A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

P. Aghion, here. 

House Antitrust Investigators Now Scrutinizing Google's Plans to Add DNS Encryption to Chrome

Gizmodo, here. 

Snapchat's Secret Dossier on Facebook

The Journal, Podcast here. 

Dezentrale Datenpools – Europas Chance in der Plattformökonomie

D. Janecek, D. Bayaz, hier. 

MFN Clauses and Antitrust Enforcement: On a Slow Path to Convergence?

I. Vandenborre & C. Janssens, Podcast here. 

Facebook says Libra is out of its control. But Libra's overseers are a web of Silicon Valley insiders

CNN, here. 

Libra: Articles of Association

Here.

Google reportedly under antitrust scrutiny for new internet encryption protocol

Cnet, here. 

Competition in Digital Technology Markets: Examining Acquisitions of Nascent or Potential Competitors by Digital Platforms

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights (US), Video here. 

What Should Be Done? The Debate on How EU Competition Law Should Respond to China

Our Curious Amalgam, here. 

Digitalcharta Innovationsplattform: D

Beschluss des Bundesvorstandes der CDU Deutschlands, hier. 

FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Facebook's $5 billion fine, YouTube's COPPA violations, and the dangers of under-enforcement

Recode Decode, here. 

Solicitor General recommends Supreme Court deny cert in Google v Oracle

Here. 

AI ethics and the limits of code(s)

Nesta, here. 

Gesamtverband Autoteile-Handel eV v KIA Motors Corporation

Case C‑527/18, here. 

New Anti-Monopoly Regulations in Force in China

Orrick, here. 

Google Expands Digital Payments Push in India

Bloomberg, here. 

Co-Regulation and the Competitive Advantage in the GDPR: Data Protection Certification Mechanisms, Codes of Conduct and the 'State of the Art' of Data Protection-by-Design

M. Grafenstein, here. 

Google Android

EC, CASE AT.40099, here. 

THE FUTURE OF COMPETITION LAW: TIME TO CHANGE OR TIME TO ADAPT?

I. de Silva, here. 

Facebook may copy your app, but Amazon will copy your shoe

The Verge, here. 

Ecosystem Businesses Are Changing the Rules of Strategy

J. Birkinshaw, here. 

The Right Way to Regulate Digital Platforms

G. Kimmelman, here. 

Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier

WSJ, here. 

EBA outsourcing guidelines: What banks, fintechs and cloud providers need to know

Computer Weekly, here. 

Competition Law and the Brics

Video here. 

Big Tech Regulation Shouldn’t Sweep Up Startups, Uber CEO Says

Bloomberg, here. 

Gov't targeting global OTAs' 'unfair request' over hotel rate

The Korea Times, here. 

Completed acquisition by PayPal Holdings, Inc. of iZettle AB: Failure to comply with requirements imposed on PayPal by the Initial Enforcement Order

CMA, here. 

‘We have reached “peak cloning” in Silicon Valley’: when does copying your competitor’s product become anticompetitive?

F. Bostoen, here. 

Are Key Word Searches Key to Competition? An Analysis of FTC v. 1-800 Contacts

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

The industry that cries wolf: pharma and innovation

M. Carrier, G. Tung, here. 

Digitalisering en consumentenbescherming

AFM, hier. 

Recommendations for the Artificial Intelligence Research Agenda for the Netherlands

C. Muller, here. 

La CNMC investiga posibles prácticas anticompetitivas en relación con el acceso a las redes de cajeros por parte de ciertas entidades bancarias

CNMC, aquì.

Social Networks or Social Nightmares?

Panel Discussion / Vienna Humanities Festival 2019, September 29, MARX HALLE with Roger McNamee, Evgeny Morozov, Max Schrems and Shalini Randeria, Video here. 

Proving that competition principles are sufficiently flexible and fit for the future (?)

M. Snoep, here. 

Data Politics Worlds, Subjects, Rights

Edited By D. Bigo, E. Isin, E. Ruppert, here. 

WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

WIPO, here. 

BRISER LE MONOPOLE DES BIG TECH

S. Soriano et al., ici. 

A new governance for personal data in the XXIst century

PrivacyTech White Paper, here. 

Jeff Bezos says Amazon is writing its own facial recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers

Vox, here. 

David Marcus über Libra: «Wenn wir den Zahlungsverkehr nicht revolutionieren, machen es andere»

NZZ, hier. 

