Regtechs, fintechs and datasharing

EU Data Staring, here. 

EU rights and data protection bodies: new technology and data protection have to go hand in hand

Joint FRA & EDPS statement, here. 

Interview with Olivier Guersent, Director General, Directorate General for Competition, European Commissio

The Antitrust Source, here. 

Cape Town company agrees to pay R600,000 for over-charging for sanitisers

Times Live, here. 

Empowering the consumer for the green transition

EC, IIA, here. 

EU PROPOSALS FOR NEW POWERS TO ADDRESS FOREIGN SUBSIDIES

Clifford Chance, here. 

The Google/Fitbit merger - NOT ON OUR WATCH!

Privacy International, here. 

Facebook’s Libra 2.0: Why you might like it even if we can’t trust Facebook

Brookings, here. 

Market studies by CCI: Towards healthy competition

Financial Express, here. 

New protections for UK businesses key to national security and fight against coronavirus

CMA, here. 

Digital Services Act: Opportunities and Challengesfor the Digital Single Market and Consumer Protection

EU Parliament, here. 

Does The Relaunch Of Google Meet Breach Antitrust Law?

Forbes, here. 

Bungled Lancet study casts shadow over health data industry

Politico.eu, here. 

Data protection as a pillar of citizens’ empowerment and the EU’s approach to the digital transition - two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation

EC, here. 

Central banks and payments in the digital era

BIS, here. 

Facebook's investment in Jio Platforms gets CCI nod

Econoomic Times, here. 

Kapitalismus braucht Regeln

J. Haucap, hier. 

GOOGLE’S PLAN TO BUY FITBIT – SHOULD WE BE ALARMED?

K. Kemp, Radio Interview here. 

GDPR IN NEED FOR A CENTRALIZED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM TO PROPERLY WORK WITH GLOBAL PLATFORMS

Radiobruxelleslibera, here. 

Sunlight alone is not a disinfectant: Consent and the futility of opening Big Data black boxes (without assistance)

J. Obar, here. 

Germany flexes its muscles on foreign investment

FT, here. 

Bundeskartellamt clears Intersport’s online platform sales model

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

viagogo / StubHub merger inquiry

CMA, here. 

Google LLC – proposed acquisition of Fitbit Inc: Statement of Issues

ACCC, here. 

France's COVID tracing app hard to link to others, EU official says

Reuters, here. 

India’s antitrust watchdog is reviewing Facebook’s $5.7B deal with Reliance Jio Platforms

TechCrunch, here. 

L’app Immuni non è sorveglianza di massa: un’analisi dei rischi tra fiducia e garanzie tecniche

A. Gadotti, qui. 

Caméras dites « intelligentes » et caméras thermiques : les points de vigilance de la CNIL et les règles à respecter

CNIL, ici. 

Amazon's new Distance Assistant uses AI to encourage social distancing

CNET, here. 

Coronavirus: Member States agree on an interoperability solution for mobile tracing and warning apps

EC, here.
Specifications here. 

EC opens investigations into Apple's App Store rules

Here. 

EC opens investigation into Apple practices regarding Apple Pay

Here.
@wavesblog thread

Covid-detecting ‘smart rings’ to be trialled by staff at Las Vegas resort

FT, here. 

Why are Google and Apple dictating how European democracies fight coronavirus?

The Guardian, here. 

Norway pulls its coronavirus contacts-tracing app after privacy watchdog’s warning

TechCrunch, here. 

Making data Portability More Effective for The Digital Economy

J. Krämer, P. Senellart A. de Streel, here.

TALES FROM THE CRYPTO

F. Pasquale, here. 

Données : la LDH veut ouvrir la «boîte noire» d’Uber

Libération, ici. 

Can This Be the New Normal? 10 Questions on the Proposed New Competition Tool

Chillin'Competition, here. 

Why Jio-Facebook May Work Better Than A Google Or Amazon Combination

BloombergQuint, here. 

Tackling the COVID-19 challenge - competition policy perspectives

Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, here.

THE JURY IS OUT: AN ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSED REFORMS TO AUSTRALIA’S MERGER CONTROL REGIME FOR ADDRESSING COMPETITIVE HARM IN THE (DIGITAL) ECONOMY

CliffordChance, here. 

Facebook hit by antitrust scrutiny after buying a site for GIFs

CNN, here. 

What's in a Name? The Marginal Standard of Review of "Complex Economic Assessments" in EU Competition Enforcement

A. Kilintiri, here. 

Resilience and competition law, in times of emergencies and crises: two research agendas

J. Nowag, here. 

The CMA is investigating the completed acquisition by Facebook, Inc of Giphy, Inc.

Here. 

Competition Law in Isolation

Video library, here. 

What will the Regulatory Horizons Council do for "us"?

Here. 

Shaping Europe's Digital Future

Council of the European Union, here. 

Apple adds anonymous symptom and health info sharing to its COVID-19 app and website

TechCrunch, here. 

GitLab acquires DevSecOps startups Peach Tech and Fuzzit

VentureBeat, here. 

General Magic

Documentary, here. 

