FTC Decision on Staples' Acquisition of Office Supply Wholesaler Essendant

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, here. 

The Data Inspectorate initiates supervision against Google

Swedish Data Protection Authrity (Google translate), here. 

Innovation Policy Pluralism

D. Hemel, L.Larrimore Ouellette, here. 

GUIDELINES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA PROTECTION

COE, here. 

German Court determines the limits of private copying

IPKitten, here. 

Response to IAB statement

Open Rights Group, here. 

Comment of the Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University School of Law, on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's Digital Platforms Inquiry, Preliminary Report

Here. 

Entscheidungen in Zeiten des Internets: "Es braucht den Mut zum Scheitern"

Heise.de, hier. 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Delusion of Consumer Consent

J. Turow, C. Hoofnagle, here. 

Apple restores Google’s own internal iPhone apps after privacy brouhaha

ArsTechnica, here. 

Regulatory Sandbox and Competition of Financial Technologies in Taiwan

A. Chen, here. 

Web Privacy Measurement in Real-Time Bidding Systems. A Graph-Based Approach to Rtb System Classification.

R. van Eijk, here. 

Tech giants are the new gatekeepers

Axios, here. 

Wettbewerb schützen

J. Haucap, hier. 

Andreas Mundt auf Podcast!

LTO, hier. 

The American Express Opinion, Tech Platforms & the Rule of Reason

T. Wu, here.

Warning! Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

NYTimes, here.

Huge surge in AI patent applications in past 5 years

FT, here.

Italy 4.0

Deloitte, here. 

Google a aussi donné des cartes cadeaux à des internautes contre leurs données personnelles

Numérama, ici. 

Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) launched

FCA, here. 

Artificial Intelligence - Technology Trends 2019

WIPO, here. 

L'Autorité de la concurrence ordonne des mesures d'urgence à l'encontre de Google

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Die Zuckerberg-Sandberg-Connection funktioniert doch

FAZ, hier. 

Competition and engineering

Competition Lore Podcast, here. 

Two-Thirds of Financial Decision-Makers Believe Tech Giants Will Offer Retail Banking in Five Years

The Fintech Times, here. 

Sencrop is a data platform to help farmers manage their lands

TechCrunch, here. 

How to make Google stronger: Punish it

Politico.eu, here. 

Google and IAB ad category lists show ‘massive leakage of highly intimate data,’ GDPR complaint claims

TechCrunch, here. 

Google and adtech body criticised over data protection

FT, here. 

Competition Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Sector (2009-2017)

EC, here. 

Gripe to UK, Ireland, Poland: Ad tech industry inhales, then 'leaks' sensitive info on our health, politics, religion

The Register, here. 

Another tech bubble could be about to burst

FT, here. 

The Copyright Killer

GCR, here. 

Bußgeld gegen Fahrradgroßhändler ZEG wegen vertikaler Preisbindung

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Automating Society: Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU

AlgorithmWatch in cooperation with Bertelsmann Stiftung, supported by the Open Society Foundations, here. 

Japan Introduces ”Commitment Procedure” for Alleged Antitrust Violations

Orrick, here. 

How To Stop Amazon From Swallowing The Internet

H. Singer, here. 

Apple and Aetna are teaming up on a new app to help track and reward healthy behavior

CNBC, here. 

GOOGLE’S SIDEWALK LABS PLANS TO PACKAGE AND SELL LOCATION DATA ON MILLIONS OF CELLPHONES

The Intercept, here. 

Public Understanding of GDPR

Open Rights Group, here. 

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

TechCrunch, here. 

Google rejects regulator checks on search algorithms

AFR, here (and here).

Ein EU-Gesetz mausert sich zum globalen Standard

NZZ, hier. 

Daten teilen – mit dem Staat?

FAZ, hier. 

Brussels set to block rail merger between Alstom and Siemens

FT, here. 

The video of #CPDP2019 Opening Night Book Launch of "Surveillance Capitalism"

Here. 

Buchungsportale - "intransparent und unfair"?

Tagesschau.de, hier. 

Surveillance Capitalism: A Competition Policy Assessment

This is finally (on very last day, of course, and this after an already generous deadline extension - am I the only one?) my submission to the Ascola 2019 Conference (extended abstract). Any comments from @wavesblog Readers? I’d be extremely grateful (my email address is mentioned in the first footnote, thank you!).

