Saturday, April 28, 2018

What has the EU ever done for us?

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

EU Asks `Is the Net Essential?' The Answer Could Hurt Google

Bloomberg, here.

Or couldn't data be the infrastructure?

Dateneigentum: Ein trojanisches Pferd

NZZ, hier. 

Jürgen Klopp: "The EU is not perfect, but it's the best idea we've had so far.”

Here. 

Waze signs data-sharing deal with AI-based traffic management startup Waycare

TechCrunch, here. 

FTC Charges Lending Club with Deceiving Consumers

FTC, here.

"Defendant conducts a credit pull on applicants’ credit reports. Defendant then immediately rejects those consumers that it determines do not meet certain baseline criteria. Defendant refers to this step as “front-end” denial..."Although Defendant tells consumers that its loans contain “No hidden fees,” Defendant nevertheless charges consumers an up-front fee that is not clearly and conspicuously disclosed. This fee is calculated as a percentage—on average, approximately 5 percent—of the consumer’s requested loan amount, and often amounts to more than a thousand dollars...Defendant deducts the hidden up-front fee from the promised “Loan Amount” before disbursing the loan funds to the consumer. As a result, the amount of money that Defendant disburses to a consumer’s bank account is always substantially smaller than the promised “Loan Amount.” And because consumers must pay interest on the entire “Loan Amount,” including the fee, Defendant’s hidden fee leaves consumers paying interest on principal that they never received...Defendant has ignored these warnings. Rather than improving over time, Defendant’s violations have become more egregious over the years: when redesigning the application flow in the winter of 2014, Defendant increased the prominence of the “No hidden fees” representation and decreased the prominence of the tooltip...On desktops and mobile phones, after consumers agree to the loan terms and enter bank account information, they then click a “Done!” button and are taken to a screen that has stated, in large type: “Your [amount requested] loan is on the way. What’s next?” The amount that Defendant promises is “on the way” is the same “Loan Amount” that Defendant promised the consumer on the Loan Offer page. For example, a consumer who was promised a $10,000 loan amount will see on this screen a representation that “Your $10,000 loan is on the way...Although Defendant has told each consumer who completed a loan application that his or her “loan is on the way,” a consumer’s application in fact must undergo two additional processes after completion in order to receive final approval. First, an application must attract sufficient investor backing, and second, an application must pass Defendant’s stringent “back-end” credit review—so called to distinguish it from the lighter, “front-end” review that Defendant conducts while the consumer’s application is still in progress...If a consumer has garnered investor funding—but before Defendant has finished the “back-end” review of their applications—Defendant has sent such consumers various email messages communicating that the consumers will receive loans...In reality, however, many consumers who received such emails were subsequently rejected based on Defendant’s “back-end” credit review and never received a loan from Defendant. For example, of the at least approximately 196,000 consumers who received the above email, at least approximately 43,000 were subsequently rejected. The “back-end” credit review is searching and often involves, inter alia, an additional credit inquiry, a phone call to the consumer, requests for additional documentation, and detailed review of the consumer’s tax and bank records...Defendant’s default method of receiving consumers’ scheduled monthly payments is automatic electronic bank account withdrawal via ACH transfer. In numerous instances, Defendant has withdrawn money from consumers’ bank accounts without consumers’ authorization, or in amounts in excess of the amount consumers authorized Defendant to withdraw...As a result of Defendant’s unauthorized charges, many consumers are forced to pay overdraft fees, while other consumers are unable to pay other bills because they do not have access to the money that Defendant improperly withdrew...Defendant’s conduct is governed by the Privacy Rule prior to October 28, 2014, and by Reg. P after that date. The GLB Act authorizes both the CFPB and the Federal Trade Commission to enforce Reg. P. 15 U.S.C. § 6805...Defendant failed to comply with the requirements of the Privacy Rule and Reg. P. Specifically, Defendant failed to deliver the initial privacy notice so that each customer can reasonably be expected to receive actual notice. 16 C.F.R. § 313.9; 12 C.F.R. § 1016.9. For example, until at least the end of 2016, Defendant did not require customers to acknowledge receipt of the notice as a necessary step to obtaining a particular financial product or service. 16 C.F.R. § 313.9, and Reg. P, 12 C.F.R. § 1016.9. Instead, Defendant required customers to agree only to Defendant’s Terms of Use, which itself included only a link to Defendant’s privacy policy. In order to reach the privacy notice that Defendant was required to provide to customers, a customer would need to click on a link that did not indicate it was related to privacy, and then further find a link to Defendant’s privacy policy within the lengthy document to which the link led. Customers were not provided a clear and conspicuous privacy notice before they submitted nonpublic personal information to Defendant...Customers were only provided a link leading directly to the notice after they had applied for a personal loan. Defendant’s own compliance group had recommended repeatedly that the company require customer acknowledgment in the years prior to the 2016 change...Consumers have suffered and will continue to suffer substantial injury as a result of Defendant’s violations of the FTC Act and the Privacy Rule. In addition, Defendant has been unjustly enriched as a result of their unlawful acts or practices. Absent injunctive relief by this Court, Defendant is likely to continue to injure consumers, reap unjust enrichment, and harm the public interest."

