The role of antitrust law in the context of standard setting organizations

M. Delrahim, here. 

Democrats Seek Hearings on Trump's Role in AT&T-Time Warner Deal

Bloomberg, here. 

EU set to rule in favour of speed skaters over ISU ban threat: sources

Reuters, here. 

The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech

NYTimes, here. 

It’s Time to Tax Companies for Using Our Personal Data

NYTimes, here. 

The Automated Public Sphere

F. Pasquale, here.

Swiss watchmakers permitted to refuse to supply independent watch repairers

CMS Germany, here. 

Equifax says it owns all its data about you

The Washington Post, here. 

Platform Regulation: A Preface

D. Kaye, here. 

Missourians deserve to know what Google does with their information

KansasCity.com, here.

SCOPING STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ON COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION ADOPTED BETWEEN 2006 AND 2016

G. Rostama for WIPO, here.

Web companies should make it easier to make your data portable: FTC's McSweeny

USA Today, here.

From Bayer to Qualcomm, M&A Gets Costlier in the EU

Bloomberg, here.

Public consultation on fake news and online disinformation

EC, here.

Why people ruin others’ lives by exposing all their data online

New Scientist, here.

Dear Wavesblog Reader,

I'm currently revising and updating my "Competition by Design" ASCOLA conference paper to make it fit for publication. Your suggestions, comments, etc. would be much appreciated! Thank you.

New Draft Action Plans On Copyright Limitations And Exceptions At WIPO

IP-Watch, here.

Missouri AG Josh Hawley launches investigation of Google

Kansascity.com, here.

Use of algorithms must respect competition rules, says EU competition official

Out-law.com, here.

Who’s responsible for what happens on Facebook? Analysis of a new ECJ opinion

L. Woods, here.

Report on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society

Japan's Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society, here.

UK competition regulator builds new tech team

UK, here.

Leyes estatales de notarios ganadoras del Premio para identificar el obstáculo regulatorio más absurdo para competir y emprender

Cofece, aquí.

The new generation economy

Autorité de la concurrence, here.

How adtech players are approaching consent in GDPR and whether they will be compliant in time

TheDrum, here.

EU closes in on Google as it prepares second antitrust fine

The Telegraph, here.

Conference: Antitrust in Developing Countries

M. Delrahim, keynote speech (from 06:21), video  here.; text here. Q&A from 41:42.
Work at the DoJ:
- review of live consent decrees (1400!);
- draft whistleblower legislation: comments provided, good improvement

The feasibility of measuring the sharing economy: November 2017 progress update

UK ONS, here.

Kara Swisher interviews Margarethe Vestager

Web Summit, video here.
"Some of these algorithms will have to go to law school before they are let out. You have to teach your algorithm what it can do and what it cannot do, because otherwise there is the risk that the algorithm will learn the tricks...we don't want the algorithms to learn the tricks of the old cartelists...we want them to play by the book also when they start playing by themselves"

Watch also the press conference, here.
"One of the  discussions I'm trying to enable is the discussion about compliance. Just as much as we hope to see privacy by design I also hope to see compliance by design when we talk about self learning machines... they shouldn't learn the tricks of the old cartelists... they should learn the compliance of the best in the market...we don't propose any rule of that at the moment  but we want the debate to take place  because  it would be sort of paradox when we end up in a situation saying well what happens in the black box remains in the black box...because whatever machine...there is still a business or person who are responsible for what happens..."

Why Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Might Be Right

T. Wu, here.

AT&T-Time Warner redraws faultlines on antitrust enforcement

FT, here.

Algorithms and Competition at the Websummit

Video, here.

DIGITAL ASSISTANTS: HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPETITION IS UNDERMINING “HIPSTER ANTITRUST”

G. Manishin, part 1 and 2.

Competencia se pronunciará sobre el conflicto FIBA-Euroliga

As.com,  Aquí

Panel: Pharmaceutical Drugs Prices

H. First summarizes, Video here.
"The invisible hand got stuck in the pocket"

Ist die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung doch schon anwendbar? Zwei Gerichte sagen: ja.

De Lege Data, hier.

Equifax faces hundreds of class-action lawsuits and an SEC subpoena over the way it handled its data breach

Washington Post, here.

ICAP wins fight against EU yen Libor cartel ruling, fine annulled

Reuters, here.
Ruling here.