How advertisers should adapt to the privacy-first future

J. Ryan, Remote Keynote here. 

Amazon Set to Face Antitrust Charges in European Union

NYTimes, here.
[Note to self: 2018 short "Amazon and the Law of the Jungle" here; 2016 article here]. First time I wondered about it here]

How we make decisions during a pandemic

K. Harmon Courage, here. 

Another response to the public consultation on “A European strategy for data”

 Transatlantic project “Principles for a Data Economy”, here. 

Competition rules for Big Tech and the digital economy

N. Petit & I. de Silva, Video here. 

‘AI-Generated Inventions’: Time to Get the Record Straight?

D. Kim, here. 

Data Trusts at CogX: Terrific Famel

Video here (look for it).

Competition Law in Isolation discusses market definition

Video, here. 

Re-imagining the Abuse of Economic Dependence in a Digital World

A. Rinaldi, here. 

Roadmap for an Antitrust Case Against Facebook

F.Scott Morton, D. Dinielli, here. 

EU seeks tougher checks on foreign buying of European firms

Reuters, here. 

Crisis management measures in the automotive industry

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

To define or not to define (the market), that is the problem

F. Costa-Cabral, here. 

Apple Could Cost Google $15 Billion By Buying DuckDuckGo, Analyst Says

Forbes, here. 

Google got rich from your data. DuckDuckGo is fighting back

Wired, here. 

FNE aprueba adquisición por parte de Copec de una bomba de Hualpén, aplicando la "Failing Firm Defense"

FNE, aquì.

Facebook unafraid of scrutiny as ACCC probes Giphy deal

SMH, here. 

Where Did Software Go Wrong?

J. Li, here. 

Money is data – the platformization of financial transactions

C. Westermeier, here. 

CASE AT.40220 Qualcomm (Exclusivity payments)

EC Decision here.

Commission approves acquisition of Bayer's animal health division by Elanco, subject to conditions

EC, here. 

EU competition law – market definition notice, feedback published

EC, here. 

CogX Live Streams

Here.

Competition in Ad Tech: A Response to Google

D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here. 

Valuation of start ups and nascent companies

W. Holterman, Emergency Remote Presentation here

Conglomerate effects of mergers

M. Bourreau, Video here. 

An American's Guide to the GDPR

M. Jones, M. Kaminski, here. 

Concurrence & commerce en ligne

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Google dominates online ads — and DOJ may be ready to pounce

Politico.eu, here. 

Der Tanz mit den Giganten

NZZ, hier. 

What should we do about price gouging?

A. Fletcher, here. 

Do we make informed decisions when sharing our personal data?

D. Nguyen, here. 

Competition and Risk

D. Bloomfield, here. 

Preventing Data Authoritarianism

K. Pistor, here. 

Digitalisation and Competition Law

BWB, Proposition Paper, here. 

Start-ups, killer acquisitions and merger control

DoJ+FTC, here. 

SCHLÜSSELASPEKTE DIGITALER SOUVERÄNITÄT

T. Bendig, hier. 

Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk

M. Hildebrandt, here. 

§ 19a GWB (Referentenentwurf „GWB-Digitalisierungsgesetz“)

S. Louven, hier. 

Understanding EU data protection policy

EP Briefing, here. 

TWO YEARS UNDER THE EU GDPR

Access Now, here. 

Nicolas Anciaux : « L’agentivité, c’est le pouvoir d’utiliser collectivement nos données personnelles, sous forme de Big Data citoyen »

LINC, ici. 

Support studies for the evaluation of the VBER

EC, here. 

Two years into new EU privacy regime, questions hang over enforcement

Politico.eu, here. 

Avis concernant une proposition de loi relative à l’utilisation d’applications numériques de dépistage de contacts

Autorité de protection des données, ici. 

Verbesserung der DSGVO zum Schutz unserer Grundrechte

Digitale Gesellschaft, hier. 

An opportunity for openness and user agency in the proposed Facebook-Giphy merger

Mozilla, here. 

Google faces antitrust case in India over payments app

Reuters, here. 

Report by the DPC on the use of cookies and other tracking technologies

Data Protection Commission, here. 

REVISED ISSUES PAPER ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

WIPO, here. 

Kartellgericht verurteilt Peugeot für Preisdiktat

Der Standard, hier. 

Amazon sellers are marking products as ‘collectible’ to get around price gouging rules

The Verge, here. 

The General Court annuls the European Commission’s prohibition of the Three/O2 merger – a reset for EU merger control?

Allen & Overy, here. 

The Law and Policy of Government Access to Private Sector Data (‘B2G Data Sharing’)

H. Richter, here. 

„Die wichtigste digitale Bestrebung Europas in dieser Generation“

FAZ, hier. 

What’s good for the goose ain’t good for the gander: heterogeneous innovation capabilities and the performance effects of R&D

A. Coad, N. Mathew, E. Pugliese, here. 

Designing regulation for digital platforms: Why economists need to work on business models

C. Caffarra et al., here. 

Decision 20-MC-01 of April 09, 2020

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Blockchain for supply chains and international trade

EPRS, here. 