The Fantasy of Opting Out

F. Brunton & H. Nissenbaum, here. 

Leitfaden Preisspitzen

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

THE OECD INTERNATIONAL CARTEL DATABASE

Here. 

Commission fines Coroos and Groupe CECAB €31.6 million for participating in canned vegetables cartel

EC, here. 

Düsseldorf Court of Appeal Revokes Antitrust Authority's Data Processing Prohibition for Facebook

CR Online, here. 

Italian Supervisory Authority approves Code of Conduct for consumer credit agencies

Covington & Burling, here. 

BRICS in the digital economy

Here. 

Labor markets and competition

R. Chopra, here. 

Advertising executives point to five ways Google stifles business

Reuters, here. 

Infrastructure Data Sharing

UK's Regulators Framework, here.

Are Regulatory Agreements to Address Climate Change Anticompetitive?

H. Hovenkamp, here. 

A national vision for digital agriculture

M. Keogh, here. 

GDPR in the automotive sector - Data protection authority North Rhine-Westphalia on car garages, joint controllership and product monitoring

C. Pitz, here. 

The alternatives to privatisation and nationalisation

The Economist, here. 

Facebook to the ACCC

Here.

Regulating digital markets - do we tame the big beasts or set them free?

Diginomica, here. 

iHuman perspective: Neural interfaces

The Royal Society, here. 

METHODOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND THE GDPR

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

Law for Computer Scientists

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

Digital platforms will soon face more regulatory scrutiny in Japan

White and Case, here. 

briefing on RTB and the GDPR

J. Ryan, here. 

Online-Banking: Bafin sieht wenig Probleme bei Umstellung auf PSD2

Heise.de, hier. 

US regulator says Amazon search algorithm may be ‘problematic’

FT, here. 

Le défi de l'explicabilité des algorithmes publics

BdT, ici. 

Blockchain-Strategie der Bundesregierung

BMWI, hier. 

CJEU decides that the originality level is the same for all copyright works, including works of applied art

E. Derclaye, here. 

Digital challenges to the international monetary and financial system

B. Cœuré, here. 

Migration between platforms

G. Biglaiser, J. Crémer and A. Veiga, here. 

The Slow Death (and Rebirth?) of US Antitrust Enforcement

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, watch here. 

Faut-il mettre fin aux monopoles des GAFA ?

France Culture, Podcast ici. 

Justice Department presses Google rivals for info as part of antitrust inquiry

Axios, here. 

Senate creates select committee on fintech and regtech

AFR, here. 

Zunehmende Distanz der Politik zu Facebooks Libra

Heise.de, hier. 

House Antitrust Panel Seeks Documents From 4 Big Tech Firms

NYTimes, here.
The four letters here. 

Is there a role for blockchain in responsible supply chains?

OECD, here. 

Phishing & Co: Betrüger nutzen Start der PSD2-Richtlinie aus

Heise.de, hier. 

We’re living in an era of digital feudalism. Here’s how to take your data and identity back

Quartz, here. 

Copyright in artificially generated works

AIPPI, here. 

Google adjusts search algorithm to boost original journalism

FT, here. 

Security and trust in a digital world

M. Vestager, here. 

The Council of Europe established an Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence - CAHAI

COE, here. 

Sorry, Silicon Valley: your tormentor-in-chief just got a bunch of new powers

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Data trusts raise questions on privacy and governance

FT, here. 

Why Europe should take the lead on trade

The Economist, here (and here). 

Über influential?

Corporate Europe, here. 

Brave's Johnny Ryan and IAB Europe clash over GDPR real-time bidding legality

The Drum, here. 

« Avec le Libra, nous n'allons pas faire de création monétaire »

LesEchos, ici. 

Advertising executives point to five ways Google stifles business

Reuters, here. 

Brad Smith: "Cambridge Analytica was the Three Mile Island for the Tech Sector"

Yahoo Finance, Interview here (from 2:00). 

Smart Speakers and Voice Assistants

CDEI, here. 

AI and Personal Insurance

CDEI, here. 

Uber argues its drivers aren’t core to its business, won’t reclassify them as employees

The Verge, here. 

Friends or foes? Examining platform owners’ entry into complementors’ spaces

F. Zhu, here. 

France to block development of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency

The Guardian, here (Vidéo ici).

48 States Announce Google Antitrust Investigation, California Not Among Them

KQED, Podcast here. 

Airbus wants to know everything passengers do on an airplane — including how often they use the bathroom

CNBC, here. 

OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum 2019

Here. And here.

