Google kämpft nun auch gegen Ticketwucher

Heise.de, hier. 

Commission sends Statement of Objections to AB InBev for preventing cheaper imports of beer into Belgium

EC, here

Data protection gone digital

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Section 46 no defence for uncompetitive firms

ACCC, here. 

UK class action accuses Google of unlawfully harvesting personal data

The Guardian, here. 

How to Tame Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple

Bloomberg, here.

The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death.

NYTimes, here.

Examining the Fintech Landscape

US SENATE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, Testimonies and Video here.

Legal Scholarship on Data Protection: Future Challenges and Directions

L. Bygrave, here. 

At least one US state is probing Google’s secret tracking of Android users

Quartz, here. 

Identity Verification in a Post-Breach World

T. Hunt, here. 

Unlocking the Promise of Antitrust Enforcement

Conference, Washington 
Center for Equitable Growth, here. 

Interesting Tidbits From FTC’s Antitrust Win Against 1-800 Contacts’ Keyword Ad Restrictions

E. Goldman, here. 

FCA issues first statement of objections to four asset management firms

FCA, here. 

An innovative introductory economics course at Stanford is now free online

Quartz, here. 

The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Announces New Standards Projects

IEEE, here. 

EU regulator spells out license guidelines to prevent patent wars

Reuters, here.
Communication here. 

Uber, Tinder, Snapchat and other top apps include trackers that secretly watch everything users do

The Independent, here.

Brüssel setzt Grenzen für das gläserne Bankkonto

FAZ, hier.

Mapping the Real Routes of Trade in Fake Goods

OECD, EUIPO, here.

PSD2: 'screen scraping' ban confirmed in finalised standards

Out-law, here.

Fairness in platform-to-business relations: Feedback Received by the EC

Here.
Google in praise of competition policy? "This decision, which hinges on specific facts related to online shopping ads, is under appeal to the European Union General Court. It shows that in situations where ranking is a matter of concern,
competition authorities have the appropriate tools to determine legal compliance
and therefore an additional ex ante regulation is not needed."

Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported

TechCrunch, here. 

"Screen Scraping ist nicht tot“

It-Finanznmagazin, hier.

Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft begrüßt Festlegungen der Europäischen Kommission zum PSD2-Kontozugang für Drittdienstleister

die-dk.de, hier.

L’économie des plateformes : dissipation ou concentration de la rente ?

F. Marty, ici. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE FOR LEGAL SERVICES

CliffordChance.com, here. 

Video Startup Can’t Outspend YouTube, So It Created a New Currency to Pay Creators

Bloomberg, here. 

Le numérique et la concurrence dans une économie et une société en transformation

J. Laitenberger, ici. 

German Kid Smartwatch Ban Opens Voice-Activated Privacy Debate

BNA, here. 

The Purchase Data Playbook For Marketers

AdExchanger, here. 

Algorithms: How Companies’ Decisions About Data and Content Impact Consumers

House of Representatives, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, Hearing Info  here.
Testimonies and Video available here.
The following issues may be examined at the hearing:
• How is personal information about consumers collected through the Internet, and how do companies use that information?
• How do companies make decisions about content that consumers see online?
• How effective are current policies and communications with consumers regarding the collection and use of personal data?   

Payment services: Consumers to benefit from safer and more innovative electronic payments

EC, here. Regulatory Technical Standards here.

Inside the Revolution at Etsy

NYTimes, here.

I'm Testifying in Front of Congress in Washington DC about Data Breaches - What Should I Say?

Troyhunt.com, here.

Das gläserne Bankkonto

FAZ, hier.

Love in the Digital Age

Futurism.com, here.

Neue Fraunhofer-App entlarvt geheimes Tracking über Apps

TelTarif.de, hier.

Brazil pushes back decision on Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

Reuters, here.

The Economic Case Against an A.T. & T.-Time Warner Merger

The New Yorker, here.

Des mouchards cachés dans vos applications pour smartphones

LeMonde, ici.

Media in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

C. Moedas, here.

Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner merger is good antitrust economics and law

S. Salop, here. 

WIE DAS EU-PARLAMENT UNSERE PRIVATSPHÄRE SCHÜTZEN WILL

Fink, hier. 

CJEU on commitment decisions

C‑547/16, here.

