Friday, January 14, 2022

Google Misled Publishers and Advertisers, Unredacted Lawsuit Alleges

 WSJ, here

Apple to allow alternative payment system for 1st time in S. Korea

 The Korea Herald, here

Second time lucky? FTC v. Facebook

 Order here

Votre attention, s’il vous plaît !

 CNN, ici

Google News Showcase – Bundeskartellamt holds consultations on Google’s proposals for dispelling competition concerns

 Bundeskartellamt, here

Policymakers, web3, and the metaverse

 S. Gilbert, here

India’s Aadhaar System: Bringing E-Government to Life

 Chandler Institute, here

Commission prohibits proposed acquisition of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering by Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings

 EC, here

China’s New AI Governance Initiatives Shouldn’t Be Ignored

 M. Sheehan, here

The true cost of Amazon’s low prices

 Recode, here

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Interim Report on the Sectoral Survey on Financial Technologies

 HCC, here (DeepL translation).

Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3

The Crypto Syllabus, here

ACM obliges Apple to adjust unreasonable conditions for its App Store

 ACM, here

Justice Department and Agriculture Department Issue Shared Principles and Commitments to Protect Against Unfair and Anticompetitive Practices

 Here

Alphabet/Google subject to new abuse control applicable to large digital companies – Bundeskartellamt determines “paramount significance across markets”

 Bundeskartellamt, here

Conversation with Ioannis Lianos on His Work at the HCC, DMA Digital Markets Act

 Video here

Cookies : la CNIL sanctionne GOOGLE à hauteur de 150 millions d’euros et FACEBOOK à hauteur de 60 millions d’euros pour non-respect de la loi

 CNIL, ici

Three Amazon Marketplace Sellers Plead Guilty to Price Fixing DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs in Ongoing Investigation

 DoJ, here

Andrés Arauz on CDBCs and Sovereignty

 The Crypto Syllabus, here

Auch Indien geht gegen Apples App Store vor

 Heise.de, hier

In welcher Ordnung wollen wir leben?

Ausstellung, hier.  

Money in the Metaverse

 A. Wiener, here

The Sherman Act and Abuse of Dominance in the Age of Networks

 H. Hovenkamp, here

The Rise of NFTs: These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For

B. Bodó et al., here.  

Digital Platforms and the New 19a Tool in the German Competition Act

 J.-U. Franck, M. Peitz, here

Duckduckgo: Google benachteiligt andere Suchmaschinen

 Heise.de, hier

My first impressions of web3

 Moxie.org, here

Platform-based business models and financial inclusion

 K. Croxson et al., here

No pain, no gain? The Digital Markets Act

 Z. Meyers, here

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Biometric identity systems in law enforcement and the politics of (voice) recognition: The case of SiiP

F. Jansen et al., here.  

FTC initiates probe into Meta's $400 mln VR deal for Supernatural - The Information

 Reuters, here

Regulate, but build too: for a European digital sphere

 Social Europe, here

The EU’s digital strategy and what it means for privacy

 iapp, here

Commission approves the acquisition of Suez by Veolia, subject to conditions

 EC, here

We need to talk about consent

 Mydex, here.

Digital Markets Acts update

 I. Brown, here

Six months with Lina Khan's FTC

 Axios, here

Airbnb hosts at the mercy of algorithms

Noyb, here.  

Help! My recruiter is an algorithm!

 Noyb, here

The history of the data economy: Part IV: The future

 T. Harkness, here

Before and after GDPR: tracking in mobile apps

 K. Kollnig et al., here

CFPB Shutters Lending by VC-Backed Fintech LendUp for Violating Agency Order

CFPB, here.  

EU clears Microsoft-Nuance without conditions

 TechCrunch, here

EC Press Release here

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Facial recognition: the CNIL orders CLEARVIEW AI to stop reusing photographs available on the Internet

 CNIL, here

'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed?'

 Video here

DRAFT POLICY STATEMENT ON LICENSING NEGOTIATIONS AND REMEDIES FOR STANDARDS-ESSENTIAL PATENTS SUBJECT TO VOLUNTARY F/RAND COMMITMENTS

 Here

Deutsche digitale B2B-Plattformen

 BDI, hier

UK antitrust regulator looks into Microsoft's $16 bln Nuance deal

 Reuters, here

Sanzione di oltre 1 miliardo e 128 milioni di euro ad Amazon per abuso di posizione dominante

 AGCM, qui. Provvedimento qui

Bundeskartellamt sieht Anmeldepflicht der Fusion Meta / Kustomer

 Hier

Commission invites comments on draft Guidelines about collective agreements regarding the working conditions of solo self-employed people

 EC, here

Parliament's negotiating position on the digital markets act

 EPRS, here

In South Korea, Big Tech’s power struggle with regulators is way ahead of the U.S.