A Unique Case? The EU Takes on Amazon.

Our Curious Amalgam, Podcast here. 

The evolution of US antitrust law

CNBC, Video here. And How Microsoft’s antitrust fight in the 1990s reshaped the Internet, here. 

Currencies, money and digital tokens

T. Jordan, here.

Swiss regulator FINMA issues guidelines for stablecoins, including Facebook’s Libra

The Block, here. 

Online platforms and digital advertising market study: Responses to Statement of Scope

CMA, here. 

Fintech’s need to watch their digital backs – short-term lending banned by Google

Daily Fintech, here. 

Google, Mayo Clinic strike sweeping partnership on patient data

StatNews, here. 

Google’s cloud chief Thomas Kurian on antitrust, Amazon competition

CNBC, here. 

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that internet downloads of ebooks are covered by right of communication to the public, not distribution (so, no, there is no digital exhaustion under InfoSoc Directive)

IPKat, here. 

Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules

ArsTechnica, here and here. 

Tom Kabinet's Opinion

Here. 

MARGRETHE VESTAGER AGAIN!!!!!!!!

Announcement here, at (7:56, also from 54:00 and 1:04:00).

COMPETITION ISSUES IN THE DIGITAL ERA – EU DEVELOPMENTS

K. Fountoukakos, S. Hall, here. 

COMPETITION 4.0

D'Kart, here. 

48 states are probing Google on antitrust grounds. Why isn’t California?

LATimes, here. 

AdC condena 14 bancos a coima de 225 milhões de euros

AdC, aqui.

The Case for Employing Hybrid Welfare Standards in Antitrust Matters

S. Walker, Audio here. 

Technology Tencent Music Dives as Watchdog Probes Its Record-Label Ties

Bloomberg, here. 

Draft Guidelines Concerning Abuse of a Superior Bargaining Position in Transactions between Digital Platform Operators and Consumers that Provide Personal Information

FTC Japan, here. 

50 State AGs announce Google antitrust probe

Live, here.  Also watch here.

Frank Pasquale, the Father of Algorithmic Transparency (and Much More) on Competition Lore

Podcast, here. 

Australia is figuring out its own way to wrestle with tech giants

MarketplaceTech, Podcast here. 

@Echelle : Furman report

Video here. 

Ex-ante competition law enforcement and online platforms – a tool with no (clear) instructions

D. Mandrescu, here. 

Tech Firms Need More Regulation

B. Smith, C. Browne, here. 

Apple tweaks its App Store algorithm as antitrust investigations loom

TechCrunch, here. 

Ein neuer Wettbewerbsrahmen für die Digitalwirtschaft

Kommission Wettbewerbsrecht 4.0, hier (Zusammenfassung hier).

FACEBOOK VS. BUNDESKARTELLAMT

R. Podszun, hier. 

ICYMI: Silvie Goulard moderating an important panel

Here (from 7:46:00).

Le tribunal de commerce de Paris condamne Amazon à une amende de 4 M€ et lui impose de revoir ses conditions générales d’utilisation

Jugement ici. 

Data portability and privacy

Facebook (yes), here. 

@Echelle event on 11 April 11 2019 looks at blockchain

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

EU competition rules on horizontal agreements between companies – evaluation

EC, here. 

Wanted: fast solutions for fast-growing platforms

Stibbe, here. 

EU looking to see if Facebook's Libra currency poses competition risks

Reuters, here. 

How Each Big Tech Company May Be Targeted by Regulators

NYTimes, here. 

NY attorney general will lead antitrust investigation into Facebook

TechCrunch, here. 

How Robert Bork Fathered the New Gilded Age

ProMarket, here. 

China says new digital currency will be similar to Facebook's Libra

Reuters, here. 

KI-Enquete: Schon bald erste Empfehlungen?

Tagesspiegel, hier und hier. 

Digital Economy Report 2019

UNCTAD, here. 

America’s Existential Antitrust Crisis

Nota Bene, Podcast here. 

Steve Wozniak on Big Tech

Bloomberg, here.

Bavarian Data Protection Authority publishes new FAQ on requirements for WebFonts, Maps, GoogleAnalytics, Facebook Custom Audience and more

C. Piltz, here. 

Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers

FT, here.
More here. 

How a ‘regulatory sandbox’ can drive innovation in financial services

World Finance, here. 

Global Tech Competition and Consumer Protection-Privacy Enforcement Tracker

ABA, here. 

Solutions from Stigler?