28      It follows that a decision taken on the basis of Article 9(1) of Regulation No 1/2003 cannot create a legitimate expectation in respect of the undertakings concerned as to whether their conduct complies with Article 101 TFEU. As the Advocate General observed in point 39 of her Opinion, the commitment decision cannot ‘legalise’ the market behaviour of the undertaking concerned, and certainly not retroactively.

29      Nonetheless, national courts cannot overlook that type of decision. Such acts are, in any event, in the nature of a decision. In addition, both the principle of sincere cooperation laid down in Article 4(3) TEU and the objective of applying EU competition law effectively and uniformly require the national court to take into account the preliminary assessment carried out by the Commission and regard it as an indication, if not prima facie evidence, of the anticompetitive nature of the agreement at issue in the light of Article 101(1) TFEU.

30      In those circumstances, the answer to the first question is that Article 16(1) of Regulation No 1/2003 must be interpreted as meaning that a commitment decision concerning certain agreements between undertakings, adopted by the Commission under Article 9(1) of that regulation, does not preclude national courts from examining whether those agreements comply with the competition rules and, if necessary, declaring those agreements void pursuant to Article 101(2) TFEU.

In charts: how US retailers fared as Amazon powered ahead

FT, here. 

Making globalisation work for Europeans

M. Vestager, here. 

Challenges For Me of Discussing the Google Comparison Shopping Decision With My Students Without the Decision

Challenges for Competition Law Enforcement and Policy in the Digital Economy

A. Capobianco, A. Nyeso, here (and here). 

Facebook will help some users figure out if they saw Russian propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Recode, here. 

ICO backs development of medical data sharing tool

UKAuthority, here. 

Tracking Walls, Take-It-Or-Leave-It Choices, the GDPR, and the ePrivacy Regulation

F. Borgesius, S. Kruikemeier, S. Boerman, N. Helberger, here. 

ESMA Provides Further Clarity on Initial Coin Offerings in Europe

Latham Watkins, here. 

Germany’s Cyber Valley aims to become leading AI hub

FT, here. 

What’s Next for SWIFT? APIs, Realtime Payments, and Cryptocurrency

BankInnovation, here.

Will online platforms be able to access your bank data?

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here. 

Uber's data breach handling provides lessons for others ahead of GDPR

Out-Law.com, here. 

Economic Analysis of Network Effects and Intellectual Property

P. Menell, here. 

EU-Abgeordnete stimmen für Rückgaberecht auch bei "kostenlosen" Apps und Online-Diensten

Heise.de, hier. 

E-Books: Börsenverein begrüßt Einigung zum Geoblocking

Presse-Information, hier. 

Bundesregierung: ePrivacy-Verordnung kommt erst 2019

Wuv.de, hier.

Artificial intelligence: the hidden algorithms shaping our lives

EP News, here. Video of the event here.

European Commission fines five car safety equipment suppliers € 34 million in cartel settlement

Press Release, here.

L'impatto delle nuove tecnologie sui settori finanziario, creditizio e assicurativo

G. Pitruzzella, qui.

Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People’s Data

Bloomberg, here.

A state Supreme Court justice’s open letter to AI

Quartz, here.

Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems

N. Seaver, here. 

Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

Quartz, here. 

Linky, Gazpar : quelles données sont collectées et transmises par les compteurs communicants ?

CNIL, ici. 

Enquête sectorielle sur le fonctionnement de la concurrence dans le secteur du médicament et de la biologie médicale

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. Saisine d’office pour avis ici. 

China: Police ‘Big Data’ Systems Violate Privacy, Target Dissent

Human Rights Watch, here. 

Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media

Spectrum.ieee, here. 

The Department of Justice's Long-Awaited and Much Needed Course-Correction on FRAND-Assured Standard-Essential Patents

D. Ginsburg, K. Wong-Ervin, here. 

U.S. Sues to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger

NYTimes, here. 

Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke, Princeton Researchers Find

MotherBoard, here. 

This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Senate Once Again Passes Antitrust Whistleblower Bill

Biglawbusiness, here. 

Use GDPR to future-proof business models

ComputerWeekly, here. 

UK regulator accuses Concordia of abusing position with 5700% drug price hike

FT, here. 

Digital Single Market: EU negotiators agreed to end unjustified geoblocking

EC, here. 

