Kartellamt durchleuchtet Internet-Vergleichsportale

FAZ, hier. 

Privacy Shield: EU-Datenschützer distanzieren sich von der Kommission

Heise.de, hier. 

Lufthansa muss wegen Air-Berlin-Übernahme wohl Strecken abgeben

FAZ, hier. 

Intellectual Property Rights in the Recreational Cannabis Market

Jeremydebeer, here. 

CJEU opens way to mounting data protection rules for Facebook

FT, here. 

A Computer Scientist Makes the Case for Speculative Fiction

LAreviewofbooks, here. 

Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music

HackerMoon, here. 

Wer verlinkt, muss nicht immer prüfen: Neue Urteile zur Linkhaftung

Heise.de, hier. 

European General Court rules (again) on Mandatory Access and Interoperability in Software Industry (T-751/15)

Competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw, here. 

State aid: Commission opens in-depth investigation into UK tax scheme for multinationals

EC, here. 

Platforms: Guardians of the Digital Economy

J. Tirole, here. 

A New Banking Paradigm: The State of Open Banking in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States

D. Milanesi, here.

Enforcing EU competition law – recent developments and a glance to the future

J.Laitenberger, here.

Article 29 Working Party Guidelines on Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

Twobirds, here.

European Banks Forced to Open the (Data) Vault

Bloomberg, here.

Teure Trucks

Sueddeutsche, hier.

Gab Legal Update

Gab, here..

The Judge’s Code

S. Jeong, here.

WHY FACEBOOK SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO BUY TBH

Stratechery,  here.

You can get an Apple Watch for only $25 ... with one small catch

CNBC, here.

EU cartel probe into carmakers expands to Daimler and VW

FT,here.

EC confirms inspections in the car sector in Germany

Press Release, here.

Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the right to privacy

Here.

Processing personal data in the context of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS)

Article 29 WP, here.

Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens

Wired, here.

BMW raided in cartel investigation as Daimler claims immunity

Reuters, here.

RETOUR SUR MYDATA 2017 : LA NAISSANCE D’UN RÉSEAU DURABLE

MesInfos, ici, 

Who owns the Machine Generated Data in IoT – Men or Machine?

IIot-world.com, here. 

Pourriez-vous régler vos achats en données personnelles ? Un magasin teste le concept

Numérama, ici, 

The New Age of Corporate Monopolies

A. Vestager, TEDTalk here. 

Le Parlement européen échoue à protéger notre vie privée

La Quadrature du Net, ici.

Songkick To Shut Down, Continue Legal Battle With Ticketmaster/Live Nation

Liveformusic, here.

One simple chart shows why Facebook just bought an anonymous chat app for teens

BusinessInsider, here.

Compromise ePrivacy Regulation text as adopted today in EU Parliament LIBe committee.

Here.

ePrivacy – An Outlook on a New Framework

M. Lauristin, here. 

AI​ ​Now​ ​2017​ ​Report

Here. 

Kemira reached a settlement with CDC in the damage claim litigation in Dortmund related to hydrogen peroxide business in 1994-2000

Kemira, here. 

The Recommendation on Measures to Safeguard Fundamental Rights and the Open Internet in the Framework of the EU Copyright Reform

Martin Senftleben,a Christina Angelopoulos,b Gianfranco Frosio,c Valentina Moscon,d Miquel Peguera,e Ole-Andreas Rognstad, here. 

Why Surge Prices Make Us So Mad: What Springsteen, Home Depot and a Nobel Winner Know

NYTimes, here. 

EU-Copyright-Reform: Einschränkung von Text- und Data-Mining droht

Heise, hier. 

Enslaving the Algorithm: From a ‘Right to an Explanation’ to a ‘Right to Better Decisions’?

L. Edwards, M. Veale, here. 

ACCC welcomes new era in competition law

ACCC, here. 

Competition through interoperability

C. Riley, here. 

Hollywood Confronts a Copyright Argument With Potential for Mass Disruption

HollywoodReporter, here. 

EU-Urheberrechtsreform: Streit über Upload-Filter und Grundrechte

iRights, hier. 

Trump Picks Joseph Simons, Corporate Antitrust Lawyer, to Lead F.T.C

NYTimes, here. 

Intelligence artificielle : toujours plus puissant, AlphaGo apprend désormais sans données humaines

Le Monde, ici. 

Like Uber, for socialism: Chinese leader calls for more use of AI, big data and sharing economy

TheRegister, here. 

Der Bundeskartellamt-Chef erklärt, wie er sich gegen Amazon, Facebook & Co. durchsetzen will

BusinessInsider, hier.

Tapetenkartell: Gericht erhöht Bußgelder für Mandanten von Hengeler und Gibson Dunn

Juve, hier.

