Pymnts, here.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Guidance on sharing private sector data in the European data economy
Commission Staff Working Paper, here.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Monday, April 23, 2018
Who’s Benefiting? Revisiting the Innovation and Start-Up Ecosystem
Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here.
Protecting competition, Reinforcing Consumer Protection, Rethinking Regulation
J. Tirole, Video here.
Some Memorable Quotes:
"Potential competition...if you don't know...the wise thing to do is not to let the merger operate"
"mfn...one of the cleverest strategies I've ever encountered, and people don't get it somehow"
"the important thing is, you can tax people who don't use you"
"I don't have a personal assistant, I don't want a personal assistant"
"What is the right fee for Booking?...I don't know"
"Defaults matter"
"We need the help the consumer...help me...self-regulation is going nowhere"
"Competition policy is slow, and often too late"
"Back and forth process" of regulation "you need to have guidelines and supervision"
"Participative antitrust" (droit de la concurrence participatif, this is the idea, my bet), "regulation reactive to ideas...proposed by the industry"
"You should make regulation agile...and listen to the industry"
"I'm not against breaking up those firms...my gut feeling right now is that it's difficult...harder that it used to be in the past because the technology is moving faster"
Brief discussion of Choi, Jeon, Kim Paper from 29:01
(tbd)
Some Memorable Quotes:
"Potential competition...if you don't know...the wise thing to do is not to let the merger operate"
"mfn...one of the cleverest strategies I've ever encountered, and people don't get it somehow"
"the important thing is, you can tax people who don't use you"
"I don't have a personal assistant, I don't want a personal assistant"
"What is the right fee for Booking?...I don't know"
"Defaults matter"
"We need the help the consumer...help me...self-regulation is going nowhere"
"Competition policy is slow, and often too late"
"Back and forth process" of regulation "you need to have guidelines and supervision"
"Participative antitrust" (droit de la concurrence participatif, this is the idea, my bet), "regulation reactive to ideas...proposed by the industry"
"You should make regulation agile...and listen to the industry"
"I'm not against breaking up those firms...my gut feeling right now is that it's difficult...harder that it used to be in the past because the technology is moving faster"
Brief discussion of Choi, Jeon, Kim Paper from 29:01
(tbd)
US vs EU: Antitrust, Data, and Privacy Policy
Stigler Center, Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here.
The challenges for present and future competition enforcement
Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, here.
Friday, April 20, 2018
Lagarde urges greater scrutiny of big tech companies
FT, here.
Transcript of the CNBC's interview here:
"EISEN: ALL RIGHT. YOU’VE CERTAINLY BEEN WARNING ABOUT THAT. I KNOW YOU LOOK AT BANK REGULATIONS. WHAT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY REGULATIONS? DO YOU THINK WE’RE ABOUT TO SEE A WAVE OF INCREASED SCRUTINY— OBVIOUSLY WE’VE SEEN SCRUTINY, BUT REVELATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO TECH GLOBALLY AND REVELATIONS INTO THEIR COMPETITIVENESS, AND COMPANIES LIKE FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND AMAZON.
LAGARDE: WELL, AS YOU SAID IN THE IMF, WE SUPPORT FREE MARKET. WE SUPPORT COMPETITION. WE SUPPORT IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY. WE SUPPORT INNOVATION. AND WE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH MARKET CONCENTRATION IN THE HANDS OF TOO FEW, WE’RE NOT SEEING COMPETITION, WE’RE NOT SEEING INNOVATION. AND OVER TIME WE ARE SEEING, YOU KNOW, GRADUAL --
EISEN: IS THAT WHEN FACEBOOK IS?
LAGARDE: IT DEPENDS HOW YOU DEFINE THE MARKET. IT DEPENDS WHO SUBSTITUTES. I MEAN, IT’S A VERY COMPLICATED DEBATE.
EISEN: YOU’RE NOT GOING TO CALL ANYONE OUT.
