Die neuen Plattform-Giganten

J. Haucap, hier. 

COFECE reconoce al Congreso de la Unión por aprobación de Ley Fintech

COFECE, aquì. 

The Platform is the Message

J. Grimmelmann, here. 

Antitrust Conversations with Nobel Laureates

T. Schrepel, here. 

Big Pharma, Big Data-Why Drugmakers Want Your Health Records

NYTimes, here. 

Switzerland: Tightening Antitrust Law

Wenger & Vieli AG, here. 

Vorerst weiter keine Verwendung personenbezogener Daten deutscher WhatsApp-Nutzer durch Facebook

AZ: 5 Bs 93/17, hier.

Repensar la competencia en la Economía Digital

COFECE, aquì

The Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power

NYTimes, here. 

La CNMC inicia la elaboración de un documento sobre el fenomeno Fintech

CNMC, aquì. 

UNITED STATES v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Transcript here. 

The Anti-Trust Case Against Google?

D. Balto, here. 

Fairness in Precision Medicine

Data & Society, here. 

Enforcing EU competition law in a time of change

J. Laitenberger, here.

Apple/Shazam promises to be an interesting merger control case...

A Europe that protects: Commission reinforces EU response to illegal content online

EC, here. 

From Diocletian to pay day loans: what can we learn from successful and unsuccessful price regulation?

M. Starks, here. 

Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017

EU Chief Economist Team, here. 

Susan Athey: Applying Machine Learning to the Economy

Stanford Business, here. 

Klöckner darf digitale Plattform für Stahlprodukte starten

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Inside the Engine Room of Digital Platforms: Reviews, Ratings, and Recommendations

P. Belleflamme, M. Peitz, here. 

Telegram Triples Price in Largest Initial Coin Offering

Bloomberg, here. 

Economic approach to privacy and data security issues

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

A. Kruger, E. Posner, here. 

Mobile Security Updates: Understanding the Issues

FTC, here. 

Amazon circles home security market with $1bn Ring deal

FT, here. See also here (Reuters).

Daten einfach übertragen: Ihr Recht auf Datenportabilität

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier. 

Content Analysis of Cyber Insurance Policies: How do carriers write policies and price cyber risk?

S. Romanosky et al., here. 

Is the Market for Digital Privacy a Failure?

C. Fuller, here. 

Privacy Expectations and Preferences in an IoT World

P. Emami-Naeini et al., here. 

Bayer to win EU approval for $62.5 billion Monsanto deal

Reuters, here. 

Italian marketplace Eataly gets own payments app with Mastercard

FinExtra, here. 

Antitrust enforcement: equal contributions of legal and economic analysis

M. Delrahim, here. 

Google Shopping: letter from comparison shopping services and others calling on the EC to reject current

Here. 

EU: Ban on unjustified geo-blocking expected to apply as of late 2018

BakerMcKenzie, here. 

GDPR will have positive ripple effect, says US consumer group

ComputerWeekly.com, here. 

Switzerland: Spotlight On Copyright Issues Of Blockchain Technology

Mondaq, here. 

Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law

Iapp, here. 

Goethe-Uni entwickelt Datenschutz-App für das Smartphone

Aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de, hier.

Opening statement at the PC public hearing into Competition in the Australian Financial System

ACCC, here. 

Facebook’s data collection in Germany caught in antitrust spotlight

MLex Podcast, here. 

Patenting the Future of Medicine: The Intersection of Patent Law and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

S. Tull, here.

In response to EU antitrust ruling, Google Shopping now shows ads from competing shopping engines

Searchengineland.com, here.

Kartell-Man

Hochschule Düsseldorf und Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Open Banking: Opening New Opportunities

Meeco, here. 

Blockchain: What is it good for?

E. Felten, here. 

Economists and the Emergence of Antitrust

Mises Institute, here. 

Ohio v. AmEx - SCOTUS Oral arguments transcript

Here. 

Data Protection and data analytics: what is Art. 29 WP really saying to businesses wanting to innovate with data?

Peep Beep! , here.

Das nächste Instagram? Social-App Vero lockt immer mehr Nutzer an

Heise.de, hier. 

Digital Platforms Inquiry - Issues Paper

ACCC, here. 

EBA Rules out Secure Open Banking?

KuppingerCole, here. 

Why Financial Institutions Are Turning To Chief Data Officers To Generate More Value Out Of Data

Forbes, here. 

How GDPR could weaken, not strengthen, the duopoly

DigiDay, here. 

Data Ready

FSB, here. 

Aura: Telefónica lässt eigenen digitalen Assistenten von der Leine

Heise.de, hier. 

Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us

Ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org, here. 

Antitrust World Eyes Justices On AmEx Steering Case

Law360, here. See also this argument preview.

Medicines Innovation And Access: Swiss Stimulate New Thinking

IP-Watch, here. 

DIGITALE PATIENTENAKTE

FAZ, hier.
“Wer einmal seine Daten auf einer Akte einer Kasse habe, der sei auch im Fall von Beitragssatzerhöhungen wenig geneigt, den Anbieter zu wechseln...Die Daten müssten übertragbar bleiben...”