Emergency Remote Teaching: a study of copyright and data protection policies of popular online services

R. Ducato et al. Part I, Part II. 

National COVID-19 contact tracing apps

EP Briefing, here. 

Fusión entre Uber y Cornershop

FNE, aquì.
And also @oecd, here. 

GAIA-X: The European project kicks off the next phase

Here. 

Commission to assess the proposed acquisition of Nets A/S account-to-account payment business by Mastercard

EC, here. 

App Users Say Plaid Collects Bank Logins Without Consent (1)

Bloomberg Law, here.
Complaint here. 

New Directions in Privacy and Competition Policy

M. MacCarthy, here. 

Show Me The (Data About The) Money! What You Didn’t Know About Data Aggregation Can Hurt You.

N. Packin, here. 

“The Portability and Other Required Transfers Impact Assessment (PORT-IA): Assessing Competition, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Other Considerations”

P. Swire, here. 

Data & Society Data & Society An Ecological Approach to Data Governance

J. McNealy, Podcast here. 

The Economics of the German Investigation of Facebook’s Data Collection

O. Budzinski, M. Grusevaja & V. Noskova, here. 

TWO YEARS UNDER THE EU GDPR

AccessNow, here. 

Nicolas Anciaux : « L’agentivité, c’est le pouvoir d’utiliser collectivement nos données personnelles, sous forme de Big Data citoyen »

LINC, here. 

Support studies for the evaluation of the VBER

EC, here. 

The US Copyright Office Section 512 Study: Why the Entertainment Industry Is Claiming Victory

P. Samuelson, here. 

Boosting the fight against ‘revolving doors’ in the EU in times of crisis

EU Law Live, here. 

First major GDPR decisions looming on Twitter and Facebook

TechCrunch, here. 

Section 512 Study

US Copyright Office, here. 

Pricing in an Emergency: Where Price Gouging Meets Antitrust

Proskauer, here. 

Monitoring von digitalen KommunikationsPlattformen und Gatekeepern des offenen Internetzugangs

RTR, hier. 

Digital Platforms and Antitrust

Thurman Arnold Project at Yale, here. 

How Apple Has Abused its Mobile Platform Dominance: Antitrust in the Consumer Platform Economy

S. Shao, here. 

Antitrust regulators have an eye on Big Tech’s spending spree

With M. Lemley, here. 

Competencia e intervención pública para la reconstrucción económica: riesgos y oportunidades

Jorge Padilla y Massimo Motta. Modera: Jerónimo Maíllo, aquì. 

Consumer Data Rights and Competition

W. Kerber, video here. 

Was the Obama Administration Too Soft on Big Tech?

Intelligencer, here.
Podcast here 🏃

Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps

TechCrunch, here. 

Merger moratorium takes center stage in antitrust debate

The Hill, here. 

Killer acquisitions

C. Cunningham, Video here. 

Mobiliteitsbedrijf Pon en NS mogen onder voorwaarden samen reis-app maken

ACM, hier. 

Australian watchdog says media could ‘boycott’ Google and Facebook to force them to pay for news

The Guardian, here. 

The impact of digitalization in cartel enforcement

ICN, Scoping Paper, here. 

Enquête sectorielle « fintechs » : l’Autorité lance une consultation publique

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Germany’s ‘Lex Apple Pay’: Payment Service Regulation Overtakes Competition Enforcement

J.-U. Franck, D. Linardatos, here. 

Search Preference Menus: Google Auction Ignores Screen Size and Scrolling

DuckDuckGo, here. 

Facebook's new shopping AI knows what exactly you're looking for

Engadget, here. 

Facebook takes on Amazon with online shopping venture

FT, here. 

Facebook to pay $9 million penalty to settle Competition Bureau concerns about misleading privacy claims

Competition Bureau, here. 

On conglomerate mergers: from Facebook themselves

E. Garces, Video here. 

Blockchain Code as Antitrust

T. Schrepel, V. Buterin, here. 

Line of business restrictions

P. Ibanez Colomo, Video here. 

Amelia Fletcher on challenges raised by nascent and killer acquisitions

Video here. 

Amazon/Deliveroo: Dynamic Counterfactual Analysis and the Failing-Firm Defence

V. Pereira, here. 

On health and privacy: technology to combat the pandemic

BIS, here. 

It looks like the UK’s data regulator has given up, blaming coronavirus

Wired, here. 

Analysis: Why Facebook dished out US$400m for GIPHY

Marketing-Interactive, here. 

US to back away from WHO move on Covid-19 drug patents

FT, here. 

Le Conseil d’État ordonne à l’État de cesser immédiatement la surveillance par drone du respect des règles sanitaires

Conseil d’État, ici. 

Submissions to AU Ad Tech Inquiry

Here.
Issues paper here. 

35 proposals to make the European data strategy work

Sitra, here. 

Aldi links with Deliveroo to trial online delivery of essential groceries

The Grocer, here. 

Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google

Omidyar Nework Report N.1 (one for each of the GAFAM?), here. 

'This happened very fast': How Giphy's founders fast-tracked the Facebook deal

The Protocol, here. 