Helping people cope with technological change

M. Vestager, here. 

Legal and Regulatory Challenges Facing Platforms in Europe

Conf call with Alec Burnside, Transcript here.

The Next Frontier of Antitrust?

K. Christensen, here. 

Shifting the Dial

Productivity Commission, Chapter 5 here

DOJ bucks China, urges SCOTUS to hear case against vitamin cartel

Reuters, here.

Blablacar Wants to Become a Car Insurance Broker

Bloomberg, here.

Payment systems

Autoritat Catalana de la Competència,  here.

Intangible Capital in Global Value Chains

WIPO, here.

How much …? The rise of dynamic and personalised pricing

The Guardian, here. 

A practical approach to rebates

BakerMcKenzie, here. 

Bundesnetzagentur geht gegen Kinderuhren mit Abhörfunktion vor

Bundesnetzagentur, hier. 

Japanese regulators raid Airbnb over suspected antitrust practices

Reuters, here. 

AI Can Be Made Legally Accountable for Its Decisions

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Régulation économique : quels secteurs réguler et comment ?

M. Bacache-Beauvallet, A. Perrot, ici. 

Here’s what we learned from ordering 213 curries at Wetherspoons

FT, here. 

Commission and China start new dialogue on State aid control and discuss competition policy

EC, Press Release here.

"The European Commission and the three Chinese competition agencies confirmed their readiness to develop closer cooperation on the enforcement of their respective competition laws in the fields of antitrust, mergers and State aid enforcement".

L’autorité de la concurrence pas assez indépendante, selon un rapport

Euractiv, ici. 

Companies face high cost to meet new EU data protection rules

FT, here.

Amazon’s exclusive deal with Calvin Klein is about much more than underwear

Quartz, here.

The role of antitrust in the ongoing deregulatory push

M. Delrahim, here. 

The First Wealth is Health: Protecting Competition in Healthcare Markets

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

#WatchOut Analysis of smartwatches for children

Norwegian Consumer Council, here. 

Acquisti discussing privacy at a PwC Event

Video, here. 

Differential privacy, part 2: It’s complicated

AccessNow, here. 

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'

Guardian, here. 

Accountability of AI Under the Law: The Role of Explanation

F. Doshi-Velez, M. Kortz, R. Budish, C. Bavitz, S. Gershman, D. O'Brien, S. Schieber, J. Waldo, D. Weinberger, A. Wood, here. 

Facebook investor says he wants the company to contact everyone who saw fake news during the election

CNBC, here. 

Vers la démocratie culturelle

Conseil économique, social et environnemental, Avis ici.
P.37: "Dans son avis Pour un renouveau des politiques publiques de la culture, le CESE s’était exprimé sur le rôle des grandes multinationales de l’industrie numérique dans le financement de la création artistique. La position défendue à l’époque n’a pas changé : « Afin d’associer fiscalement les géants du numérique au soutien de la création et sans préjuger des actions nécessaires pour faire respecter l’ensemble des droits, le CESE est favorable à l’imposition des bénéfices qu’ils réalisent sur le territoire et à la création d’une taxe pour les entreprises qui exercent une forme exclusive de captation des données personnelles ». Afin de compenser en partie les atteintes à la création qu’entraînent l’explosion du numérique et le partage illégal, il pourrait être prévu le fléchage d’une partie des impôts prélevés sur les GAFA vers un fond de soutien à la création musicale, théâtrale et chorégraphique, des arts visuels, du livre."

Data Flows – Future Scenarios

Prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), here. 

Open Data Maturity in Europe 2017

European Data Portal, here. 

Streit über Wetter-App: "WarnWetter" des DWD muss Geld kosten

Heise.de, hier. 

Making human organs through 3D printing

BBC, here.

Data Portability and Data Control: Lessons for an Emerging Concept in EU Law

I. Graef, M. Husovec, N. Purtove, here. 

Finance's Tech Revolution Risks Being Stymied by Wary Bosses

Bloomberg, here. 

Data Protection Commissioner raises CCTV concerns with Garda

IrishTimes, here. 

The ACCC’s approach to colluding robots

R. Sims, here. 

Algorithmia now helps businesses manage and deploy their machine learning models

TechCrunch, here. 

Awake on the Autobahn: Academics, algorithms and accountability

S. Venkatasubramanian et al., here. 

Taming the masters of the tech universe

FT, here. 