Der Spion flirtet mit

FAZ, hier.

The British couple that cost Google £2.1 billion

Wired UK Podcast, here. And Jeff Jarvis discussing “The Case Against Google” here (from 1:02:18)

Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power

S. Naidu, E. Posner, G. Weyl, here.

Snips brings its privacy-focused voice assistant to cars

TechCrunch, here.

TESLA LUST UND DER VERLUST UNBEOBACHTETER MOBILITÄT

DMM,hier.

Car companies are preparing to sell driver data to the highest bidder

ArsTechnica, here.

Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?

Duck&DuckGo, here.

Digital R&D

Deloitte, here.

No free rides? Platform bans in light of the Coty case

Oxera, here.

To Give A.I. the Gift of Gab, Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You

NYTimes, here.

Les Agtech poussent les murs du Salon de l'agriculture

La Tribune, ici.

GOOGLE AND ANTITRUST

Discussion, Exponent Podcast here (from 04:30).

A Brief Sketch Of (Early Copyright) Privilegio In The Venetian Renaissance

IP-Watch, here.

AT&T fight: David beat Goliath for a reason

Cnbc, here.

BNP Paribas launches fintech investment fund

Finextra, here.

Google sagt den Kontostand – nicht nur bei der Sparkasse Stade-Altes Land

Handelsblatt, hier.

Concurrences conference on innovation economics 2018: two interviews

On excessive pricing, here; on Fintech ❤️ (the GDPR making data “more open” and “less proprietary”? An interesting view indeed!),  here.

Merger Policy and the Consumer Welfare Standard: Time for a Change?

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here. 

Revisiting Vertical Antitrust Enforcement

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here.

What are the Goals of Antitrust? What Should They Be?

v. 

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here (discussion from 47:36).

The Court of Justice of the European Union has reached a decision on the collusive practices carried out in Italy by Roche and Novartis when marketing the medicinal products Avastin and Lucentis

Osborne Clarke, here. 

Anticompetitive Mergers in Labor Markets

I. Marinescu, H. Hovenkamp, here. 

Die Wettbewerbs- Erklärer

FAZ, hier.

La CNMC incoa expediente sancionador contra Atresmedia y Mediaset

CNMC, aquí.

Good Times, Bad Times, Trust Will Take Us Far: Competition Enforcement and the Relationship Between Washington and Brussels

M. Delrahim, here.

The Antitrust Logic of Biologics

S. Ghosh, here.

A Solution in Search of a Problem at the Biologics Frontier

E. Lietzan, here.

Progressive Antitrust

H. Hovenkamp, here.

Brief comment : “channeling” innovation is not an antitrust goal, but “protecting” innovation is. 

Les monopoles : un danger pour les États-Unis ?

Banque de France, ici.

Dead Reckoning: Navigating Content Moderation After “Fake News”

Data Society, here.

UK’s FCA Inks FinTech Collaboration With CFTC

Pymnts, here. 

How consumers Value Digital Privacy: New Survey Evidence

C. Fuller, here. 

Datenschutz als Dienstleistung

Adzine, hier. 

"Diese Marken sind für Edeka zu wichtig"

Zeit.de, hier. 

Should we treat data as labor? Let’s open up the discussion

Brookings, here. 

Free flow of non-personal data in the European Union

EPRS, here. 

Supreme Court declines to review pay-for-delay ruling

Reuters, here.

Disney Misused 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Copyrights, Says Judge

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

Driverless cars: mapping the trouble ahead

FT, here.

Data, Innovation, and Potential Competition in Digital Markets – Looking Beyond Short-Term Price Effects in Merger Analysis

T. McSWEENY; B. O’DEA, here.

Unusually strong words and some concrete proposals. 

Opinion by Former Senior Government Officials and Leading Antitrust Experts on the Significant Antitrust Risks Posed by Broadcom’s proposed takeover of Qualcomm

Here.

Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again

Bloomberg, here. 

Alibaba’s social credit rating is a risky game

 FT, here.

Is MyData a Force or Counter Force?

A. Jogi Poikola, here.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

, here,

The Case Against Google

The NYTimes, here. 

Das Microsoft-Dilemma

Das Erste, Video hier. 

The Rise of Amazon, Facebook May Be Bad News for the Economy

Bloomberg, here.

Crunching Car Data for Cash: An Israeli Startup Takes on Google

Bloomberg, here.

PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR EU REGULATION FOR ACCESS TO CAR DATA

Fiaregion1, here. 

Tracking-Methoden werden brutaler, Browser-Hersteller schauen weg

Heise.de, hier. 

Nokia is re-evaluating its wearables division

TechCrunch, here. 

Ärztin klagt erfolgreich auf Löschung aus Bewertungsportal

Zeit.de, hier.

A further letter to Makan re IP and Antitrust

Here. 

EU Court ruling on how off-label use is to be analysed under competition law

White & Case, here. 

