Is DNA Left on Envelopes Fair Game for Testing?

The Atlantic, here.

Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “We Thought We Were Searching Google, But Google Was Searching Us”

Democracy Now, Video here. 

The Fintech Revolution Is Here. Can It Help Build A Better Economy?

Forbes, here.

Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed

NYTimes, here. 

Chris Sagers on United States v. Apple & the Purpose of Antitrust Law

Ipse Dixit Podcast, here. 

Algorithms and Collusion: Has the CCI got it wrong?

B. Chandola, here. 

Understanding the Sharing Economy

D. Coyle & S. O'Connor, here. 

Non-Price Competition in Digital Markets

OECD Panel, Video here. 

A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist

MIT Technology Review, here. 

California could be first state to bar drug makers from paying competitors to delay release

LATimes, here. 

When competition law met data protection: the Bundeskartellamt’s Facebook decision

F. Bostoen, here. 

European Champions

IGM Forum, here. 

BMW und Daimler wollen Roboterauto-Allianz schmieden

FAZ, hier. 

Why data flows matter to M&A

Cliffordchance.com, here. 

The left needs to get radical on big tech – moderate solutions won't cut it

E. Morozov, here. 

Insights and Impacts of the ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry

R. Sims, Video here. 

Olympische Spiele - auch Sportler dürfen werben

Sportschau.de, hier. 

SOLIDARITÉ AVEC LES PROFS DE PARIS 13 REMPLACÉS PAR GOOGLE

La Quadrature du Net, ici. 

Ever seen an Unwinding Order before?

CMA. Tobii AB / Smartbox Assistive Technology Limited and Sensory Software International Ltd merger inquiry, here. 

Why an OECD Competition Open Day (journée porte ouverte) *now*?

A. Capobianco, Video here. 

Néo-fordisme, retour de l'empire romain... 6 scénarios sur le futur du travail

Usbek & Rica, here. 

On Price Geysers

P. Marsden, Video here (from 50:25). Do watch it!












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And yes, this is the Jet d'Eau (59:58) - it'll always remind me of pills from now on - unsure it's a good thing...

...and this looks like the Lac Vert facing the Mont Blanc Chain (Mer de Glace on the left) (1:00:03) - nice, easy hike if you know the short cut to skip the crowd...

Antitrust Enforcement Needs to Evolve for the 21st Century

EFF, here. 

DSGVO-Bilanz: Erstklassiges Gesetz, mangelhafte Durchsetzung

Heise.de, hier. 

Experian pulls planned purchase of start-up rival ClearScore

FT, here. More here.

Cade aprova compra da Fox pela Disney com restrições

CADE, aqui. 

Policy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework in the United States

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, here. 

Governing the Game Changer – Impacts of artificial intelligence development on human rights, democracy and the rule of law

COE, Video here. 

HSBC forges partnership with commercial lending platform NepFin

FinExtra, here. 

The Responsible Consumer in the Digital Age: On the Conceptual Shift from ‘Average’ to ‘Responsible’ Consumer and the Inadequacy of the ‘Information Paradigm’ in Consumer Financial

C. Stănescu, here. 

I asked an online tracking company for all of my data and here's what I found

PrivacyInternational, here. 

Reform des Urheberrechts birgt auch datenschutzrechtliche Risiken

bfdi.bund.de, hier. 

Google Assistant aura doit à son propre bouton sur plusieurs smartphones

Numérama, ici. 

This Japanese news app quietly pushes traffic to millions

Axios, here. 

NO, DATA IS NOT THE NEW OIL

Wired, here. 

A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries

L. Khan, D. Pozen, here. 

Third-Party Data Is A Bad Habit We Need To Kick

AdExchanger, here. 

Why 65 Intellectual Property Scholars Filed an Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Google’s Petition for Cert in the Oracle Case

P. Samuelson, here. 

Brave Will Reward Its Browser Users With a Way to Earn Offers From Brands

AdWeek, here. 

US drugmakers defend pricing under fire in Senate

FT, here. 