Update on GDPR complaint (RTB ad auctions)

Brave, here. 

PRIVACY GROUPS CLAIM ONLINE ADS CAN TARGET ABUSE VICTIMS

Wired, here. 

China’s threat to Europe’s rail is a ‘straw dragon’

FT, here. 

Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

QC.com, here. 

Approach to final Regulatory Technical Standards and EBA guidelines under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2)

FCA, here.

UK watchdog proposes tougher rules for peer-to-peer lending

Reuters, here.

#CPDP2019

YouTube channel here. 

The First major truly "open" Android phone in the wake of the Android remedies?

« C’était surhumain » : des joueurs professionnels ont perdu contre une IA à Starcraft 2

Numérama, ici. 

An Alternative Vision for Antitrust in the Digital Age with Cristina Caffarra

Techopoly, Podcast here. 

A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

MIT News, here. 

Merging WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram could kill Facebook

Wired, here. 

The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite

NYTimes, here. 

Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Fix That Op-Ed You Wrote

K. Swisher, here. 

Quel est le rôle des plateformes dans l’économie numérique ?

Le Monde, ici. 

NHS to offer paid-for DNA tests if patients share data

BBC, here. 

The facts about Facebook

TechCrunch, here. 

Algorithmic regulation and the rule of law

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

Italy Makes First-Ever Official Move Toward Blockchain Regulation

Finance Magnates, here. 

Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?

TechCrunch, here.

Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

NYTimes, here.
Read also here.

Reminder: #EUcompdigit Students Challenge

Rules here.

Good Data

Edited by A. Daly, K.  Devitt and M. Mann, here.

World Leaders at Davos Call for Global Rules on Tech

NYTimes, here.

Les « brevets blockchain » : état des lieux et perspectives

August-debouzy.com, ici. 

« Amazon, Netflix : le retour de l’intégration verticale ? »

E. Combe, ici.

Surveillance capitalism’ has gone rogue. We must curb its excesses.

The Washington Post, here.

Google's cert petition in Google v. Oracle

Here.
More here.
And what I wrote on the topic centuries ago is here.

Amazon Can’t Fix Facial Recognition

C. O’Neil, here.

Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence

H. Kim, M. Luca, here.

Perspectives on Issues in AI Governance

Google, here.

Max Schrems Files New Privacy Complaints That Seem To Show The Impossibility Of Complying With The GDPR

TechDirt, here.

PhD Candidate Robbert van Eijk measures privacy component in online advertising

Uni Leiden, here.

How Do You Govern Machines That Can Learn? Policymakers Are Trying to Figure That Out

NYTIMES, here.

‘The industry can’t say it hasn’t been warned’: Media execs react to Google’s GDPR fine

DigiDay, here.

Apple's Security Expert Joined the ACLU to Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever'

Motherboard, here.

The Canal+ Judgment (T-873/16), and the end of the Pay-TV Case (or the illusion of precedent)

A. Lamadrid, here.

CNIL: Millionenbußgeld gegen Google wegen DSGVO-Verstößen

P. Hense, Video hier.

Blockchain’s Occam problem

McKinsey, here.

The New Madison Approach Goes to Court

Orrick, here.

DIGITALISIERUNG BRAUCHT ZIVILGESELLSCHAFT

Phineo.org, hier.

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

The Register, here.

COLLUSION BY BLOCKCHAIN AND SMART CONTRACTS

T. Schrepel, here.

China blocks Bing access in curb on last foreign search engine

FT, here.

Cooperation, Dependence and Eviction - How Platform-To-Business Relationships in Mobile Telephony Ecosystems Should Be Addressed in A Competition Law Perspective?

F. Marty, J. Pillot, here.

Merger Review in the 2020s: Do Digitalization and Globalization Change the Analysis?

T. Igarashi, here.

Privacy and Manipulation in the Digital Age

T. Zarski, here.

Google’s European Monopoly (& Shrinking Click-Through Opportunities)

SparkToro, here.

Data Broker That Sold Phone Locations Used by Bounty Hunters Lobbied FCC to Scrap User Consent

MotherBoard, here.