Facebook, show us your secret recipe

WashingtonPost, here.

Google: Our hunt for hackers reveals phishing is far deadlier than data breaches

ZDNet, hier.

Sippel: ePrivacy reg should 'abolish surveillance-driven advertising'

iapp, here. 

Diagnosing the Treatments: Issues in Post-Patent Pharmaceutical Markets

M. Ohlhausen, here.

The fight over antitrust’s soul

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

Berlin court rules Facebook data transfers to third parties violate data protection law

TelecomPaper, here. 

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

Gizmodo, here. 

Recent Data Protection Developments in Brazil and Latin America

Linked In, here. 

Datenschützer kritisieren jahrelange Speicherung von Fluggastdaten

Heise.de, hier. 

The Pulse of Fintech Q3 2017

KPMG, here. 

This stupid patent was going to be used to sue hundreds of small businesses

ArsTechnica, here. 

Blocked: Why Some Companies Restrict Data Access to Reduce Competition and How Open APIs Can Help

Center for Data Innovation, here. 

AL FRANKEN JUST GAVE THE SPEECH BIG TECH HAS BEEN DREADING

Wired, here. 

Supreme Court to Decide First Antitrust Case in Two Years

Antitrust Advocate, here. 

Margrethe Vestager, Wise Digital Hygienist

Politico, here. 

US: Sen. Klobuchar urges probe for online travel agencies

competitionpolicyinternational, here.

Innovationen – Herausforderungen für die Kartellrechtspraxis

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Understanding Competition in Prescription Drug Markets: Entry and Supply Chain Dynamics

FTC, Workshop here. Live webcast here. Presentation slides here. 

Fairness in platform-to-business relations

EC, Inception impact assessment here. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS PUTTING ULTRASOUND ON YOUR PHONE

Wired, here. 

Big Data Poses Special Risks for Children, Says UNICEF

TechnologyReview, here. 

Google-Manager Eric Schmidt warnt vor China

FAZ. hier. 

The Economics of Attention Markets

D. Evans, here. 

TÜV kritisiert Autohersteller für den Umgang mit Daten

FAZ, hier. 

Eigentumsordnung‘ für Mobilitätsdaten

Telemedicus, Stellungnahme hier. 

#gruesseausmoskau

Süddeutsche Zeitung, hier. 

Datenschutzbeauftragter schlägt Gütesiegel für Gesundheits-Apps vor

Heise.de, hier. 

Technology-led innovation and emerging services in the Canadian financial services sector

Competition Bureau, here (my own pdf here).

Artificial Intelligence Has Officially Infiltrated the Fintech Industry

Inc, here. 

May Your Drug Price Be Ever Green

R. Feldman, C. Wang, here. 

Amazon found an ingenious new way to undercut its competitors ahead of the holidays

Quartz, here. 

Google and Salesforce sign massive strategic partnership

VentureBeat, here. 

Datenmärkte in der digitalisierten Wirtschaft: Funktionsdefizite und Regelungsbedarf?

H. Schweitzer, M. Peitz, hier. 

Foundem on Google's Auction-Based Proposal

Here. 

Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M

ArsTechnica, here. 

Computer says no: why making AIs fair, accountable and transparent is crucial

TheGuardian, here. 

Clearing the path for innovation

M. Vestager, here. 

The EU’s competition chief explains why punishing Big Tech is good for innovation

Quartz, here. 

TESLA’S DANGEROUS SPRINT INTO THE FUTURE

NYT Magazine, here. 

7th Circuit confronts antitrust in the age of Big Data

Reuters, here. 

UK Data Protection Bill vs EU General Data Protection Regulation

ComputerWeekly, here. 

IP Europe’s Disingenuous Case for Giving its Members a License to Discriminate

Actonline, here. 

Why we need to regulate the tech platforms and how

FT, here. 

SPOTIFY, DEEZER AND SOUNDCLOUD LAUNCH EUROPEAN LOBBYING COALITION

Musically, here. 

Vergleichsportale in Deutschland

WIK-Consult, hier. 

Paying for Privacy and the Personal Data Economy

S.-A. Elvy, here. 

FIFA and FIFPro sign landmark agreement and announce measures to enhance professional football

FIFA, here. 

Unobserved collusion: warning signs and concerns

R. Marshall, here. 

Fintech, Access to Data, and the Role of Competition Policy

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Presentation here.
(Paper in the pipeline - if you have any comment so far, please let me know).