LAGARDE: BUT WE SHOULD ACTUALLY DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS THAT LEVEL OF ACCESS TO MARKET, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE ACCUMULATION OF THAT DATA IN THE HANDS OF A FEW IS NOT GOING TO BE SUCH A BARRIER THAT OTHER ENTREPRENEURS SIMPLY CANNOT ACCESS. SO THE SITUATION IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT WAS IN THE TELECOM AGE OR IN THE GILDED AGE. WE NEED TO REALLY RE-THINK THE WAY IN WHICH THAT SITUATION IS ADDRESSED. COMPETITION IS ENCOURAGED AND IF THAT REQUIRES A NEW SET OF RULES TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE Intangibility OF THOSE ASSETS, IT NEEDS TO BE DONE. LOOK AT TAX, FOR INSTANCE. IT’S ONE IN WHICH ALL POLICYMAKERS AROUND THE WORLD NEED TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT: WHERE IS VALUE LOCATED? WHERE IS VALUE GENERATED? HOW SHOULD IT BE TAXED AND WHAT REVENUE SHOULD BE CONTRIBUTED BY THOSE PLAYERS?"
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Friday, April 13, 2018
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Competition policy in a globalized and digitalized world. Challenges of today and tomorrow
Bundeskartellamt, Podiumsdiskussion, Video here.
The Lundbeck Case and the Concept of Potential Competition
S. Marco Colino, N. Dunne, K. Fournier, S. Pais, D. Ritzmann, here.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
A Member State is not required to extend a prohibition on the extradition of its own nationals to the United States to every EU citizen travelling in its territory
Judgment in Case C-191/16
Romano Pisciotti v Bundesrepublik Deutschland, here.
The UberPop service does not constitute an information society service
Judgment in Case C-320/16, here.
Monday, April 09, 2018
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Governments must intervene to build trust in data use
FT, here.
But...the GDPR isn't about data ownership.
But...the GDPR isn't about data ownership.
Monday, March 26, 2018
Durchleuchtet, analysiert & einsortiert? Wie Unternehmen Daten über unseren Alltag erfassen und gegen uns einsetzen
Kitchen Talks, Video hier (und der Wiener Akzent ein echter Genuss !).
An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest
A. Mathur, A. Narayanan, M. Chetty, here.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Monday, March 19, 2018
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Meet the data war whistleblower
The Guardian, here.
“Facebook could see it was happening,” says Wylie. “Their security protocols were triggered because Kogan’s apps were pulling this enormous amount of data, but apparently Kogan told them it was for academic use. So they were like, ‘Fine’.”
The Video is also quite instructive, but, wait a minute, he doesn’t even trust HIS OWN MUM ?!?
“Facebook could see it was happening,” says Wylie. “Their security protocols were triggered because Kogan’s apps were pulling this enormous amount of data, but apparently Kogan told them it was for academic use. So they were like, ‘Fine’.”
The Video is also quite instructive, but, wait a minute, he doesn’t even trust HIS OWN MUM ?!?
Saturday, March 17, 2018
MasterCard and IBM to set up European ‘data trust’
FT, here.
*warning*: more than avarage legal errors in the article, but the news is there
*warning*: more than avarage legal errors in the article, but the news is there
Friday, March 16, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Monday, March 12, 2018
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Friday, March 09, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and ‘Autonomous’ Systems
European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, here.
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Reconciling competition and IP law: the case of patented pharmaceuticals and dominance abuse
C. Fonteijn, I. Akker and W. Sauter, here.
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Monday, March 05, 2018
Friday, March 02, 2018
Thursday, March 01, 2018
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, February 26, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
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...”
“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...”
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
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.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Progressive Antitrust
H. Hovenkamp, here.
Brief comment : “channeling” innovation is not an antitrust goal, but “protecting” innovation is.
Brief comment : “channeling” innovation is not an antitrust goal, but “protecting” innovation is.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
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