Millions of bank loan and mortgage documents have leaked online

TechCrunch, here.

Suppose TV can now alert you to changes in TV packages, so you get the best deal

TechCrunch, here.

Et voilà:

Dreamstime v. Google

Google’s response, here.

Data protection in the age of big data

S. Wachter, here.

Délibération n°SAN-2019-001 du 21 janvier 2019

Ici. 

New technology as a disruptive global force

M. Vestager, here.

Abuse of dominance through data overcharges and EU competition law enforcement

CoreBlog, here.

Brussels takes a welcome lead on AI regulation

FT, here.

Guess

Datainspektionen, here.

Amazon Knows What You Buy. And It’s Building a Big Ad Business From It.

NYTimes, here.

Brave alerts the FTC about two major problems in digital media & services markets

Brave, here. 

EU’s antitrust cop lays groundwork for more tech scrutiny

Washington Post, here.

Die Zukunft des Internets: Mozilla und Co. wollen es besser machen als die Großen

FAZ, hier.

Proceeding against whitelisting contract between Google and Eyeo terminated after amendments to the contract

Bundeskartellamt, here.

First sanction against Google following our collective complaints

La Quadrature, here.

Brussels fines Mastercard €570m for restricting competition

FT, here.

Google Is Fined $57 Million Under Europe’s Data Privacy Law

NYTimes, Here.

What data counts in Europe? Towards a public debate on Europe’s high value data and the PSI Directive

OKI Blog, here. 

Is IoT inevitable?

From S. Zuboff‘s Surveillance Capitalism.

'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

The Guardian, here.

Is Google an evil genius?

The Economist, here  (and here)

O.K., Google: How Much Money Have I Made for You Today?

NYTimes, here.

Apple darf nicht behaupten, alle iPhones seien verfügbar

Heise.de, hier. 

EU to veto Siemens, Alstom rail merger: sources

Reuters, here.

#EUcompdigit: some (personal) visual memories

  
 

Privacy campaigner Schrems slaps Amazon, Apple, Netflix, others with GDPR data access complaints

TechCrunch, here. 

Netflix: Fortnite is a bigger rival than HBO

WashingtonPost, here. 

In Utrecht or thereabouts next Monday afternoon? Come and join us for a BIG discussion!

Workshop: Smart data and Competition Law, Utrecht University, more info here. 

La forme des choix

LINC, ici. 

Smart glasses and data protection

EDPS, Technology Report No 1, here. 

Responsibility in the Age of Emerging Technology

P. Nemitz, here. 

Examining Copyright Protection of AI-Generated Art

C. Dee, here (p. 31 ff.).

The Unwanted Sharing Economy: An Analysis of Cookie Syncing and User Transparency under GDPR

T. Urban et al., here. 

Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation

You can re-watch THE EU Competition Conference here 

Jean Tirole at #EUcompdigit

Video, here. 

Margrethe Vestager's Addresses #EUcompdigit

Video, here. 

Tracking technology to reveal whether food produced legally and sustainably

The Guardian, here. 

Commission approves BASF's acquisition of Solvay's nylon business, subject to conditions

EC Press Release, here. 

For teens, digital technology is good. Or bad. Or maybe neutral?

Ars Technica, here. 

Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

BBC News, here. 

Netflix, Spotify & YouTube: Eight Strategic Complaints filed on “Right to Access”

Noyb, here. 

ICYMI (and ICIFAT - In Case I Forget About Them)

Amazon and the Law of the Jungle, here.
Android Remedies: Tearing Down the Wall, here.
Geo-blocking of Audio-visual Services in the EU: Gone with the Wind?, here.
Sabbiere, innovazione e concorrenza: il caso fintech, qui.

Google Spends $40 Million for Fossil Watch Tech to Fight Apple

Bloomberg, here. 

Congress needs to address consumer data privacy in a responsible and modern manner

The Hill, here. 

How Tracking And Selling Our Data Became A Business Model

WBUR, Audio here. 

Capturing the Classroom

GTP, here. 

Facebook and Google Are the New Data Brokers

C. Hoofnagle, here. 

Ist die Bank N26 wirklich so toll?

FAZ, hier. 

Disruption is thriving in unexpected areas

FT, here. 