Rachat de Giphy par Facebook ? Un pur coup de génie !

M. Dollé, ici. 

Antitrust Enforcers Should Block the Facebook-Giphy Merger, and Investigate Google for Anti-Competitive Behavior

EconomicLiberties, here. 

How will Europe’s coronavirus contacts-tracing apps work across borders?

TechCrunch, here. 

Scoop: Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million

Axios, here. 

Unwinding Investigated Consummated Mergers—Inconsistent with Merger Policy Since 1976

S. Cernak, here. 

CMA Amazon / Deliveroo merger inquiry

Responses to provisional findings, here. 

M&A During the Crisis: Should the antitrust traffic light be red, yellow or green?

CPI, PYMTS Panel, Video here (and here).
More on the proposed Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act, here.
@Vestager already said in a recent interview (which one 😑?) that she would not support the idea for the EU. 

Google and Zoom: Healthy Competition?

Timely, or too soon? Competition Bureau releases guidance on “failing firm” claims in merger reviews

Norton Rose Fulbright, here. 

Vernetzt im digitalen Wettbwerb

BMWI, hier. 

Digital platforms and responsible innovation: expanding value sensitive design to overcome ontological uncertainty

M. de Reuver et al., here. 

Plattformzugangsregulierung über das #LSR?

S. Louven, here. 

Competition in online platforms

F. Bostoen, Podcast here. 

Building an open and trustworthy alternative data ecosystem

Refinitiv, here. 

Policy Paper on fundamental rights as a limit to copyright during emergencies

COMMUNIA, here. 

The legal framework on the dissemination of disinformation through Internet services and the regulation of political advertising

IViR, here. 

BEUC raises concerns over the Google/Fitbit merger

T. Karanikioti, here. 

Senate and House Democrats introduce The Public Health Emergency Privacy Act

Here. 

MIT Technology Review Covid Tracing Tracker

Here. 

Preventing the Curse of Bigness Through Conglomerate Merger Legislation

R. Lande, S. Vaheesan, here. 

Towards a post COVID-19 Digital Deal between tech and governments?

CERRE, A conversation between Mark Zuckerberg and Thierry Breton, here. 

Google: The Next Big Fintech Vendor

Forbes, here. 

Digitales Kolloquium mit Professor Achim Wambach

Video hier. 

Mergers in the Digital Economy

A. Gautier, J. Lamesch, here. 

REGULATING DIGITAL PLATFORMS: WHY AND HOW?

Renaissance Numérique, here. 

Uber’s attempt to buy Grubhub comes under fire

FT, here. 

It's time for Congress to establish a federal price gouging law

Amazon, here. 

Google: If you don’t want us to track your phone – just get another tracking ID!

noyb, here. 

Interoperability guidelines for approved contact tracing mobile applications in the EU

EC, here. 

Telegram abandons its TON blockchain platform

TechCrunch, here. 

Rethinking Digital Platforms for the Post-COVID-19 Era

J. Cobbe, E. Bietti, here. 

Much of Antitrust Law Today Is Based on Unsupported or Demonstrably False Economic Theories. Will Economists Take Heed?

ProMarket, here. 

Some improvements required to the COVIDSafe Bill before Parliament

G. Greenleaf, K. Kemp, here. 

GOOGLE-FITBIT MERGER

BEUC, here. 

Kartellamt rechnet mit Übernahmewelle

SZ, hier. 

Entering the Minefield of Digital Contact Tracing

J. Zittrain, here. 

Some Crisis Impacts in Antitrust Will Reverberate

E. Tyler, here.

Italy antitrust watchdog digs deeper into Intesa's UBI bid

Reuters, here. 

L'Europe envisage de soutenir directement ses entreprises stratégiques

Les Echos, ici. 

Digital sustainability

M. Stürmer, Video here. 

Garantir le libre choix du consommateur dans le cyberespace

Sénat, ici. 

Artificial Intelligence: MEPs presented their vision on forthcoming rules

EP, here. 

Lufthansa, Deutsche Bahn, Commerzbank, VW: Ist der Staat wirklich immer der schlechtere Unternehmer?

Business Insider, hier. 

‘How tech rolls’: Potential competition and ‘reverse’ killer acquisitions

C. Caffarra et al., here. 

State Aid Rules applicable to Covid-19 Recapitalizations

Hogan Lovells, here. 

Technology v. Technocracy: Fintech as a Regulatory Challenge

S. Omarova, here. 

State aid: Commission expands Temporary Framework to recapitalisation and subordinated debt measures to further support the economy in the context of the coronavirus outbreak

EC, here. Communication here. 

„Niemand muss bei Amazon einkaufen“

Focus.de, hier. 

PLATFORMS WITH SIGNIFICANT NETWORK EFFECTS ACTING AS GATEKEEPER IMPACT ASSESSMENT SUPPORT STUDY

EC, here. 

Adtech scores a pandemic pause from UK privacy oversight

TechCrunch, here. 

Start-ups, Killer Acquisitions and Merger Control – Background Note

OECD's Secretariat, here. 

