Data Governance and Competition

IGF 2019, 26 Nov at 9.30 am, streaming here.

ICN’s Merger Working Group held a teleseminar on digital mergers

J. Neely, here.

Uber Is Fighting to Survive in London After Losing Its License

NYTimes, here. 

Google runs into data fears over $2.1bn Fitbit deal

FT, here. 

GOOD PRACTICES FOR SECURITY OF SMART CARS

ENISA, here. 

Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web

The Guardian, here. 

FSFE begrüßt CDU Parteitagsbeschluss zum verpflichtenden Einsatz Freier Software

FSFE, hier. 

Privacy 2030: A New Vision for Europe

Iapp, here. 

'Privacy 2030'

C. D'Cunha, here. 

Report of the Competition Law Review Committee

Here. 

German car manufacturers fined for anticompetitive practices in the purchase of steel

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

Games consoles: The Autorité launches a market consultation

Adlc, here. 

Faster and more effective enforcement of competition rules in digital markets - the complementary role of ex ante regulation

EP, Question for written answer, here. 

Competing funeral businesses in a tiny and saturated market

Wooden Overcoats, Podcast here. 

"My jokes will still work"

S. Baron Cohen, Video here. 

Guidelines 4/2019 on Article 25 Data Protection by Design and by Default

EDPB, here. 

Privacy and competition in an age of data

M. Vestager, here. 

The CNMC investigates the possible use of price algorithms to facilitate collusion in the real estate brokerage market

A. Robles Martín-Laborda, here.

Valuing data is tricky but crucial for the public good

D. Coyle, here. 

Amazon admits to Congress that it uses ‘aggregated’ data from third-party sellers to come up with its own products

CNBC, here.  Amazon's responses here. 

China goes full digital with its currency market

Fintech Finance, here. 

Antitrust and High Tech, Platform Companies - A New Future for Antitrust?

University of Utah October 25-26, Video here.

Ad tech industry questions intentions behind Google’s latest privacy moves

Digiday, here. 

Unearthing the complete set of harms to patients and innovation

R. Chopra, here. 

Integration and Monopoly

Stratechery, here. 

The Utah Statement: Reviving Antimonopoly Traditions for the Era of Big Tech

T. Wu, here. 

„Lex ApplePay“ – Sternstunden in Berlin und woanders

Paymentandbanking, hier. 

Big Tech Acquisitions and the Potential Competition Doctrine: The Case of Facebook

M. Glick, C. Ruetschlin, here. 

Facebook's Libra testnet has logged over 51,000 transactions, deployed 34 projects

The Block, here. 

Supreme Court to Hear Google and Oracle Copyright Case

NYTimes, here (my prehistoric take on some of the still central issues here).

Apple warns of risks from German law to open up mobile payments

Reuters, here. 

Competition policy cannot be responsible of everything

A. Faya, here. 

States’ massive Google antitrust probe will expand into search and Android businesses

CNBC, here. 

AI regulation in the EU: The risks of a human-rights based approach

Fingleton, here. 

Les bacs à sable réglementaires

Petit-déjeuner de la Chaire Gouvernance et Régulation, ici. 

Enough With the Big Corporate Mergers

N. Colin, here. 

ACCESS TO CONSUMERS’ DATA IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

BEUC, here. 

Google-Fitbit Deal Should Be Blocked by U.S., Groups Say

Bloomberg, here. 

Protocols As Minimally Extractive Coordinators

Placeholder.vc, here. 

Apple launches research app in push to gather users’ health data

FT, here. 

AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers

SkyNetToday, here. 

Avis sur la proposition de loi du pays interdisant l'importation et la distribution de certains écrans solaires contenant des perturbateurs endocriniens

Autorité de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, ici. 

Data for money: App facilitating data portability now under the EDPB's scrutiny

Iapp, here. 

Data Network Effects: The Example of Internet Search

M. Schaefer, G. Sapi, here. 

Lex Apple Pay: Kopfschmerzen in Cupertino? Der Kommentar von Rudolf Linsenbarth

IT Finanzmagazin, hier. 

Data, technology and policy coordination

A. Carstens, here. 

Google plan to lock down user data draws fire from advertisers

FT, here. 

Data Trusts: Why, What and How

Algotithm Watch, here. 