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that quotation exception is not limitless and that there is no fair use in the EU

IPKitten, here. 

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

Stratechery, here. 

Wyoming Lawmakers Advance Blockchain ‘Sandbox’ Bill

Coindesk, here. 

A Grand Bargain on Data Privacy Legislation for America

ITIF, here.
"

Der Jäger der missbrauchten Daten

Republik.ch, hier. 

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review: The New Big Brother

WSJ, here. 

Die zweite EU-Richtlinie zu Zahlungsdiensten hat eine Revolution im Verborgenen ausgelöst

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Fake News, Real Money: Ad Tech Platforms, Profit-Driven Hoaxes, and the Business of Journalism

J. Braun, J. Eklund, here. 

Große Koalition nimmt WhatsApp ins Visier

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Gartner Predicts for the Future of Privacy 2019

Gartner, here. 

Colonised by data: the hollowing out of digital society

M. Pirogan, here. 

Fusion Alstom-Siemens : « La constitution d’un Airbus du ferroviaire sera-t-elle favorable pour le consommateur européen ? »

Le Monde, ici. 

Buying a new purse? This startup wants to help you pay for it — but could also get you into debt.

Vox, here. 

Market Dominance in Chip Manufacturing Will Mean Higher Prices

InsideSources, here. 

Facial and emotional recognition; how one man is advancing artificial intelligence

CBS, video here. 

Japan’s Robot Hotel Just Laid Off Half Its Robots

Futurism, here. 

Facebook’s Privacy Problems Get Real in Germany

Bloomberg, here. 

WeChat is quietly ranking user behavior to play catch-up with Alibaba

TechCrunch, here. 

PRESSURE MOUNTS ON AMAZON, MICROSOFT, AND GOOGLE AGAINST SELLING FACIAL RECOGNITION TO GOVERNMENT

ACLU, here. 

Antitrust’s Messy Breakup Fallacy

R. Woodcock, here. 

The Most Powerful Person in Tech Is … David Cicilline?

Bloomberg, here. 

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

LA Review of Books, here. 

« Les deux visages des fusions-acquisitions »

E. Combe, ici. 

Facebook made a $300 million pledge to help journalists — just like Google did last year

Recode, here. 

FINA RELAXES RULES, WON’T BAN ATHLETES FOR COMPETING IN NON-FINA MEETS

SwimSwam, here. 

Open banking quietly delayed

InnovationAus, here. 

Good Data Ethics

A. Zeffiro, here. 

Korea to tear down barriers to fintech innovation

FinExtra, here. 

FACEBOOK'S '10 YEAR CHALLENGE' IS JUST A HARMLESS MEME—RIGHT?

Wired, here. 

After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges in Europe — and kept growing ad revenue

DigiDay, here. 

Planet49: pre-ticked agreement with clauses in terms and conditions.

GAVCLaw, here. 

PayPal Holdings, Inc / iZettle AB merger inquiry: Issues Statement

CMA, here. 

Basic Private Auctions Are ‘Going The Way Of The Dinosaur’ As Programmatic Cleans Up

AdExchanger, here. 

THE QUEST TO TOPPLE SCIENCE-STYMYING ACADEMIC PAYWALLS

J. Ito, here. 

Data-rich Markets: The Best of Possible Worlds?

ICLE, here (heavily redacted title ;-) - SV), here. 

Experian responds

Here; Appendices here. 

ONLINE ADVERTISING: TRENDS, BENEFITS AND RISKS FOR CONSUMERS

OECD Digital Economy Paper No.272, here. 

Geo-blocking of Audio-visual Services in the EU: Gone with the Wind?

S. Vezzoso (this Blog's Author), here.



(...years waiting for this moment)

BLOCKING THE DATA STALKERS

New Economics Foundation, here. 

La ACCO considera discriminatorio y restrictivo de la competencia imponer a los VTC’s la obligación que se les pre-contraten los servicios con una antelación mínima de 6 horas.

ACCO, Nota de Prensa aquí.

Kartellamt knöpft sich Facebook vor

Bild.de, hier. 

When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction

J. Sadowski, here. 

CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING (5A): WIE GEFÄHRLICH SIND BIG DATA, KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ UND ALGORITHMEN FÜR DEN WETTBEWERB?