Competition, Innovation, and Competition Law: Dissecting the Interplay

W. Kerber, here.

Véhicules connectés : un pack de conformité pour une utilisation responsable des données

CNIL, ici. 

Taiwan targets Google on Android

GCR, here. 

Qualcomm hit with $773 million fine in Taiwan for antitrust violations

AndroidAuthority, here. 

Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK

W. Hall and Jérôme Pesenti for the UK  Business Secretary and Culture Secretary, here. 

Guidelines on Personal data breach notification under Regulation 2016/679

WP29, here. 

Guidelines on automated individual decision-making and profiling for the purposes of Regulation 2016/679

WP29, here. 

How Can We Reveal Bias in Computer Algorithms?

Theregreview, here. 

Spotify launches an app for artists with real-time streaming data, audience demographics

TechCrunch, here. 

Big Data and Canadian Competition Policy

D. Sokol, here. 

IMPLEMENTING THE MARRAKESH TREATY IN EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES: A GUIDE FOR LIBRARIES

IFLA, EBLIDA here.

Droits d'auteur, une directive contre productive?

France Culture, ici. 

Dow/Dupont

EU CASE M.7932, here. 

Major Studios, Streamers Declare Legal War on TickBox

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

German researchers resign from Elsevier journals in push for nationwide open access

ScienceMag, here. 

Vermeer was brilliant, but he was not without influences

The Economist, here (and here). 

Qualcomm Seeks China iPhone Ban, Expanding Apple Legal Fight

Bloomberg, here. 

American Express Fee Accusations Get U.S.Supreme Court Hearing

Bloomberg, here. 

Supreme Court entscheidet über die Zukunft der Cloud

Zeit.de, hier. 

Privacy is a competitive advantage

FT, here. 

Facebook just acquired TBH, the anonymous app popular with high school kids

Recode, here. 

Disney Fights Unlicensed 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Characters at Children's Birthday Parties

HollywoodReporter, here. 

Dear Google, You Could Start Fixing Content ID By Taking Down Dozens Of YouTube Videos On How To Defeat It

Hypebot.com, here. 

Access to In-vehicle Data and Resources

EC, here.

Automatic image retouching on your phone

MIT, here, 

Setting innovation free

M. Vestager, here. 

Google ditches Home Mini's top-touch panel feature after privacy blunder

ZDNet, here. 

Gericht verurteilt Tapetenhersteller zu Millionenbußen

Zeit.de, hier. . 

CMA provisionally clears Just Eat / Hungryhouse merger

CMA, here. 

Democratic Rep. Seeks Google Info From FTC

Broadcastingcable, here. 

Kartell-Bedenken gegen Fusion von T-Mobile US und Sprint

FAZ, hier.

Death and taxes

The Bookseller, here.

Slovenia signs the European declaration on high-performance computing

EC, here.

Concerns raised about privacy, GDPR as Lords peer over Data Protection Bill

The Register, here.

OTAs dominate the Chinese travel market with over 70% digital bookings

ChinaTravelNews, here.

Data Governance Regimes in the Digital Economy: The Example of Connected Cars

W. Kerber and J. Severin Frank, here.

For internet gatekeepers, consumer protection laws are better than utility-style regulation

Brookings, here. 

How Companies Use Personal Data Against People

W. Christl, here. 

Richard Thaler is a controversial Nobel prize winner – but a deserving one

R. Shiller, here. 

Exploring Copyright: History, Culture, Industry

FutureLearn, here. 

As Netflix raises prices, Hulu drops them—and acquires all its old favorites

Quartz, here. 

UK Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee

Submitted written evidence, here. 

Amazons größter Konkurrent investiert 15 Milliarden Dollar in Forschung

FAZ, hier. 

Google’s Home Mini needed a software patch to stop some of them from recording everything

TheVerge, here. 

What the proposed new EU rules on free flow of non-personal data could mean for businesses

ComputerWorld, here. 

Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality

M. Lemley, E. Volokh, here. 

Was Handydaten über die Psyche sagen

MorgenPost, hier. 

The Dynamics of Online Hotel Prices and the EU Booking.Com Case

A. Mantovani, C. Piga, C. Reggiani, here. 

Real Talk About Fake News: Towards a Better Theory for Platform Governance

N. Syed, here. 

Competencia estudia si las editoriales se repartieron el mercado de los libros de texto

ElDiario, aquì.

Celebrating Wavesblog!

Nike t. Action Sport

RECHTBANK AMSTERDAM, C/13/615474 / HA ZA 16-959, hier.

Yandex introduces Alice, a Alexa-like assistant that speaks Russian

TechCrunch, here.

Strengthening the Position of Press Publishers and Authors and Performers in the Copyright Directive

L. Bently, M. Kretschmer, T. Dudenbostel ,M. del Carmen Calatrava Moreno, A. Radauer for the EP, here.

Merger effects on innovation: A rationale for stricter merger control?