EU needs to get its own digital house in order

FT, here. 

Facebook Launches Its Venmo Competitor, and What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Gizmodo, here.

More Pros and Cons of Vertical Restraints

Swedish competition authority, here

Facebook Pay consolidates payments across apps

FinExtra, here. 

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of WeWork

Bloomberg, Video here. 

A tale of two money markets - fragmentation or concentration

B. Cœuré, here. 

UK AI - Where are we now?

C. Middleton, here. 

The Geography of Innovation: Local Hotspots, Global Networks

WIPO, here. 

The Google Squeeze

Stratechery, here. 

Technical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence: An Understanding from an Intellectual Property Law Perspective

J. Drexl et al, here. 

EU looks to join digital currency wave in response to Libra

FinExtra, here. 

China is Pushing Toward Global Blockchain Dominance

Wired, here. 

The Dark Psychology of Social Networks

The Atlantic, here. 

Let´s call a spade a spade: abuse of power in the digital economy must end

BEUC, here. 

What Google’s access to health data means for Fitbit deal

Politico.com, here. 

Un an après le séisme Cnil, les acteurs du drive to store voient le bout du tunnel

Journal du Net, ici. 

Practical competition policy implications of digital platforms

D. Coyle, here. 

What risks arise from the increasing importance of bigtech players in the world of payments?

B. Balz, here. 

U.S. v. Sabre: Putting the Innovation Theory of Harm to the Test?

Orrick, here. 

SSNIPPETS (35): FALL OF THE WALL

D'Kart, here. 

Germany calls on EU to tighten grip on Big Tech

FT, here. 

Germany’s Pressing Ahead: The Proposal for a Reformed Competition Act

R. Podszun, F. Brauckmann, here. 

SPD will mit staatlicher Agentur Datenmonopol von Internetkonzernen brechen

Handelsblatt, hier. 

China regulator warns e-commerce platforms to stop monopolistic practices

Reuters, here. 

How Google Edged Out Rivals and Built the World’s Dominant Ad Machine: A Visual Guide

WSJ, here. 

Bill Gates thinks Windows Mobile would have beaten Android without Microsoft’s antitrust woes

The Verge, here. 

China: Doch keine weiteren Beschränkungen für Bitcoin-Mining

Heise.de, hier. 

Comparative Competition Law

CCL, here. 

Consummated Merger of Microprocessor Prosthetic Knee Companies Was Anticompetitive

FTC, here. 

Completed acquisition by Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. of Experian Limited’s Experian Payments Gateway Business and related assets

CMA, Decision to refer here. 

Corporate Surveillance of Everyday Life. How Companies Use Personal Data against People

W. Christl, here. 

77m Ltd v Ordnance Survey Ltd

Here. 

Why Facebook’s data-sharing initiative is faltering

FT, here. 

EU's Vestager says Google's antitrust proposal not helping shopping rivals

Reuters, here. 

How the GDPR Approaches Algorithmic Accountability

TAP, here. 

Powerful Coalition Pushes Back on Anti-Tech Fervor

NYTimes, here. 

A Guide to Privacy by Design

AEPD, here. 

Die EU bastelt an einem Recht auf Reparatur

Heise.de, hier. 

Decentralised digital ecosystems and competition law: a conceptual framework

R. Nicholls, S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here (very first draft, please do let us know if you have any comments!).

Margrethe Vestager at the 2019 Web Summit

Video, from 7:10:17, here. 

Federal Reserve Proposal to Develop Round-the-Clock, Real-Time Payments System FedNow Service: Comment

R. Chopra, here. 

Algorithmes et IA : quid des risques de réplication et d’aggravation des biais sociaux ?

F. Marty, ici.

More serious concerns over Facebook's candor with federal regulators

Not using this image lightly

Here. 

Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage

ZDNet, here. 

Microsoft has big plans for its new Edge browser

TechCrunch, here. 

Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends

NBC News, here. 

Google übernimmt Fitbit: So können Sie Ihre Daten löschen

Wettbewerbszentrale, hier. 

Algorithms and Competition

Autorité de la concurrence, Bundeskartellamt, here. 

BBVA exprime la normativa digital con pagos y créditos 'express' a clientes de otros bancos

VozPopuli, aquì.