A. Rösner, hier. 

“Alexa, play some music” isn’t the only time Amazon is listening to you.

J. Voiovich, here. 

The Creative Industries

J. Waldfogel, here. 

From Mad Men to Maths Men: Concentration and Buyer Power in Online Advertising

F. Decarolis, G. Rovigatti, here. 

Data Brokers Co-Opetition

Y. Gu, L. Madio, C. Reggiani, here. 

S.M.A.R.T.

FTC v. Qualcomm: Trial and Implications?

Orrick, here. 

India central bank convenes digital payments panel

FinExtra, here. 

Coopération, dépendance et éviction. Quelle appréhension concurrentielle des liens inter-entreprises dans les écosystèmes de téléphonie mobile ?

F. Marty, J. Pillot, ici. 

AI for international economists

R. Baldwin, here.

Status quo on fighting planned obsolescence

Recent-ecl.blogspot.com, here. 

Why Regulators Went Soft on Monopolies

J. Tepper, here. 

Vente-Privée et « l’illusion de faire une bonne affaire » : le site rejette les accusations

Numérama, here.

Auf die digitale folgt die analoge Revolution

NZZ, hier. 

'Rule of Trust': The Power and Perils of China’s Social Credit Megaproject

Y.-J. Chen, C.-F.Lin, H.-W. Liu, here.

Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill eBay

S. Yegge, here. 

Female Economists Push Their Field Toward a #MeToo Reckoning

NYTimes, here. 

Automatorts: How Should Accident Law Adapt to Autonomous Vehicles? Lessons from Law and Economics

E. Talley, here. 

Liability Rules in the Internet of Things: Why Traditional Legal Relations Encourage Modern Technological Innovation

R. Epstein, here.

Open Banking year one: Insights from the CMA9 and more

FinExtra, here. 

Le lien unissant un chauffeur et Uber reconnu « contrat de travail »

Le Monde, ici. 

What if algorithms could abide by ethical principles?

STOA, here.

Robotic Milkers and an Automated Greenhouse: Inside a High-Tech Small Farm

NYTimes, here. 

The California Consumer Privacy Act will have a significant business impact on the digital advertising industry.

IAB, here

Congress spends $0 on independent assessments of technology issues

Washington Post, here. 

German watchdog deals new blow to Alstom-Siemens rail tie-up

FT, here. 

Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World

D. Susser, B. Rossler, H. Nissenbaum, here. 

Apple Admits The Obvious: User Repairs Harm The Bottom Line

TechDirt, here. 

Preview

Professors Hartzog and Richards Insist It’s Time to Try Something Different on Internet Privacy

TAP, here. 

Should we think of Big Tech as Big Brother?

FT, here. 

Ansip: "La fragmentación del mercado digital es un rompecabezas malo"

Cadenaser, aquì.

FTC Displays Its Anti-Innovation Folly

Investors.com, here. 

“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”

Pro-Market, here. 

Major Consulting Firm McKinsey Finds Little Evidence of Practical Blockchain Use Cases

CoinTelegraph, here. 

WILL REDIGI ASK THE SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH IN ON THE RESALE OF “USED” DIGITAL MUSIC FILES?

All Rights Reserved, here. 

NOWCASTING PRIVATE CONSUMPTION: TRADITIONAL INDICATORS, UNCERTAINTY MEASURES, CREDIT CARDS AND SOME INTERNET DATA

Banco de EspaÑa, here. 

Google gets payments licence in Ireland

FinExtra, here. 

Understanding the Unplanned Internet - How Ad Tech is Broken By Design

A. Zucker-Scharff, Video here. 

Online Advertisers Embrace Blockchain to Fight Fraud

Bloomberg, here. 

Structural presumption in U.S. merger control policy would strengthen modern antitrust enforcement

J. Kwoka, here. 

The Day Antitrust Died?: Episode 1, Frederic M. Scherer

Ipse Dixit podcast here. 

Senators aim to give internet companies doctor-like duties to protect our data

TechCrunch, here. 

Consumer data right: Rules outline

ACCC, here. 

Options to maintain a competitive digital economy

ESB, here (Google translate), original here. 

Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say

Bloomberg, here. 

The Law and Economics of Apple Inc. v. Pepper

Technology Policy Institute, here. 