J. Haucap, here.

EU competition law in innovation and digital markets: fairness and the consumer welfare perspective

J. Laitenberger,  here.

I fixed my poor credit score by being a more loyal Alibaba consumer

Quartz, here.

The State of Data Innovation in the EU

Center for Data Innovation, here.

A Union of Equals: competition and growth throughout the EU

M. Vestager, here.

Big Data and Competition

Ecorys, here.

The PSD2 RTS and Open Banking in the EU

PPRO, here.

Tech’s fight for the upper hand on open data

Ft, here.

Euromyths A-Z index

EC, here.

Game Changers? A review of Next Generation Intermediary Services for Citizens Advice

R. Bates, here.

NEW THEORY CRACKS OPEN THE BLACK BOX OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS

Wired, here.

Die große E-Book-Enttäuschung

FAZ, hier.

Big Data und Wettbewerb

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

RICHARD H. THALER: INTEGRATING ECONOMICS WITH PSYCHOLOGY

THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, here.
Read also here. Watch him here.
9 October: #nudgeday

Beschränkung von Innovation: Kann das ein SIEC sein?

R. Podszun, hier.

Summary report of the public consultation on the evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases

EC, here.

Hashtag trademarks: what can be protected?

WIPO, here.

EU raids Polish and Dutch banking groups over fintech access to customer data

FT, here.

3D Printing: a threat to global trade

Ing, here.

Protect faith in privatised monopolies with tougher regulation

FT, here.

Let’s take back control of our data – it’s too precious to leave to the tech giants

R. Naik, here.

Vernetzte Autos: Erbitterter Kampf um die Daten

Digital-Fairplay, hier.

Règlement européen sur la protection des données : un guide pour accompagner les sous-traitants

CNIL, ici.

Patenting the Output of Autonomously Inventive Machines

R. Abbott, here.

How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Problem

A. Levendowski, here.

Algorithmic Pricing Agents and Tacit Collusion: A Technological Perspective

A. Ittoo, N. Petit, here.

Amateurs

K. Boudreau, here.

Vivrons-nous demain au moyen-âge ?

LINC, ici.

CMA issues strong warning as information sharing fine is upheld

CMa, here.

Virginie Rozière : « Sur le géoblocage, la Commission a compris que musique et livres sont une ligne rouge pour les États »

Contexte Numérique, ici.

L'AI, intelligence artificielle, va bouleverser le monde de la création graphique, motion, art -

Kob-one, ici.

Liens hypertextes : la justice allemande en rébellion contre la CJUE

Droit-technologie, ici.

Un accord entre Google et l'ALPA pour un meilleur respect du droit d'auteur

Zebulon.fr, here.

Was sagt der BGH zur Linkhaftung im Urheberrecht?

SpiritLegal, hier. 

Ce qui va changer pour les avis de clients sur Internet en 2018

Numerama, ici. 

Why Behavioral Economics Is Really Marketing Science

Evonomics, here. 

Apple trapped me on iOS — perhaps forever

Mashable, here. 

EDPS recommendations on specific aspects of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation

Here. 

Netflix Increases Price 10% for Its Most Popular U.S. Plan

Bloomberg, here. 

Mattel has canceled plans for a kid-focused AI device that drew privacy concerns

The Washington Post, here. 

Algorithmic regulation: A critical interrogation

K. Yeung, here. 

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Call for contributions: study on detection and take-down of illegal content

EC, here. 

Innovationen – Herausforderungen für die Kartellrechtspraxis

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Google Invites Competitors. They Fail to Show Up.

Bloomberg, here. 

Tenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy: Conference Summary

TAP, here.

Regulating big data. The guidelines of the Council of Europe in the context of the European data protection framework

A. Mantelero, here.

IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency

Fee.org, here.

The Google comparative shopping case

Clifford Chance, here.

Information Technology and Industry Concentration

J. Bessen, here.

High Court asks European Court of Justice to examine Facebook case

The Irish Times, here.
Executive summary by the Court here. See also here.

Artificial intelligence and copyright

A. Guadamuz, here.

Here’s the due diligence report Alphabet wants to use in its lawsuit against Uber

Recode, here.

The Information Economy Report 2017: Digitalization, Trade and Development

UNCTAD, here.

Users must own their love lives

TheGuardian, here.

Privacy, Poverty, and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans

M. MADDEN, M. GILMAN, K. Levy, A.  MARWICK, here.

Competition law case studies

CMA, here.

In AI We Trust?

U. Gasser, here.

Mergers Are Bad for Innovation, Says Tommaso

ProMarket, here.

EU legal mechanism may help expose how Big Data firms get their information

The Guardian, here.

EC fines Lithuanian Railways €28 million for hindering competition on rail freight market

Press Release, here.