Goldrausch in der Schweiz

FAZ, hier. 

Amex loses its final appeal – it must cut its fees to retailers who accept BA, SPG and Nectar cards

Headforpoints.com, here. 

The Deeply Human Core of Roche's $2.1B Tech Acquisition - And Why They Did It

Forbes, here.

Big data and innovation: key themes for competition policy in Canada

Competition Bureau, here.

Tech investor Roger McNamee: 'I would like Google to be broken up into 8 or 10 different monopolies'

CNBC, video here.

Mes data sont à moi. Pour une patrimonialité des données personnelles.

Génération libre, ici.

A qui confier notre portefeuille de données personnelles ?

Du grain à moudre (France culture), Podcast ici. 

Is consumer 3D printing over before it begins?

ITNews, here.

Whatsapp Beta allows users to download the information it has collected and stored about them

Myce.com, here.

Dateneigentum – Eine gute Idee für die Datenökonomie?

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, hier.

Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-first Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective

R. Langlois, here.

Innovation Policy Pluralism

D. Hemel, L. Larrimore Ouellette, here. 

Energy bills, switching, and a coconut roulade

The Chopping Board Economist, here. 

Google Shopping: beware of ‘selffavouring’ in a world of algorithmic nudging

N. Zingales, here. 

Canadian Regulator On Innovation’s Slow Roll

Pymnts, here.

EPRIVACY-VERORDNUNG: RÜCKBLICK UND AUSBLICK

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier. 

Antitrust Analysis Involving Intellectual Property and Standards: Implications from Economics

J. Padilla, D. Ginsburg, K. Wong-Ervin, here. 

Biologics: The New Antitrust Frontier

M. Carrier, C. Minniti, here. 

ACCC on dealing with algorithms

InnovationAus, here. 

EU to probe Apple’s $400m deal for Shazam

FT, here. 

Retail Banking Remedies

CMA Blog, here. 

To protect or collect? Germany’s big data divide

Politico.eu, here. 

The House That Spied on Me

Gizmodo, here. 

Competition Commission of India fines Google for abusing dominant position

Reuters, here.
Decision here.

Bank of Canada warns of threat from Big Data

The Globe and Mail, here. Remarks here.

Review into Open Banking – giving consumers choice

AUS Treasury, here. 

Angus Deaton on the Under-Discussed Driver of Inequality in America: “It’s Easier for Rent-Seekers to Affect Policy Here Than In Much of Europe”

ProMarket, here. 

The Copyright Permissions Culture in Software Preservation and Its Implications for the Cultural Record

Association of Research Libraries, here. 

Google-Nest merger raises privacy issues

BBC, here. 

Who blinked first in Waymo v. Uber?

The Verge, here. 

Feedback to the Commission's Proposal on a Framework for the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data

I. Graef, R. Gellert, N. Purtova, M. Husovec, here. 

Démanteler les GAFA ?

Le Monde, ici. 

Data Portability Under GDPR: Technical Challenges

Philips, here. 

Facebook’s German antitrust probe hinges on market power of network effects

mLex, here. 

Internal Compliance Mechanisms for Firms in the EU General Data Protection Regulation

G. Voss, here. 

Das erste Urteil zum Lkw-Kartell – Auftakt nach Maß?

R. Velte, hier. 

Algorithmic Trading Compliance in Wholesale Markets

FCA, here. 

Koalitionsvertrag und Kartellverfolgung

K. Ost, hier. 

Kartellrecht, Marktmacht und Facebook

S. Louven, hier.

France: Wikimedia loses constitutional challenge to law protecting images of national buildings

IrishLegal, here.

Vestager kicks off new chapter in Google Shopping probe

Politico, here. 

Es braucht kein Dateneigentum

iRights, hier. 

Devices, the weak link in achieving an open internet

Arcep, here. 

Victoire de la Commission vie privée dans la procédure Facebook

CPVP, ici et here.

FACEBOOK IN BREACH OF GERMAN DATA PROTECTION LAW

VZBV, hier. Ruling hier.

Access to car data – the new battleground that risks consumer choice

Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, here.

Competition in changing times

M. Vestager, here. 

Terrible Copyright Ruling Over An Embedded Tweet Undermines Key Concept Of How The Internet Works

TechDirt, here. 

The Tyranny of Convenience

T. Wu, here. 

Artificial Intelligence and the Good Society

c. Cath, M. Zimmer, S. Lomborg, B. Zegenbergen, here. 

Third Circuit Says “Umbrella Damages” Bar Does Not Preclude Antitrust Standing Where Product Is Partly Comprised of Materials Not Subject to the Alleged Conspiracy

PBWT, here. 

Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results to make pics harder to steal

The Verge, here. 

Only the EU can break Facebook and Google's dominance

G. Soros, here. 

How to (Re)Use Big Data

S. Leonelli, Video here. 

Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

K. Martin, A. Borah, R. Palmatier, here. 

Schweppes SA v Red Paralela SL: more details

Marques, here. 

Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law - BRICS Draft Report

I. Lianos, here. 

Should the tech giants be broken up?