Amazon gets green light for massive discounts from ACCC chairman Rod Sims

AFR, here.

TECH GOES TO WASHINGTON

Stratechery, here.

CMA opens four new pharma antitrust probes

Slaughter and May, here.

Hotel Direct-Booking Pushes Really Worked and Owners Were Big Winners

Skift, here.

Tackling disinformation in the global media environment – new Council of Europe report

Council of Europe, here.

Facebook’s hackproof ads turned its adblocking problem in to a $709 million revenue stream

Pagefair, here.

European consumers’ attitudes toward data privacy, in 5 charts

Digiday, here.

WP29 on a reverse search directory

Opinion, here.

PSD2: Commission Provides Long-Awaited Update on RTS and Screen-Scraping

Vasco, here.

Two roads diverged in the woods: on non-personal data as a legal category in the EU

J. Jache, here. 

Google remembers it has an air-fares API, takes the usual action

TheRegister, here. 

Inside the ePrivacy Regulation's furious lobbying war

iapp, here. 

Privacy and public transit usage: comments on Metrolinx' revisions to privacy policy

TeresaScassa, here. 

Are Canada’s grocers fixing bread prices?

TheStar, here. 

Coders of the world, unite: can Silicon Valley workers curb the power of Big Tech?

TheGuardian, here. 

Tech on the Hill: Five takeaways from the first of three hearings this week.

Recode, here. 

Scaling Nudges with Machine Learning

C. Risdon, here. 

How Washington Should Regulate Facebook

H. Singer, here. 

Belgique – Le prix unique du livre papier et numérique adopté

idBook, ici. 

How National Governments Can Help Smart Cities Succeed

Certer for Data Innovation, here. 

Seattle Woman Says Her Identity Has Been Stolen 15 Times Since Equifax Data Breach

HuffPost, here. 

Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control

G. Parker, M. Van Alstyne, here. 

Portugal bans use of DRM that limits access to public domain works

EDRi/EFF, here. 

Action brought on 11 September 2017 – Google and Alphabet v Commission

Here. 

“We own your name” government tells Amazon in explosive slapdown

DomainIncite, here. 

Level and open markets are good for business

J. Laitenberger, here.
"Algorithm should be designed to comply with competition rules in the first place. Respect for the rules must be part of the algorithm that a company configures and for whose behaviour the company will be ultimately liable"

Smart Technologies: Connected Cars & Beyond

G. De Stefano, Presentation here (waiting for the Video...).

Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy

J. Stiglitz, D. Baker, A. Jayadev, here. 

There’s precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies. It doesn’t end well.

Quartz, here. 

Communications Sector Market Study

ACCC, Draft Report here. 

Competition and Regulatory Trends in Digital Markets

A. Chirita, here. 

Données, algorithmes et transparence des plateformes

Autorité de la concurrence
Vendredi 24 novembre 2017
ECOLE NATIONALE D’ADMINISTRATION
2 Avenue de l’Observatoire 75006 Paris
Programme ici.
Les débats seront filmés et mis en ligne sur le site Internet de l'Autorité.

CMA launches consumer law investigation into hotel booking sites

CMA, here. 

Google and Facebook: EU’s Draft ePrivacy Regulation Passes Committee and Parliament Vote

Capitol Forum, here. 

The ‘Amazon Effect’ Is Slicing Into Bayer's U.S. Consumer Business

Bloomberg, here. 

Would you donate your data for the collective good?

FT, here. 

Cartels and Chicken Paprikash

The Chopping Board Economist, Video here. 

1-800 contacts

FTC, Administrative Law Judge, here.

Data Protection and Copyright: Could Art. 29 WP guidance on automated decision-making “help” with filters?

S. Stalla-Bourdillon, here.

Tinder must be joking with their “dowload your data” option.

J.G., here.

THE WEB BEGAN DYING IN 2014, HERE'S HOW

A. Staltz, here.

Walden Releases Op-Ed Announcing Hearings on Tech Companies Affecting Consumer Privacy and Choice

E&C, here.

Feasibility study on the microeconomic impact of enforcement of competition policies on innovation

P. Osmosi, A. Bennato, S. Davies and F. Mariuzzo, here.

Concorrência e Inovação (ICYRAAI)

06 de novembro de 2017
 Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Rua da Consolação, 896, portão 7 ou
 Rua Itambé, 135, portão 1
 Auditório Mackgraphe
São Paulo
Programa aqui.