Digital Economics

A. Goldfarb, C. Tucker, here. 

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO WIDER CALL FOR EVIDENCE FROM THE HOUSE OF LORDS COMMITTEE ON AI

Here. 

Albrecht: ePrivacy reg will change business models

Iapp, here. 

Defending access to lawful information at Europe’s highest court

Google, here. 

Umfrage KI: „ ...dann werden wir abgehängt“

FAZ, hier. 

Verbraucherschützer: Online-Bezahldienste erheben zu viele Daten

Ausburger Allgemeine, hier. 

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and the Rule of Law

The Law Society, here. 

Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts. But They’re Still Easy to Spot.

NYTimes, here. 

Measuring the Information Society Report 2017

ITU, here. 

"AI: Intelligent Machines, Smart Policies"

OECD, Presentations here. 

Some EU regulators still don't get internet economics

EUObserver, here. 

Much ado about endives

CJEU C-671/15, here. 

"On peut faire beaucoup plus avec les données quand on maitrise le contexte réglementaire"

JournalDuNet, ici. 

Lead MEP: member states’ slow pace on ePrivacy is unacceptable

Euractiv, here. 

New legal opinion may have implications for class actions in EU

Iapp, here. 

Antitrust in a Time of Populism

C. Shapiro, here. 

Liability for Providing Hyperlinks to Copyright-Infringing Content: International and Comparative Law Perspectives

J. Ginsburg, L. Buduardjo, here. 

UNDERSTANDING CORPORATE DATA SHARING DECISIONS: PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARING CORPORATE DATA WITH RESEARCHERS

Future of Privacy Forum, here. 

Google Pays to Put Search Back on Firefox Browser in U.S.

Bloomberg, here.

Regulatory Sandboxes — a Global Stocktake

Latham & Watkins, here.

The role of antitrust law in the context of standard setting organizations

M. Delrahim, here. 

Democrats Seek Hearings on Trump's Role in AT&T-Time Warner Deal

Bloomberg, here. 

EU set to rule in favour of speed skaters over ISU ban threat: sources

Reuters, here. 

The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech

NYTimes, here. 

It’s Time to Tax Companies for Using Our Personal Data

NYTimes, here. 

The Automated Public Sphere

F. Pasquale, here.

Swiss watchmakers permitted to refuse to supply independent watch repairers

CMS Germany, here. 

Equifax says it owns all its data about you

The Washington Post, here. 

Platform Regulation: A Preface

D. Kaye, here. 

Missourians deserve to know what Google does with their information

KansasCity.com, here.

SCOPING STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ON COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION ADOPTED BETWEEN 2006 AND 2016

G. Rostama for WIPO, here.

Web companies should make it easier to make your data portable: FTC's McSweeny

USA Today, here.

From Bayer to Qualcomm, M&A Gets Costlier in the EU

Bloomberg, here.

Public consultation on fake news and online disinformation

EC, here.

Why people ruin others’ lives by exposing all their data online

New Scientist, here.

Dear Wavesblog Reader,

I'm currently revising and updating my "Competition by Design" ASCOLA conference paper to make it fit for publication. Your suggestions, comments, etc. would be much appreciated! Thank you.

New Draft Action Plans On Copyright Limitations And Exceptions At WIPO

IP-Watch, here.

Missouri AG Josh Hawley launches investigation of Google

Kansascity.com, here.

Use of algorithms must respect competition rules, says EU competition official

Out-law.com, here.

Who’s responsible for what happens on Facebook? Analysis of a new ECJ opinion

L. Woods, here.

Report on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society

Japan's Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society, here.

UK competition regulator builds new tech team

UK, here.

Leyes estatales de notarios ganadoras del Premio para identificar el obstáculo regulatorio más absurdo para competir y emprender

Cofece, aquí.

The new generation economy

Autorité de la concurrence, here.

How adtech players are approaching consent in GDPR and whether they will be compliant in time

TheDrum, here.

EU closes in on Google as it prepares second antitrust fine

The Telegraph, here.

Conference: Antitrust in Developing Countries

M. Delrahim, keynote speech (from 06:21), video  here.; text here. Q&A from 41:42.
Work at the DoJ:
- review of live consent decrees (1400!);
- draft whistleblower legislation: comments provided, good improvement

The feasibility of measuring the sharing economy: November 2017 progress update

UK ONS, here.