Contre le pouvoir des plateformes, établir une portabilité sociale des données

S.I.Lex, here. 

Competitive Enhancement involving Digital Platformers: Japanese authorities

White & Case, here. And here.

The New ECN+ Directive: Towards an Even More Integrated Antitrust Enforcement in the EU

Arnold & Porter, here. 

WHY IT'S HARD TO ESCAPE AMAZON'S LONG REACH

Wired, here. 

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

M. Read, here. 

2018 Code of conduct on internet quality of service

ARCEP, here. 

Google ofrecerá servicios bancarios: por una competencia financiera real y justa

El Economista, aquì.

Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study

ArsTechnica, here. 

AncestryDNA ist in Deutschland - Und wo ist der Datenschutz?

T. Weichert, hier. 

AutomatedPricingAlgorithmsandCollusion:ABraveNewWorldorOldWineinNewBottles?

S. Li, C. Xie, here. 

How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook - Report

Privacy International, here. 

How to Fix America's Monopoly Problem

L. Khan, here. 

The U.S. Needs Conglomerate Merger Legislation

R. Lande, here. 

Infectious healthcare waste disposal sector in Corsica: excessive prices

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Regulating the disrupters

J. Tirole, here. 

Banken sind Marktführer; aber welche Chance haben sie im Zahlungsverkehr gegen Apple, Google und PayPal?

IT-Finanzmagazin.de, hier. 

BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH COULD BECOME NETFLIX’S SECRET MARKETING WEAPON

The Verge, here. 

Thou shalt not sample… without permission!

J. Quintais, B. Jütte, here. 

Microsoft is privately testing 'Bali,' a way to give users control of data collected about them

ZDNet, here. 

What They Are Saying: Experts Continue To Point Out Flaws In EC’s Android Decision

Springboard, here. 

Perils of Surveillance capitalism

S. Zuboff, Video here. 

The Competitive Landscape of AI Startups

HBR, here. 

Qualcomm-FTC lawsuit: Everything you need to know

Cnet, here.

A Real Remedy the FTC Should Demand of Facebook

Public Knowledge, here. 

Bayer/Monsanto: Summary of the Decision (and the whole 946 pp.)

Here. and the whole Decision here.

Martha Lane Fox Interviews our beloved Commissioner

BBC, Podcast (from 17:00), here.

THE GENERAL COURT UPHOLDS THE COMMISSION’S DECISION TO MAKE PARAMOUNT’S COMMITMENTS IN THE PAY-TV CASE BINDING

Shearman & Sterling, here. 

Bayer/Monsanto - protecting innovation and product competition in seeds, traits and pesticides

EC Merger Brief, here (p. 6 ff.).

Bundesgerichtshof: Museen dürfen gemeinfreie Bilder wegsperren

Heise.de, hier. 

Rather unusual open letter from four national competition authorities to the European Commission

Letter here. 

EU Chief Economist on the Dow/Dupont merger

Video here. 

Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, and Sky in pay-TV investigation

EC, here. 

Comparative approaches of the United States and the European Union to the monopoly/abuse of dominance problem

E. Fox, here. 

Competition Policy in the European Union and the United States: The Treatment of Dominant Firms

B. Kovacic, here. 

Prime and Punishment

The Verge, here. 

Why US Antitrust Law Should Not Emulate European Competition Policy

G. Manne, here. 

AG Racine Sues Facebook for Failing to Protect Millions of Users' Data

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, here.
Complaint here. 

Travel agents seek EU antitrust probe into Lufthansa pricing

Reuters, here. 

Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much

Gizmodo, here. 

Google Keeps Yelp, Consumer Watchdog Out of EU Court Appeal

Bloomberg, here. The Order here.

The Web (in this part of the world?) now belongs to Google, and that should worry us

ArsTechnica, here.
And Google says it was just a bug, here. 

As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

NYTimes, here. 

CMA tackles loyalty penalty charges

CMA, here. 

A Painting Given to Eric Clapton Cannot be Used on Album Cover Rules French Supreme Court

The 1709 Blog, here. 

Vorwurf an Google: Microsoft Edge mit unfairen Mitteln verdrängt

Heise.de, hier and here and here. 