Why did it take so long for the FTC to act? And what about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau re privacy issues? See FTC FinTech Series: Marketplace Lending June 9, 2016 Transcript, here.  See also here, June 9 2016 ("8 of 15 mention “No Hidden Fees”).

Competition and a fair deal for consumers online

M. Vestager, here.
Platform fairness is today's hot topic but the Commissioner doesn't mention it. She refers to it in an interview, though.

IMG and Leeds United owner's agency raided in EU sport cartel inquiry

The Guardian, here.

Sopnendu Mohanty: «Singapore Will Be an Oasis for Fintechs»

Finews.asia, here. 

Scams, Lies, And Revenge Porn: In the Facebook Fallout, Will The U.S. Get New Privacy Laws?

Forbes, here. 

Distributed Ledger Technology

FCA, here. See also here.. 

Observatory on the Online Platform Economy

EC Decision, here. 

EU moves to regulate tech giants' business practices

Reuters. here. 

Kann die Demokratie im 21. Jahrhundert bestehen?

F.W.-Steinmeier, hier. 

Online platforms: Commission takes legislative steps to ensure transparency and fairness for platform users

EC, here. FAQs here.
Regulation here.
Impact Assessment, here. Annexes, here.

Why does the Commission propose a Communication on online disinformation

EC, here. 

Pour une régulation européenne des plates-formes numériques

LesEchos.fr, ici. 

Facebook and the GDPR

J. Carr, here. 

Vestager zoekt meer grip op snelle techwereld

FD, hier.

Norwegian Air had ‘several inquiries’ since IAG stake revealed

FT, here. 

Digital banking startup Revolut raises $250M at a valuation of $1.7B

TechCrunch, here. 

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism

LAReviewofbooks, here.

"We are seeing just the tip of the iceberg"

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Warum Daten unter die Kontrolle der Bürger gehören

E. Hafen, hier.

eBay To Offer PayPal Through July Of 2023

Pymnts, here.

Altaba, Formerly Known as Yahoo!, Charged With Failing to Disclose Massive Cybersecurity Breach; Agrees To Pay $35 Million

SEC, here.

Study in Support of the Evaluation of the Database Directive

EC, here.

Guidance on sharing private sector data in the European data economy

Commission Staff Working Paper, here.

Future of Identity and getting there

Mydex, here. 

Liability for emerging digital technologies

Commissiion Staff Working Paper, here.

Artificial Intelligence for Europe

EC, Communication, here. 

Data in the EU: Commission steps up efforts to increase availability and boost healthcare data sharing

EC, here. 

Proposal for a revised Directive on the reuse of Public Sector Information

EC, here. Impact Assessment and related documents here.

Artificial intelligence: Commission outlines a European approach to boost investment and set ethical guidelines

EC, here. 

Towards a common European data space

EC, Communication, here.

"Cordoba-Fall"

C-161/17, Schlussanträge des Generalanwalts Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, hier. 

COMPETITION IS AT THE HEART OF FACEBOOK’S PRIVACY PROBLEM

D. Cicilline, T. McSweeny, here. 

Monday, April 23, 2018

EU Code of conduct on agricultural data sharing by contractual agreement

Here.  Remarks by EU Commissioner Hogan here. 