 RestofWorld, here

Apple and Google duopoly limits competition and choice

 CMA, Interim Report here; Appendices here

CFPB Calls Tech Workers to Action

 Here

Telekommunikation 2021: Wettbewerb im Umbruch

 


Monopolkommission, hier

Protecting competition and innovation in the Internet of Things : Towards an Integrated Approach ?

Some slides, here.  

When ‘the’ market loses its relevance: an empirical analysis of demand-side linkages in platform ecosystems

 JRC Technical Report, here

Business Data Sharing through Data Marketplaces: A Systematic Literature Review

 A. Abbas et al., here

Feminist data protection

 IPR, here

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN EUROPE: AN ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE APPROACH

 Greens, here

EU-US launch Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue to foster cooperation in competition policy and enforcement in technology sector

 EC, here

Interoperabilität zwischen Messengerdiensten: Überblick der Potenziale und Herausforderungen

 Bundesnetzagentur, hier

The Profit Paradox — why high profits are bad for the economy

 J. Eeckhout, TedTalk here

15 Visionen für eine gerechte, soziale und nachhaltige Digitalisierung

 Digitalezivilgesellschaft.org, hier

Digital regulation: joined-up and accountable

 House of Lords, here

Crouching tiger, hidden dragons

IIPP report, here

Three proposals to strengthen the EU Artificial Intelligence Act

ALI, here.  

How to Fix the Courts’ Misuse of Economics

 M. Katz, here

Competition & Privacy: It's Both Or Nothing

 R. Berjon, here

What if the single most important idea in economics no longer works?

 J. Plunkett, here

From an Hayekian perspective, here

Germany’s data strategy for growth and innovation

 World Bank, here

DSA milestone: EU lawmakers have responded to our calls for meaningful transparency for big tech

 Algorithm Watch, here

Dans le cadre de l’instruction au fond du dossier sur les droits voisins, Google propose des engagements. L’Autorité les soumet à consultation publique

 Adlc, ici

Ökonomie als Wissenschaft der Präferenzentstehung und Charakterbildung

 Hayek-Vorlesung mit Ernst Fehr, hier.

FTC may consider rule curbing algorithmic discrimination and ‘commercial surveillance’

 TechCrunch, here

Grindr hit with € 6.2 million fine in response to complaint from the Norwegian Consumer Council

Forbrukerradet, here

Pas un Gaia-X 2.0

 Euractiv, ici

The Impact of Consolidation and Monopoly Power on American Innovation

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

Friday, December 10, 2021

Friday, December 03, 2021

Digital Markets Act latest: IMCO vs Council

 I. Brown, here.

The ruling of the EU General Court in Google Shopping: An endorsement of the EU Commission antitrust enforcement policy in digital markets”

 M. Botta, here.

Regulate to innovate

 ALI, here.

The pros and cons of decentralized platforms

 A. Hagiu et al., here,

Promoting data sharing: presidency reaches deal with Parliament on Data Governance Act

 The Council, here.

Bundeskartellamt imposes fine on audio equipment manufacturer Bose

 Here.

Le GESTE dépose plainte contre Apple devant l’Autorité de la concurrence

 Le Geste, ici.

FTC Sues to Block $40 Billion Semiconductor Chip Merger

 FTC, here.

Google exec on company's privacy philosophy: ‘FLoC will evolve – there will be other birds’

 The Drum, here.

Commission fines UBS, Barclays, RBS, HSBC and Credit Suisse € 344 million for participating in a Foreign Exchange spot trading cartel

 EC, here.

Deutsche digitale B2B-Plattformen

 BDI, hier.

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

EU Parliament’s key committee adopts Digital Markets Act

 Euractiv, here

Big Business Declares War on Lina Khan

 M. Stoller, here

Andreas Schwab - Digital Markets Act Version of 18-11-2021 - Compromise Amendments

 


Here

Press Conference, Video here.

Italy fines Amazon and Apple $230M over antitrust charges


 TechCrunch, here.

The Italian decision qui

Merger control and FDI interplay: Article 21 as a potential tool towards further convergence in FDI rules

 Clifford Chance, here

DISINFORMATION RISKS, REGULATORY GAPS AND ADEQUATE COUNTERMEASURES

 Expert Opinion Commissioned by the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, here

Google v Commission (Google Shopping): A Case Summary

 N. Moreno Belloso, here

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney calls for a universal app store to combat tech monopolies

 Protocol, here

EU Shopping judgment: what does equal access to Google's general results pages mean?