Let’s Tackle Real Antitrust Problems. AT&T Isn’t One.

Bloomberg Opinion, here. 

FTC brings its first case against fake paid reviews on Amazon

TechCrunch, here. 

Equifax and harm created by data breach

Enlightening Video Clip, here. 

Key Antitrust Lawmaker Sees ‘Reawakening’ in Congress to Perils of Big Tech

Variety, here. 

Google completely terminated our new business via our Google Play Developer Account

M. Dodson, here. 

Platforms, promotion, and product discovery: Evidence from Spotify playlists

L. Aguiar, J. Waldfogel, here. 

Comments/critiques on the EU's High Level Expert Group on AI's "ethical guidelines"

J. Bryson, here. 

More Internal Facebook Documents Leak Online, Revealing How Facebook Planned to Sell User Data

GizModo, here. 

Bundeskartellamt erwirkt Öffnung der Werbemöglichkeiten für deutsche Sportler und ihre Sponsoren während der Olympischen Spiele - IOC und DOSB verpflichten sich zu Änderung der Werberegeln

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Innovation in the mass entertainment industry: maybe ask the Romans

IPKat, here. 

EU-Kommission will Gegengewicht zu Mastercard und Visa schaffen

Handelsblatt, hier. 

New FTC task force to tackle competition in tech sector

FT, here. 

Examining the impact of digital platforms on competition in media and advertising markets

R. Sims, here. 

The Bundeskartellamt’s Facebook Decision- What’s not to like? Well…

ChillingCompetition, here. 

Confessions of a location data exec: ‘It’s a Ponzi scheme’

DigiDay UK, here. 

How Amazon took 50% of the e-commerce market and what it means for the rest of us

TechCrunch, here. 

Online advertising

OECD Digital Economy Paper, here. 

USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE THE DESIGN AND ENFORCEMENT OF PUBLIC POLICIES

OECD Digital Economy Paper, here.

Mozilla Asks Supreme Court to Protect App Development

Mozilla, here. 

FTC’s Bureau of Competition Launches Task Force to Monitor Technology Markets

FTC, here.

Appeals court upholds decision allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner

CNBC, here.  Ruling here. 

The "Vestager Effect"

Data Portability

Personal Data Protection Commission in collaboration with Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, here. 

APPLICATIONS MOBILES : clôture de la mise en demeure à l’encontre de la société VECTAURY

CNIL, ici. 

OECD Competition Open Day 2019

27 Feb. 2019, Live Webcast here: don't miss it! 

BRIEF OF MICROSOFT CORPORATION AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF GOOGLE

Google v. Oracle, here. 

California wants Silicon Valley to pay you a data dividend

Cnet, here. 

Uber Under The Antitrust Microscope: Is There A 'Firm Exemption' To Antitrust?

Forbes, here.

EDPS Guidelines on assessing the proportionality of measures that limit the fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data

EDPS, here. 

UK cannot examine Facebook until it has clarity on Brexit timing - CMA

Reuters, here. 

The Shaping of a European Consumer Welfare Standard for the Digital Age

A. Reyna, here. 

India proposes new e-commerce regulations with focus on data rules

Reuters, here. 

Summary of proposals from Andrew Tyrie, CMA Chair, to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

CMA, here.
And the whole letter here (HT @RegCom_UChile)

What consumers need to know about the upcoming credit card from Apple and Goldman Sachs

MarketWatch, here. 

Schmutzige Tricks und Betrug: So brutal ist der Kampf auf dem Amazon-Marktplatz

Etailment, hier.

UK competition regulator seeks more power

FT, here. 

EC salmon price-fixing probe

UCN, here.

Lina Khan, a Top Antitrust Thinker, Joins Democratic Staff in the House, Putting Silicon Valley On Alert

Daily Beast, here. 

How Big Data Is Changing The Nature of Consumer Lending

Smart Data Collective, here. 

The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change

S. Zuboff, here. 

A mixed manifesto for EU industrial policy

FT, here. 