N. Petit, here. 

La gran banca engañó a cientos de empresas a lo largo de 10 años

El Mundo, aquì.

Artificial intelligence and privacy

Datatilsynet, here. 

Data Commons and the City

DECODE, Video here. 

Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study

Cisco, here. 

Der Computer muss sich am Menschen messen lassen

Algorithmenethik, hier. 

Pour une protection sociale des données personnelles

L. Aufrère et L. Maurel, ici. 

Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon want to fix health care

Cnn, here.

Europe’s new data protection rules export privacy standards worldwide

Politico.eu, here.

Blockchain to track Congo's cobalt from mine to mobile

Reuters, here.

If You Can’t Take the Heat Map: Benefits & Risks of Releasing Location Datasets

Fpf.org, here.

Tech giants go to med school. Apple and Amazon’s moves in health signal a coming transformation

The Economist, here.

Harvard Business Manager berichtet über Studie der Hochschule Koblenz

HS-Koblenz.de, hier.

Europäer sollten die richtigen Schlachten schlagen

Criteo, hier.

EU schadet mit Datenschutz den Startups, macht aber Google und Facebook stärker

Gründerszene, hier.

Connected compliance

Bakermckenzie, here.

Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk

Video, here.

How critics say drug companies play "games" to stave off generic competitors

CBS News, here.

« Cookies tiers » et protection des données

C. Perrin, ici.

Oracle could prevail in copyright case against Google based on commercial market harm

K. Riley, here.

Die Geoblocking-Verordnung: kleiner Schritt für digitalen Binnenmarkt

K. Künstner, hier.

Doch nicht so einfach mit der Fahrphysik

Zeit,de, hier.

Eric Posner on Cultural Monopsonies and Data-As-Labor

E. Posner, here.

EU – Price Comparison Methodologies (DS516): Challenging the Non- Market Economy Methodology in Light of the Negotiating History of Article 15 of China’s WTO Accession Protocol

W. Zhou, D. Peng, here.

Merkel in Davos: Initiative neue Soziale Datenmarktwirtschaft

Netzpolitik, hier.

Competition, Intellectual Property, and Economic Prosperity

M. Delrahim, here.

Antitrust Enforcement in an Interconnected World

R. Alford, here. 

OLG Frankfurt a.M.: Kaufvertrag über Daten wegen fehlender Einwilligung nach dem BDSG unwirksam

Delegedata, hier. 

The dreary secrets of Amazon’s success

FT, here. 

AI offers opportunity to increase privacy for users

iapp, here. 

Discrimination and Data Ethics

DTL 2017, Video here. 

Brazilian general Bill on the protection of Personal Data

iapp, here. 

New China Data Privacy Standard Looks More Far-Reaching than GDPR

CSIS, here. 

Bundeskartellamt startet Untersuchung der Marktverhältnisse bei Online-Werbung

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Online advertising

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum

EC, here. 

Transatlantic Digital Economy Dialogue

CCIA, Video (from 42:10), here. 

GoCompare opens up APIs to fintech firms

Finextra, here.

Regulating machine data: less is more for global growth

General Electric, here. 

The Shape of Water: plagiarism accusations explained

S. Jacques, here.

Copyright And Artificial Intelligence

IP-Watch, here. 

Five reasons for a self-driving car slowdown

Marketplace, here. 

Privacy and data protection in mobile applications

Enisa, here. 

OLG Frankfurt a.M.: Kaufvertrag über Daten wegen fehlender Einwilligung nach dem BDSG unwirksam

Delegedata, here. 

German antitrust regulator: Why we're investigating Facebook

CNBC, here. 

Remarks delivered at the World Economic Forum

G. Soros, here.

Facebook Only Cares About Facebook

The Atlantic,  here.

EDEKA “wedding rebates” – German Federal Supreme Court removes roadblock to antitrust enforcement in food retail sector

K-S. JAnutta, P. Camesasca, here.

What kind of data can my car share?

Caratafacts.eu, here.

A letter to Delrahim re IP and competition law (SEPs, you know)

Here.

Kartellamtschef: Facebook ist marktbeherrschend

Noz.de, hier.

Engineered for Dystopia

The Baffler, here. 

The battle for consumers gets physical

TechCrunch, here. 

Appeals Court Says Accessing Data In A Way The Host Doesn't Like Doesn't Violate Computer Crime Laws

TechDirt here. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS GOING TO SUPERCHARGE SURVEILLANCE

The Verge, here. 

Versicherer starten Kampagne zum Datenschutz im Auto

AssCompact.de, hier. 

Towards a digital ethics

EDPS Ethics Advisory Group, here. 

Antitrust and the Platform Economy

Tech Policy Institute, Video here. 

Lessons from the EU General Data Protection Regulation to contribute to the global discourse on data protection

AccessNow, here. 

AmEx Supreme Court Amici Curiae: 28 Profs of Antitrust

Here.

Tech Policy: A Closer Look at GDPR

Capitol Forum, here. 