 Hausfeld, here

Stream your brain! Speculative economy of the IoT and its pan-kinetic dataveillance

 S. Ahn, here

MARKET STUDY ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR IN INDIA

 Competition Commission of India, here

WhatsApp privacy policy tweaked in Europe after record fine

 BBC, here

Noyb files another complaint against Amazon Europe – black box algorithm discriminates customers

 Noyb, here

Apple’s concession on the right to repair

 FT, here

Small business holds key to tech's antitrust fate

 Axios, here

The Future of Digital Spaces and Their Role in Democracy

 Pew Research Center, here

Synergies between Data protection law and competition law


W. Kerber, L. Specht, here

Wettbewerb und Datenschutz: Wie Kastor und Pollux, hier.

Coalition for App Fairness Statement on Digital Markets Act (DMA) Vote by European Parliament

 Here

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND EVIDENCE IN ABUSE CASES

 OECD Background Note by S. Roberts, here

Bundesrat verbietet Knebelverträge bei Hotelbuchungen

 NZZ, hier. [Gut - Meine Erklärung here]                          

Competition issues concerning news media and digital platforms

 OECD, Background Paper, here

Ex ante regulation of digital markets

OECD, Background Note here.  

Environmental Considerations in Competition Enforcement: Legal Assessment

 OECD Background Note, here

Joe to Lina re oil prices

 Here

Big Tech as Global Problem

The Grande Dame of Antitrust Law, Video here.  

CMA to open up electric vehicle charging competition on motorways

 CMA, here

7th CUTS-CIRC Biennial Conference on Competition, Regulation and Development-Day 01

 Day 01, Video here

Day 02, Live here

In Moscow’s Technological Advances, a ‘Double-Edged Sword’

NYTimes, here.  

Support study accompanying the Commission Notice on the evaluation of the definition of relevant market for the purposes of Community competition law

For the EC, here

Facebook goes after the creator of InstaPy, a tool that automates Instagram likes

 Algorithm Watch, here

Facial recognition: Huge risks for our societies

 EDPS, Video here

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Judge Ginsburg: On the Proposed Digital Markets Unit and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority

 An American Friend, Here

Privacy as code: A new taxonomy for privacy

 iapp, here

Marktmacht und Ohnmacht – Wettbewerbsrecht hält mit Oligopolen nicht Schritt

 I. Lianos, hier

You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation

 S. Zuboff, here

When do consumers prefer algorithmic versus human decisionmakers?

 Brookings, here

Everything You Need To Know About The Metaverse

 Protocol, here

Lessons from the Past? How Ordoliberal Competition Theory Can Address Market Power in the Digital Age

 I. Oakes, A. Küsters, here

Q&A: How the EU’s Flawed Artificial Intelligence Regulation Endangers the Social Safety Net

 Human Rights Watch, here

Industry concentration and competition policy

 EC, here

MYDATA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION’S LATEST DATA DEVELOPMENTS

 MyData, here

Datenlieferant Auto: Hersteller wollen Informationen zentral vermarkten

 Handelsblatt, hier

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Google’s Anti-Competitive Search Manipulation Practices

 Foundem & SearchNeutrality, here

Commission to invest nearly €2 billion from the Digital Europe Programme to advance on the digital transition

 EC, here

From ‘walled gardens’ to open meadows

 I. Brown, here

Apple told to comply with order to open up App Store

 FT, here

The New Frontier: Artificial Intelligence at Work

  APPG, here

COP26: To fix the climate, we must fix the economy. Here’s why.

 Circularonline, here

Unzureichende digitale Souveränität gefährdet die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit deutscher Unternehmen

 ZEW, hier

The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum: working for greater cooperation in regulating online platforms

 Ofcom, here

Want your Grindr data? Show your ID and take a selfie!

 Noyb, here

Data and Democracy

A. KAPCZYNSKI, here

Thursday, November 04, 2021

Ddl Concorrenza

 Qui.

The Cost of Data

G. Neff, Video here (from 5:50). 

Google plans to allow third party payments systems in South Korea

 Economic Times, here

The battle to control the metaverse: Microsoft vs Meta

 FT, here

Vertical Agreements Block Exemption Regulation:CMA’s recommendation

CMA, here

"It’s interesting how familiar [some of] these issues are"

 M. Vestager, here

Sektoruntersuchung Messenger- und Video-Dienste

 Bundeskartellamt, hier

Should competition authorities intervene in digital markets?