What is Google going to do with your Fitbit data? Anything it likes

Wired, here. 

Competition for-the-market: Advocacy & Enforcement in Concessions

OECD Background Paper, here. 

COMPETITION POLICY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

OECD Background Paper, here. 

Open Banking: Regulatory Challenges for a New Form of Financial Intermediation in a Data-Driven World

N. Remolina, here. 

Restrictions on Privacy and Exploitation in the Digital Economy: A Competition Law Perspective

N. Economides, I. Lianos, here.

Facial recognition: A solution in search of a problem?

EDPS, here. 

CLIMATE CHANGE, SUSTAINABILITY AND COMPETITION LAW

S. Holmes, here. 

Canada's competition watchdog investigating travel site Flighthub

CBC, here. 

Google’s CSS Auction: Different Name, Same Illegal Conduct

Search Neutrality, here. 

Monopolization in the Name of Privacy: Google Is Slowly But Steadily Closing Its Advertising Ecosystem

H. Singer, here. 

IIF’s panel on the Future of Money

Video, here. 

The Government will share the Spanish financial and health data with companies

VozPopuli, here. 

Facebook reportedly was in talks to buy Fitbit before Google was

The Verge, here. 

Anti-Hipster Antitrust

J. Newman, here. 

What Google's Fitbit Buy Means for the Future of Wearables

Wired, here. 

Elements of Zuboff’s surveillance capitalism

G. Greenleaf, here. 

Entwurf eines Gesetzes für eine bessere Versorgung durch Digitalisierung und Innovation

Deutscher Bundestag, hier.  

Teens Love TikTok. Silicon Valley Is Trying to Stage an Intervention.

NYTimes, here. 

Apple Pay in EU antitrust spotlight as regulators seek details

Reuters, here. 

INTRODUCTION TO THE HASH FUNCTION AS A PERSONAL DATA PSEUDONYMISATION TECHNIQUE

EDPS, here. 

WSJCoin: To Understant Cryptocurrencies, We Created One

Video, here. 

I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too.

NYTimes, here. 

Global Think-in: The Code of Capital

Podcast, here. 

EU-Parlamentsvize Barley will Aufspaltung von Amazon

Presse-Augsburg.de, hier.

Rana Foroohar on taming big tech

FT, Podcast here. 

Pixel Watch : pourquoi le rachat de Fitbit est une excellente affaire pour Google

Numérama, ici

Commission opens investigation into possible collusion by two French retailers in a purchasing alliance

EC, here. 

Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte verhängt Bußgeld gegen Immobiliengesellschaft

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, here. 

A Libra Co-Creator on How Facebook Will Make Money From Calibra

Unchained, Podcast here.

Bedroht Facebooks eigene Währung das staatliche Geldmonopol? Bundesbankvorstand Wuerme­ling sieht große Risiken

SZ, hier. 

CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING (15): FORUM UNTERNEHMENSRECHT ZUR 10. GWB NOVELLE

D'Kart, here. 

Banking on Your Data: the Role of Big Data in Financial Services

US House Financial Services Committee, Task Force on Financial Technology, November 21 at 9:30 AM, streaming here. 

Was That the Best Subtweet Ever?

K. Swisher, here. 

Report regarding Fact-Finding Survey on Digital Platforms: Summary

Japan FTC, here. 

Europe ‘a global trendsetter on tech regulation’

FT, here. And the Report here. 

China Announces New Regulatory Authority to Certify Digital Payments, Blockchain Products

Coindesk, here. 

The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets

T. Philippon, here. 

Restrictions on Privacy and Exploitation in the Digital Economy: A Competition Law Perspective

N. Economides, I. Lianos, here. 

Google sued by ACCC after allegedly misleading customers over location data collection

Google, here. 

HOW MUCH BRANDEIS DO THE NEO-BRANDEISIANS WANT?

D. Crane, here. 

RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT AND FACILITATE REGULATORY CO-OPERATION BETWEEN DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITIES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMPETITION AUTHORITIES TO ACHIEVE CLEAR AND CONSISTENTLY HIGH STANDARDS OF DATA PROTECTION IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners October 2019, Tirana, Albania, here. 