Entscheidung gegen die Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft rechtskräftig – BGH weist Beschwerden der DK zurück

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

The Basic Economics of Internet Infrastructure

S. Greenstein, here. 

Market Definition in Digital Markets

Video here. 

Groupe Canal + contro Commissione europea

AG G. Pitruzzella, qui (inglese non c'è ancora).
Some thoughts on geoblocking published in CPI, draft here.  

Review of mobile data connectivity competitiveness in Greece within the wider context of digital economy competitiveness

Rewheel research study commissioned by the Hellenic Competition Commission, here. 

Recommendations and Comments on the Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines

J. Baker et al., here. 

Second Thoughts on Double Marginalization

J. Kwoka, M. Slade, here. 

Finleap Connect macht den Versicherer Prosperity zur Bank

Handelsblatt, hier. 

5G's new twist: Build with software instead of hardware

Axios, here. 

Merricks v. Mastercard: “Passing on” the U.S. Experience

M. Delrahim, here. 

Tracking mobile devices to fight coronavirus

EPRS, here. 

Supplementary Written Evidence on COVID-19 Tracing Apps to the Joint Committee on Human Rights

O. Lynskey, M. Veale, here. 

FTC Imposes Conditions on AbbVie Inc.’s Acquisition of Allergan plc

FTC, here. 

COVID-19: Competition policy actions for governments and competition authorities

OECD, here. 

ISBA PROGRAMMATIC SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPARENCY STUDY

Executive Summary, here. 

CMA blocks sports-fashion merger

CMA, here. 

European Union Justice Commissioner Commits to Regulation on Corporate Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence

Covington, here. 

3D printing finally found its market, and all it took was a pandemic

Protocol, here. 

Epidemics and capitalism

S. Baksi, here. 

Covid-19: materiali per una mappa dell’immaginario

MicroMega, here. 

COVID-19 and Deglobalisation

LSE, Podcast here. 

Ethics of instantaneous contract tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic

M. Parker, here. 

„Apple ist rigoros“

FAZ, hier. 

Consumer Data Rights and Competition

OECD Secretariat, here. 

Conglomerate Effects of Mergers

OECD Secretariat, here. 

Lines of Business Restrictions (or "competition adjustments")

OECD Secretariat, here.

LOBR pronunciation help here. 

Les autorités publiques et administratives indépendantes publient un document de travail sur leur rôle et leurs outils face aux enjeux climatiques

Adlc, ici. 

Amazon and eBay should be liable for faulty goods, says EU group

FT, here. 

Digital services and artificial intelligence

Requested by the  EP IMCO committee, here. 

Economics, Disrupted

D. Coyle, here. 

Ce que les pouvoirs gagnent à tout savoir de nos vies

Avec Bernard Harcourt, France Inter, ici. 

12 economists write: Current antitrust doctrines are too limited to protect competition adequately

Here.

E-COMMERCE, TRADE AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

WTO, here. 

Next...

.

...soon.

MAKING THE DIGITAL SERVICES ACT WORK FOR CONSUMERS

BEUC, here. 

Interoperability of decentralized proximity tracing systems across regions

U. Luckas et al. , here. 

Can It. Amazon Is Not Your Typical Grocery Store

H. Singer, S. Sussman, here. 

Covid-19 and EU Competition Law: Bring the Informal Guidance On

G. De Stefano, here. 

Corona-Tracking: Apple und Google wollen nur eine App pro Land

Heise, hier. 

Israel's coronavirus surveillance is an example for others - of what not to do

Privacy International, here. 

Google Engineers Flirted With a Zoom Acquisition—Before a Push to Beat It

The Information, here. 

COVID-19: The EU and U.S. Responses

Carnegie Live, Video here.

And no, EC Executive Vice-President Vestager never met  US President Trump.

StopCovid ou encore ?

C. O, ici. 

Legal Advice on Smartphone Contact Tracing Published

For the Open Society Foundation, here. 

Vorschlag für ein Gesetz zur Einführung und zum Betrieb einer App-basierten Nachverfolgung von Infektionsrisiken mit dem SARS-CoV-2 (Corona) Virus

M. Engeler et al., hier. 

On intellectual property rights for the development of artificial intelligence technologies

EP Committee on Legal Affairs, Draft Report, here. 

Reform of the EU liability regime for online intermediaries

EPRS, here. 

Independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity

The Dasgupta Review, here.

Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet) (Ep. 405)

Freakonomics, here.

Coronavirus: Is mass surveillance here to stay?

BBC, here.

Jorge Padilla and Nicolas Petit on ‘Competition policy and the Covid-19 opportunity’

Antitrust Digest by Pedro Caro de Sousa, here. 

Why Are Farmers Destroying Food While Grocery Stores Are Empty?

Washington Monthly, here. 

Sequences & Sparks : Life Sciences Innovation Mergers

Our Curious Amalgam Podcast, here.

[Note to self: Tokyo Electron/Applied Materials here]

Jeff Bezos to testify before the Committee of the Judiciary (voluntarily of maybe not)

D. Ciciline's invitation here. 

A Private Equity Firm Is Blocked From Buying .Org

NYTimes, here. 