In case you are around and interested

Tuesday 31 October 9.30-11

Alberto Parrella (former Uni Trento/Pisa master student and much more)
Data Analyst, Twitter
"Data driven businesses: how social media empower products through data".
Contamination Lab
Piazza Fiera, 4
Trento

Google antitrust remedy falls short of EU demands

FT,  here.

Google outwits the European Commission once again

G. Reback, here.

Dutch telco KPN wins appeal against cable rivals’ merger

FT, here.
GC's Ruling here. 

Top German court seeks comments on patent court challenge

Lawgazette.co.uk, here. 

RETOUR SUR LES INITIATIVES DE MAÎTRISE DES DONNÉES PERSONNELLES : SELF DATA, CLOUD PERSONNEL

Laboratoire.agencedunumerique, ici. 

FRANCE, SPAIN & PORTUGAL IMPOSE TROJAN © HORSE ON COUNCIL AGENDA

CopyBuzz, here. 

Facebook launches Marketplace for cars with dealers and Blue Book pricing

Techcrunch, here. 

Gesundheitsportal in Dänemark macht Patienten zu gleichberechtigten Partnern

Heise.de, hier. 

International data transfers – A recap

E. Ustaran, here. 

Großbritannien führt Data Protection Bill ein: Prepare for Brexit

Spirit Legal, hier. 

A smart city in China tracks every citizen and yours could too

New Scientist, here. 

Wie die Umkleidekabine der Zukunft aussieht

FAZ, hier. 

Lessons learned from WP29's letter to WhatsApp

iapp, here.

What competition can do – and what it can't

M. Vestager, here. 

The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

Gizmodo, here. 

IN SAS DECISION, APPELLATE COURT DODGES ADDRESSING ORACLE

J. Band, here. 

EDPS recommendations on specific aspects of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation

EDPS, here. 

Google Targeted Again as EU Is Said to Weigh Search-Result Rules

Bloomberg, here.

From the Commission's Agenda 2018, here:
Proposal on fairness in platform-to-business relations (legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018); an initiative addressing online platform challenges as regards the spreading of fake information (non-legislative, Q1 2018); 

How behavioral economics is being used against you

MarketWatch, here. 

Current account switching at new low

BBC, here. 

Kartellamt durchleuchtet Internet-Vergleichsportale

FAZ, hier. 

Privacy Shield: EU-Datenschützer distanzieren sich von der Kommission

Heise.de, hier. 

Lufthansa muss wegen Air-Berlin-Übernahme wohl Strecken abgeben

FAZ, hier. 

Intellectual Property Rights in the Recreational Cannabis Market

Jeremydebeer, here. 

CJEU opens way to mounting data protection rules for Facebook

FT, here. 

A Computer Scientist Makes the Case for Speculative Fiction

LAreviewofbooks, here. 

Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music

HackerMoon, here. 

Wer verlinkt, muss nicht immer prüfen: Neue Urteile zur Linkhaftung

Heise.de, hier. 

European General Court rules (again) on Mandatory Access and Interoperability in Software Industry (T-751/15)

Competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw, here. 

State aid: Commission opens in-depth investigation into UK tax scheme for multinationals

EC, here. 

Platforms: Guardians of the Digital Economy

J. Tirole, here. 

A New Banking Paradigm: The State of Open Banking in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States

D. Milanesi, here.

Enforcing EU competition law – recent developments and a glance to the future

J.Laitenberger, here.

Article 29 Working Party Guidelines on Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

Twobirds, here.

European Banks Forced to Open the (Data) Vault

Bloomberg, here.

Teure Trucks

Sueddeutsche, hier.

Gab Legal Update

Gab, here..

The Judge’s Code

S. Jeong, here.

WHY FACEBOOK SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO BUY TBH

Stratechery,  here.

You can get an Apple Watch for only $25 ... with one small catch

CNBC, here.

EU cartel probe into carmakers expands to Daimler and VW

FT,here.

EC confirms inspections in the car sector in Germany

Press Release, here.

Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the right to privacy

Here.

Processing personal data in the context of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS)

Article 29 WP, here.

Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens

Wired, here.