Antitrust and Tech: Europe and the United States Differ, and it Matters

G.Werden & L. Froeb, Audio here. 

Tying in evolving industries, when future entry cannot be deterred

C. Fumagalli, M. Motta, here. 

Google is reportedly trying to buy Fitbit

The Verge, here. 

Digitale Souveränität im Kontext plattformbasierter Ökosysteme

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, hier. 

Money 20/20: Calibra head claims Libra AML efficacy higher than other payment networks

FinExtra, here. 

Building a positive digital world

M. Vestager, here. 

MERGER CONTROL IN DYNAMIC MARKETS

OECD, here. 

Margrethe Vestager eyes toughening ‘burden of proof’ for Big Tech

FT, here. 

VERS DES PRIX PERSONNALISÉS À L’HEURE DU NUMÉRIQUE ?

E. Combe, ici. 

Xi Jinping’s endorsement of blockchain sparks China stocks frenzy

FT, here. The discourse here. 

Which antitrust investigations should Big Tech worry about?

FT, here. 

Google Sweetens Search-Engine Remedy After EU Pressure

WSJ, here (and here).

Blockchain, FinTechs and their relevance for international financial institutions

EIB, here. 

Conference on Competition Law and Sustainability

Video here.

Competition Authorities to Investigate Mobile Application Store Dominance

B. Yüksel, N. Acar, M. Salan, here. 

Cipher Technologies Bitcoin Fund

Here. 

Blockchain/crypto: a new digital economy

C. Jeanneau, Slides here. 

ACM ontwikkelt leidraden voor het delen van infrastructuur

ACM, hier. 

Applications mobiles : un texte sénatorial veut libérer les utilisateurs des règles des GAFA

Publicsenat.fr, ici. 

Ethikgremium empfiehlt Algorithmen-Verordnung

FAZ, hier. 

New Rules for Credit Reporting Systems in the Digital Economy

EDPB, here. 

Yelp on Google

Here. 

Antitrust, Tech Monopoly and the Apple Case

C. Sagers, here.

Banks may cut ties with Facebook on Libra concerns, ING warns

FT, here. 

Gutachten der Datenethikkommission

Hier.
Executive Summary here.

The Code-ification of Law and Its Potential Effects

T. Kaeseberg, here. 

Data Ownership: Exploring Implications for Data Privacy Rights and Data Valuation

US Senate Committee, here. 

DESIGNING SELF- AND CO-REGULATION INITIATIVES: EVIDENCE ON BEST PRACTICES

BEIS, here. 

Libra and its potential role

OMFIF Podcast, here. 

The Regulatory Regime for Stablecoins

Libra, here. 

Was Libra wirklich bringt

Libra in FAZ, hier. and auf Englisch here.

AI RIGHTS FOR CONSUMERS

BEUC, here. 

Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral

NiemanLab, here.

Open Banking: Regulatory challenges for a new form of financial intermediation in a data-driven world

N. Remolina, here. 

China’s social credit system isn’t about scoring citizens — it’s a massive API

TNW, here. 

Competition in digital advertising

C. Yoo, Podcast here. 

Huawei admits that US sanctions are hurting

FT, here. 

This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listened

Wired, here. 

A G7 stablecoin report that tells it how it is

FT, here.
Report here. 

Big Tech and the Future of Finance

A gaze is worth a thousand words.........

IMF Seminar, Video here. 

Banking disrupted by FinTech and Big Tech

Bruegel, Video here. 

Technology is a Tool and Weapon

B. Smith, Boss Files Podcast here (antitrust from 23:44).

Financialisation of the Food Value Chain, Common Ownership and Competition Law

I. Lianos et al., here. 

How much does the lack of competition in digital markets cost?

J. Furman, here. 

Competition is no longer a click away

R. Chopra, here. 

Why is privacy a competition problem?

T. Valletti, here. 

Data-opolies: Congress needs to act

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

Competition policy with a (holistic) view

R. Sims, here. 

Glad to be of any help!

M. Vestager, here. 

China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother

NYTimes, here. 

Google is in serious trouble, warns top anti-trust lawyer

ZDNet, here. 

Why We Must Ban Facial Recognition Software Now

E. Selinger, W. Hartzog, here. 

Why Facebook’s Libra might be a good thing

FT, here.