Big Data for the Public Good

D. Coyle, here. 

WHERE DO VERTICALLY INTEGRATED DIGITAL PLATFORMS END?

ABA Antitrust Virtual Meeting, Video here.

(Covid-19, data protection and competition at 45:15 - you're welcome).

Scores of coronavirus vaccines are in competition — how will scientists choose the best?

Nature, here. 

Sabre : Issues Statement on its Merger Agreement with Farelogix

MarketScreener, here. 

BGH setzt dem Urhe­ber­recht neue Grenzen

LTO, hier.

Launch of public consultation of sector inquiry into Fintech

Hellenic Competition Authority, here. 

Relazione tecnico-giuridica sui profili connessi all’eventuale adozione di una soluzione di contact tracing per il contrasto al COVID-19

Sottogruppo di lavoro “Profili giuridici della gestione dei dati connessa all’emergenza”, qui. 

An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network

G. Kappos et al., here. 

Metall auf Metall: BGH bleibt im Sampling-Streit auf EuGH-Linie

Heise, hier. 

The New Gatekeepers: Private Firms as Public Enforcers

R. Van Loo, here. 

Parere sulla proposta normativa per la previsione di una applicazione volta al tracciamento dei contagi da COVID-19

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, qui. 

Exposing the Public Interest Dimension of the Digital Single Market: Public Undertakings as a Model for Regulating Data Sharing

H. Richter, here. 

Carrying [Giovanni's] torch in times of darkness

EDPS, here. 

Precio máximo para la prestación básica funeraria y la congelación de precio

ACCO, aquì.

GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT CHASE AFTER ZOOM WITH NEW FEATURES AND FREE SERVICES

The Verge, here. 

Analyzing one decade of blockchain litigation

T. Schrepel, here. 

The Coronavirus and the Future of Big Tech

NewYorker with @Vestager, here. 

10 ways of thinking about crisis resilience

Heinrich Böll Stiftung,  hier.

Reversing Turing

B. Frischmann, E. Selinger, here. 

Efectos de la fijación de un precio máximo

ACCO, aquì. 

Coronavirus: Implications For The EU [What Think Tanks Are Thinking]

EPRS Strategy, here. 

Datentreuhandmodelle: Themenpapier

A. Blankertz, hier. 

How a handful of Apple and Google employees came together to help health officials trace coronavirus

CNBC, here. 

May the Fourth Be With Disney (Terms and Conditions Apply)

NYTimes, here. 

Regierung will im Gesundheitssektor mehr Firmenbeteiligungen prüfen

Reuters, hier. 

The first EU Competition 's comfort letter (post-Regulation 1/2003)

Re Medicines for Europe, here. 

Deliveroo cuts ~15% of staff as coronavirus challenges food delivery

TechCrunch, here. 

Social Distancing, Internet Access and Inequality

L. Chiou, C. Tucker, here. 

The whole idea of global value chains will be reconsidered after coronavirus

The Conversation, here. 

Investors Bet Giant Companies Will Dominate After Crisis

NYTimes, here. 

The Anti-Amazon Alliance

Stratechery, here. 

Merger Breakups

M. Patel, here. 

GOP Sen. Hawley asks DOJ to open a criminal investigation into Amazon

CNBC, here. 

On the possible ex ante regulation of online platforms (I): lessons from the EU telecoms regime

Chillin'Competition, here. 

How the Tension Between Big Business and Antitrust Will Reshape Post-Covid America

M. Stoller, here. 

Supreme Court Says States Cannot Copyright Official Code Annotations

EPIC, here. 

The ethics of artificial intelligence: Issues and initiatives

Study for the EP, here. 

HHS Finalizes Historic Rules to Provide Patients More Control of Their Health Data

Here. 

Chinese company CRRC can acquire Vossloh’s shunter division

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

BIG DATA AS AN ANTITRUST ISSUE

ABA, with Andreas Mundt et al., here (at 00:19:12);
-- Mundt: German essential facilities doctrine's restyling at 00:38:39 (the Scandlines saga escalated to the Federal Supreme Court, see here);
--Swire: data sharing defined as "wholesale portability" 00:43:25; HHS interoperability here.

Common Issues Relating to the Digital Economy and Competition

IDCTF, here. 

Avis sur le développement de l'application StopCOVID

Conseil national du numérique, ici. 

BIG TECH: TOO BIG TO BREAK UP?

ABA Virtual Spring Meeting, here.