Competition Lore, with F. Scott-Morton and our beloved C. Beaton-Wells, here. 

Facebook Finally Meets a Regulator With Bite

Bloomberg Opinion, here. 

Welcome to McDonald’s. Would You Like a Podcast With Those Fries?

NyTimes, here. 

Taming the Fourth Power

UCL Faculty of Law Conference, Video here. 

Justice Department Sues to Block Sabre's Acquisition of Farelogix

DOJ, here. 

Facebook's Libra Currency Gets European Union Antitrust Scrutiny

Bloomberg, here.

Ministererlaubnis für die Fusion Miba/Zollern: europäische Champions statt Wettbewerb?

O. Budzinski, A. Stöhr, hier. 

Bayer to sell animal health business to Elanco for $7.6b

FT, here. 

The Data Portability Act: More User Control, More Competition

OTI, here. 

New money-laundering rules change everything for cryptocurrency exchanges

MIT Technology Review, here. 

My perspectives on the future of digital economy in 42 bullet-points

P. Méda, here. 

Pardon the Interruptions

Podcast, here. 

Google discloses last year's acquisition of mobile learning app Socratic as it relaunches on iOS

TechCrunch, here. 

Techlash, the Aspen Way

Why Google’s rivals refuse to pay for a slice of the Android search market

The Week, here. 

DeepMind: The Podcast

Coming soon here. 

Column: AT&T’s promise of better pay-TV prices and service is ‘bordering on the absurd’

LATimes, here. 

Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite

NYTimes, here.
AAP's Statement here. 

What does it even mean to be a tech company in 2019?

Recode, here. 

Crypto Behemoth Binance Is Planning a Rival to Facebook’s Libra

Bloomberg, here. 

Privacy for the General Public? The Expansion of Privacy Regulation in California & Beyond

Our Curious Amalgam, Podcast here, 

Kartellrecht und Ökonomik: Institutions Matter!

O. Budzinski, J. Haucap, hier. 

Peter Altmaier erlaubt Fusion von Miba und Zollern

Handelsblatt, hier.

Irish State told to delete ‘unlawful’ data on 3.2m citizens

The Irish Times, here. 

Bafin spricht PSD2-Machtwort: Fintechs kriegen mehr Zeit, Banken müssen nachbessern

Finanz-szene.de, hier. 

Für Google sind Sie der Markt

UK data protection regulator launches King's Cross facial recognition probe

FT, here. 

CMA breaks up assistive communication technology merger

CMA, here. 

A ‘big data’ firm sells Cambridge Analytica’s methods to global politicians, documents show

Quartz, here. 

Apple is reportedly in talks to let Siri play Spotify tracks

Engadget, here. 

What an Ongoing Lawsuit Says About Google’s Power in Online Travel

Open Markets, here. 

Spain: Legal fight over an algorithm’s code

Algotithm Watch, here. 

CMA pharma probe secures £8m for the NHS

CMA, here. 

Irish regulator queries Facebook on transcription of users' audio

Reuters, here. 

Democratic U.S. senator asks Facebook CEO if he gave 'incomplete' testimony

Reuters, here. 

Spotify will reportedly test a price hike for its premium service in some markets

TechCrunch, here. 

Digital Power: The Tale

C. Miller, Video here. 

The Digital Platforms Inquiry: Melbourne Press Club speech

R. Sims, here.  Video here.

Amazon Is a Monopoly, an Interview With Sally Hubbard

MarketplacePulse, here. 

Huawei officially reveals Harmony OS, its first party operating system

XDADevelopers, here. 

EPIC, Legal Scholars, Technology Experts Publish Statement on US AI R&D Policy

EPIC, here. 

Europa braucht eine Antwort auf Chinas Industriepolitik

J. Haucap, hier. 

How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power

NYTimes, here. 

Google's jobs search draws antitrust complaints from rivals

Reuters, here. 

U.S. LEADERSHIP IN AI

NIST, here. 

Spotify’s pitch to podcasters: valuable listener data

The Verge, here. 

L'Autorité de la concurrence autorise sous conditions la création de la plateforme Salto

ADLC, ici. 

The Revolution Will Not Be Automated

Sydney Review of Books, here. 

Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle

C. Doctorow, here. 

ICYMI: BEREC Report on the Data Economy

Here. See also Report on the outcome of the public consultation on the data economy, here. 

Apple is under formal antitrust probe in Russia

TechCrunch, here. 

AI NEEDS YOUR DATA—AND YOU SHOULD GET PAID FOR IT

Wired, here. 