Marc Benioff says it's time to break up Facebook

CNN, here.

Mastercard Outlines Blockchain Principles After Leaving Libra

Pymnts, here.

European Commission imposes interim measures for first time in nearly two decades

Allen & Overy, here. 

Recent developments at the CMA

CMA, here. 

Some Apple, FaceBook, Amazon, Google documents for US antitrust probe submitted

AppleInsider, here.

Does Apple’s “Discrimination” Against Rival Apps in the App Store harm Consumers?

Truth on the market, here.

Commission imposes interim measures on Broadcom in TV and modem chipset markets

EC, here.

QUO VADIS VERTICAL BER? – THE BUNDESKARTELLAMT’S BACKGROUND PAPER

D'Kart, here. 

DER REFERENTENENTWURF ZUM GWB

D'Kart, hier. 

Soziale Marktwirtschaft für den europäischen Datenraum

U. von der Leyen, hier. 

Apple is suffocating mobile-payment rivals

Quartz, here. 

Google confirms acquisition of data science community Kaggle

ZdNet, here. 

We may need a whole new approach to data protection

Live Mint, here. 

Why the government is investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook for antitrust — but not Microsoft

Vox, here. 

There’s a big problem with Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Ars Technica, here. 

Google’s $2.6 Billion Looker Deal Said to Get Closer DOJ Review

Bloomberg, here. 

The Interaction of EU Competition, Consumer, and Data Protection Law in the Digital Economy: The Regulatory Dilemma in the Facebook Odyssey

M. Botta, K. Wiedermann, here. 

Sports Direct calls for probe into Nike and Adidas dominance

BBC News, here. 

Antitrust After Big Data

J. Yun, here.

RGPD : Vueling sanctionnée par la CNIL espagnole pour sa politique de cookies

Next Inpact, ici.. 

Amazon's massive investment in food delivery startup Deliveroo faces further delays thanks to a formal antitrust probe

Business Insider, here. 

Is Libra Dead?

E. Reineris, here. 

Antitrust in Digital Markets

J. Newman, here. 

Brave highlights critical CCPA omission in letter to the Attorney General of California

Brave, here. 

Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 3: The Role of Data and Privacy in Competition

Friday, October 18, 2019 - 3 pm Trento Time, streaming here. 

Competition Authorities to Investigate Mobile Application Store Dominance

Kluwer Competition Law Blog, here. 

Apple Pay rückt angeblich ins Fadenkreuz der EU-Kommission

Heise.de hier. 

Fear of Facebook spurs momentum for Fed to build its own digital currency

Politico.eu, here. 

NYSE Arca Order

SEC, here. 

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

F. Foer, here. 

Competing at Scale: EU Competition Policy fit for the Global Stage

ERT, here. 

Brave writes to all European governments to press for strong ePrivacy protections

Brave, here. 

EU-Kommission: Digitalchefin Vestager plädiert bei KI für "Vertrauen by Design"

Heise.de, hier. 

Joint memorandum of the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg competition authorities on challenges faced by competition authorities in a digital world

B, NL, LUX Competition Authorities, here. 

Rights as Methodology?

CIM, here. 

Tether Backers Sued Over Market Manipulation

Bloomberg, here. 

Desktop OS Market Share Worldwide

Statcounter, here. 

Germany finalizes proposed changes in competition rules

PoliticoPro, here. 

Geldbuße gegen Bose Ges.m.b.H.

Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, hier. 

Adversarial Interoperability

C. Doctorow, here. 

CMA alleges guitar firm illegally prevented price discounts

CMA, here. 

Interoperability Is Not the Only Obstacle to Blockchain Adoption

CMSWire, here. 

BLOCKCHAIN NOW AND TOMORROW

EU Science Hub, here. 

Senators Caution Mastercard, Visa, Stripe on Libra Membership

Bloomberg, here. 

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Policy and Regulation

UCLP Public Policy, Video here. 

The anthropology of #cryptocurrency and the possible end of the nation state

A. Tripathi, here. 

GOVERNING DLT NETWORKS

Accenture, here. 

The internet: broken or about to be broken?

G. Smith, here. 

The Next Generation of Data-Sharing in Financial Services: Using Privacy Enhancing Techniques to Unlock New Value

WEF, here. 