Kara Swisher interviews Margarethe Vestager

Web Summit, video here.
"Some of these algorithms will have to go to law school before they are let out. You have to teach your algorithm what it can do and what it cannot do, because otherwise there is the risk that the algorithm will learn the tricks...we don't want the algorithms to learn the tricks of the old cartelists...we want them to play by the book also when they start playing by themselves"

Watch also the press conference, here.
"One of the  discussions I'm trying to enable is the discussion about compliance. Just as much as we hope to see privacy by design I also hope to see compliance by design when we talk about self learning machines... they shouldn't learn the tricks of the old cartelists... they should learn the compliance of the best in the market...we don't propose any rule of that at the moment  but we want the debate to take place  because  it would be sort of paradox when we end up in a situation saying well what happens in the black box remains in the black box...because whatever machine...there is still a business or person who are responsible for what happens..."

Why Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Might Be Right

T. Wu, here.

AT&T-Time Warner redraws faultlines on antitrust enforcement

FT, here.

Algorithms and Competition at the Websummit

Video, here.

DIGITAL ASSISTANTS: HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPETITION IS UNDERMINING “HIPSTER ANTITRUST”

G. Manishin, part 1 and 2.

Competencia se pronunciará sobre el conflicto FIBA-Euroliga

As.com,  Aquí

Panel: Pharmaceutical Drugs Prices

H. First summarizes, Video here.
"The invisible hand got stuck in the pocket"

Ist die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung doch schon anwendbar? Zwei Gerichte sagen: ja.

De Lege Data, hier.

Equifax faces hundreds of class-action lawsuits and an SEC subpoena over the way it handled its data breach

Washington Post, here.

ICAP wins fight against EU yen Libor cartel ruling, fine annulled

Reuters, here.
Ruling here.

Facebook, show us your secret recipe

WashingtonPost, here.

Google: Our hunt for hackers reveals phishing is far deadlier than data breaches

ZDNet, hier.

Sippel: ePrivacy reg should 'abolish surveillance-driven advertising'

iapp, here. 

Diagnosing the Treatments: Issues in Post-Patent Pharmaceutical Markets

M. Ohlhausen, here.

The fight over antitrust’s soul

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

Berlin court rules Facebook data transfers to third parties violate data protection law

TelecomPaper, here. 

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

Gizmodo, here. 

Recent Data Protection Developments in Brazil and Latin America

Linked In, here. 

Datenschützer kritisieren jahrelange Speicherung von Fluggastdaten

Heise.de, hier. 

The Pulse of Fintech Q3 2017

KPMG, here. 

This stupid patent was going to be used to sue hundreds of small businesses

ArsTechnica, here. 

Blocked: Why Some Companies Restrict Data Access to Reduce Competition and How Open APIs Can Help

Center for Data Innovation, here. 

AL FRANKEN JUST GAVE THE SPEECH BIG TECH HAS BEEN DREADING

Wired, here. 

Supreme Court to Decide First Antitrust Case in Two Years

Antitrust Advocate, here. 

Margrethe Vestager, Wise Digital Hygienist

Politico, here. 

US: Sen. Klobuchar urges probe for online travel agencies

competitionpolicyinternational, here.

Innovationen – Herausforderungen für die Kartellrechtspraxis

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Understanding Competition in Prescription Drug Markets: Entry and Supply Chain Dynamics

FTC, Workshop here. Live webcast here. Presentation slides here. 

Fairness in platform-to-business relations

EC, Inception impact assessment here. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS PUTTING ULTRASOUND ON YOUR PHONE

Wired, here. 

Big Data Poses Special Risks for Children, Says UNICEF

TechnologyReview, here. 

Google-Manager Eric Schmidt warnt vor China

FAZ. hier. 

The Economics of Attention Markets

D. Evans, here. 

TÜV kritisiert Autohersteller für den Umgang mit Daten

FAZ, hier. 

Eigentumsordnung‘ für Mobilitätsdaten

Telemedicus, Stellungnahme hier. 

#gruesseausmoskau

Süddeutsche Zeitung, hier. 

Datenschutzbeauftragter schlägt Gütesiegel für Gesundheits-Apps vor

Heise.de, hier. 