For everyone to benefit from technology, we need to ensure the free flow of information

J. Brill, here.

Service public de la donnée: les données du cadastre sont maintenant disponibles sur data.gouv.fr

Etalab, ici.

Striking the right balance in the enforcement of competition rules

J. Laitenberger, here.

EU pressures internet giants to remove illegal content sooner

Reuters, here. See also here.

Why Monetize Information?

D. Laney, here.

Uber: A New Challenge for Regulation and Competition Law?

M. Colangelo, M. Maggiolino, here.

The GDPR’s likely impact on Asian organizations

Iapp, here.

Health Data for Sale?

Norwegian Consumer Council, here.

Why does Google look different in Europe?

The Economist, here.

Puissance publique et plateformes numériques : accompagner l’«ubérisation»

Conseil d'État, ici.

Google makes changes amid wider antitrust fire

Politico.eu, here.

S.E.C. Hacking Response Provides Road Map for Compromised Companie

NYTimes, here.

Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show

The Verge,.here.

Getting your data out of Tinder is really hard – but it shouldn't be

P.-O. Dehaye, here.

Commission fines Scania €880 million for participating in trucks cartel

EC, here.

Watchdog to meerkats: comparison is not the same as competition

FT, here.

Pfizer sues Johnson & Johnson, alleging anticompetitive practices to maintain a drug monopoly

The Washington Post, here.

China’s security chief calls for greater use of AI to predict terrorism, social unrest

SCMP, here.

Google now lets you mute an ad because it 'knew too much'

Mashable.com, here.

Ford arbeitet mit Uber-Konkurrent zusammen

FAZ, hier.

REGULATING DATA PROTECTION

B. Van Alsenoy, here.

Behavioral Insights and Trends for Millennials in the UK, France and Germany

EMarketer, here.

Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed merger between Essilor and Luxottica

Press Release, here.

Google Splits Off Shopping Service to Meet EU Demands

Bloomberg, here.

Personal Data Economy

E. Hafen, Video here.

How the Russian search market looks now

SearchEngineLand, here.

Kontroverse um Piraterie-Studie der EU-Kommission

Heise.de, hier.

Trivago bought an AI startup that eased peoples’ fears about giving up data

FastCompany, here.

A Data Commons for Food Security

J. Baarbé, M. Blom, J. de Beer, here.

AI and Privacy

C. Tucker, Video here; slides here. Discussant's slides here.. 

Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS and Spotlight on Mac

TechCrunch, here. 

Digital comparison tools: Competitive landscape and effectiveness of competition

CMA, here. 

CMA steps in to give people a better deal on comparison sites

CMA, here. 

I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets

TheGuardian, here. 

Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

NBER Conference, Video here (from 06:08).

A patent on convolutional 

nets was filed in 1989, which then expired in 2007. 

 Clément Ader, you know?

EXPEDIA TARGETED ONCE AGAIN BY THE FRENCH

EU-competitionlaw, here. 

Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails

TheGuardian, here. 

Antitrust gets the John Oliver treatment

Axios, here.

Video here. 

Artificial Intelligence and Competition

H. Varian, C. Shapiro, Video here.
Interesting disagreement between Varian and Shapiro on how easy it is to "purchase data specific to the application" (16:38).

Book Review : What if we could reimagine copyright? Let's fix copyright.

IPKat, here. 

Première plainte contre « l’obsolescence programmée » : « La loi risque d’être difficile à mettre en œuvre »

Numérama, ici. 

Photo marketplace Picfair raises £1.5M, aims to ‘weaponise’ photographers

TechCrunch, here.

European Conference on Data Ethics

Here. 

Spain and Catalonia Wrestle Over .Cat Internet Domain

NYTimes, here.

Amazon at one time thought it could really compete with Alibaba. No longer

Recode, here.

WeChat confirms that it makes all private user data available to the Chinese government

MoneyControl, here.

When Machines Learn to Collude: Lessons from a Recent Research Study on Artificial Intelligence

A. Deng, here.

Women used this fertility app more after AI learned when best to ping them

FastCompany, here.

Hackers broke into SEC computer systems and may have traded on the stolen information

Quartz, here.

BGH: Googles Bildersuche verletzt Urheberrecht nicht

Heise.de, hier.

Search Engines and Data Retention: Implications for Privacy and Antitrust

L. Chiou, C. Tucker, here.

Industrie 4.0: Verfassungsschutzchef warnt vor Massendaten im "Hochrisikoraum"

Heise.de, here.

Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to acq-hire 2,000 HTC engineers

Recode, here.

Do Tech Companies Really Need All That User Data?

W.Frick, here.

iOS 11: toggling wifi and Bluetooth in Control Centre doesn't actually turn them off

The Guardian, here.

Mitfahrgelegenheiten: Google bindet BlaBlaCar in Maps ein

Onlinehaendler-news.de, here.