ФАС РОССИИ ВОЗБУДИЛА ДЕЛО В ОТНОШЕНИИ APPLE INC

ФАС, здесь. больше из Kaspersky Lab, here. 

AI and the Economy

Working Capital, Podcast and Transcript here. 

Japan's FTC probes Apple over pressuring parts makers

The Mainichi Shimbun, here. 

How much does Google know about you?

The Guardian, Podcast (at the beach) here. 

Japan's FTC demands action from four big contractors who keep cropping up in antitrust cases

Japan Times, here. 

Ten Things To Know About The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry

C. Beaton-Wells, here. 

Concealed Data Practices and Competition Law: Why Privacy Matters

K. Kemp, here. 

Twitter says it may have used user data for ads without permission

Reuters, here. 

Brexit: Food industry seeks no-deal competition waiver

BBC News, here. 

Antitrust гласность (glasnost): A summer thread

Here.

La nouvelle politique de Google sur Android fâche les moteurs de recherche indépendants

Le Monde, ici. 

Facebook’s Libra: it’s not the ‘crypto’ that’s the issue, it's the organisation behind it

B. Maurer, D. Tischer, here.

RTB RIP? The Writing Could Be On The Wall For Real-Time Bidding In Europe

AdExchanger, here.

ACM: Extension of enforcement toolkit to increase effectiveness in dealing with competition problems in the digital economy

ACM, here. 

Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation

M. Finck for the EP, here. Policy options here. 

FedNow: FAQs

Fed, here. 

Facebook fine reveals Congress has set up FTC to fail

J. Brookman, here. 

Joint statement on global privacy expectations of the Libra network

ICO et al., here. 

"IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization

EFF, here. 

European Competition Policy in Digital: What’s Next?

N. Petit, here. 

Merger Brief: SHARING is CAR-ing: Daimler/BMW/Car Sharing JV

Here. 

Merger brief: A remix of your favourite tunes of data issues in merger control (Apple/Shazam)

Here. 

Energy Data Taskforce Report

Here.

A blueprint for re-regulating the tech sector: ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report released

Corrs, here.

Google, Siri und Alexa US-Konzerne stoppen umstrittene Auswertungspraxis

Tagesspiegel.de, hier.

UK Government Launches ‘Smart Data’ Proposals as Data-Portability Agenda Intensifies

Latham & Watkins, here. 

Huawei tests smartphone with own operating system, possibly for sale this year: Chinese state media

Reuters, here. 

Takeaway.com and Just Eat agree food delivery tie-up

FT, here.

Goldman-Backed Apple Card Restricts Cryptocurrency Purchases

Bitcoin.com, here. 

The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers

The Verge, here. 

Banning cryptocurrencies in India not the solution: Nasscom

The Economic Times, here.
Report here.

Google to Ask Rivals to Bid to Be Default Search on Phones

Bloomberg, here.
More from Qwant here. 

Sprachassistenzsysteme auf dem Prüfstand – Datenschutzbehörde eröffnet Verwaltungsverfahren gegen Google

Datenschutz-hamburg.de, hier. 

Speech Renegade Pandas: Opportunities for Cross Border Cooperation in Regulation of Digital Assets

SEC, here. 

Hot questions on data portability under the GDPR from Italy

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, here. 

Overseeing the Fintech Revolution: Domestic and International Perspectives on Fintech Regulation

Task Force on Financial Technology, Hearing, Video here (C. Woolard at 40:00, his written evidence here).
SEC's Fintech Forum, Video here. 

U.S. FTC Probes Facebook's Acquisition Practices-WSJ

NYTimes, here. 

How cities are using private sector data

J. Hardinges, here. 

Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe

The Verge, here. 

Amazon fera payer la « taxe GAFA » à ses vendeurs français

Le Monde, ici. 

Chinese financial services apps accused of overcollecting user data

TechNode, here.

Piano supplier fined £3.7m for illegally preventing price discounts

CMA, here. 

Jerome Powell: Fed 'seriously considering' faster payments system

Politico.com, here.

How To Stay Ahead Of Evolving, Unpredictable Digital Platforms

Forbes, here. 

Challenge to FTC/Facebook 2019 Settlement

EPIC, here. 

AGCOM: AVVIATA ANALISI DI MERCATO NEL SETTORE DELLA PUBBLICITÀ ONLINE

AGCOM, here. 

Digital Platforms and Digital Moments

R. Picker, Video here. 

Sampling-Urteil des EuGH: Im Zweifel für die Kunstfreiheit

Heise.de, hier.