 M. Grenfell, here

Press publishers’ right: social media enter the stage

 U. Furgal, here

Moderne Messenger – heute verschlüsselt, morgen interoperabel?

 Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, hier

Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Google News to relaunch in Spain after mandatory payments to newspapers scrapped

 The Verge, here.

Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System

 NYT, here and here (pdf).

The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants

 P. Hanspach, N. Petit, here

Fixing Digital Capitalism: Learning from China’s Playbook

 Bot Populi, here

Europe’s Digital Decade and Autonomy

 Study requested by the EP ITRE, here

Justice Department Sues to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Rival Publisher Simon & Schuster

 DOJ, here

And the UK decision here

Draft impact assessment sheds some light on upcoming Data Act

 Euractiv, here

Clearview AI breached Australians’ privacy

 OAIC, here

Facebook says it will delete facial recognition data on more than a billion users

 TechCrunch, here

Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Meta to Meta (Sudans)

 


Report on Stablecoins

 Federal Reserve, here

China’s new platform guidelines translated

 H/T I. Brown, here.

BECOMING THE DMA: THE PARLIAMENT’S COMPROMISE (FOR NOW)

 D'Kart, here

Leitlinien für die Vereinbarkeit des Genossenschaftswesens mit dem Kartellrecht

 Bundeskartellamt, hier

La mia "Cooperativa di fronte al diritto antitrust" qui (*2008*) : chissà cosa scriverei di diverso? 

Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors?

 J. Drexl at al., here

MARKET DESIGN

 N. Agarwal, E. Budish, here

Regulating platforms and ecosystems: an introduction

 M. Jacobides, I. Lianos, here

Smart Contracts and the Digital Single Market Through the Lens of a 'Law + Technology' Approach

 T. Schrepel, here

Truck cartel in Spain: Advocate General Rantos clarifies the temporal scope of the directive on the compensation of victims of anti-competitive practices

 CJEU, here

Open Logistics Foundation gegründet

 Frauenhofer, hier

AI and Governance

 DigitalEU, here

Completed acquisition by Facebook, Inc. of GIPHY, Inc.

 CMA, the decision here.

Pomodoro costoluto fiorentino salvato dai cinesi grazie al “Golden Power” di Draghi


InToscana, qui.  

Italy vetoes sale of seed producer to Chinese-owned Syngenta, officials say

 CNA, here

Australia also wants Google to unbundle search from Android

 ArsTechnica, here

The Interim Report, here


Computational Competition Law and Economics

 Hellenic Competition Commission, here

Easier cartel rules for packaging, logistics companies, EU's Vestager says

 Reuters, here

Digging into Google’s push to freeze ePrivacy

 


Natasha the Great (TechCrunch), here

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: copyright and patents

 UK Gov, here

Why are you on Facebook?

 S. Vergnolle, here

Monday, October 25, 2021

Democratic values in a digitalised Europe

 M. Vestager, Video here

Big Tech platforms stifle innovation through anticompetitive conduct

 A. Harman, here

A coordinated approach to overseeing modern digital markets

 CMA & Friends, here

DMA: A side-by-side comparison of the Commission and Council proposals

 Here

"Black box" Amazon: algorithm discriminate customers

Noyb, here.  

The future is in your hands - Let's Organize a Conference on the Future of Europe!

 EC, Here

Interview with Joe Turow

 Here. "Where do we go next?" It shouldn't be left to them.

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

 The Register, here

Labour union urges European authorities to widen Amazon antitrust probe after Reuters story

 Reuters, here

La commissaria Vestager: “Democrazie alleate contro i giganti del web”

 


Message to MIM Students: We'll talk about it this week...

Friday, October 22, 2021

A new Europe: Competition, Industrial Policy, Taxation

 M. Vestager, here

Big techs in finance: on the new nexus between data privacy and competition

 BIS, here

A new era of cartel enforcement

 


M. Vestager, here

(Warning: pic from another conference, same day, same town - and an amazing Roman brick wall in the background)






Rome or Babylon?


(Source)



EU-US Trade and Technology Council: Commission launches consultation platform for stakeholder's involvement to shape transatlantic cooperation

 EC, here

Translation: Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Overall Governance of Internet Information Service Algorithms

 Nine Chinese Agancies, here

The Technopolar Moment

 Foreign Affairs, here

Antrittsvorlesung | Inaugural Lecture Prof. Viktoria Robertson

 Here

1st Giovanni Buttarelli Award at Global Privacy Assembly goes to...Shoshana Zuboff!

 Video here

1970-2021 : la protection des données essaime le monde

 LINC, ici.

Plaid Pushes Into Payments Business After Scuttled Visa Deal

 WSJ, here.