Data governance: Landscape Review

Royal Society, here.

Warum Google HTC will

FAZ, hier, 

Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted content in the EU

EU, here. 

Japan to certify big-data providers to drive innovation

Asia.nikkei, here. 

How competition can build trust in our societies

M. Vestager, here. 

Music Industry Recovery Continues, Powered by a Surge in Subscriptions

WSJ, here. 

Competition policy from a European perspective: A conversation with EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager

AEI, here. 

The ICO craze, explained

Recode, here. 

What’s affiliate marketing? Should I care?

FTC, here. 

Data management and use: Governance in the 21st century

 British Academy and Royal Society, here. 

The implications for Australian companies navigating the new section 46 misuse of market power test after the European court of justice decision in intel

Clifford Chance, here. 

Google confirms it will pay $1.1 billion to acquire HTC's Pixel team and license technology

AndroidPolice, here. 

"DISRUPTION" IS HOW SILICON VALLEY EATS ITS YOUNG

Wired, here. 

Netflix and Escobar Family in Bitter Trademark Dispute Over 'Narcos'

HollywoodReporter, here. 

Big Tech's power remains unchallenged

FT, Audio here.

Hal Singer on the Digital Show

Audio here. 

Waymo wants Uber to pay $2.6 billion in damages—just for starters

ArsTechnica, here. 

What Role for Economists in Policy-Making?

A. Bénassy-Quéréa , O. Blanchardb and J. Tirole, here. 

Amazon Reviewing Site After Algorithm Suggests Bomb Supplies

Bloomberg, here. 

Time for a Conservative Anti-Monopoly Movement

TheAmericanConservative, here.

Study: EU-US Privacy Shield Essential to Leading European Companies

FPF, here. 

National Data Opt-out Programme

NHS, here. 

US Cross-Border Data Deal Could Open Surveillance Floodgates

HRW, here. 

No university needed: A Stanford-born company is equipping India’s youth for well-paid tech jobs

Quartz, here, 

Founder of the information age

Enlightenmenteconomics, here. 

Drugmaker AbbVie Can’t Convince Judge on ‘Sham’ Lawsuits

Bloomberg BNA, here. 

Focus on Google DeepMind under the GDPR’s Lens

Hogan Lovells, here. 

On a testé les premiers pas de l’Open Data « par défaut »

NextImpact, here. 

Response to calls for automated takedowns of online extremist content

ORG, here.

Synthèse de la consultation publique sur la transmission de certains titres financiers au moyen de la technologie "blockchain

Trésor, ici. 

The State of the Data Protection Union

EDPS, here. 

The first autonomous drone delivery network will fly above Switzerland starting next month

TheVerge, here. 

Alt-Right Twitter App Developers Sue Google After Gab.Ai App Is Kicked Out Of The Play Store

TechDirt, here. 

Synopsis report of the public consultation on building a European data economy

EC, here. Annex here. Position papers here. 

Closer together: The Case for International Cooperation

J. Laitenberger, here.. 

Brexit and Competition Policy (and the Google Case)

House of Lords and CMA, watch here.
CMA Submission here. 

Me, my data and I: The future of the personal data economy

Decode Project, here.

Now Apple needs to reinvent the digital economy

FT, here.

Auswirkungen der Markttransparenzstelle für Kraftstoffe (MTS-K): Änderungen im Anbieterund Nachfragerverhalten

J. Haucap, U. Heimeshoff, C. Kehder, J. Odenkirchen, S. Thorwarth, hier.

Swiss Crypto Valley Association Calls for ‘Careful’ ICO Regulation

CryptoCoinsNews, here.

Artificial Intelligence's Fair Use Crisis

B. Sobel, here.

Automotive Data Treasure

Deloitte, hier.

Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

H. Simon, here.

Apple is facing questions from the U.S. Senate on the privacy protections in iPhone X and Face ID

Recode, here.

The Amazon Monopoly Problem: Prime Time For Antitrust Action Vs. These Internet Giants?

Investors, here.

Big data and Innovation: Implications for Competition Policy in Canada

Competition Bureau, here. 

EFF Resigns From W3C After DRM In HTML Is Approved In Secret Vote

TechDirt, here. 

How competition can build a better market

M. Vestager, here. 

HOW ONE OF APPLE'S KEY PRIVACY SAFEGUARDS FALLS SHORT

Wired, here.

To control AI, we need to understand more about humans

TechCrunch, here.

Cambridge Analytica: 'Getting people to vote no different from marketing toothpaste'

Campaignlive, here.

The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics

S. Athey, here.

Tesla’s Damaged Goods Problem

A. Tabarrok, here.

Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser

AdWeek, here.