Carrier bags data

Data.defra.gov.uk, here. 

Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing project

The Verge, here. 

Paiement en ligne: L'Autorité rejette la saisine de l'hébergeur de contenus en ligne Dstorage (1fichier.com)

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Daten – das Öl des 21. Jahrhunderts

Auszug aus Justus Haucap »Macht, Markt und Wettbewerb«, S. 5–13, hier. 

Guidance on Cryptoassets

FCA, here.

Visa pitches a program offering fintechs faster market access through an ecosystem of partners

TechCrunch, here. 

TECH-OVER: AN OVERVIEW OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN DIGITAL MARKETS

Lear, here. 

Our Data Future

Privacy International, here. 

Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the human rights impacts of algorithmic systems

Council of Europe, here. 

Why Google employees are donating to Warren and Sanders — presidential candidates who want to break up Google

Recode, here. 

Réguler au niveau européen

Le Soir, ici. 

You can't simply pay a fine to make us go away

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Interview here. 

New DPIA on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

PrivacyCompany, here. 

Can Antitrust Enforcement Improve Privacy Protection? Privacy as a Parameter of Competition in Merger Reviews

M. MacCarthy, here. 

Data Right set to sail through

InnovationAus, here. 

The DPO Handbook

Elaborated for the EU‐funded “T4DATA” programme , here. 

Petre warns on ACCC tech report

Innovationaus, here. 

US Defense Department to Develop Blockchain Cybersecurity Shield

CoinDesk, here. 

Digital Socialism?

E. Morozov, here. 

Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain

Congressional Research Service, here.
Blockchain Association, here.
M. Baradaran, here. 

CJEU rules that use of a protected work for the purpose of reporting current events does not, in principle, require authorization

IPKat, here. 

Will Facebook’s Libra Change the Way the World Banks?

Foreign Affairs, here. 

China’s Long View

Project Syndicate, here. 

What comes next? The business analysis of no deal preparations

CBI, here. 

Data subjects as data controllers: a Fashion(able) concept?

L. Edwards et al., here.

Fashion ID ruling here. 

Monsanto seeks time to respond to CCI probe on it abusing dominant position in India

The Economic Times, here.

Capital One: hacker stole data of over 100m Americans

The Guardian, here. 

Ant-Financial-Backed Startup Rides Indonesian Fintech Wave

Bloomberg, here. 

From energy to insurance: How Open Banking could fix the loyalty penalty headache

Citya.m., here. 

ICO selects first participants for data protection Sandbox

ICO, here.

CJEU rules that freedom of information and of the press cannot justify a derogation from the rights of copyright holders beyond allowed exceptions and limitations

IPKat, here. 

The future of online advertising regulation

ICO, here. 

Facebook’s Libra and the scourge of hot money

FT, here. 

IP Rights for Data: Mortaring Over the Cracks

Mayer Brown, here. 

Facebook's Libra could massively help the cryptocurrency industry — or hurt it badly

CNN, here.

Value of data: There’s no such thing as a free lunch in the digital economy

Voxeu, here. 

The FTC and Facebook

MSNBC, here. 

@ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry: First Takes

C. Beaton-Wells, here.

K. Kemp, R. Nicholls, here.

My longish Twitter thread here.

Facebook needs more than a $5 billion fine. It needs a new business model

CNN, here. 

Student Challenge Quadriptych – “Shaping Competition Policy in the Era of Digitisation”

CPI, here. 

Consumer watchdog calls for new measures to combat Facebook and Google’s digital dominance

R. Nicholls, K. Kemp, here. 

Chris Hughes Worked to Create Facebook. Now, He Is Working to Break It Up.

NYTimes, here. 

Holistic, dynamic reforms needed to address dominance of digital platforms

ACCC, here. Report here.

From Rod Sims himself, Video here. 

Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement

Vice, here. 

Viele neue Account-Sperren auf Amazon - Händler sind ratlos

Internet World, hier. 

Les clefs pour comprendre l'activisme de la Commission européenne contre Amazon

F. Marty, ici. 

Big Tech and Antitrust: A Discussion With Randal Picker

Technology Policy Institute, Podcast here. 

Facebook amasses army to lobby on Libra

Politico, here. 

Why You’ll Never Quit Amazon Prime

Land of the Giants, Podcast here. 

Digital Europe: Draft Orientations for the preparation of the work programme(s) 2021-2022

EC, here. 