Unique on Facebook: Formulation and Evidence of (Nano)targeting Individual Users with non-PII Data

 J. Gonzales-Cabañas et al., here. More here

Should platforms be allowed to sell on their own marketplaces?

 A. Hagiu et al., here

Regarding the CFPB’s Inquiry into Big Tech Payment Platforms

 R. Chopra, here

Google slashes service fees in its app store after similar move by Apple

 CNBC, here

Facebook agrees to pay French publishers for news reuse

 TechCrunch, here

YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku, and the fight is going all the way to Congress

 CNBC, here

Amazon Warns Sellers: Marketplace Could Shut Down If Congress Tries to Regulate It

 The Prospect, here

In re: Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation (Amended Complaint)

 Here

Monday, October 18, 2021

Nudging Humans

 B. Frischmann, here

Retour sur un mandat : la présidence de l’Autorité de la concurrence, 2016-2021 (le seul quinquennat qu'on ne oubliera jamais)

 


La bravissima Isabelle de Silva, ici and here.

Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business

 FT, here

A letter to Amazon (final opportunity to provide exculpatory evidence)

 Here

The future of online advertising

 McCann/Stronge/Jones for the Greens/EFA, here

Biden pick for bank regulator says critics ‘demonise’ her identity

 FT, here

DSGVO: Irische Datenschutzbehörde nickt Facebooks Einwilligungstrick ab

 Heise, hier and here

Competition in Australia faces big challenges

 R. Sims, here

Google's practices in the online advertising sector

 L. Hoffmann, here

AI's technological Diversification to counter the market concentration

 S&D AIDA Webinar, here.

PROTECTING EUROPEAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD OF CONNECTED DEVICES

 BEUC, here

When Amazon Takes the Buy Box, It Doesn’t Give It Up

The Markup, here and here.

Lawmakers seek to rein in big tech with bills aimed at competition and liability

 The Guardian, here

Tech Companies Don't Need to Be Creepy to Make Money

 Wired, here

U.K. Pays Price for Energy Market That Anyone Could Join

 Bloomberg, here

The unintended consequences of Vestager’s tougher take on ‘killer acquisitions’

 Politico, here

Friday, October 08, 2021

Some thoughts on the Google Android hearing before the General Court

 The Platform Law Blog, here

CMA welcomes government proposals on new powers

 CMA, here.

Via libera al “progetto antifrode” dell’ANIA nei rami danni e vita

 AGCM, here.

Can competition be toxic? And if so, who’s pushing this toxic competition?

 A. Ezrachi, here.

Apple and Google under antitrust scrutiny in Japan for mobile OS

 Nikkei Asia, here.

RECOMMENDATION OF THE COUNCIL ON ENHANCING ACCESS TO AND SHARING OF DATA

 OECD, here.

NFT-Deal mit Sorare: Fußball-Bundesliga kriegt Blockchain-Sammelbilder

 Heise.de, hier.

What if deepfakes made us doubt everything we see and hear?

 EPRS, here

Response to DCMS consultation “Data: a new direction”

 ICO, here.

What do iOS and Android have in common? Their apps suck at privacy, boffins say

 The Register, here

How Lina Khan Debunked the DOJ Antitrust Case against Google

 NR, here.

Google rivals want EU lawmakers to act via new tech rules

 Reuters, here

BUSTING THE DANGEROUS MYTHS OF BIG ID PROGRAMS: CAUTIONARY LESSONS FROM INDIA

 Access Now, here.

Daten, Demokratie und Kartellrecht – Zur Entwicklung eines evidenzbasierten Umgangs mit Demokratiedefiziten in digitalen Märkten aus kartellrechtlicher Sicht

 V. Robertson, hier.

Überwachung in Venedig: Smart City auf dem Wasser

 Netzpolitik, hier

DMA IN IMCO: SHADOWS PRESENT IDEAS, RAPPORTEUR SHOWS A COMPROMISE

 A. Mazgal, here

China's experience with regulating big tech

 Y. Gang, Video here. The whole, excellent Conference here.

Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Si vos GIFs sont gratuits, savez-vous qui est le produit ?

 LADN, ici.