Facebook needs regulation – here’s why it should be done by algorithms

E. Giovannetti, here. 

Bosses face tougher sanctions under radical CMA overhaul

SkyNews, here. 

What is the economic value of data?

Mydex, here. 

Up and Down the Stack Through a Nerd’s Eyes: Making The Internet Better the Internet Way

A. Sullivan, here. 

Les API c’est bien… en abuser ça craint !

C. Quest, here. 

Apple closes two Dallas stores in apparent bid to ward off patent trolls

ArsTechnica, here. 

Everyone can have an opinion, but to write an Opinion you need conviction

N. Wahl, here. 

Consumer Data Right in Energy

ACCC, here. 

Datenschutz ist wichtiger als Eigenstumsrechte an Daten

FAZ, hier. 

Digital platforms: The need to restrict surveillance capitalism

G. Greenleaf at al., here. 

Facebook and Google Are the New Data Brokers

C. Hoofnagle, here. 

WhatsApp wird 10: Wie ein Messenger die Welt eroberte

Heise, hier. 

Facebook verweigert trotz BGH-Urteil den Zugriff auf das Konto einer Toten

Heise, hier. 

Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly

Los Angeles Times, here. 

California leads the way on data regulation

FT, here. 

Agree to Disagree: Competition Authorities Differ on Approach to Digital Platforms

Orrick, here.

Growing the digital economy in Australia and New Zealand. Maximising opportunities for SMEs

Australian Productivity Commission and New Zealand Productivity Commission, here.

Eigentlich sind die beiden deutschen Luxusautohersteller Konkurrenten. Nun machen sie gemeinsame Sache

FAZ, hier. 

The new ecosystem of trust

Nesta, here. 

Decision 19-MC-01 of 31 January 2019 on the request by Amadeus for interim measures

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Wer hat ApplePay das verraten?

BargeldlosBlog, here. 

EPIC demand: It's time for Google to fly the Nest after 'forgetting' to mention home alarm hub has built-in mic

The Register, here. 

Complements and/or substitutes? The competitive dynamics between news publishers and digital platforms and what it means for competition policy

D. Geradin, here. 

Apple could be working with Goldman Sachs on a credit card

TechCrunch, here. 

Tackling Online Harms

Tech UK, here. 

Even the IAB warned adtech risks EU privacy rules

TechCrunch, here. 

European data protection and freedom of expression after Buivids: an increasingly significant tension

European Law Blog, here. 

FCA issues its first decision under competition law

FCA, here. 

Avis n° 19-A-04 du 21 février 2019 relatif à une demande d’avis de la commission des Affaires culturelles et de l’Éducation de l’Assemblée nationale dans le secteur de l’audiovisuel

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Competition policy and European firms’ competitiveness

M. Motta, M. Peitz, here. 

New evidence to regulators: IAB documents reveal that it knew that real-time bidding would be “incompatible with consent under GDPR”

Fix adtech, here. 

London and Brussels make the case for competition

FT, here. 

At Harvard Law, Zittrain and Zuckerberg discuss encryption, ‘information fiduciaries’ and targeted advertisements

Harvard Law Today, here. 

ICO regulatory sandbox

ICO, here. 

EU's Vestager says not precluding Facebook case in future

Reuters, here. 

High-tech toilet seat monitors your heart as you sit on the can

ArsTechnica, here. 

Shoshana again, this time with Kara

Recode, Audio here.

Kara asks: "I know they are sneaky bastards...What do we do?"

2019 Draft commentaries on 6 articles of the GDPR

C. Kuner et al., here.

Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'

Business Insider, here. 

Privacy activists say online ad industry knowingly violated GDPR

Mashable, here. 

Why a focus on "fake news" and Facebook misses the internet's real problems - and solutions

OpenDemocracy, here. 

Vanguard of the Techlash: Will antitrust offer a way forward?

Yelp's event, video here. 

Amazon’s Winner-Take-All Approach to Small Business

Bloomberg, here.

France, Germany Seek Veto for EU Governments on Antitrust Cases

NYTimes, here.

Artificial intelligence: challenges for the financial sector

ACPR, here. 

