Google/Fitbit

Privacy International's submission to the ACCC, here. 

Commission opens in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Fitbit by Google

EC, here. 

We won! Home Office to stop using racist visa algorithm

JCWI, here. 

Credit Scoring: Negative credit rating generated without data

Noyb, here. 

Open Communications

ODI, here. 

Decentralised Banking: Are We There Yet?

The Banking Scene, here. 

The fight for digital sovereignty: what it is, and why it matters, especially for the EU

L. Floridi, here. 

CMA clears Amazon’s 16% investment in Deliveroo

Here. 

Der Umsetzung ein Stück näher

A. Wambach, hier. 

Sustainable Data Access

ODI, Podcast here. 

Tech Titans at Bay?

D. Coyle, here.

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism

VPRO Documentary, here. 

EUROPE’S DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY: FROM RULEMAKER TO SUPERPOWER IN THE AGE OF US-CHINA RIVALRY

ECFR, here. 

Citi’s New Credit Card Perk Gives Amazon Edge in Winning Big Orders

Bloomberg, here. 

Consumer Protection (E-commerce) Rules 2020: A Step In The Right Direction?

LiveLawIn, here. 

UK chemical industry warns of £1bn cost to duplicate EU regime

FT, here. 

Justice Department Is Scrutinizing Takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit, Maker of TurboTax

ProPublica, here. 

Boycotts Can’t Be a Test of Moral Purity

Z. Teachout, here. 

Facebook/Instagram: again

Non-personal data: Tread wisely in the new gold rush

B. Singh and K. Jain  

University mandates wearable COVID-19 tracker, sparking student protest

VentureBeat, here. 

Platform Rules: A Case Study of Samsung’s Failure in the Smartphone Platform Industry

H. Seo, here. 

Google signs up six more partners for its digital banking platform coming to Google Pay

TechCrunch, here. 

Amazon investing $10 billion to compete against SpaceX in satellite broadband

ArsTechnica, here.

Technology Theatre

CIGI, here.

Commission clears Alstom's acquisition of Bombardier, subject to conditions

EC, here. 

Top 10 Admissions from Tech CEOs Secured at the Antitrust Hearing

Tech(no)Bosses - click on image

H. Singer, here. 

Emails detail Amazon’s plan to crush a startup rival with price cuts

ArsTechnica, here. 

In a world first, Australia plans to force Facebook and Google to pay for news (but ABC and SBS miss out)

Rob (Nicholls), here. 

„Das Informatikstudium war eher langweilig“, sagt KI-Star Sepp Hochreiter

FAZ Digitec-Podcast, hier. 

Evaluating competition in the Internet’s infrastructure: a view of GAFAM from the Internet exchanges

J. Sowell, here. 

Documents from the Hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

US House Committee on the Judiciary, here. 

Guidance on AI and data protection

ICO, here. 

Google and Facebook to be forced to share revenue with media in Australia under draft code

The Guardian, here. 

Die Wichtigkeit von Transparenz im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung

FAZ, hier. 

London Stock Exchange may sell Milan bourse to secure Refinitiv deal

Reuters, here. 

China's central bank urges antitrust probe into Alipay, WeChat Pay - sources

Reuters, here. 

Regulating the Digital Economy

 Competition Commission of India, here.

Favorable ad search terms for Apple considered in deal with Amazon: documents

Reuters, here. 

Lego propose à l’Autorité des engagements afin de modifier sa politique de remise tarifaire

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Google Search: Summer Read

Here. 

"Congressman, I'm really focused on getting users what they want"

Here.

Why it matters that TikTok wants to reveal its algorithms

Recode, here. 

Antitrust finally gets its hearing

C. Newton, here. 

The Triumphant Return of Congress

D. Dayen, here.

A New Paradigm for Business of Data

WEF, here. 

Big Tech Hearing: My Modest Take in a Tweet

Telegram is the latest company to make antitrust complaint against Apple

B. Lovejoy, here. 

Google’s $2bn Fitbit deal faces longer EU probe

FT, here. 

Interoperability as a tool for competition regulation

I. Brown, here. 

‘This Is a New Phase’: Europe Shifts Tactics to Limit Tech’s Power

NYTimes, here. 

Lawmakers want privacy protections included in coronavirus stimulus package

CNET, here. 

Margrethe to David

Here. 

Big Tech’s leaders squirm as documents reveal their power

FT, here. 

MYDATA OPERATOR 2020 STATUS AWARDED TO 16 ORGANISATIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

MyData, here. 