Commission opens in-depth investigation into Apple's proposed acquisition of Shazam

EC, here.

Mercedes setzt KI von Alibaba ein

FAZ, hier.

Facebook's hidden data haul troubles German cartel regulator

Reuters, here. 

Global fintech funding hits record $5.4bn in Q1

FinExtra, here. 

Who’s Benefiting? Revisiting the Innovation and Start-Up Ecosystem

Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

Art imitates life in the digital age

FT, here. 

Privacy and Personal Data Collection with Information Externalities

J. Choi, D.-S. Jeon, B.-C. Kim, 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)

The Amazon Phenomenon

Stigler Center, Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

US vs EU: Antitrust, Data, and Privacy Policy

Stigler Center, Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

A Google Breakup Would Fit the EU's Logic

Bloomberg, here. 

Regulating Facebook merely nips at the edge of a bigger problem

FT, here. 

Australian regulator flags scrutiny of Uber Eats

Reuters, here. 

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Blockchains and the Right to be Forgotten

M. Finck, here. 

Blockchain Is About to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry

Bloomberg, here. 

Property is theft (and allocatively inefficient too)

D. Coyle, here. 

Facebook parries ad market 'dominance' claims

AFR, here. 

Australia needs tougher penalties for banks, financial institutions, ACCC says

ABC.net.au, here. 

Werbekunden verpflichten sich zu mehr Daten-Transparenz

WuW, hier. 

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?"

Information Technology and Industry Concentration

J. Bessen, here. 

Data as Destiny? Palantir Knows Everything About You

Bloomberg, here. 

Don’t Stop Believin’: Antitrust Enforcement in the Digital Era

M. Delrahim, here.

The Digital Heroes That Fought Against Government Surveillance Are Quiet About Facebook. They’re Missing Their Moment

Slate, here.

Thursday, April 19, 2018

DOJ Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim: “American Antitrust Agencies Likely Have Made More Enforcement Mistakes Than Any of Their Foreign Counterparts”

Pro Market, here. 

EP’s Report on the Annual Report on Competition Policy

Here. 

Künstliche Intelligenz im Reality-Check

SAS, hier. 

Data experts on Facebook’s GDPR changes: Expect lawsuits

TechCrunch, here. 

Facebook to put 1.5bn users out of reach of new EU GDPR privacy law

"In Spirit"
Irish Times, here. 

Productivity and the Financial Sector – What’s Missing?

 C.D. Howe Institute, here. 

So ... you wanna talk about Facebook?

Make me smart, Interview with T. McSweeny, Audio here. 

Revolving doors at the EU commission's finance unit

EUObserver, here. 

Solutions to the Threats of Digital Monopolies

ProMarket, here. 

Data privacy, mergers key topics of discussion during ABA Antitrust Law spring meeting

ABA, here. 

5 questions sur l’action de la Quadrature du Net contre les géants du web

Numerama.com, ici. 

Uber exits Philippines despite antitrust review

AsiaNikkei, here. 

Apple Is Planning to Launch a News Subscription Service

Bloomberg Technology, here. 

High-Level Hearing: A European Union Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

Hearing, Video here. 

The European AI Landscape

EC, here.

Economía digital y competencia

A. Faya, aquì.

Net neutrality rules move past first hurdle in California

LATimes, here. 

The UAE Competition Committee is open for business

Hogan Lovells, here. 

Daten autonomer Autos sollten nicht gleich an den Hersteller gehen

SZ, hier. 

AT&T/Time Warner merger case

Interview with Brent Kendall, Audio here (from 05:30)

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Friday, April 13, 2018

Innovation in EU Merger Control

C. Esteva Mosso, here.

Google loses landmark 'right to be forgotten' case

The Guardian, here.

Death By a Thousand Papercuts: How Streaming Services Protect Themselves From Lawsuits by Burying the Copyright Office in Paperwork

Billboard, here.

No, end-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats

G. Zanon, here. 

DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND CONCENTRATION

Stigler Center, 2018 Antitrust and Competition Conference, 19-20 April, here and livestreamed here.

The 2017 Conference has been great fun, highly recommended!

Starting at 3.30 pm TrentoTime.

La nueva economía

CNMC Blog, aquì. 