Change is needed in the next generation of economists

 FT, here

India can benefit from China’s regulatory crackdown, says Ola chief

 FT, here

Chinese AI gets ethical guidelines for the first time, aligning with Beijing’s goal of reining in Big Tech

 SCMP, here

Analysis of Google’s Privacy Budget Proposal

 Mozilla, here

Why the Digital Markets Act (DMA) should be enforceable under the Representative Actions Directive

 BEUC, here

CMA response to the government’s consultation ‘A new pro-competition regime for digital markets’

 Here

Disputing the Dogmas of Surveillance Advertising

 FTC, here

Recommendations for an effective and efficient Digital Markets Act

 Monopolkommission, here

Saturday, October 02, 2021

EU-US Trade and Technology Council New forum for transatlantic cooperation

 EPRS, here

Richard Blumenthal Was Right to Ask Facebook About “Ending Finsta”

 Slate, here

“Wayforward Machine” provides a glimpse into the future of the web

 ArsTechnica, here

Funding for fintechs: patterns and drivers

 G. Cornelli et al., here

Monopole und Preiswirrwarr: Was an deutschen Ladesäulen schiefläuft

 PlusMinus, hier

What if objects around us flocked together and became intelligent?

 EP Thinktank, here

Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants

 C. Doctorow, here

Why you shouldn’t buy Facebook Ray-Ban smart glasses

 AccessNow, here

Experimental Regulations and Regulatory Sandboxes: Law without Order?

 S. Ranchordas, here

Private Carbon Payment Programs Funnel Farm Data to Big Ag

 Food and Power, here

AI’s Legal and Ethical Implications with Sandra Wachter

 Video, here

“Reviving Competition Part 4: 21st Century Antitrust Reforms and the American Worker

 L. Khan, here

Confidential medical records at the centre of a new claim against Google

 Mishcon, here

EU looks to make data sharing easier: Council agrees position on Data Governance Act

 The Council, here

I've gone to look for American Antitrust

 Read M. Vestager's speech while listening to the song

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

As privacy issues worsen, Congress looks to the FTC

 The Verge, here

EU considers single rules for regulate vacation rental platforms

 TechCrunch, here

Apple's iPhone comes under EU scrutiny for curbs on rival 'wearable' devices

 MLex, here

Prioritising gendered public interest considerations

 B. Mkatshwa et al., here.

See also A FEMINIST ACTION FRAMEWORK FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY, here

GOOGLE DRIVE,DROPBOX, ICLOUD APPLE: Clausole vessatorie

 AGCM, qui (p. 36 ss. )

Deepfake videos, parody, and everything else

 Here

Università Bocconi, volti degli studenti spiati durante gli esami a distanza: multa di 200 mila euro

 CdS, here

More here

ACM fines Samsung over 39 million euros for influencing the online prices of television sets

 Here

Cross-border data flows and development: For whom the data flow

 UNCTAD, here

What Can the U.S. Learn From China’s Crackdown on Crypto?

 Intelligencer, here

Under California Stars...


 ...we would have wished it too - very much so (here).

Monday, September 27, 2021

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Google and Microsoft are at it again, now over government software

 Protocol, here

Article 114 TFEU as a Legal Basis for Strengthened Control of Acquisitions by Digital Gatekeepers

 Legal Opinion commissioned by Germany, here

[My bet: contrarian legal opinion by Ireland soon...]

Transcript of the Background Talk "New EU-rules for Big Tech: How to improve the Digital Services Act"

SNV, hier 

Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces

 MIT Tech Review, here.

Didi loses 30% of daily users after Beijing crackdown following IPO

 FT, here

‘New Directions in the European Union’s Innovation Policy?’

 MPI, here.

Wild West ist nun vorbei [?]

 SZ, hier.

India antitrust probe finds Google abused Android dominance, report shows

 Reuters, here

Amazon is piling ads into search results and top consumer brands are paying up for prominent placement

 CNBC, here.

Europe’s enforcement paralysis

ICCL, here.  

FDA to PTO

 Here

DIGITALE ÜBERWACHUNG UND KONTROLLE AM ARBEITSPLATZ

 W. Christli, hier

Waste from one bitcoin transaction ‘like binning two iPhones’

 The Guardian, here

Big Tech, Big Problems, & Big Solutions: The Legislative Package to Reinvigorate Platform Competition

 Public Knowledge, here

Australia proves that small publishers benefit from collective negotiation with Big Tech – Canada should follow suit

News Media Canada, here.

Withdrawal of the Vertical Merger Guidelines

 L. Kahn, here

Big tech companies snap up smaller rivals at record pace

FT, here.  

Big Data, Big Questions: Implications for Competition and Consumers

 Chez Senator Klobuchar, here.

The Commission adopts a Statement of Objections in view of adopting interim measures following Illumina's early acquisition of GRAIL

 EC, here

Early draft*s* of the DMA proposal: A take

 Coalition for App Fairness, here

Beyond Debiasing

 EDRi, here.

THE USE OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN THE EU’S BANKING AND PAYMENTS SECTOR

 EBA, here.