Technology-led innovation and emerging services in the Canadian financial services sector

Competition Bureau, here (my own pdf here).

Artificial Intelligence Has Officially Infiltrated the Fintech Industry

Inc, here. 

May Your Drug Price Be Ever Green

R. Feldman, C. Wang, here. 

Amazon found an ingenious new way to undercut its competitors ahead of the holidays

Quartz, here. 

Google and Salesforce sign massive strategic partnership

VentureBeat, here. 

Datenmärkte in der digitalisierten Wirtschaft: Funktionsdefizite und Regelungsbedarf?

H. Schweitzer, M. Peitz, hier. 

Foundem on Google's Auction-Based Proposal

Here. 

Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M

ArsTechnica, here. 

Computer says no: why making AIs fair, accountable and transparent is crucial

TheGuardian, here. 

Clearing the path for innovation

M. Vestager, here. 

The EU’s competition chief explains why punishing Big Tech is good for innovation

Quartz, here. 

TESLA’S DANGEROUS SPRINT INTO THE FUTURE

NYT Magazine, here. 

7th Circuit confronts antitrust in the age of Big Data

Reuters, here. 

UK Data Protection Bill vs EU General Data Protection Regulation

ComputerWeekly, here. 

IP Europe’s Disingenuous Case for Giving its Members a License to Discriminate

Actonline, here. 

Why we need to regulate the tech platforms and how

FT, here. 

SPOTIFY, DEEZER AND SOUNDCLOUD LAUNCH EUROPEAN LOBBYING COALITION

Musically, here. 

Vergleichsportale in Deutschland

WIK-Consult, hier. 

Paying for Privacy and the Personal Data Economy

S.-A. Elvy, here. 

FIFA and FIFPro sign landmark agreement and announce measures to enhance professional football

FIFA, here. 

Unobserved collusion: warning signs and concerns

R. Marshall, here. 

Fintech, Access to Data, and the Role of Competition Policy

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Presentation here.
(Paper in the pipeline - if you have any comment so far, please let me know).

Amazon gets green light for massive discounts from ACCC chairman Rod Sims

AFR, here.

TECH GOES TO WASHINGTON

Stratechery, here.

CMA opens four new pharma antitrust probes

Slaughter and May, here.

Hotel Direct-Booking Pushes Really Worked and Owners Were Big Winners

Skift, here.

Tackling disinformation in the global media environment – new Council of Europe report

Council of Europe, here.

Facebook’s hackproof ads turned its adblocking problem in to a $709 million revenue stream

Pagefair, here.

European consumers’ attitudes toward data privacy, in 5 charts

Digiday, here.

WP29 on a reverse search directory

Opinion, here.

PSD2: Commission Provides Long-Awaited Update on RTS and Screen-Scraping

Vasco, here.

Two roads diverged in the woods: on non-personal data as a legal category in the EU

J. Jache, here. 

Google remembers it has an air-fares API, takes the usual action

TheRegister, here. 

Inside the ePrivacy Regulation's furious lobbying war

iapp, here. 

Privacy and public transit usage: comments on Metrolinx' revisions to privacy policy

TeresaScassa, here. 

Are Canada’s grocers fixing bread prices?

TheStar, here. 

Coders of the world, unite: can Silicon Valley workers curb the power of Big Tech?

TheGuardian, here. 

Tech on the Hill: Five takeaways from the first of three hearings this week.

Recode, here. 

Scaling Nudges with Machine Learning

C. Risdon, here. 

How Washington Should Regulate Facebook

H. Singer, here. 

Belgique – Le prix unique du livre papier et numérique adopté

idBook, ici. 

How National Governments Can Help Smart Cities Succeed

Certer for Data Innovation, here. 

Seattle Woman Says Her Identity Has Been Stolen 15 Times Since Equifax Data Breach

HuffPost, here. 

Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control

G. Parker, M. Van Alstyne, here. 

Portugal bans use of DRM that limits access to public domain works

EDRi/EFF, here. 

Action brought on 11 September 2017 – Google and Alphabet v Commission

Here. 

“We own your name” government tells Amazon in explosive slapdown

DomainIncite, here. 

Level and open markets are good for business

J. Laitenberger, here.
"Algorithm should be designed to comply with competition rules in the first place. Respect for the rules must be part of the algorithm that a company configures and for whose behaviour the company will be ultimately liable"

Smart Technologies: Connected Cars & Beyond

G. De Stefano, Presentation here (waiting for the Video...).

Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy

J. Stiglitz, D. Baker, A. Jayadev, here. 

There’s precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies. It doesn’t end well.