Examining the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

D. Ciciline, here.

Google’s business model ‘is the problem,’ David Cicilline says

The Verge, here. 

Amazon and aggregate data

Today’s Congressional Hearing Will Test Big Tech’s Simplest Algorithm: If An Ex-Regulator, Then Hire [either directly or indirectly - via a law office/thinktank/consulting firm]

The Ringer, here. 

"Indirectly the Buy Box does favor products that can be shipped with Prime"

Here. 

Google-Fitbit: In-depth merger control

C. Caffarra, here. 

‘INSTAGRAM CAN HURT US’: MARK ZUCKERBERG EMAILS OUTLINE PLAN TO NEUTRALIZE COMPETITORS

The Verge, here. 

Baidu's Review Fast Track

Here. 

Neutralize a potential competitor?

Here.

On Apple’s monopoly power to destroy HEY

DHH, here. 

WHO, WIPO, WTO launch updated study on access to medical technologies and innovation

WTO, here. 

Google’s ‘no choice’ screen on Android isn’t working, says Ecosia — querying the EU’s approach to antitrust enforcement

TechCrunch, here. 

Lawmakers From Both Sides Take Aim at Big Tech Executives

NWTimes, here. 

Amazon: Diapers.com

Here. 

Everything you need to know from the tech antitrust hearing

The Verge, here.

Canadian smart glasses going 'offline' weeks after company bought by Google

CTV News, here. 

Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store

FT, here. 

Apple Copycats

Here. 

Bezos Admits To Serious Issues For Retail Brands In Antitrust Inquiry. What Will Change?

Forbes, here. 

A plan for Indian self-sufficiency in an AI-driven world

P. Singh, here. 

#BigTechBarons Hearing Bingo

Amazon’s Monopoly Tollbooth

ILSR, here. 

Brazil antitrust watchdog questions Facebook's WhatsApp payment fees

Reuters, here.

Chinese state capitalism: A challenge for the European market economy

Monopolkommission, here. 

Missbrauchsaufsicht in der Plattformwirtschaft

Monopolkommission, hier. 

Wettbewerb in der Corona-Krise

Monopolkommission, hier. 

Proposal for a legal act of the European Parliament and the Council laying down requirements for Artificial Intelligence: IIA

Here. 

Summary Report on the open public consultation on the European strategy for data

EC, here. 

Gekommen um zu kaufen

SZ, hier. 

Implementing act on a list of High-Value Datasets: IIA

EC, here. 

THE hearing: A Memo

Here. 

A Balancing Act - Big Tech in India

Tandem Research, here. 

Label "Numérique Souveraineté France"

La Tribune, ici. 

A Handbook to Today’s Tech Hearing

NYTimes, here.

Four of the World’s Wealthiest Men Are Preparing for Battle

NYTimes, here. 

Bureau Symposium: Consumer Access to Financial Records

U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, here.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 2040

Fraunhofer, hier.

Platformization in Europe

V. Lehdonvirta et al., here. 

Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival Android apps to develop competitors

The Verge, here. 

How a Tech-Funded Think Tank Influence[d] Global Antitrust Regulators

NYTimes, here. 

European Digital Identity (EUid)

EC, Inception Impact Assessment, here. 

Three basic facts Congress must understand about Big Tech

ProtonMail, here. 

REGTECH: REGULATORY IMPACT ON DATA BY DESIGN

E. Chaltseva, here (published with permission).

This is a Master Student 's Thesis at Trento University that I really enjoyed supervising (mostly on Zoom, since February) but, especially, reading. Brava Ekaterina (молодец!) 

Department Of Justice Issues Business Review Letter To Monoclonal Antibody Manufacturers To Expedite And Increase The Production Of Covid-19 Mab Treatments

DoJ, here. 

Investiga COFECE posibles prácticas monopólicas relativas en el mercado de la producción, distribución y comercialización de oxígeno medicinal en el territorio nacional

COFECE, aquì.

Slack: Break up the Microsoft Teams bundle and let us interoperate

The Protocol, here. 

Conspiracy Theories

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, here.

BEREC Guidelines on the Implementation of the Open Internet Regulation

Here.

The Rare Parrot Monopolist

Audubon, here. 

Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products

WSJ, here. 

EU demands major concessions from Google over Fitbit deal

FT, here.

Tweet aging well, possibly...

ICO regulatory sandbox

ICO, here. 

Guidelines 06/2020 on the interplay of the Second Payment Services Directive and the GDPR - Version 1.0

EDPB, here. 

Viagogo/StubHub: Issues statement

CMA, here. 

