, here.

Optimizing Innovation and Strengthening Intellectual Property Protection

M. Ohlhausen, here.

Uber responds to the New York Times article about how it psychologically manipulates drivers

TechCrunch, here.

Could Japan’s Approach To Data Sharing Change The World?

InnovationEnterprise, here. 

Here’s How They Play Monopoly in America, and Who Wins

Bloomberg, here. 

Report On The Monitoring Exercise Carried Out In The Online Hotel Booking Sector By EU Competition Authorities In 2016

EC and 10 NCAs, here. 

OLG Düsseldorf bestätigt Grundsatzentscheidung des Bundeskartellamtes zum Verbot von Preissuchmaschinen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.
S. auch Zeit.de, hier.
"Der Asics-Anwalt, Ingo Brinker, betonte, es gehe dem Unternehmen um den "legitimen Schutz eines Premium-Markenimages" und der damit verbundenen Beratungsqualität. Dies lasse sich mit Preissuchmaschinen nicht vereinbaren.
Der Vorsitzende Richter zeigte sich allerdings nicht von der Notwendigkeit umfangreicher Beratung überzeugt. Er trage selber als Jogger gerne Schuhe des Herstellers."

Ich auch

"Er wisse aber auch, man brauche als Läufer nicht bei jedem Kauf eine neue Beratung. Und wer online einkaufe, wolle diese oft auch nicht. Außerdem seien die Verbraucher durchaus in der Lage zwischen Preissuchmaschinen und dem Markenauftritt des Herstellers oder seiner Vertragshändler zu unterscheiden."

Droits de l’Homme et concurrence

Conférence-déjeuner, Synthèse ici.

Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk

ProPublica, here.

Microsoft clarifies exactly what personal data is collected in Windows 10

TechRadar, here. 

An Intelligence in Our Image: The Risks of Bias and Errors in Artificial Intelligence

O.Osoba, W. Welser IV, here. 

Birss J hands down first FRAND decision in Unwired Planet v Huawei

IPKat, here. 

Firing on All Cylinders: The 2017 Big Data Landscape

M. Turck, here. 

This Budding Movement Wants to Smash Monopolies

TheNation, here. 

Internet Engineering Task Force discusses human rights in plenary meeting for the first time in its history

Article19, here. 

Algorithmic Consumers

M. Gal, N. Elkin-Koren, Video here.

Welcome To The Emotion Economy, Where AI Responds To—And Predicts—Your Feelings

FastCompany, here. 

Les hauts et les bas du plan France Intelligence Artificielle

FrenchWeb.fr, ici. 

Key Trump appointment raises....over direction of IP and antitrust in new US administration

IAM, here. 

Japan to urge businesses to share big data

Asia.nikkei.com, here.

Regulating Inscrutable Systems

A. Selbst, S. Barocas, here. Discussion here. 

How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons

NYTimes, here.

„Bald gibt es kostenlose Flugtickets“

FAZ, hier.

Song here. 

Ahead of Vestager's remarks at #ATSpring17: The US Chamber of Commerce’s Current State of Mind

US Chamber of Commerce, here. 

Amazon and Walmart are in an all-out price war that is terrifying America’s biggest brands

Recode, here. 

The Google Search Case: Implementing and Monitoring a Non-Discrimination Remedy

Foundem, here. 

Banks forced to fight solo on Apple Pay

TheAustralian, here. 

Droit de communication au public

Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique, ici.

Das Wettbewerbsregister – Die 10 wichtigsten Regelungen

VergabeBlog, hier. 

Automatisiertes Fahren: Bundestag beschließt Haftungsregeln und Datenspeicher

Heise.de, hier. 

Richard Posner in Conversation with Luigi Zingales

Video here.
05:20 "Because antitrust is dead, isn't it? That was my impression".

The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices

TheAmericanProspect, here.