Evaluating market consolidation in mobile communications

C. Genakos, T. Valletti and F. Verboven, here.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation

I. Cockburn, R. Henderson, S. Stern, here.

Economics of Artificial Intelligence

NBER Conference, here. Videos here.

US: Trump blocks Lattice Semiconductor’s $1.3 billion sale to China

CPI, here. 

The robots are coming for Mozart

Qz, here. 

Facial recognition is here. The iPhone X is just the beginning

The Guardian, here.

Questions on Article 13 and Recital Art. 38 of the Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

MPI, Contributions here.

Data will be oil for robot cars so these humans are hoarding it now

FastCompany, here.

Flux raises $1.5 million as Starling Bank opens fintech Marketplace

FinExtra, here.

On the Equifax Data Breach

Schneier.com, here.

U.S. agency demands endorsement info from Instagram 'influencers'

Reuters, here.

Autortiesību un komunicēšanās konsultāciju aģentūra / Latvijas Autoru apvienība v Konkurences padome,

CJEU, C-177/16, here.

Opinion Paper on Cryptocurrencies in the EU

ENISA, here.

The Amazon Monopoly Problem: Prime Time For Antitrust Action Vs. Internet Giants?

Investors.com, here.

Acxiom’s European Privacy Officer (Mostly) Demystifies GDPR

AdExchanger, here.

Equifax Isn’t A Data Problem. It’s A Political Problem

M. Stoller, here.

Apple is facing questions from the U.S. Senate on the privacy protections in iPhone X and Face ID

Recode, here.

Der Google-Staat

Zeit.de, here.

Fuel price data can benefit motorists and retailers

ACCC, here. 

Examining the Fintech Landscape

US COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, here. 

Book Review: We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves by John Cheney-Lippold

LSE, here. 

Cyber security and data protection

E. Denham, here. 

Nine lines that changed history - at least on the internet

EU Observer, here. 

Reiseportale: Schweizer Preisüberwacher leitet Verfahren gegen Booking.com ein

Heise.de, here. 

Understanding Digital Consent

MEF, here. 

Data in the Digital Single Market: the next stage

A. Ansip, here.
Proposal for a Regulation on a framework for the free flow of non-personal data in the European Union here. 

Algorithms and Collusion: Competition policy in the digital age

OECD, here. 

What percentage will consent to tracking for advertising?

PageFair, here. 

Apple explains how it’s making Siri smart without endangering user privacy

FastCompany, here. 

The Dynamics Of Platform Business Value Creation

E. Garcés-Tolon, here.

Rights on Data: The EU Communication ‘Building a European Data Economy’ From an Economic Perspective

W. Kerber, here.

Chatbot lets you sue Equifax for up to $25,000 without a lawyer

The Verge, here.

An Exit Interview With Richard Posner, Judicial Provocateur

NYTimes, here.

Keeping It Real?

D. Gangjee, here. 

What does Google know about you? Its new privacy dashboard should reveal all

ZDNet, here. 

Leaked Draft Regulation on a framework for the free flow of data in the EU

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Competition Policy at the FTC in the New Administration

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability

NYTimes, here. 

Bridging Policy, Regulation, and Practice? A Techno-Legal Analysis of Three Types of Data in the GDPR

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How blockchain will finally convert you: Control over your own data

VentureBeat, here. 

A New Way to Learn Economics

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Current Alliances in International Intellectual Property Lawmaking: The Emergence and Impact of Mega-Regionals

ICTSD, here. 

Should Amazon buy Nordstrom next?

Recode, here.

La AEPD sanciona a Facebook por vulnerar la normativa de protección de datos

AGPD.es, aquì.

Datenschutz-Grundverordnung: Datenschutzkonferenz veröffentlicht Kurzpapiere zum neuen Datenschutzrecht

BfDI, hier. 

Blockchain: Is the GDPR Already Outdated?

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Eine Plattform für die Industrie 4.0

Heise.de, hier.

Network Effects: March to the Evidence, Not to the Slogans

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here.

YouTube und Google bei Urheberrechtsverstößen zur Herausgabe von Nutzerdaten verpflichtet

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How Facebook Changed the Spy Game

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You Are the Product

J. Lanchester, here. 

Blockchain Regulation

M. Finck, here. 

Verizon will now trade you your personal data for ... concert tickets

Mashable, here. 

Our Response to the UK Government request for written evidence on A.I.

Robotenomics, here. 

Kann der Bitcoin die Notenbanken in Bedrängnis bringen?

NZZ, hier. 

Position paper transmitted to EU27 on Intellectual property rights (including geographical indications)

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VCAST Limited contro R.T.I. SpA

Conclusioni dell'AG, qui. 

La face cachée des algorithmes de Facebook et Google dévoilée

A. Laurent, ici. 

The ‘Internet Of Things’ Is Sending Us Back To The Middle Ages

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The Chips Are Down: Intel’s Victory in the European Court of Justice Has Implications on How Anticompetitive Conduct Is Analysed in EU Antitrust Cases

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Artificial Intelligence And Big Data: Good For Innovation?