AG Bobek opinion on embedded plugins

EUCJ, here (and here)

The Tactics & Tropes of the Internet Research Agency

New Knowledge, Whitepaper here; slide deck here.

Google still claimed to be blocking search rivals on Android, despite Europe’s antitrust action

TechCrunch, here. 

UK watchdog says Big Tech pose biggest threat to banks

Reuters, here. 

Structuralist Innovation: A Shaky Legal Presumption in Need of an Overhaul

D. Auer, here. 

YES, BIG PLATFORMS COULD CHANGE THEIR BUSINESS MODELS

Wired, here. 

Warren bill would get feds into generic drug manufacturing

Politico, here. 

GOOGLE ANDROID: RECORD-BREAKING FINE ON ANTI-COMPETITIVE PRACTICES UNDER ARTICLE 102 TFEU

A. Chirita, here. 

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S ANDROID DECISION AND BROADER LESSONS FOR ARTICLE 102 ENFORCEMENT

N. Banasevic, here. 

AMAZON AND THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

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

A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S GOOGLE ANDROID DECISION

P. Akmar, here. 

WITH UNCERTAIN DAMAGE THEORY COME UNPREDICTABLE EFFECTS OF REMEDIES: “LIBRES PROPOS” ON THE ANDROID CASE

F. Marty, J. Pillot, here. 

Google Android Antitrust: Dominance Pivots and a Business Model Clash in Brussels

R. Picker, here. 

DRAFT ETHICS GUIDELINES FOR TRUSTWORTHY AI

EC's HIGH-LEVEL EXPERT GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, here. 

THE IP RIGHTS EXEMPTION TO THE AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION LAW RULES TO BE REPEALED

Clifford Chance, here. 

Commission approves plan by France, Germany, Italy and the UK to give €1.75 billion public support to joint research and innovation project in microelectronics

EC, here.
Statement here.

Trento also involved: Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

Mercedes-Benz customers benefit from new data services

Daimler, here. 

CMA proposes reforms to improve competition in audit sector

CMA, here. 

Modernisation of EU consumer protection rules: A new deal for consumers

EP ThinkTank, Briefing here.

The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018

P. Howard, B. Ganesh, D. Liotsiou, J. Kelly & C. François, here.

Strategic Review of Retail Banking Business Models

FCA, Final Report, here; Annexes here. 

COMCO Secretariat agrees with Apple about a TWINT-friendly solution

WEKO, here. 

GOOGLE’S SECRET CHINA PROJECT “EFFECTIVELY ENDED” AFTER INTERNAL CONFRONTATION

The Intercept, here. 

The folly of trolleys: Ethical challenges and autonomous vehicles

Brookings, here. 

Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line

WSJ, here. 

The End of the Ad-Supported Web - What if we got the business model of the web wrong?

Unlock, here. 

Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation: Contributions Received

EC, here.
All of them in one single, searchable pdf file, here (930 pp.). You're welcome.

Commission fines BEH Group € 77 million for blocking access to key natural gas infrastructure in Bulgaria

EC, here. 

Apple Pay und nun?

IT-Finanzmagazin.de, hier. 

Year in a Word: Techlash

FT, here. 

UK Fintech Revolut Receives EU Banking Licence through the central bank in Lithuania

Financemagnates.com, here. 

ApplePay ist digitale Wegelagerei

H. Bender, hier. 

Judge Koh rejects Qualcomm's bid to introduce new evidence related to Intel's success with Apple, Qualcomm's new 5G agreements

FOSS Patents, here. 

Commission fines Guess €40 million for anticompetitive agreements to block cross-border sales

EC, here. 

It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights

M. Tisné, here. 

Vom Datenschutz zur human-zentrierten Datenwirtschaft

M. Beyer-Katzenberger, hier (s. 71 ff.), hier.

DEMOCRACY UNDER THREAT: RISKS AND SOLUTIONS IN THE ERA OF DISINFORMATION AND DATA MONOPOLY

House of Commons, Canada, Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, here. 

FTC Chair Simons Supports Federal Privacy Legislation, But Urges Caution

AdExchanger, here.

Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door

ACLUNC, here.

ACCC investigates Google abuse of power over Unlockd collapse

AFR, here.