How CCI should look at M&A deals in digital economy

LiveMint, here. 

Should Privacy Law Regulate Technological Design? An Interview with Woodrow Hartzog

LinkedIn, here. 

Processing Personal Data on the Basis of Legitimate Interests under the GDPR

Future of Privacy Forum, here. 

LA DONNÉE COMME INFRASTRUCTURE ESSENTIELLE

Administrateur général des données, ici. 

What Makes Tech Platforms So Powerful?

L. Khan, here. 

UK advertising in a digital age

House of Lords, here. 

Irish High Court to send off Facebook & US surveillance case to CJEU

M. Schrems, here. 

Understanding the Economics of AI

A. Goldfarb, here. 

There is no AI ethics: The human origins of machine prejudice

J. Bryson, here. 

"Fuchsia ist kein Linux": Google dokumentiert Android-Nachfolger

Heise.de, hier. 

Neutrality, fairness or freedom? Principles for platform regulation

F. Bostoen, here. 

European Commission acts to ban unfair trade practices in the food supply chain

EC, here. 

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: "Wow! Totale Informationskontrolle!"

Profil.at, hier. 

Henrik Kristoffersen v. The Norwegian Ski Federation

EFTA Court, Report of the Hearing here. 

Streit über "Persönlichkeitsstatus" von Robotern kocht hoch

Heise.de, hier.

‘We’ll get back to you’: six questions Mark Zuckerberg dodged

FT, here. See also the comprehensive list of questions-to-be-followed-up here. 

Was bringt die Datenschutz- Grundverordnung für automatisierte Entscheidungssysteme?

S. Dreyer, W. Schulz, hier. 

When science fiction inspires real technology

Technology Review, here. 

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

And @wavesblog antitrust writing award 2018 goes to...



Image result for oscar

(Hopefully, the bottle will be delivered at the next Ascola Conference - NYU 2018)

Rethinking competition in the Digital Economy

Cofece, here.

EU approves changes to Bayer commitments over Monsanto deal

Reuters, here.

Competition policy in a globalized and digitalized world. Challenges of today and tomorrow

Bundeskartellamt, Podiumsdiskussion, Video here. 

Wettbewerb, Verbraucher, Arbeitsplätze – wen oder was schützen Wettbewerbsbehörden?

Bundeskartellamt, Interview Video hier. 

GDPR's right of access

Babbage, here (from 00:48).

Ontwikkelingen digitale revolutie zowel kans als risico

ACM, hier. 

Kartellamt befragt Hotels zu Booking.com

AHGZ, hier. 

Deux députés relancent la possibilité de proposer des alternatives à Google dans les smartphones

Numerama.com, ici. 

The Lundbeck Case and the Concept of Potential Competition

S. Marco Colino, N. Dunne, K. Fournier, S. Pais, D. Ritzmann, here. 

Commission confirms unannounced inspections concerning distribution of sports media rights and other related rights

EC, here.
Murdoch's Fox, and who else? VodafoneZiggo is another investigated company.

2033: How Mark Zuckerberg Fixed Facebook

Politico.com, here. 

The Long Run: Maximizing Innovation Incentives Through Advocacy and Enforcement

M. Delrahim, here. 

Facebook's China Argument Revealed in Zuckerberg's Hearing Notes

Bloomberg, here. 

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Google appeals Indian antitrust watchdog's 'search bias' verdict: sources

Reuters, here. Ruling here.
See also this comment.

Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Industrial Organization

H. Varian, here. 

Summary report of the consultation on the review of the directive on the re-use of public sector information

EC, here. 

Creation without consequence: How Silicon Valley made a hot mess of progress

J. Bryson, here. 

FROM METRO TO COTY: A STORY TO BE CONTINUED? THE CJEU'S JUDGMENT IN COTY GERMANY GMBH V PARFÜMERIE AKZENTE GMBH

Baker McKenzie, here. 

THE TAR LAZIO’S JUDGEMENT IN THE ITALIAN ASPEN CASE ON THE IMPOSITION OF UNFAIR PRICES UNDER ART. 102(A) TFEU

M. Angeli, here. 

EU Member States to cooperate on European strategy for Artificial Intelligence

EC, here. Declaration here. 

What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

HBR, here. 