Comments regarding the draft revised VBER and VGL as published on 9 July 2021

 Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Bundeskartellamt, here

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces

 MIT Tecchnology Review, here

Non-HSR Reported Acquisitions by Select Technology Platforms, 2010–2019: An FTC Study

 FTC, here

Open FTC: Findings from the Commission’s inquiry into large technology platforms’ unreported acquisitions

 Live, soon, here

Sektoruntersuchung Mobile Apps

 Bundeskartellamt, Bericht hier

Why Turkey’s Regulators Became Such a Problem for Google

 NYTimes, here

How France tamed Google

 Wired, here

L’autorité luxembourgeoise de protection des données a prononcé à l’encontre d’Amazon Europe Core une amende de 746 millions d’euros

 CNIL, ici

CMA accuses pharma firms of illegal pricing

 CMA, here. 

EssilorLuxottica / Lenstec Merger Inquiry

 CMA, here

Apple accuses CBA of ‘misleading’ digital wallets inquiry

 InnovationAus, here

Commission starts investigation for possible breach of the standstill obligation in Illumina / GRAIL transaction

 EC, here

Pièces détachées automobiles : l’Autorité de la concurrence se félicite de l’ouverture partielle à la concurrence de la vente des pièces détachées automobiles visibles

 Adlc, ici.

Wettbewerbschancen bei Strombörsen, E-Ladesäulen und Wasserstoff nutzen

 Monopolkommission, hier.

Sony’s purchase of AWAL raises competition concerns

 CMA, here

Kreditwirtschaft fordert Wahlfreiheit beim Bezahlen an E-Ladesäulen

 Heise.de, hier

Apple’s grip on App Store loosened by US judge

 FT, here

Competition Policy in Support of Europe’s Green Ambition

 EC, here

Unlawful monopolies only benefit monopolists

 DoJ, here

Google found guilty of restricting Android forks in South Korea, fined $177 million

 The Verge, here

Intelligence artificielle et droit de la concurrence

 Séminaire, ici

FTC v. Facebook

 District Court, here

Amended Complaint, here

Google Is Getting Caught in the Global Antitrust Net

 Wired, here

THE DIGITAL MARKETS ACT BACK TO THE "FORM-BASED" FUTURE?

 CompassLexecon, here (paid by Google).

Public consultation on the draft revised Regulation on vertical agreements and vertical guidelines

 EC, here

Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing a Fair Marketplace

 Open Markets, here

Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

 President Biden, here

Let’s Make Google a Public Good

 NYTimes, here

Public consultation: Proposal for the creation of a sandbox for sustainability and competition in the Greek market (too late?)

 Hellenic Competition Commission, here

Demystifying the Draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act

 M. Veale et al., here

What China Expects From Businesses: Total Surrender

 NYTimes, here

Competition and Innovation in Digital Markets

 BEIS Research Paper, here

Plusieurs marques et fabricants de lunettes sanctionnés pour prix de vente imposés et restriction de vente sur Internet

 Adlc, ici

Unlocking the value of data: Exploring the role of data intermediaries

 UK Gov, here

“Old Chicago” and Freiburg: Why Ordoliberalism Was No “German Oddity”

 ProMarket, here

The Autorité de la concurrence hands out a €220 millions fine to Google for favouring its own services in the online advertising sector

 Adlc, here.

Decision ici and here

Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed acquisition of Kustomer by Facebook

 EC, here

The CMA was already on it, here

Building a comprehensive and competitive electric vehicle charging sector that works for all drivers

 CMA, here

How the EU Can Achieve Legally Trustworthy AI: A Response to the European Commission’s Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act

 K. Yeung et al., here

Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism

 S. Viljoen et al. here

Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture: Concept and Assessment

 V. Kathuria, here

Apple and Google Are Gearing Up to Fight a New App Store Bill

 Wired, here

Algorithms and Economic Justice: A Taxonomy of Harms and a Path Forward for the Federal Trade Commission

R. Slaughter, here.  

Sovereignty 2.0

 A. Chander, H. Sun, here

International coherence in digital platform regulation: an economic perspective on the US and EU proposals

 Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale, here

Facebook’s takeover of Giphy raises competition concerns

 CMA, here

Provisional Findings Report here.

The New Antitrust/Data Privacy Law Interface

 E. Douglas, here

Henry Simons’s Positive Program for Laissez-Faire

 M. Rizzo, here

Taking Control of the Data Pipeline

Podcast, here.  