Kovacic
- "all of the remedies have side effects" 0:16:33
- lots of hybrids and blurred boundaries between structural and behavioural remedies 0:17:22 -
- in praise of the UK market investigation regime (heard already from @Vestager)
- "market power by itself" (55:36) - or going back to the roots, if I may add.
- humbling: in some instances, you don't know what the effects of the case and remedies are going to be for many years to come (decades!) (1:05:30) "I'm not sure and I'm not sure when" (1:06);
- Judge Jackson (Microsoft case) on remedies: 1 morning (1:10:02);
- "We suffered from a badly cramped and distorted debate about what consumer welfare means" (1:20:27) ;


Banasevic (*interesting*question, he repeats)
- in some instances, "the harm can materialize in such a way that there is no way back once the harm has reached a certain point" (36:50)
- not a fan of the attention market concept (50:00)
- burden of proof or standard of proof, this is the question (51:00) - academic perfection ain't the goal
- The US at times goes further than the EU (examples: Intel, Qualcomm) (1:13: 50)
- complementary regulatory agenda"- "systemic or structural issues...beyond the realm of individual, case by case antitrust enforcement" (1:14:30) -  his Commissioner sounded slightly more resolute and engaged, if I may ;-), here (1:00:48);

- "...days, weeks, and months" (1:15:26) - not YEARS, hopefully @EU_Competition;

- mentioning a "thread" from Microsoft to Google re remedies (1:17:10) - or is it more of a pernicious form of "path dependency"?
- ongoing Amazon case: "the data advantage that Amazon Retail has compared to rivals to compete on Amazon Marketplace is an example perhaps of the issue that given the greater importance of data might be more prevalent in platform markets in the future...Linked to that is artificial intelligence." *Interesting" would be to call AI a buzzword.

Ohlhausen
- "doing better than the other guy is now suspect" (54:19); "companies that looked unassailable at one point have fallen off from that pinnacle" (1.19:25), etc.: The strange case of the US antitrust regime.

ENFORCERS ROUNDTABLE

ABA Spring Meeting, here. 

MERGER ANALYSIS GONE DIGITAL: TIME TO REBOOT?

Our Curious Amalgam Podcast, here.

- Illumina/PacBio mentioned by Shapiro, here (CMA's file here);
- Carl Shapiro combining an ex ante regulatory approach with a stricter M&A regime (59:26) - the latter not at all pandemic related, in case you were wondering;
- Results from FTC Issues 6(b) Orders (here), soon. 

Google Ads by Adlc in English

Here. 

Covid-19 has blown apart the myth of Silicon Valley innovation

MIT Technology Review, here.

Embedded supervision: How to regulate Libra 2.0 and the token economy

R. Auer, here.

Avis sur un projet d’application mobile dénommée « StopCovid

CNIL, ici. 

Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility

TechCrunch, here. 

Congress Can Move Now to Stop Amazon’s Cloning Factory. Here’s How

H. Singer, here. 

A tiny selection of things it might be interesting to be part of, all CET (tbc)

Monday 4

14:00  MEPs to quiz Margrethe Vestager on the EU’s response to the pandemic, here.

Wednesday 6 
13:00 Ascola UK, Angus McCulloch, The 'public' wrong of cartels and the Article 101 TFEU 'object box'; you need to register here.
18:15 GAFA, 5G : Peut-on faire du numérique un bien commun ?, avec Sébastien Soriano, s'inscrire ici. 

Thursday 7 
13:00  Thriving: the role of culture in defining and advancing well-being, here. 

15:00  Virtual IO Seminar is Michael Kummer (University of East Anglia). He will present his paper "GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps", joint work with Rebecca Janssen, Reinhold Kesler, and Joel Waldfogel, register here. 

Friday 8
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed the Way We Should Think About Antitrust Law? here.

Saturday 9 
9:30 ASCOLA-India e-colloquium on "The Future of Hub-and-Spoke Cartels in India", to participate drop a line at vikaskathuria@gmail.com

Comunicazione sugli accordi di cooperazione e l’emergenza COVID-19

AGCM, qui. 

Here are the innovations we need to reopen the economy

B. Gates, here.

My almost daily dose of Margrethe's meditations (so important in times like these IMHO)

Madame de Vestager, une femme des Lumières en ces temps sombres.




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Contact tracing and tech

Very informative Webinar organized by Renew Europe, Here.

👈 Google.

Deliveroo and Just Eat deals show politics rules trustbuster

FT, here.

Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products

WSJ, here. 

Competition Overdose

Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke present and discuss their new book, video here. 

Shock-proof: Building Resilient Systems in the 21st Century

Open Markets, NAEC OMI Roundtable live here NOW.

China's digital currency pilots pick up pace

Finextra, here. 

Will Libra Live Up To Its Initial Ambitions?

Binance Research, here. 

Nous devons rester maîtres de la politique sanitaire de l’Europe et de la France

LaCroix, ici. 

L'app Immuni cambia. Seguirà il modello decentralizzato di Apple e Google

Ilsole24ore, qui. 

The antitrust case against the Apple App Store

D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here. 

CMA gives Just Eat and Takeaway.com deal the green light

CMA, here. 

„Tödlich für die Akzeptanz“ – Spahn entscheidet sich für umstrittenes Corona-App-Modell

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Facebook and Jio deal creates huge lake of Indian data

FT, here. 

Covid-19 is resetting the way we talk about the economy

W. Carlin, here. 

Time-limited availability of our modest contribution to the blockchain/antitrust discussion

Rob and I, here.

#pandemicantitrust: Dawn raids in the food sector

Hellenic Competition Commission, here. 

Pune’s mobile App Saiyam tracks Home Quarantined Citizens

India Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, here. 