Lignes directrices de l’Autorité de la concurrence relatives au contrôle des concentrations

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Four Questions Congress Should Be Asking the Titans of Tech

Bloomberg, here. 

Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 6: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

US House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, Wed July 29, 2020, 6 PM CEST, here. 

Apple releases study defending App Store’s 30% cut ahead of Tim Cook’s congressional testimony next week

CNBC, here. 

Ein App-Store für die Industrie

FAZ, hier (und hier). 

Slack v. Microsoft on Twitter

Here.

Whose century?

A. Tooze, here. 

Standards for Cybersecure IoT Devices: A Way Forward

M. Girard, here. 

WHAT IS IT ABOUT LOCATION?

K. Martin, H. Nissenbaum, here. 

India, Jio, and the Four Internets

Stratechery, here.

The old and the new of fintech

A. Boot et al., here.

The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power From the Inside

NYTimes, here. 

Avviata istruttoria nei confronti di Apple e Amazon per divieto vendita di prodotti a marchio Apple e Beats ai rivenditori che non aderiscono al programma ufficiale

AGCM, qui.

Europe must not rush Google-Fitbit deal

F. Bria et al., here.

New Blueprint for Platform Governance

H. Tworek, here. 

Case AT.39711 – Qualcomm (predation)

Decision here. 

Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition

NYTimes, here. 

Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is Shared By Europe’s GAEN Contact Tracing Apps

D. Leith, S. Farrell, here. 

Big-Tech Mergers: Innovation, Competition for the Market, and the Acquisition of Emerging Competitors

M. Katz, here. 

Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis

Q. Grundy et al., here. 

Dangerous Skills Got Certified: Measuring the Trustworthiness of Amazon Alexa Platform

L. Cheng et al., here. 

HOW SHOULD COMPETITION POLICY REACT TO CORONAVIRUS?

A. Tyrie (CMA), here. 

Microsoft accused of sharing data of Office 365 business subscribers with Facebook and its app devs

The Register, here. 

Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data

NYTimes, here. 

Terminaux et plateformes, maillons structurants de l’accès à internet

Arcep, ici (il y a aussi Diane Coyle); anglais, here. 

Libre choix du consommateur dans le cyberespace

Sénat, ici. 

The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity

Privacy International, here. 

Fiona, Apple, and Amazon: How Big Tech Pays to Win the Battle of Ideas

D. Dayen, here.

Applied IO Policy Panel: What should IO economists be working on in tech? [Answer: it depends]

CEPR, here.
💰 1:13:30.

Addressing trust in public sector data use

UK Gov, here. 

The social imaginaries of data activism

T. Lehtiniemi, M. Ruckenstein, here. 

Application « StopCovid » : la CNIL tire les conséquences de ses contrôles

CNIL, ici. 

EU Regulators Halt LSE, Refinitiv Probe, Await Data

NYTimes, here. 

Fintech Strategic Review: Terms of Reference

UK Treasury, here. 

The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice

E. Ash et al., here. 

BIDEN-SANDERS UNITY TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS

Here. 

Applying new models of data stewardship to health and care data

ODI, here. 

Uber drivers to launch legal bid to uncover app's algorithm

The Guardian, here. 

EDPS Statement following the Court of Justice ruling in Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Ltd and Maximilian Schrems (“Schrems II”)

EDPS, here. 

A proxy for privacy uncovering the surveillance ecology of mobile apps

S. Lai, S. Flensburg, here. 

Plateformes coopératives

Caisse des Dépôts, ici. 

The Dark Side of Public Innovation

A. Meijer, M. Thaens, here. 

Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance

J. Van Dijck, here. 

Ein Monat Corona-Warn-App: Bisher bleibt der Effekt aus (aber ganz genau weiss man nicht - privacy, you know?)

Heise.de, hier. 

Assessment List for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (ALTAI) for self-assessment

An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care

StatNews, here. 

The background to EU citizens' court win over US tech giants

The Guardian, here. 

How have Big Tech and other digital platforms fared in the crisis?

C. Reggiani, L. Madio, A. Mantovani, here. 

We Need to Change How We Share Our Personal Data Online in the Age of COVID-19

T. Berners Lee, here. 

Yes, Your Smart Speaker Is Listening When It Shouldn't

Consumer Reports, here. 

L’Autorité sanctionne à hauteur de 93 millions d’euros un cartel dans le secteur du jambon et de la charcuterie

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Pets without PETs: on pet owners’ under-estimation of privacy concerns in pet wearables

D. van der Linden, here. 

Commission launches sector inquiry into the consumer Internet of Things (IoT)

EC, here. 