Forbes, here. 

Access to “data” – the new competitive battlefield

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Spotify: Don't Compare Us to Napster

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Tagungsprotokoll des Arbeitskreises Kartellrecht vom 6. Oktober 2016 in Bonn

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

The GDPR will help or hurt publishers, depending on who you ask

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Guidelines for Global Antitrust: The Three Cs – Cooperation, Comity, and Constraints

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Why do big hacks happen? Blame Big Data

TheGuardian, here. 

Two sciences tie the knot

MIT News, here. 

True cost of Amazon pricing revealed

TheTimes, here. 

40 Techniques Used by Data Scientists

Data Science Central, here. 

New Software Helps Cars Recognize When You’re Texting and Driving

Futurism.com, here. 

How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality

F. Foer, here. 

Uber Is Said to Face FBI Probe as Compliance Chief Exits

Bloomberg, here. 

Privacy and Platform Competition

P. Dimakopoulos, S. Sudaric, here. 

Amazon's 1-Click Patent Is About To Expire. What's The Big Deal?

NPR, here.

China bans initial coin offerings calling them 'illegal fundraising'

BBC, here.

AI’s rapid advance sparks call for a code for robots

FT, here.

America's Superstar Companies Are a Drag on Growth

Bloomberg, here.

A Serf on Google’s Farm

TPM, here.

Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant: The battle for connected future dominance is on

Cnbc, here.

UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns

TheGuardian, here. Report here.
" It will be important for any future regulatory system to regulate emergent and convergent technologies such as cell and gene therapies and algorithms, as well as digital medicines".

How the GDPR will disrupt Google and Facebook

J. Ryan, here.

Google Will Now Talk Through Speakers, Fridges and Vacuums

Bloomberg, here. 

Latin American endorsement of EU privacy model bolsters Brussels' leadership claim

MLex, here.

Online Markets and Offline Welfare Effects

Selected contributions from the CCLP conference hosted on 22 May 2017, here.

Data portability : Are the GAFAM ready ?

Y. Bruna, Presentation here.

DeepL schools other online translators with clever machine learning

TechCrunch, here.

What We Get Wrong About Technology

T. Harford, here. 

German publishers are joining forces against the duopoly

Digiday, here.

VIDANGEL, REDIGI, AND THE SALE OF DIGITAL CONTENT

J. Band, here.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roger Alford Delivers Remarks at China Competition Policy Forum

DOJ, here.

Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant: The battle for connected future dominance is on

CNBC, here.

WhatsApp’s Cofounder On How It Reached 1.3 Billion Users Without Losing Its Focus

FastCompany, here. 

Friedrich Hayek and the Market Algorithm

S. Bowles, A. Kirman, and R. Sethi, here. 

Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are going to work together

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Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

NYTimes, here. 

Internet providers could easily snoop on your smart home

TechCrunch, here. 

Kartellvorwürfe gegen den ADAC

SZ.de, hier. 

Der Mythos der schöpferischen Zerstörung

FAZ, hier. 

Data property in the system of intellectual property law: Welcome guest or misfit?

B. Hugenholtz, here.

Deutsche Datenplattform Verimi fordert Google & Co. heraus

Heise.de, hier.

Supreme Court asked to nullify the Google trademark

ArsTechnica, here.

Report of Study Group on Data and Competition Policy

Japan FTC, here.

The coming earthquake

Axios, here.

The exchange and protection of personal data

UK Government, here.

Merger Control and Online Platforms: The Relevance of Network Effects

A- Robles Martín-Laborda, here.

YouTube stars win fair use legal battle

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Managing Our Hub Economy

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Declaration of MyData Principles

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CMA fines Ping £1.45m for online sales ban on golf clubs

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The Right To Privacy Is Now Public

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Researchers built an invisible backdoor to hack AI’s decisions

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Google: Ad Blocking Chrome Extension Raises Antitrust Issues

Thecapitolforum, here.

Neue Diskriminierungsverbote für die digitale Welt?

Stiftung Marktwirtschaft, hier.

Algorithmic Regulation: A Critical Interrogation

K. Yeung, here.

Working Paper on E-Learning Platforms

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Private Power, Public Values: Regulating Social Infrastructure in a Changing Economy

K. Rahman, here. See also here.

My Comment on Wright’s “Antitrust Provides a More Reasonable Framework for Net Neutrality Regulation”

H. Singer, here. 

OLG München: Adblocking ist legal

Heise.de, hier. 

Bußgelder gegen Automobilzulieferer

Bundeskartellamt, Fallbericht hier (3 S.).

Kartellamt kämpft für die Innenstädte

FAZ, hier.