Bradesco cierra cuentas a operadoras de criptomonedas locales

CPI, aqui.

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked

Technology Review, here.

Cinco euros al mes para Bankia si no cedes tus datos: "Es una barbaridad, se saltan la ley"

El Confidential, aquí.

Fintech for the people

B. Cœuré, here. 

Social networks to become liable for content on their platforms under government plans

Sky, here.

Putting Technology to Good Use: The Role of Corporate, Competition, and Tax Law

J. Armour et tres viri, hic. 

Google 12.11.18 Hearing QFR Responses

Here.

Google partially backtracks on Chrome changes that would break ad blockers

ArsTechnica, here. 

Der Finanzminister grübelt über die Blockchain

FAZ, hier.

Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms

J. Kleinberg et al., here.

Data Trusts and other shaggy dog shortcuts

Mydex, here.

Real-time bidding and the GDPR

J. Ryan, here.

Darkening of the digital dream

The Hindu Business Line, here.

IMMEDIATE PAYMENTS CATALYSING CHANGE AND INNOVATION IN THE NORDICS

FinExtra, here. 

UK says Huawei is manageable risk to 5G

FT, here. 

My apologies to @WavesBlog Readers for the rather chaotic blog update

El “puzzle” de frases que marcaron la Jornada Fintech de la CNMC

CNMC Blog, aquí.

“Hollywood is now irrelevant,” says IAC Chairman Barry Diller

Recode, here. 

I can’t manage another word of Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism

D. Coyle, here. 

AWS and Microsoft reap most of the benefits of expanding cloud market

TechCrunch, here. 

Making the data revolution work for us

M. Vestager, here. 

DIE FACEBOOK-ENTSCHEIDUNG DES BUNDESKARTELLAMTES

K. Künstner, hier. 

Führende Ökonomen kritisieren Peter Altmaiers Industriepolitik

Zeit.de, hier. 

Warum eine "Datenteilungspflicht" kein gutes Instrument ist

S. Louven, hier. 

India watchdog probes accusations that Google abused Android - sources

Reuters, here. 

L’UFC-Que Choisir obtient la condamnation de Google

QueChoisir, ici. 

Japan sets sights on tighter anti-trust regulations for Big Tech

Reuters, here. 

Ermittlungsverfahren gegen Amazon eingeleitet

BWB, hier. 

'Tinder for cows' matches livestock in the mood for love

Reuters, here. 

INTERNET PRIVACY: Additional Federal Authority Could Enhance Consumer Protection and Provide Flexibility

GAO, here. 

UN report dismisses fintech sandboxes in developing economies

FinExtra, here.
UNSGSA Report here. 

Facebook, Exploitative business terms pursuant to Section 19(1) GWB for inadequate data processing

Bundeskartellamt, Case Summary here. 

Porsche warns UK buyers of 10% Brexit surcharge

Yahoo, here. 

Why bankers should drop their fear of fintech regulatory sandboxes

American Banker, here. 

'Internet of things' spurs broad interest in standard essential patent licensing

Out-Law, here. 

Facebook acqui-hires Chainspace team for blockchain push

FinExtra, here. 

Google’s GDPR Policies Throw Digital Media Into Disarray

AdExchanger, here. 

Hotel booking sites to make major changes after CMA probe

CMA, here. 

Commission prohibits Siemens' proposed acquisition of Alstom

EC, here. 

EU competition rules on vertical agreements – evaluation

EC, here. 

Overview of Fintech Regulation in the United States

Covington, here. 

Bundeskartellamt untersagt Facebook die Zusammenführung von Nutzerdaten aus verschiedenen Quellen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

GERMAN REGULATORS JUST OUTLAWED FACEBOOK'S WHOLE AD BUSINESS

Wired, here. 

Privatheit in Zeiten der Digitalisierung

Leopoldina, hier. 

Personalisierte Manipulation, automatisierte Ungleichheit, quantifiziertes Misstrauen?