Market Power and Special Responsibility in EU Competition, Data Protection and Consumer Law

I. Graef, S. van Berlo, here. 

Privacy Attitudes of Smart Speaker Users

N. Malkin et al., here. 

Tech firms like Facebook must restrict data sent from EU to US, court rules

The Guardian, here. 

AG Opinion on YouTube: No New Developments, Only A Summary of Current EU Law on Intermediaries

EU Internet Policy, here. 

Google backs Reliance's Jio Platforms with $4.5 billion India investment

Reuters, here. 

In Defense of Breakups: Administering a 'Radical' Remedy

R. Van Loo, here. 

European Public Sphere

Acatech Impulse, here. 

Coronavirus: new steps towards setting-up of an interoperability solution for mobile tracing and warning apps

EC, here. 

AI: Decoded

Politico, here. 

Breaking up Big Tech: Separation of its Data, Cloud and Intelligence Layers

P. J. Singh, here. 

A Financial Capitalism Perspective on Startup Acquisitions: Introducing the Economic Goodwill Threshold Test

A. McLean, here. 

Google Search Upgrades Make It Harder for Websites to Win Traffic

Bloomberg, here. 

Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Aspen to reduce prices for six off-patent cancer medicines by 73% to address Commission's concerns over excessive pricing

EC, here. 

The Data Delusion

M. Tisné, M. Schaake, here. 

Google offers data pledge in bid to win EU okay for Fitbit buy

Reuters, here. 

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

L. Enriques, W.-G. Ringe, here. 

Smart Contracts ‘Have Limited Potential’ Without IoT Sensors

Cointelegraph, here. 

Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework

For the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, here.  

Fintech Needs IDIoTs

Forbes, here. 

India panel proposes new regulator for non-personal data: draft report

Reuters, here.
Submissions here. 

When Scholars Collaborate With Tech Companies, How Reliable Are the Findings?

NYTimes, here. 

Das Plattformgrundgesetz

Netzpolitik, hier. 

Google Shopping in Brazil: Highlights of CADE’s Decision and Takeaways for Digital Economy Issues

P. Burnier de Silveira, V. Oliveira Fernandes, here.

Freigabe eines Zusammenschlusses von Online-Dating-Plattformen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

What makes a market transaction morally repugnant?

C. Leuker, L. Samartzidis, R. Hertwig, here.

RECORDINGS OF THE ASCOLA 2020 CONFERENCE AVAILABLE!

Thank you so much to Michal Gal, Rupprecht Podszun and the other Intrepid Organizers 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓, here; programme reminder here. 

WIPO CONVERSATION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (WIPO/IP/AI/2/GE/20) DAY 3

Video here.

« Instituer une trilogie entre État, marché et commun »

S. Soriano, ici. 

Peak Summer 2020 Report in one file

CMA, here.

Smarte Resilienz

BertelsmannStiftung, hier.

Reports' Visual Kaleidoscope: Updated

Commission expert group publishes progress reports on online platform economy

EC, here. The 4 documents together, here.

Online platforms and digital advertising market study: An Overview

CMA, here. 

Mind Your Own Business: Protecting Proprietary Third-Party Information From Digital Platforms

H. Feld (Public Knowledge/Omidyar Network), here. 

EU MARKET STUDY ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN THE EU

Tender specifications, here. 

FAIRE DES DONNÉES ENVIRONNEMENTALES DES DONNÉES D’INTÉRÊT GÉNÉRAL

CNNum, ici. 

Sektoruntersuchung im Bereich öffentlich zugänglicher Ladeinfrastruktur für Elektrofahrzeuge

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

In Novel Ruling, 5th Circ. Curbs Privacy On Bitcoin Exchanges

Law360, here (and here).

REPORT ON THE RESULTS OF THE ICN SURVEY ON DOMINANCE/SUBSTANTIAL MARKET POWER IN DIGITAL MARKETS

ICN, here. 

EUROPEAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POLICY: MAPPING THE INSTITUTIONAL LANDSCAPE

Data Justice Lab, here.

ICN Conglomerate Mergers Project Report

ICN, here. 

Mobile applications to support contact tracing in the EU’s fight against COVID-19: Progress reporting June 2020

EC, here. 

Statement on ACM public consultation on sustainability guidelines

EC, here. ACM, hier.
See also Giovanni's Manifesto, here (p. 13).

Live tweeting from a great Webinar (and there's also the video link)!

Tweets Here.
Video here.

Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power

Nature, here. 

Publication de l'étude sur l'interopérabilité suivie d'un panel

CNNum, vidéo ici. 

Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife With Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix Them.

NYTimes, here. 

Bundeskartellamt sichert Innovation bei Software für Erfassung und Abrechnung von Krankenhausleistungen

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Gouvernance des algorithmes d’intelligence artificielle dans le secteur financier

ACPR, ici. 

Clearview AI stops facial recognition sales in Canada amid privacy investigation

VentureBeat, here.

VII EX-ANTE REGULATION OF SYSTEMIC PLATFORMS

INI Report, here.

Wirecard Flourished in Regulatory Blind Spot That’s Growing

Bloomberg, here. 

Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI): Second Session

WIPO, here. 

Digital sovereignty for Europe

EPRS, here.

For a Few Dollars More (Section)

  A Lawyer's Tribute to Ennio Morricone, here (here).

Audrey Tang - Taiwan's Covid19 response.

Copernicani, from 4:00, Video here. 

Concurrence et régulation des plateformes. Étude de cas sur l’interopérabilité des réseaux sociaux

CNNum, ici.

Hinweise für Berliner Verantwortliche zu Anbietern von Videokonferenz-Diensten

Die Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Hier. 

Rana Foroohar: The Surveillance Economy

Economics and beyond Podcast, here. 

From National Marketplaces to Global Providers of Financial Infrastructures: Exchanges, Infrastructures & Structural Power in Global Finance

J. Petri, here. 

Termite Capitalism: how private equity is undermining the economy

S. Smith, here. 

Documenting the financialisation of the pharmaceutical industry

J. Busfield, here. 

The 2020 Covid‑19 pandemic and global value chains

R. Strange, here. 

Panopticon Reborn: Social Credit as Regulation for the Age of AI

K. Werbach, here. 

Platform Capitalism’s Hidden Abode: Producing Data Assets in the Gig Economy

N. van Doorn, A. Badger, here.

Digitale Souveränität in der EU

Bertelsmann Stiftung, hier. 

Ad boycotts alone will not curb Big Tech

FT, here. 

Legislative framework for the governance of common European data spaces

EC, here. 

Tracking the journey towards mobile money interoperability

GSMA,here.

ANALISI DEL MERCATO DEI SERVIZI DI CONSEGNA DEI PACCHI 1 2 3 (INTERIM REPORT)

Agcom, qui. 

Moving Through a Pandemic

FT Video, here. 

Amazon buying self-driving startup Zoox for over $1 billion

Msn.com, here. 

Les Rencontres Économiques Aix en Seine

Programme 2020 ici.
Sébastien Soriano Session 18, 4 juillet 11:30, ici. 

A dialogue between Darwin and a blockchain

T. Schrepel, here. 

European Commission circling above--and still failing to help resolve--patent licensing dispute over automotive components

Fosspatents, here. 

Into the Whirlpool: How Predictive Data Put Brainwashing on the Spin Cycle

R. Lemov, here. 

GDPR And AI: Making Sense Of A Complex Relationship

EPthinktank.eu, here.

Here Come the 4 Horsemen of the Techopolypse

K. Swisher, here. 

The future of behavioural science: ambition with a dose of humility

FCA, here. 

Analyse und konstruktive Kritik der offiziellen Datenschutzfolgenabschätzung der Corona-Warn-App

FIfF, hier. 

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

J.-U. Franck, D. Linardatos, here. 

Central banks and payments in the digital era

BIS, here. 

Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity 2020

GSMA, here. 

Evaluation of the effects of too-big-to-fail reforms: consultation report

FSB, here. 

Data Spaces and the EU Data Strategy

IDSA, here. 

Bank of England to host an Innovation Hub Centre

Press Release, here. 

Data, Compute, Labour

Ada Lovelace Institute, here. 

Sektoruntersuchung Smart-TVs

Bundeskartellamt, Bericht, hier. 

High-risk AI applications need to be properly regulated

M. Vestager, here. 

Plateformes numériques

Assemblée Nationale, Rapport d'information, ici.

Is it time for a ‘Digital New Deal’ to rein in Big Tech?

Protocol, here. 

Competition and the Industrial Challenge for the Digital Age

J. Tirole, here. 

Brazil antitrust agency revokes decision blocking WhatsApp, Cielo venture

Reuters, here. 

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. 

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. 

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

M. 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. 

Competition Policy in Transition: Exploring Data Portability’s Roles

My today's presentation @ASCOLA, here.

Draft paper here. 

"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.

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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.