Quartz, here. 

Communications Sector Market Study

ACCC, Draft Report here. 

Competition and Regulatory Trends in Digital Markets

A. Chirita, here. 

Données, algorithmes et transparence des plateformes

Autorité de la concurrence
Vendredi 24 novembre 2017
ECOLE NATIONALE D’ADMINISTRATION
2 Avenue de l’Observatoire 75006 Paris
Programme ici.
Les débats seront filmés et mis en ligne sur le site Internet de l'Autorité.

CMA launches consumer law investigation into hotel booking sites

CMA, here. 

Google and Facebook: EU’s Draft ePrivacy Regulation Passes Committee and Parliament Vote

Capitol Forum, here. 

The ‘Amazon Effect’ Is Slicing Into Bayer's U.S. Consumer Business

Bloomberg, here. 

Would you donate your data for the collective good?

FT, here. 

Cartels and Chicken Paprikash

The Chopping Board Economist, Video here. 

1-800 contacts

FTC, Administrative Law Judge, here.

Data Protection and Copyright: Could Art. 29 WP guidance on automated decision-making “help” with filters?

S. Stalla-Bourdillon, here.

Tinder must be joking with their “dowload your data” option.

J.G., here.

THE WEB BEGAN DYING IN 2014, HERE'S HOW

A. Staltz, here.

Walden Releases Op-Ed Announcing Hearings on Tech Companies Affecting Consumer Privacy and Choice

E&C, here.

Feasibility study on the microeconomic impact of enforcement of competition policies on innovation

P. Osmosi, A. Bennato, S. Davies and F. Mariuzzo, here.

Concorrência e Inovação (ICYRAAI)

06 de novembro de 2017
 Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Rua da Consolação, 896, portão 7 ou
 Rua Itambé, 135, portão 1
 Auditório Mackgraphe
São Paulo
Programa aqui.

In case you are around and interested

Tuesday 31 October 9.30-11

Alberto Parrella (former Uni Trento/Pisa master student and much more)
Data Analyst, Twitter
"Data driven businesses: how social media empower products through data".
Contamination Lab
Piazza Fiera, 4
Trento

Google antitrust remedy falls short of EU demands

FT,  here.

Google outwits the European Commission once again

G. Reback, here.

Dutch telco KPN wins appeal against cable rivals’ merger

FT, here.
GC's Ruling here. 

Top German court seeks comments on patent court challenge

Lawgazette.co.uk, here. 

RETOUR SUR LES INITIATIVES DE MAÎTRISE DES DONNÉES PERSONNELLES : SELF DATA, CLOUD PERSONNEL

Laboratoire.agencedunumerique, ici. 

FRANCE, SPAIN & PORTUGAL IMPOSE TROJAN © HORSE ON COUNCIL AGENDA

CopyBuzz, here. 

Facebook launches Marketplace for cars with dealers and Blue Book pricing

Techcrunch, here. 

Gesundheitsportal in Dänemark macht Patienten zu gleichberechtigten Partnern

Heise.de, hier. 

International data transfers – A recap

E. Ustaran, here. 

Großbritannien führt Data Protection Bill ein: Prepare for Brexit

Spirit Legal, hier. 

A smart city in China tracks every citizen and yours could too

New Scientist, here. 

Wie die Umkleidekabine der Zukunft aussieht

FAZ, hier. 

Lessons learned from WP29's letter to WhatsApp

iapp, here.

What competition can do – and what it can't

M. Vestager, here. 

The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

Gizmodo, here. 

IN SAS DECISION, APPELLATE COURT DODGES ADDRESSING ORACLE

J. Band, here. 

EDPS recommendations on specific aspects of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation

EDPS, here. 

Google Targeted Again as EU Is Said to Weigh Search-Result Rules

Bloomberg, here.

From the Commission's Agenda 2018, here:
Proposal on fairness in platform-to-business relations (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018); an initiative addressing online platform challenges as regards the spreading of fake information (non-legislative, Q1 2018); 

How behavioral economics is being used against you

MarketWatch, here. 

Current account switching at new low

BBC, here. 

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.