Thursday, July 02, 2020

New regime needed to take on tech giants

CMA, Press Release  here.
Final Report, here.
Selection of essential Annexes:
- B: summary of responses to our interim report consultation, here;
- E: ecosystems of Google and Facebook, here;
- F: the role of data in digital advertising, here;
- G: the role of tracking in digital advertising, here;
- H: default positions in search, here;
- I: search quality and economies of scale, here;
- J: Facebook Platform and API access, here;
- K: consumer controls over platforms’ data collection, here;
- L: summary of research on consumers’ attitudes and behaviour, here;
- M: intermediation in open display advertising, here;
- N: understanding advertiser demand for digital advertising, here;
- Q: exploitation of market power, here;
- R: fees in the adtech stack, here;
- T: our approach to assessing data remedies, here;
- U: supporting evidence for the code of conduct, here;
- V: assessment of pro-competition interventions in general search, here;
- W: assessment of pro-competition interventions in social media, here;
- X: assessment of pro-competition interventions to enable consumer choice over personalised advertising, here;
- Y: choice architecture and Fairness by Design, here;
- Z: assessment of potential data-related interventions in digital advertising markets, here;
- ZA: assessment of potential pro-competition interventions to address market power in open display advertising, here.

Jigsaw Qualitative Research Report, Digital Advertising Services, here.


Covid Economics Vetted and Real-Time Papers

CEPR, here

Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) on Facebook (translation)

Here

Contre la domination des Big Tech : le duo gagnant des autorités de concurrence et de régulation

S. Soriano, ici

Informatiker vermisst klare Konzepte für digitale Bildung

Heise.de, hier

CONSUMER AND CITIZEN GROUPS HAVE SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT GOOGLE FITBIT TAKEOVER

Consumer and citizen groups, here

EU signals deeper investigation of Google Fitbit deal

FT, here

Monday, June 29, 2020

Positionspapier zur Anonymisierung unter der DSGVO unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der TK-Branche

BfDI, hier.
Stellungnahmen der Konsultationsteilnehmer, hier

Visa International Service Association / Plaid Inc. merger inquiry

CMA, Commencement Notice here

Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: the Future of Artificial Intelligence for Policy Making

BCCP Virtual Mini-Conference 2020, Video here.

The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on artificial intelligence

STOA Study, here; Options Brief, here

Margrethe Vestager on EU-China relationships

ECFR, Video here

Case study: £4.5 million fine for Fender for illegally preventing online price discounts

CMA, here

Telegram to pay SEC fine of $18.5 million and return $1.2 billion to investors as it dissolves TON

TechCrunch, here

Musical instrument firms to pay millions after breaking competition law

CMA, here

Artificial intelligence: How does it work, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

EP, Study, here

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Bundeskartellamt gibt den Erwerb der Vossloh Locomotives GmbH durch die die chinesische CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotives Co. nach umfangreichen Ermittlungen frei

Bundeskartellamt, hier

LIKED by Margrethe Vestager HERSELF 😳













...besides a @Google Software Engineer 😲😲😳😳

Competition in a Digital Age: Changing Enforcement for Changing Times

ImageM. Vestager, here (and really *here*).

The state we’re in

NewStatesman, here

15º ASCOLA (virtual) Conference - Algorithms and Competition Law

You can watch the video here

A Council of Citizens Should Regulate Algorithms

Wired, here

EU-Ratspräsidentschaft: Deutschland will mehr digitale Souveränität

Heise.de, hier

How Amazon Used the Pandemic to Amass More Monopoly Power

The Nation, here

Die pragmatischen Puristen

Republik.ch, hier

Thursday, June 25, 2020

"Un test di civiltà" - Come conciliare sorveglianza e privacy durante una pandemia

La qui presente, su YouTube.

Operationalizing Research Access in Platform Governance

Algorithm Watch, here

Competition Policy in Transition: Exploring Data Portability’s Roles

Yours Very Truly, here.

Yes, it has actually to do with 👈

Very first draft...Please let me know if you have comments!

Google to pay some publishers in Australia, Brazil, Germany for content

Reuters, here

Bundesgerichtshof bestätigt vorläufig den Vorwurf der missbräuchlichen Ausnutzung einer marktbeherrschenden Stellung durch Facebook

BGH, hier

Capitaliser et valoriser les données de paiement : l’exemple de l’industrie des cartes de crédit

LINC, ici

Konsultationspapier zur Sektoruntersuchung Nutzerbewertungen

Bundeskartellamt, hier

Bank-Fintech Partnerships, Outsourcing Arrangements and the Case for a Mentorship Regime

L. Enriques, W.-G. Ringe, here

Gatekeepers and digital markets set for further EU regulation

Pinsent Masons, here

RGPD : le Conseil d’État rejette le recours dirigé contre la sanction de 50 millions d’euros infligée à Google par la CNIL

Ici

Antitrust & Corruption: Overruling Noerr

T. Wu, here

EP REPORT on competition policy

Here

Why was Frankfurt so blind for so long about Wirecard?

FT, here

Cash Less Society : comment préserver la vie privée dans une société sans argent liquide ?

LINC, ici

To tame the giants, the EU needs to step up competition enforcement

BEUC, here

Are cookie banners indeed compliant with the law? Deciphering EU legal requirements on consent and technical means to verify compliance of cookie banners

C. Santos, N. Bielova, C. Matte, here

Amazon’s Enforcement Failures Leave Open a Back Door to Banned Goods—Some Sold and Shipped by Amazon Itself

TheMarkUp, here

Why open science is critical to combatting COVID-19

OECD, here

Apple will let users pick their own default email and browser apps

TechCrunch, here

Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets

D. Srinivasan, here

BREAKING NEWS: Federal Cartel Office of Germany asks regional courts to refer component-level standard-essential patent licensing questions to CJEU, disagrees with Nokia

FOSS Patents, here

City-wide data in London (Part 2): Where we want to get to

Smart London, here

Data and Covid-19: why standards matter

ODI, here

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

Friday, June 12, 2020

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

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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

Thursday, June 04, 2020

§ 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

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

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

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

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

Friday, May 15, 2020

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

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

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

Wednesday, May 06, 2020

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

Tuesday, May 05, 2020

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

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

Monday, May 04, 2020

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

Friday, May 01, 2020

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.

Thursday, April 30, 2020

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

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

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

Monday, April 27, 2020

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. 

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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