Germany threatens curbs on Facebook’s data use

Ft, here.

Facebook has...questioned the timing of the German authorities’ move, months before the EU implements its General Data Protection Regulation, a law that introduces sweeping data protection rules. Under the GDPR, businesses must give customers more information about which companies their data are shared with and to what end. “With the GDPR, Europe is already putting in place strong enforcement measures that hold Facebook and other companies accountable for privacy and data protection,” Facebook said. “We will comply with these new rules, just as we have complied with existing data protection law in Europe.”

A conversation with regulators on innovation in payment services

Hosted by ESB, here. 

Fairness, Competition, and Knitting

M. Vestager, here. 

ASICS dealers allowed to use price comparison engines - Federal Court of Justice confirms Bundeskartellamt's decision

Does it look like a luxury item to you? Where is the aura?

Bundeskartellamt, here.
Decision here. 

European Commission publishes guidance on upcoming new data protection rules

Press Release, here; Guidance here.

BGH: NEUE KARTELLRECHTLICHE SPIELREGELN FÜR VERHANDLUNGEN ZWISCHEN HANDEL UND HERSTELLERN

Schulte-lawyers.com, hier. 

Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

Press Release, here. 

Regulating Competition and Property in the Digital Economy – The Interface Between Data, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Fairness and Competition Law

B. Lundkvist, here.

GDPR: Harmonization or Fragmentation? Applicable Law Problems in EU Data Protection Law

K.Nolan, here.

Allianz fordert Treuhänder für Autodaten

FAZ, here. 

Artificial intelligence could yet upend the laws of finance

FT, here.

Banks and Fintechs Are Duelling In a ‘War For Talent’

Bloomberg, here. 

Artificial Differentiation between Avastin and Lucentis: CJEU

 Case C-179/16, here. 

LA VIE PRIVÉE ET LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA DONNÉE

A. Casilli, P. Tubaro, ici. 

Fusionieren Foodora und Lieferando?

FAZ, hier. 

Data is power: Towards additional guidance on profiling and automated decision-making in the GDPR

E. Bietti, F. Kaltheuner, here. 

“BREXIT” passes EU trademark test

WIPO Magazine, here. 

Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs

New Scientist, here. 

Big Tech’s trust issues at the forefront of Davos debate

FT, here. 

Focus on the User

Here.

United States v. Microsoft Corp.

Briefs amici curiae here. 

The Introduction of Data Breach Notification Legislation in Australia: A Comparative View

A. Daly, here. 

Ethics, algorithms and self-driving cars – a CSI of the ‘trolley problem’

A. Renda, here. 

EU antitrust regulators clear Qualcomm purchase of NXP

Reuters, here. 

The Future Computed - Artificial Intelligence and its role in society

Microsoft, here. See also here.

The quest for truly user centric services

D. Alexander, here. 

Google, Tencent Agree to Share Patents in Global Tech Alliance

Bloomberg, here. 

The Right to Privacy, 70 Years On

BSR, here. 

Wie der Mensch die Kontrolle über den Algorithmus behalten kann

Netzpolitik, hier. 

Seminario "Economia digitale e Big Data"

Università Bocconi, presentazioni qui.

How to tame the tech titans

The Economist, here. 

Judgement from the Swedish Patent and Market Court - Nasdaq dismissed of all allegations

Nasdaq, here.
The Decision by the Swedish Competition Authority is here.

Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements

Washington Post, here. 

Transparency of Automated Decisions in the GDPR: An Attempt for Systemisation

E. Bayamlıoğlu, here. 

Global antitrust in 2018

Freshfields, here. 

Is Your Company’s Data Actually Valuable in the AI Era?

A. Agrawal, J. Gans, A. Goldfarb, here. 

Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world

S. Pink1 , M. Ruckenstein, R. Willim and M. Duque, here. 

‘We get audience data at virtually no cost’: Confessions of a programmatic ad buyer

DigiDay, here. 

THE TAKING ECONOMY: UBER, INFORMATION, AND POWER

R. Calo, A. Rosenblat, here. 

Big businesses band together in urging lawmakers to sell out your privacy

Los Angeles Times, here. 

Artificial Intelligence is Trade Policy's New Frontier

Cigionline, here. 

Alexa, What Are You Doing with My Family's Personal Info?

Scientific American, here. 

Fangt die Internetgiganten ein!

SZ, hier. 

Terms of service and human rights: an analysis of online platform contracts

Here. 

DYNAMIC AIRLINE PRICING AND SEAT AVAILABILITY

K. Williams, here. 

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

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

Abstract: The revised EU Directive on payment services in the internal market (PSD2) entered into application on 13 January 2018. The PSD2 introduces a sector-specific data portability rule dubbed access to account, or XS2A. Under the PSD2, specific categories of third parties (“Fintechs”) are allowed to access bank account data to provide payment-related services requested by the customer.
The Paper first outlines how the PSD2 intends to tackle well-known market failures and other issues in the EU payment sector. Second, it discusses the role of competition enforcement in the shadow of the PSD2. Finally, the Paper asks whether the XS2A rule could serve as a template for further access regimes in the data economy.