Opinion 11/2021 on the Proposal for a Directive on consumer credits

 EDPS, here

Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table

 C. Caffarra, J. Ryan, here

Participatory data stewardship

 Ada Lovelace Institute, here

The Data Economy: Market Size and Global Trade

 D. Coyle, W. Li, here

Google, Apple Forced to Open App Store Pay Systems in South Korea

 Bloomberg, here

Private enforcement and the Digital Markets Act

 R. Podszun, here

Unscrambling the eggs: breaking up consummated mergers and dominant firms

 J. Kwoka, T. Valletti, here

Japan Fair Trade Commission closes App Store investigation

 Reuters, here

Google appeals France's 'disproportionate' $591 million fine in copyright row

 Reuters, here. Decision ici; press release here.

WhatsApp fined a record 225 mln euro by Ireland over privacy

 Reuters, here

Decision here

The Google Choice Screen

 FairSearch, here

Les organismes professionnels

 Adlc, Etude ici

Rules-based versus principles-based regulation – is there a clear front-runner?

 Ofcom, here

What are we regulating for?

 C. Caffarra, here

TALKING TO THE COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY ABOUT APPLE

 S. Langridge, here

B. Lawson, here

Global Comprehensive Privacy Law Mapping Chart

 Iapp, here

Décision n° 21-D-21 du 9 septembre 2021 relative à des pratiques mises en œuvre dans le secteur du transport routier de marchandises

 Adlc, ici

The future of the App Store depends on the difference between a ‘button’ and an ‘external link’

 The Verge, here

The judgment, here


Beijing to break up Ant’s Alipay and force creation of separate loans app

 FT, here.

On Google’s Sandbox/FLoC Proposal: Comments Submitted to UK-CMA

 DLI, here

Know all about Account Aggregator Network- a financial data-sharing system

 India Ministry of Finance, here

DPC launches two inquiries into TikTok concerning compliance with GDPR requirements relating to the processing of childrens’ personal data and transfers of data to China

 DPC, here

China’s new regulation of platforms: a message for American policymakers

 T. Wheeler, here

Resuming blog posting today - after the update avalanche

Monday, June 21, 2021

Online advertising: the impact of targeted advertising on advertisers, market access and consumer choice

Publication for the committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, European Parliament, here

Privacy, data and competition

 T. Valletti, Presentation here

Verfahren gegen Apple nach neuen Digitalvorschriften (§ 19a Abs. 1 GWB) – Bundeskartellamt prüft Apples marktübergreifende Bedeutung für den Wettbewerb

 Bundeskartellamt, hier

Big Tech: how can we promote competition in digital platform markets?

 A. Fletcher, here

Android Auto, our connected car service, lets consumers choose between rival services

 Google, here

Possible futures for the smart home

 Sonos, here

Algorithms: how they can reduce competition and harm consumers - Summary of responses to the consultation

 CMA, here

Feedback received, here

Soziale Marktwirtschaft in der digitalen Zukunft

 Foresight-Bericht (BMWi), hier

In Defence of Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Age of “Artificial Intelligence”

 Transatlantic Reflection Group on Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Age of “Artificial Intelligence, here

Wir fordern 17 Maßnahmen, um die Macht der Tech-Konzerne hier und jetzt zu brechen

 Handelsblatt, hier

The role of the arts and humanities in thinking about artificial intelligence (AI)

 J. Tasioulas, here

The Internet moment

 J. Zittrain, here

The European Commission’s Artificial Intelligence Act

 M. Schaake, here

Why the DMA is much more than competition law (and should not be treated as such)

 A. Reyna, here

An Algorithmic Bon Marché? Platform Governance In Urban Spaces

 J. Jackson, here

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

CMA to scrutinise Apple and Google mobile ecosystems

 Here.

Mobile ecosystems market study, Statement of scope here

UK’s CMA opens market study into Apple, Google’s mobile “duopoly”

 TechCrunch, here

The Cornwall Consensus Suggests a More “Market-Shaping” Approach to Fostering Resilience

 UCL, here

Courtesy translation of Decision KVR 69/19 rendered by the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) on 23/06/2020 provided by the Bundeskartellamt.

 Here.

Europe needs to back browser-level controls to fix cookie consent nightmares, says privacy group

 TechCrunch, here

U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data

 Reuters, here

Notes on Google's Commitments to the CMA

 R. Berjon, here

Dems are going after Big Tech. It’ll affect almost everything you do online.

 Politico.com, here

OECD FRAMEWORK FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF AI SYSTEMS – PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON PRELIMINARY FINDINGS

 OECD, here

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): the Court specifies the conditions for the exercise of the national supervisory authorities’ powers with respect to the cross-border processing of data

 CJEU, here

Competition policy: staying the course in times of change

 M. Vestager, here