Apple, Facebook, Google and other tech giants tell the Supreme Court to protect cellphone data in a key, upcoming case

Recode, here. 

HUK Coburg: "kein Datenmonopol für die Industrie"

Heise.de, hier. 

Digital platforms force a rethink in competition theory

FT, here. 

Who will own the data from your autonomous car?

NakedSecurity, here. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING: THE PRIVACY CHALLENGE

FPF, here. 

Common Ownership And The New Antitrust Movement

Peoplespolicyproject.org, here. 

If an AI creates a work of art, who owns the rights to it?

Quartz, here.

Automated decision making shows worrying signs of limitation

Computerweekly.com, here. 

Antitrust Provides a More Reasonable Framework for Net Neutrality Regulation

J. Wright, here. 

Judge Orders LinkedIn to Allow Startup Access to User Data

WSJ, here.

Bots, Babes and the Californication of Commerce

I. Kerr, here. 

Essential Data

Z. Abrahamson, here. 

Of, For, and By the People: The Legal Lacuna of Synthetic Persons

J. Bryson, M. Diamantis, T. Grant, here. 

Nachrichten von Algorithmen: Journalisten fordern Kennzeichnung

Heise.de, hier. 

Algorithmic Transparency for the Smart City

C. Moffett, here.

Exploring the Role of Algorithms in Online Harmful Speech

Berkman Klein Center, here.

Amazon Moving Into US Ticket Sales, Threatens Ticketmaster Dominance

IBtimes, here. Read also here. 

Booking.com as trademark

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Artificial Intelligence Policy: A Roadmap

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How people spend time on social platforms globally, in 5 charts

DigiDay, here. 

Tobacco giants threaten to 'undermine' Ireland's economy in an attempt to block plain-packaging laws

Independent.ie, here. 

Was KI leisten soll: Putzen und schwere Arbeiten übernehmen

Heise.de, hier. 

Edeka klagt gegen Behörde

Fleischwirtschaft.de, hier. 

Toyota, Intel and others form big data group for automotive tech

TechCrunch, here. 

Elsevier Continues To Build Its Monopoly Solution For All Aspects Of Scholarly Communication

TechDirt, here.

Pizza over privacy? Stanford economist examines a paradox of the digital age

Stanford News, here.

Trade Secrets and Algorithms as Barriers to Social Justice

CDT, here.

Google launches privacy website ahead of new European data protection rules

Google, here.

The Great Data Protection Rebranding Exercise

O. Lynskey, here.

The New Copycats: How Facebook Squashes Competition From Startups

Wsj, here.

Fairy Dust, Pandora’s Box… or a Hammer

C. Watney, here.

„Eigentumsordnung“ für Mobilitätsdaten?

Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur, hier.

Orrin Hatch turns on his own kind

TheIntercept, here.

The Amazing Ways Google Uses Deep Learning AI

Forbes, here.

FTC Asked to Investigate Google’s Matching of “Bricks to Clicks”

Jdsupra, here.

EBA’s approach to financial technology (FinTech)

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When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism

theatlantic, here.

Summary of GDPR derogations in the UK Data Protection Bill

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Why Facebook should pay us a basic income

FT, here.

Research and analysis to quantify the benefits arising from personal data rights under the GDPR

London Economics, here.

The Decentralized Search Engine

PreSearch, here.

Why the Dynamics of Competition for Online Platforms Leads to Sleepless Nights But Not Sleepy Monopolies

D. Evans, here. 

Recent trends in KFTC enforcement activities regarding IPRs

CPI, here.

Bad Code Is Already a Problem. Soon, Companies Will Be Liable.

ForeignPolicy, here.

China and the US are battling to become the world’s first AI superpower

TheVerge, here.

The quest for greater data availability and use in Australia

PCW, here.

'some of the world's smartest minds are working to undermine the agency we have over our minds'

Wired, here.

Your Robo-Adviser May Have a Conflict of Interest

Bloomberg, here.

Definitions of Big Data

Opentracker, here.

Brexit is distracting political parties from the real threat facing the UK – digital inequality

The Independent, here.

Good luck with that: Steve Bannon wants Facebook, Google 'regulated like utilities'

TheIntercept, here.

Marktmacht und Datenhoheit im Recht - Algorithmentransparenz bei Vertragsbeziehungen im Internet schaffen

Konferenz der Justizministerinnen und Justizminister am 21. und
22. Juni 2017 in Deidesheim,  hier.

Kranker Kapitalismus

Spiegel.de, hier.

How Will Deep Learning Algorithms Change In The Future?

Forbes, here.

The Internet of Changing Things

gsb.stanford.edu, hier.

Zuckerberg kauft Start-up für Künstliche Intelligenz

FAZ, hier.

The US Antitrust Counter-Revolution

Bruegel, here.