Alternative title: The Devil in Data Access Regimes

Fintech in 2018: start-ups going global; innovation in payments and breach notification fatigue

Out-Law.com, here. 

Digital Proletariat: Should internet firms pay for the data users currently give away?

The Economist, here.

Open Banking set to shake up the way we bank

FT, here.

European banks brace for shake-up in customer data

FT, here.

The Social Contract at the Basis of Competition Law: Should we Recalibrate Competition Law to Limit Inequality?

M. Gal, here.

How the Uber & Lyft case provides an impetus to re- examine buyer power in the world of big data and algorithms

I. Herrera Anchustegui, J. Nowag, here.

Why the future of social data is partnering with your users

Digi.me, here.

Wettbewerbskommissarin: "Die Menschen müssen sorgsamer werden"

Der Standard, hier.

Researchers develop data portability recommendations for the cloud

Iapp, here.

Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark

Bloomberg, here.

Notes on attention, fake news and noise #1: scratching the surfaces

Perscrutor, here.

Richard Smith: A Big Brother future for science publishing?

Blogs.bmj.com, here.

ePrivacy Verordnung: Mitgliedstaaten sollen über opt-in oder opt-out für den Einsatz von Cookies für Werbezwecke entscheiden

Delegedata, hier.

AI trust and AI fears: A media debate that could divide society

V. Polonski, here.

Techmate: How AI rewrote the rules of chess

FT, here.

XXXLutz verzichtet auf rückwirkende Hochzeitsrabatte

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Qualcomm Set to Win European Backing for $39 Billion NXP Buy

WSJ, here. 

Canada's competition watchdog settles with HarperCollins

Reuters, here. 

About the ISU decision: a policy perspective

Chilling Competition, here. 

Bundeskartellamt sends preliminary assessment to Facebook

S. Heinz, here. 

A letter about Google AMP

here. 

The New Digital Wild West: Regulating the Explosion of Initial Coin Offerings

R. Robinson, here. 

Baidu Sees Maps for Self-Driving Cars as Bigger Business Than Web Search

Technology Review, here. 

The Alice Drizzle—Barely Even Noticeable

PatentProgress, here. 

Trucks Cartel

CDC, here. 

Facebook and Google’s Dirty Secret: They’re Really Junk Mail Empires

TheDailyBeast, here. 

Connected Cars Workshop

FTC STaff, here. 

Amicus Briefs support Arista in Cisto Litigation

J. Band, here. 

Enhancing Fairness in Platform-to-Business Relations in the EU Through a Change of Legal Landscape

Orrick, here. 

Digital 'Mash-Ups,' Patents, and Copyright

E. Boudreau, L. Jeppesen, M. Miric, here. 

Monologue of the Algorithm: how Facebook turns users data into its profit

Panoptykon Foundation, Video here. 

EU privacy boom’s a business bust

Politico.eu, here. 

MEO – Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia SA contre Autoridade da Concorrência

C‑525/16, CONCLUSIONS DE L’AVOCAT GÉNÉRAL M. NILS WAHL, here. 

Non-price competition and 'witches' persecution

The Guardian, here. 

VW verbündet sich mit dem Chiphersteller der Künstlichen Intelligenz

FAZ, hier. 

Internet Users in China Expect to Be Tracked. Now, They Want Privacy.

NYTimes, here. 

Horizontal Mergers, Innovation and the Competitive Process

G. Federico, here. 

‘It Can’t Be True.’ Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown

Bloomberg, here. 

La vie numérique bientôt protégée comme le corps?

20 Minutes, ici. 

Israel's anti-trust regulator to look at internet giants

Reuters, here. 

How to Fix Facebook—Before It Fixes Us

R. McNamee, here. 

Why Are We Paying Different Prices? Hint: Artificial Intelligence is Learning What You’re Willing to Pay

T. Gaubert, here. 

Open banking’: radical shake-up, or a threat to your private data?

The Guardian, here. 

Improving Ourselves to Death

NewYorker, here. 

Oracle v. Rimini Street

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, here. 

Zuckerberg Money Manager Iconiq Bets on European Data Startup

Bloomberg, here. 

The personal data of many of India's citizens is for sale on WhatsApp for less than $10.

MotherBoard, here. 

Lufthansa räumt Einfluss auf höhere Flugpreise ein

Rbb24.de, hier. 

The Concept of Fairness: Linking EU Competition and Data Protection Law in the Digital Marketplace

H. Kalimo, K. Majcher, here. 

Bundeskartellamts: "Gegen Facebook können wir vorgehen"

Rheinische Post, hier.

Deep Learning Blindspots

K. Jarmul, Video here.

Facebook Can’t Be Fixed.

J. Battelle, here.

How to Curb Silicon Valley Power—Even With Weak Antitrust Laws

Wired, here.

Singularity Skepticism

E. Felden, here.

Could New York City's AI Transparency Bill Be a Model for the Country?