Japan’s antitrust watchdog to study four tech giants to see if fair business regulations are needed

The Japan Times, here.

ACCC mulls forcing Google to offer users a choice of browsers, search engines

Computerworld.com.au, here.

Action brought on 9 October 2018 — Google and Alphabet/Commission: Pleas in law and main arguments

Here.

An EU Competition law Analysis of Online Display Advertising in the Programmatic Age

D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here. 

Sorry, your data can still be identified even if it’s anonymized

FastCompany, here. 

The Case Against Idealising Control

W. Hartzog, here. 

Report: Google PLA antitrust remedy turning comparison engines into agencies

SearchEngineLang, here. 

You Should Have the Right to Sue Apple

NYTimes, here. 

Google Pay se lance enfin en France, mais sans les banques traditionnelles

Numérama, ici. 

SideCar v. Uber

Here. See also ArsTechnica, here. 

Streambait Pop

The Baffler, here. 

Accenture will acquire digital ad company Adaptly

TechCrunch, here. 

Appeals Court Weighs in on Resale of Digital Files

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

Building a European Data Infrastructure

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, here. 

Killer Acquisitions

C. Cunningham, F.  Ederer. S. Ma, here.

Groupe Canal + SA contre CE

T-873/16, ici.

Freigabe des Zusammenschlusses der CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA mit der FKP SCORPIO Konzertproduktionen GmbH

Bundeskartellamt, Fallbericht hier. 

Google 2018 Hearing

Live here.
For a piece of history, you can compare with Eric Schmidt's 2011 Hearing, Video here. 

On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data

Y. de Montjoye et al., here.. 

Comments on Developing the Administration’s Approach to Consumer Privacy

NTIA, here. 

Tencent: WeChat Is More Than A Product, It’s ‘An Ecosystem’

AdExchanger, here. 

The Business of Selling Your Location

NYTimes, Podcast here.

Investigation of generic ‘cartel’ expands to 300 drugs

WashingtonPost, here. 

Apple Pay finally launches in Germany

TechCrunch, here. 

Competition Cases Involving Platforms: Lessons from Europe

N. Petit, here. 

BEUC: Eine Europäische Strategie für die Daten und Platformwirtschaft (in 3 Bildern)

Economic dependence: what can we learn from the industrial organization approach?

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

Apple Pay in Deutschland – Fragen und Antworten

Heise.de, hier. 

EU's Vestager may investigate Apple Pay if there are formal complaints

Reuters, here. 

Written Testimony

S. Pichai, Before the House Judiciary Committee, Hearing on “​Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use, and Filtering Practices” December 11, 2018, here.

Delete All Your Apps

Motherboard, here.

Regulating Big Tech

CRA Conference Panel, Video here. 

Here’s how to quit Google

Google Transparency Project, here. 

Après moi, le déluge! Tech giants in the digital age

T. Valletti, Presentation here; Video here. 

Affaire AT.39885 – Interactive Lab Décision de la Commission rejetant la plainte (AdWords)

EC, ici. 

Wettbewerbsbehörde untersucht Marktmanipulation von Amazon

Der Standard, hier. 

Trudeau government studying reforms for protecting consumer data amid tech scandals

CTVnews.ca, here. 

The SEC and its new financial technology division

Compliancex, here. 

Amazon might have a Cambridge Analytica-size problem

BigThink, here.

Facebook’s Refusal to Deal in Excellence

R. Woodcock, here. 

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

NYTimes, here. 

Digital Platforms Inquiry: Preliminary report

ACCC, here.
Press conference, Video here (from 02:50).

Finanzaufsicht nimmt Google & Co. ins Visier

FAZ, hier (und hier).

Italian regulator fines Facebook £8.9m for misleading users

The Guardian, here.

Bikini app maker draws another disgruntled developer to its Facebook fight

ArsTechnica, here.

Uso dei dati degli utenti a fini commerciali: sanzioni per 10 milioni di euro a Facebook

AGCM, qui.

New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust

EFF, here.

Antitrust’s Most Wanted

T. Wu, here. 

Location Data: GPS, Wi-Fi, and Spatial Analytics

Class 2 of Digital Data Flows Masterclass: Emerging Technologies, Presentation here. 

The State of Data 2018

IAB, here.