Pourquoi Facebook investit 7,5 milliards de dollars en Inde

Le Monde, ici. 

Digital sovereignty in the age of pandemics

Live(ly) debate with Margrethe Vestager et al., 24/04/2020 - 14:00 to 15:00, live streaming here. 

Price-gouging suit filed against Amazon on behalf of California consumers

Here. 

Commission approves the merger of Mylan and Pfizer's Upjohn division, subject to conditions

EC, here. 

Feds Seize PPE Using Unlitigated Hoarding Statute

E. Tyler, here. 

Facebook invests $5.7B in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms

TechCrunch, here. 

Price regulation in times of crisis can be tricky

M. Motta, here. 

Coronavirus: Commission launches data sharing platform for researchers

EC, here.

Decisione FISE: inottemperanza agli impegni

AGCM, qui. 

Stopp Corona-App des Österreichischen Roten Kreuzes: Bericht über die Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung für die Anwendung

Hier. 

Summary of CMA’s position on mergers involving ‘failing firms

CMA, here. 

First fuctioning European "Corona App" reviewed by noyb, epicenter.works and BSA Research

noyb, here. 

Setzt die Corona-App aus der Schweiz europaweit Standards?

Republik.ch, hier. 

First #AntitrustTeaBreak: password needed by default (?) 👇

Here.

@wavesblog is inviting you to the first (and last?) #AntitrustTeaBreak discussing blockchain, Libra and antitrust with Thibault Schrepel

As I wrote to Thibault:
"Hi! Thank you again, looking forward to our chat tomorrow [...] I would like us to discuss the *topic* of your paper and, of course, your perspective on it - as well as to investigate parallel perspectives, why not? -It’s really early days and curious to understand also how it could evolve. Perhaps I could get us started by briefly making a couple of general observations to which you could react and then everyone could jump in (by raising their hands) - to which you could react first but also others could have something to say...Too chaotic? Any suggestions? Thank you!"

Thibault agreed - settled.

Topic: #AntitrustTeaBreak
Time: Apr 23, 2020 05:00 PM CET

Door opens at 16.55 and closes at 17.05 (chi c'è, c'è) 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92793480270?pwd=dnhyNEI2ZWVqaTdVZVVmMFFub2pqUT09

Meeting ID: 927 9348 0270
Password: 003340

I don't expect it to be an issue AT ALL (also due to the reading pledge=barrier to entry), but I've a basic Zoom account (100 max).

Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Google Play Store and they’re not happy about it

TechCrunch, here. 

Privacy and Security Risk Evaluation of Digital Proximity Tracing Systems

The DP-3T Project, here. 

US Senator to Sundar and Tim

Here.

(Not much on the EU decentralized/centralized discussion in the letter) 

Guidelines 03/2020 on the processing of data concerning health for the purpose of scientific research in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak

EDPB, here. 

DNBulletin: Digital currency issued by central banks can protect public interests in payment systems

Here. 

Developing International Perspectives on Digital Competition Policy

S. Ennis, A. Fletcher, here. 

Mind the app - considerations on the ethical risks of COVID-19 apps

L. Floridi, here. 

France urges Apple and Google to ease privacy rules on contact tracing

The Guardian, here. 

La última víctima británica de la crisis es la política antitrust contra Amazon

CincoDías, aquí.

OS neutrality and Contact tracing apps: unfolding

Here.

Zorgverzekeraars mogen gezamenlijk zorgaanbieders financieel steunen tijdens coronacrisis

ACM, hier. 

Studenten protesteren tegen tentamensoftware die beelden van hun huiskamer opslaat

IusMentis, hier. 

A data trust for Covid-19 tracking data?

Policy Options, here. 

Machine learning could check if you’re social distancing properly at work

MIT Technology Review, here. 

AmerisourceBergen Corporation Business Review Request Pursuant to COVID-19 Expedited Procedure

DOJ, here. 

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing

Business Insider, here.

Promote Tradition of Separating Banking and Commerce Regarding Dominant Platforms

AFR, here. 

Facebook just released its coronavirus symptom tracking map

CNBC, here. 

Scientists and researchers from across the globe: Joint Statement on Contact Tracing

Here. 

Amazons neue Systemrelevanz wird für Deutschland gefährlich

Welt, hier. 

Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims

M. Brundage et al., here. 

LIABILITY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER EMERGING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

 Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies, here. 

CONVERGENCE OF BLOCKCHAIN, AI AND IOT

THE EUROPEAN UNION BLOCKCHAIN OBSERVATORY & FORUM, here.  

COMPLEXITY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH IN THE EMERGING DIGITAL WORLD

H. Benbya et al., here. 

Exit through the App Store?

Ada Lovelace Institute, here. 

Will Covid-19 set the stage for new mergers in the digital world? Time for antitrust authorities to lend special attention to the role of data.

M. Schäfer, here. 

Facebook and Google to face mandatory code of conduct to 'level playing field' with traditional news media

ABC, here. 

Facebook and Google to be forced to share advertising revenue with Australian media companies

The Guardian, here. 

Life in the era of COVID-19

N. Modi, here.