GovTech, here. 

Apple Says Developers Earned 30% More From App Store in 2017

Bloomberg, here. 

Tough new German law puts tech firms and free speech in spotlight

TheGuardian, here. 

Exploitative abuse and abuse of economic dependence: What can we learn from the industrial organization approach?

P. Bougette, O. Budzinski, F. Marty, here. 

Southwest Airlines to pay $15 million to settle price collusion lawsuit

Reuters, here. 

Drei Monate Hölle

SZ, hier.

Versicherungen aus dem Netz

FAZ, hier. 

Data take centre stage as Ant Financial fails in MoneyGram bid

FT, here. 

Fintech leads the way as investment in UK tech firms doubles in 2017

FinExtra, here. 

Why Google's And Facebook's Dominance Is Normal Market Evolution

AdExchanger, here. 

Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees

Nature, here. 

How the FTC keeps up on technology

FTC, here. 

Can This App That Lets You Sell Your Health Data Cut Your Health Costs?

FastCompany, here. 

EU Copyright Law and the Cloud: VCAST and the intersection of private copying and communication to the public

J.Quintais, T. Rendas, here. 

The economics of the Bitcoin payment system

VOXEU, here. 

What Is at Stake with Supreme Court Review of United States v. American Express Co.?

A. Shampine, here. 

EBA's finalised guidance for banks on outsourcing to the cloud lacks detail

Out-Law.com, here. 

Gartner Highlights 10 Uses for AI-Powered Smartphones

Gartner, here. 

Data aggregators: a solution to open data issues

Blog.okfn.org, here. 

No Idea What MiFID Stands For? Here’s What You Need to Know

Bloomberg, here.

Merger Policy for Tech Giants and Broadband Providers Panel

Capital Forum, here.

Personal information more at risk than ever in age of big data, Hong Kong privacy watchdog head says

SCMP, here. 

How Uber could be building a restaurant empire with your data

TNW, here. 

The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine

NYTimes, here. 

Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond "Free"

I. Arrieta Ibarra, L. Goff, D. Jiménez Hernández, J. Lanier, E. Weyl, here. 

Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence

2017 Talks, here. 

Using AdWords API to export to third-party ad networks will remain OK as Google keeps terms it adopted in FTC settlement

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Are FinTechs hindered by supervisory fees in the Netherlands?

EY for the ACM, here. 

INSIDE CHINA'S VAST NEW EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL RANKING

Wired, here. 

The price of the bitcoin bubble: Patent trolls are digging into the blockchain

CNBC, here. 

Brenntag sanctionnée à hauteur de 30 millions d'euros pour obstruction à l'instruction.

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Apple confirms iPhones with older batteries will take hits in performance

The Verge, here. 

21st Century Competition Commission Act

Ellison.house.gov, here. 

ECJ puts some fizz in German retail market with ‘Champagner Sorbet’ decision

FT, here. 

Barclays begins preparations for Open Banking

FinExtra, here. 

Consumer Watchdog Asks FTC to Act Against Google Home; Amazon Echo Digital assistants for Deception, COPPA Violation

PRNewswire, here. 

Gemeinsam gegen das Lastwagen-Kartell

FAZ, hier. 

La banca teme nuevos conflictos con los clientes ante la futura regulación de pagos

CincoDias, aquì. 

Platform Regulations How Platforms are Regulated and How They Regulate Us

L. Belli and N. Zingales (Eds), here. 

Génériques de Durogesic: arrivée sur le marché retardée, développement freiné

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

We Can't Find Your Data, But a Hacker Could: How 'Privacy by Design' Trades-Off Data Protection Rights

M. Veale, R. Binns, J. Ausloos, here. 

Uber Dealt Setback After European Court Rules It Is a Taxi Service

NYTimes, here. 

Here’s What Happens to a Startup When Google Gets All Up in Its Business

Bloomberg, here. 

Facebook wants your face data — in the name of privacy, it says

The Washington Post, here. 

Digitale Handelspolitik: Datenschutz gegen Bananen?

Heise.de, hier. 

Fintechs in het betalingsverkeer

ACM, hier (Google translation here; as some of the footnotes got lost in translation, I collected them separately here; for any remaining doubt ask your spouse - if he/she happens to be Dutch or at least Flemish).

Konditionenmissbrauch durch Ausplünderung von Plattform Nutzerdaten

S. Telle, hier. 

Preliminary assessment in Facebook proceeding: Facebook's collection and use of data from third-party sources is abusive

Bundeskartellamt, here. See also Background information on the Facebook proceeding, here and hier.