New EU rules for the Platform Economy

EC, Video here. 

What affects the flow of data-enabled international trade?

ODI, here. 

Interview with Andreas Mundt

Here.

Who Owns Americans’ Personal Information and What Is It Worth?

R. Shapiro, S. Aneja, here.

Calls Mount to Ease Big Tech’s Grip on Your Data

NYTimes, here. 

Regulator prohibits use of transaction data for marketing purposes

White & Case, here. 

Spielregeln für Giganten

Die Zeit, hier. 

Geo­blocking: Online-Beschwerdeformular

Bundesnetzagentur, hier. 

Treasury's Mnuchin says Amazon 'destroyed' U.S. retail sector

Reuters, here. 

The real threat/d

A. Stamos, Thread here. 

Facebook ends friend data access for Microsoft and Sony, the last 2 of its legacy partners, under FTC deal

TechCrunch, here. 

Businesses begin to benefit from Current Account Switching Service

FinExtra, here. 

Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain

United States Senate Banking Committee, Hearing, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 4 pm Trento Time, live here. 

Data isn't the new oil, it's the new CO2

M. Tisné, here. 

The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom

A. Stamos, Video here. 

Facebook to Pay $100 Million for Misleading Investors About the Risks It Faced From Misuse of User Data

SEC, Press Release here; juicy complaint here. 

FTC Imposes $5 Billion Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

FTC, here. Complaint here.
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER ROHIT CHOPRA, here.
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER REBECCA KELLY SLAUGHTER, here.

The Great Hack

Documentary, here. 

The EC Report on Competition Policy for 2018: Themes and Trends

Hausfeld, here. 

EU privacy ruling against Facebook to come by end 2019

Politico.eu, here. 

THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2019

WIPO, here.

General Data Protection Regulation shows results, but work needs to continue

EC, here. 

Do cities have access to the private sector data they need to make effective decisions?

ODI, here. 

EU draws up sweeping rules to curb illegal online content

FT, here. 

Justice Department Reviewing the Practices of Market-Leading Online Platforms

DOJ, here. 

Technology: how the US, EU and China compete to set industry standards

FT, here. 

Innovation is more than amassing customers

FT, here. 

Competition Issues in the Digital Economy

Russian Federation, here. 

Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models

L. Rocher et al., ici. 

Amazon Testimony May Have Been Untruthful, Top Democrat Says

Bloomberg, here. 

WHITE PAPER: THE DATA MOBILITY OPPORTUNITY

digi.me, here. 

L'apport du droit de la compliance à la gouvernance d'internet

Rapport commandé par Monsieur le Ministre en charge du Numérique, ici.

(DROIT DE LA CONCURRENCE ET DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE ici.)

Guidance on the interpretation and application of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts

EC, here. 

How Russia Defeated Google’s Monopoly

M. Stoller, here. 

Unlocking Access to Self-Driving Research: The Lyft Level 5 Dataset and Competition

Lyft, here. 

Datenökonomie: Sommerlektüre

Hier. 

Competition rules must continue to evolve

G. Clark, here. 

Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capitalism

K. Birch, here. 

Commission fines US chipmaker Qualcomm €242 million for engaging in predatory pricing

EC, here. 

Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on “Competition and the Digital Economy”

Here.
Présentation Isabelle de Silva, présidente de l’Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Update from the Chair of the G7 working group on stablecoins

G7, here. 

Cade instaura processos para apurar cartéis em licitações de estádios da Copa e de edificações especiais da Petrobras

CADE, aqui. 

G7 warns on ‘serious risks’ posed by Libra and other digital coins

FT, here. 

Competition & regulation

C. Ritter, here. 

Cookies et autres traceurs : la CNIL publie de nouvelles lignes directrices

CNIL, here. 

Breaking Up: “It’s Not You, It’s Me”, “Maybe We Should See Other People” and “with or without You”

P. Marsden, here. 

UK CMA’s Digital Market Strategy

Antitrust Digest, here. 

Antitrust in the Digital Economy

Conversable Economist, here. 

The EU's latest antitrust probe could hit Amazon where it hurts

Wired, here. 

Crémer Report on Competition for the Digital Era Misses the Mark

Disco, here. 

Separation without a Breakup

P. Guniganti, here. 

Legal risk as a competitive advantage

Former Apple general counsel interviewed here. 

Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech

T. O'Reilly, here. 

India plan to merge ID with health records raises privacy worries

FT, here. 

G-7-Finanzminister machen Front gegen Facebooks Libra

FAZ, hier. 