W. Christl, Video hier. 

Schrödinger’s Robot: Privacy in Uncertain States

I. Kerr, here. 

I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell

GIZMODO, here. 

The New Legal Landscape for Text Mining and Machine Learning

M. Sag, here. 

Only 17% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Ethical, Survey Says

Forbes, here. 

Is Europe closing in on an antitrust fix for surveillance technologists?

TechCrunch, here. 

The security of access to accounts under the PSD2

P. Wolters, B. Jacobs, here. 

The Adtech Crisis and Disinformation

J. Ryan, Presentation here.

THE BUNDESKARTELLAMT’S FACEBOOK DECISION: GOOD, BAD, AND UGLY

J. Newman, here. 

Brave New World: what will open banking mean for Australia?

Stone and Chalk, here. 

Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence

White House, here. 

THE CAIRNCROSS REVIEW: A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR JOURNALISM

Here. 

Nudging Citizens through Technology in Smart Cities

S. Ranchordas, here. 

On a comprehensive European industrial policy on artificial intelligence and robotics

European Parliament resolution of 12 February 2019, here. 

Facebook mulled multi-billion-dollar acquisition of gaming giant Unity, book claims

TechCrunch, here. 

Jack Ma's Ant Buys U.K.'s WorldFirst in a Giant Step Abroad

Bloomberg, here. 

Agro-Chemical Mega-Mergers and Innovation – Between Competition Law, Regulation and IP Rights

I. Lianos, here. 

Online platforms required by law to be more transparent with EU businesses

EP, here. 

The Surveillance Industry and Human Rights

EPIC, here. 

Emojis and the Law

E. Goldman, video here. 

A heart-shaped logo cannot be registered as an EU trademark

T-123/18, here.

Amazon's Wish List with Stacy Mitchell

Art19.com, here. 

BEHAVIORAL FIRMS: DOES ANTITRUST ECONOMICS NEED A THEORETICAL UPDATE?

E. Bailey, here. 

Alexa, are you exploiting me?

BEME News, Video here. 

ENQUETE FRANCEINFO. COMMENT NETFLIX S’Y PREND POUR NOUS RENDRE ACCROS

Francetvinfo, ici. 

FinTech and market structure in financial services: Market developments and potential financial stability implications

FSB, here. 

Is Amazon Violating the Sherman Act?

S. Sussman, here. 

Economics for Inclusive Prosperity: An Introduction

S. Naidu, D. Rodrik, and G. Zucman, here. 

Economics After Neoliberalism

Boston Review, here. 

Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report

House of Commons, here. 

Digital Ad Revenue Tops $26B In Q3 2018

MediaPost, here. 

Regulators Create Sandboxes as a Place to Foster Fintech

Bloomberg, here. 

Your Smart Light Can Tell Amazon and Google When You Go to Bed

Bloomberg, here. 

We’re all being manipulated by A/B testing all the time

Fast Company, here. 

Ad IDs Behaving Badly

S. Egelman, here. 

Non, vous ne pouvez pas reprendre du code open source

ZDNet, ici. 

Internet Platforms’ Rising Dominance, Evolving Governance

Videos here.

How to Stop Facebook’s Dangerous App Integration Ploy

NYTimes, here.

Capitalism’s New Clothes

E. Morozov, here.

Assessing the Facebook Problem

Roger McNamee talks about "Zucked," here. 

“A Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice”

The Intercept, here.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns

The Guardian, here.

Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

UpNextPodcast, here.

Amazon forced to pull products in India as new rules bite

BBC, here.

(Not quite away yet)

Off-ish

Here. 

The whistleblower, politician and journo who hauled the banks before a royal commission

ABC News, here. 

Robotaxis: can automakers catch up with Google in driverless cars?

FT, here. 

Our Thoughts on Facebook’s WhatsApp + Messenger + Instagram Integration

Public Knowledge, here. 

Proceeding with caution – a survey on central bank digital currency

BIS, here. 

Now Your Groceries See You, Too

The Atlantic, here. 

The Tech Industry Is Dead! Long Live the Tech Monopolies!

TabletMag, here. 

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.