Paul-Olivier Dehaye and the Raiders of the Lost Data

Law.kuleuven.be, here. 

ALGORITHMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENTS: A PRACTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC AGENCY ACCOUNTABILITY

AI Now, here. 

Singapore: Competition watchdog to study online travel booking sector, data portability issues

Today Online, here. 

Amerika erlaubt größte deutsche Auslandsübernahme

FAZ, hier. 

Blockchain to enable medical data to be stored and transmitted safely and effectively

EC, here. here.

What Should Congress Ask Zuckerberg? Nothing.

NyTimes, here. 

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

Uber seeks Dutch payments licence in drive to diversify

Sky News, here. 

Using Digital Platforms and Artificial Intelligence to Outpace Rivals

Oracle, here. 

Joint Submission to Treasury on the Open Banking Review Final Report

K. Kemp, D. Vaile, here. 

New ways to trade data

The Economist, here. 

Big Data aus wettbewerbs- und ordnungspolitischer Perspektive

J. Haucap, hier. 

Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

M. Stucke, here. 

Software Interface Copyright

Harvard J of L&T, Special Issue, here. 

Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?

NYTimes, here. 

A German Approach to Antitrust for Digital Platforms

J. Haucap, here.. 

The Uber-Grab merger and the potentially anti-competitive consequences of the battle for ride-hailing dominance

CoRe Blog, here. 

On Uber Selling Southeast Asia Business to Grab

B. Edelman, here. 

eDistortions: How Data-opolies Are Dissipating the Internet’s Potential

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

Vertical restraints, digital marketplaces, and enforcement tools

J. Laitenberger, here. 

Apple Just Poached Google's AI Chief. Now Maybe Siri Will Get Smarter

Fortune, here. 

Synchronised swimming versus competition in banking

ACCC, here. 

FB drama hits open banking

InnovationAus, here. 

Technology & Competition law: A conversation with Stephen King

Audio here.

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the Regulator’s Dilemma: Clueless or Venal?

D. Vladeck, here. 

Rethinking Antitrust Tools for Multi-Sided Platforms

OECD, here. 

Tech Giants Breakup

N. Petit, Video here. 

Online platforms and abuse of dominance – the case of Funda Real Estate

D. Mandrescu, here. 

Trade Associations, Information Exchange, and Cartels

Spencer Weber Waller, here. 

Data Lords: The Real Story of Big Data, Facebook and the Future of News

TPM, here. 

Procedimento istruttorio nei confronti di Facebook Inc. per presunte pratiche commerciali scorrette

AGCM, qui.

Following Singapore, Philippines regulator forces Grab to delay closing Uber’s app

TechCrunch, here. 

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Why have we given up our privacy to Facebook and other sites so willingly?

The Guardian, here.

The Facebook scandal isn’t just about privacy. Your economic future is on the line

The Guardian, here.

Brazil antitrust watchdog to investigate Brazilian banks on fintech complaint

Reuters, here.

'A grand illusion': seven days that shattered Facebook's facade

The Guardian, here.

ICN 2018 New Delhi - Wrap-up

CUTS Int., here.

How Google is eroding consumers’ freedom to choose

Beuc, here.

Robot Regulators. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Bloomberg, here.

Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte bezweifelt Facebooks Datenschutzversprechen

Heise.de, hier.

Facebook largement en tête chez les agriculteurs

Terre-net.fr, ici.

Is Your Blockchain Business Doomed?

Bloomberg, here.

After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, advertisers rethink Facebook data

Digiday, here.

Horizontal mergers and innovation: why I agree with Tommaso Valletti

Chilling Competition, here.

-International Skating Union’s Eligibility rules

CASE AT.40208, here.

Should We Be Concerned About Data-Opolies?

M. Stucke, here.

TRASPORTO MERCI DA E PER LA SARDEGNA: SANZIONI DI 29 MLN DI EURO A MOBY E CIN PER ABUSO POSIZIONE DOMINANTE

AGCM, Qui.

Campaigners hit Cambridge Analytica where it hurts

FT, here.

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing

Doc Searls, here.

EU plans to pull ‘free’ digital services under consumer protection rules

Euractiv, here.

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Beware the Big Five

T. Shaw, here.

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 ?!?

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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.