Amazon Faces Probe in Europe Over Third-Party Selling

WSJ, here

Examining Facebook’s Proposed Cryptocurrency and Its Impact on Consumers, Investors, and the American Financial System

Hearing, here. 

Innovationen: Open-Source-Veteran soll Deutschland auf die Sprünge helfen

Heise.de, hier. 

Ein wachsames Auge auf Amazon

FAZ, hier. 

PSD2's narrow focus limiting the potential of Open Banking - report

FinExtra, here. 

Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon

EC, here. 

UK National Data Strategy: OKFN's Response

OKFN, here. 

Calls to rein in the tech titans are getting louder

The Economist, here. 

It’s Time to Reboot the Startup Economy

T. Wu, here. 

Reframing platform power

J. van Dijck, D. Nieborg, T. Poell, here. 

IBM announces Data Asset eXchange (DAX) to help developers use free and open data and AI

IBM blog, here. 

Open Banking: Preparing for Lift Off

ODI, Fingleton, here. 

An agent-based model on the effects of data sharing on economic innovation

ODI, here. 

‘I Don’t Trust You Guys’: Lawmakers Unite to Take Aim at Big Tech

NYTimes, here. 

Amazon ändert Geschäftsbedingungen

BWB, hier.
Fallbericht hier. 

Bundeskartellamt obtains far-reaching improvements in the terms of business for sellers on Amazon’s online marketplaces

Bundeskartellamt, here.
Fallbericht hier. 

EPIC Seeks Public Release of FTC Settlement with Facebook

EPIC, here. 

Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data

Yahoo Finance, here. 

Only Regulation Can Jump-start Competition in Big Tech

Public Knowledge, here. 

Competition merger brief

EC, July 2019, here. 

Everything you need to know about Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency

CNN, here. 

Habile : le WWF a inventé une fausse géolocalisation Instagram pour protéger des sites naturels

Numérama, ici. 

Why YouTube Keeps Demonetizing Videos of the Hong Kong Protests

One Zero, here. 

Libra, the GAFA, and Libra again.

Testimonies, here, here and here. 

Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

J. Stiglitz, here. 

Data sharing code of practice

ICO, here. 

UK National Data Strategy: ODI's Response

ODI, here. 

Regulator's increased interest in technology transactions

White and Case, here. 

@Echelle : la politique de concurrence à l'ère du numérique

Le nez dans le code

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Vidéo ici (dès 21:51; accès aux données pour l'entraînement des algos AI dès 1:01:40; more technological approach dès 1:38:07 "nez dans le code"). 

Calibra: Testimony

US Senate COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, here. 

1 big thing: Using a privacy law to filch data

Axios, here. 

Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional y la aplicación para dispositivos móviles de La Liga

AEDP, aquì. 

YouTube's Trampled Foes Plot Antitrust Revenge

BloombergQuint, here. 

The Toxic Potential of YouTube’s Feedback Loop

Wired, here.

U.S. Proposes Barring Big Tech Companies From Offering Financial Services, Digital Currencies

NYTimes, here. 

The Rise of Digital Money

IMF, here. 

Digital upstarts need to play by the same rules as everyone else

FT, here. 

Geleaktes Arbeitspapier: EU-Kommission erwägt neues Gesetz für Plattformen

Netzpolitik.org, hier. 

Régime juridique applicable aux traitements poursuivant une finalité de recherche scientifique (hors santé)

CNIL, ici. 

Elements of strong customer authentication under PSD2

EBA, Opinion, here. 

CYBG launches energy switching service within banking mobile app

FinExtra, here.

Licensing of FinTech business models

ESMA, Report here. 

Protecting Journalism in the Age of Digital Platforms

Stigler Center, Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms, here. 

Commission d'enquête: Souveraineté numérique

Audition du CSA, de l'ARCEP, de l'Autorité de la concurrence, Vidéo ici.

Décision: (pas de) mesures conservatoires à l'encontre de Amazon

Conseil de la Concurrence, ici. 

Congressional leaders have drafted a bill that would ban Big Tech from launching a digital asset

The Block, here. 

Digital Dystopia

J. Tirole, here. 

Canada’s nascent AI sector needs data standards to thrive

TheGlobeandMail, here. 

Digital Manipulation

TED Radio Hour, here. 

The Value of Trustworthy AI

D. Danks, here.

Invisible Influence

D. Susser, here. 

Compensation at the Crossroads

T. Hresko Pearl, here.