Order approves 11 interveners in Android Case

T-804/18, here. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Google’s new competition cop, says everything is "on the table"

The Texas Tribune, here. 

Data scraping and the implications of the latest LinkedIn-hiQ court ruling

iabb, here. 

The Ties That Bind Facebook's Libra

Wired, here. 

Insight report on sharing engineering data

Lloyd’s Register Foundation, here. 

What We’ve Learned From Libra

Pymnts, here. 

Digital Era Competition Law: A BRICS Perspective

Draft BRICS academic report,  here.

The Secret Code of Capital and the Origin of Wealth Inequality

K. Pistor, here. 

Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’

The Guardian, here. 

Some Proposed Principles for Interoperating Data Commons

R. Grossman, here. 

The Financial Stability Board at 10 Years—Looking Back and Looking Ahead

R. Quarles, here. 

Banksy facing potential cancellation of ‘flower bomber’ mark

WorldIPReview, here. 

The Code of Capital

K. Pistor, Video here. 

PayPal Pulls Out of Libra, Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Project

NYTimes, here. 

Banking Disrupted? Financial Intermediation in an Era of Transformational Technology

International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB), here. 

On Libra, trust, etc.

From Erasmus University, Video here.

Droits voisins : enquête « exploratoire » de l'Autorité de la concurrence

Le Point, ici. Mais ici. 

House panel taps startup for Facebook files

660 News, here. 

Malaysia proposes $20 million fine on Grab for abusive practices

Reuters, here. See also here. 

REGULATORY MARKETS FOR AI SAFETY

J. Clark, G. Hadfield, here. 

Google faces UK class action lawsuit over collecting iPhone data

FT, here. 

Libra member companies are planning to meet this month in Switzerland

CNBC, here. 

Huawei backdoor to Google apps slams shut

Mobile World Live, here. 

Open Banking and the Closed Ecosystem: The Tech Banks Need to Navigate GDPR

BizTechMagazine, here. 

Du droit et des algorithmes

M. Teller, ici. 

Criteo porte plainte contre Facebook devant l'Autorité de la concurrence

LesEchos, ici. 

Regulating the Internet of Things

UK House of Commons, Debate Pack here. 

Competitive Edge: Five building blocks for antitrust success: the forthcoming FTC competition report

Equitable Growth, here. 

Finance et acteurs numériques : fintechs, GAFA, transformation des banques

@Echelle, vidéo ici. 

FASHION-ID: INTRODUCING A PHASE-ORIENTED APPROACH TO DATA PROTECTION?

European Law Blog, here. 

Bierkartell-Bußgeld: Preisnachlass für Edeka Nord in Sicht

Welt.de, hier. 

Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content, E.U.’s Top Court Rules

NYTimes, here. 

US: Siri will no longer default to using Apple messaging

CPI, here. 

3 drug firms accused of illegal market sharing

CMA, here.

What Are the Benefits of Data Sharing?

H. Huttunen et al., here. 

Andrew Yang's privacy proposal sounds great, but could be awful

Cnet, here. 

Amazon creates a huge alliance to demand voice assistant compatibility

The Verge, here.

European competition policy that serves consumers in the digital era

BEUC, here.

Bottom-up data Trusts: disturbing the ‘one size fits all’ approach to data governance

S. Delacroix, N. Lawrence, here. 

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF MARK ZUCKERBERG’S LEAKED INTERNAL FACEBOOK MEETINGS

The Verge, here. 

Banking, FinTech, Big Tech: Emerging challenges for financial policymakers

K. Petralia, T. Philippon, T. Rice, N. Véron, here. 

Digitale Währungen, insbesondere Libra

Öffentliche Anhörung des Ausschusses Digitale Agenda 25. September 2019, Stellungnahmen hier. 

Understanding the economics of information sharing

BBVA, here. 

Storing cookies requires internet users’ active consent

Judgment in Case C-673/17, press release here. Ruling here. 

Guiding Policies and Procedures under Section F of the UN Set on Competition

UNCTAD, here. 

Erster Kfz-Versicherungstarif mit Dashcam-Bonus

Heise.de, hier. 

PayPal gets Chinese payments license

FinExtra, here. 

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.