Bin mir nicht sicher, ob die Uebersetzung hier überhaupt stimmt:

 Der Bundesgerichtshof hat hier eine Rechtsprechung entwickelt, wonach die Unangemessenheit von Konditionen auch anhand von Wertungen des Zivilrechts, etwa des AGB-Rechts, oder anhand einer grundrechtlichen Interessenabwägung überprüft werden kann. Dies gilt für alle gesetzlichen Wertungen, die den Schutz einer Vertragspartei in einer ungleichgewichtigen Vertragsposition bezwecken. Hieran anknüpfend prüft das Bundeskartellamt die Vertragskonditionen Facebooks anhand datenschutzrechtlicher Wertungen. Denn auch das Datenschutzrecht bezweckt den Schutz des Betroffenen vor ungerechtfertigten Datenverarbeitungen seiner personenbezogenen Daten durch die Marktgegenseite. Es soll gewährleisten, dass ein Nutzer selbstbestimmt und freiwillig über den Umgang mit seinen personenbezogenen Daten entscheiden kann.

According to the case-law of the German Federal
Court of Justice, civil law principles can also be
applied to determine whether business terms are
exploitative. On principle, any legal principle
that aims to protect a contract party in an
imbalanced negotiation position can be applied forthis purpose. Often, such principles stem from the
legislation on unfair contract terms or the German
Basic Law. Following the Federal Court of Justice's
approach, the Bundeskartellamt also applies data
protection principles in its assessment of
Facebook's terms and conditions. In this regard,
data protection law has the same objective as competition law, which is to protect individuals
from having their personal data exploited by the
opposite market side. Data protection legislation
seeks to ensure that users can decide freely and
without coercion on how their personal data are
used."

Hier nicht falsch aber zu unpräzis (Selbstbestimmung=rechtlicher Begriff):


"Der Schaden liegt hier vielmehr in einem Kontrollverlust für den Nutzer: Er kann nicht mehr selbstbestimmt über seine persönlichen Daten verfügen."

" The damage for the users lies in a
loss of control: they are no longer able to control
how their personal data are used."

New letter: Top Uber officials engaged in illegal wiretapping, shady spycraft

ArsTechnica, here. 

Transmission de données de WHATSAPP à FACEBOOK : mise en demeure publique pour absence de base légale

CNIL, ici. 

Disney Files Lawsuit Against Redbox Claiming Copyright Infringement

IP Wire, here. 

How to Build a Better Antitrust Policy

H. Hovenkamp, Podcast and Transcript here. 

Google Search (Shopping)

CASE AT.39740, here. 

Can Facebook and Google Be Disrupted?

E. Chiel, here. 

Chinese tech groups look for edge in using artificial intelligence

FT, here. 

Netflix and Spotify Ask: Can Data Mining Make for Cute Ads?

NYTimes, here.

Expedia, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Kayak : comment les Américains imposent leurs lois aux hôtels, restaurants, compagnies aériennes et commerces français?

France Culture, Podcast ici. 

If you go down to the mall today, you're watched by a thousand eyes

TheAge, here. 

Pourquoi Bercy assigne Amazon en justice

Le Parisien, ici. 

La CNIL se prononce sur l'éthique des algorithmes et de l'intelligence artificielle

Sciencesetavenir.fr, ici. 

Europe gears up to play pivotal role in ‘internet of things’

FT, here. 

PROTECTION AND CONTROL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN THE EU MEMBER STATES

EUIPO, here.

Joining Disney and Fox's sports channels may raise antitrust concerns: experts

Reuters, here.

Data and the role of antitrust enforcement

B. Nigro, here.

Drones, volcanoes and the 'computerisation' of the Earth

The Conversation, here.

Data will change the world, and we must get its governance right

The Guardian, here.

AI isn’t just compromising our privacy—it can limit our choices, too

Quartz, here.

Hard Questions: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?

Facebook, here.

Top Silicon Valley tech battle judge probed over sex pest claims

TheRegister, here.

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

FCA to examine ‘high risk’ initial coin offering market

FT, here. 

CMA launches digital tool to fight bid-rigging

CMA, here. 

Comment permettre à l'homme de garder la main ? Les enjeux éthiques des algorithmes et de l’intelligence artificielle

CNIL, ici. 

Accuracy and administrability go hand in hand

J. Laitenberger, here. 

"Die Bundesregierung hat sich auf die Lufthansa versteift"

FAZ, hier.

DOJ confirms new criminal probe linked to Waymo v. Uber lawsuit

ArsTechnica, here. 

The Hidden Side of Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from the Airline Market

M. Alderighi, A. Gaggero, C. Piga, here. 

Berlin regrets EU decision on airline Niki as insolvency looms

Reuters, here.

Guidelines on Consent and transparency

Art29WP, here and here.

Validating scraped data using goodtables

Ofnlabs, here.

Bundeskartellamt will Lufthansa-Preise prüfen

FAZ, hier.

The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust: Outdated or a Harbor in a Sea of Doubt?

US Senate, here.

Demain ce sera: à. Chacun son prix !

E. Combe, TEDxMarseille, ici.

Connected Cars: What Happens To Our Data On Rental Cars?

Privacy International, here.

ICANN; No, you can't

Article 29WP, here.

33 Theses for an Economics Reformation

Rethinking Economics, here.

Der Todes-Algorithmus

Tagesschau, hier.

The Rhetorical “We” and the Ethics of Technology

M. Sacasas, here.