BMW raided in cartel investigation as Daimler claims immunity

Reuters, here.

RETOUR SUR MYDATA 2017 : LA NAISSANCE D’UN RÉSEAU DURABLE

MesInfos, ici, 

Who owns the Machine Generated Data in IoT – Men or Machine?

IIot-world.com, here. 

Pourriez-vous régler vos achats en données personnelles ? Un magasin teste le concept

Numérama, ici, 

The New Age of Corporate Monopolies

A. Vestager, TEDTalk here. 

Le Parlement européen échoue à protéger notre vie privée

La Quadrature du Net, ici.

Songkick To Shut Down, Continue Legal Battle With Ticketmaster/Live Nation

Liveformusic, here.

One simple chart shows why Facebook just bought an anonymous chat app for teens

BusinessInsider, here.

Compromise ePrivacy Regulation text as adopted today in EU Parliament LIBe committee.

Here.

ePrivacy – An Outlook on a New Framework

M. Lauristin, here. 

AI​ ​Now​ ​2017​ ​Report

Here. 

Kemira reached a settlement with CDC in the damage claim litigation in Dortmund related to hydrogen peroxide business in 1994-2000

Kemira, here. 

The Recommendation on Measures to Safeguard Fundamental Rights and the Open Internet in the Framework of the EU Copyright Reform

Martin Senftleben,a Christina Angelopoulos,b Gianfranco Frosio,c Valentina Moscon,d Miquel Peguera,e Ole-Andreas Rognstad, here. 

Why Surge Prices Make Us So Mad: What Springsteen, Home Depot and a Nobel Winner Know

NYTimes, here. 

EU-Copyright-Reform: Einschränkung von Text- und Data-Mining droht

Heise, hier. 

Enslaving the Algorithm: From a ‘Right to an Explanation’ to a ‘Right to Better Decisions’?

L. Edwards, M. Veale, here. 

ACCC welcomes new era in competition law

ACCC, here. 

Competition through interoperability

C. Riley, here. 

Hollywood Confronts a Copyright Argument With Potential for Mass Disruption

HollywoodReporter, here. 

EU-Urheberrechtsreform: Streit über Upload-Filter und Grundrechte

iRights, hier. 

Trump Picks Joseph Simons, Corporate Antitrust Lawyer, to Lead F.T.C

NYTimes, here. 

Intelligence artificielle : toujours plus puissant, AlphaGo apprend désormais sans données humaines

Le Monde, ici. 

Like Uber, for socialism: Chinese leader calls for more use of AI, big data and sharing economy

TheRegister, here. 

Der Bundeskartellamt-Chef erklärt, wie er sich gegen Amazon, Facebook & Co. durchsetzen will

BusinessInsider, hier.

Tapetenkartell: Gericht erhöht Bußgelder für Mandanten von Hengeler und Gibson Dunn

Juve, hier.

Competition, Innovation, and Competition Law: Dissecting the Interplay

W. Kerber, here.

Véhicules connectés : un pack de conformité pour une utilisation responsable des données

CNIL, ici. 

Taiwan targets Google on Android

GCR, here. 

Qualcomm hit with $773 million fine in Taiwan for antitrust violations

AndroidAuthority, here. 

Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK

W. Hall and Jérôme Pesenti for the UK  Business Secretary and Culture Secretary, here. 

Guidelines on Personal data breach notification under Regulation 2016/679

WP29, here. 

Guidelines on automated individual decision-making and profiling for the purposes of Regulation 2016/679

WP29, here. 

How Can We Reveal Bias in Computer Algorithms?

Theregreview, here. 

Spotify launches an app for artists with real-time streaming data, audience demographics

TechCrunch, here. 

Big Data and Canadian Competition Policy

D. Sokol, here. 

IMPLEMENTING THE MARRAKESH TREATY IN EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES: A GUIDE FOR LIBRARIES

IFLA, EBLIDA here.

Droits d'auteur, une directive contre productive?

France Culture, ici. 

Dow/Dupont

EU CASE M.7932, here. 

Major Studios, Streamers Declare Legal War on TickBox

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

German researchers resign from Elsevier journals in push for nationwide open access

ScienceMag, here. 

Vermeer was brilliant, but he was not without influences

The Economist, here (and here). 

Qualcomm Seeks China iPhone Ban, Expanding Apple Legal Fight

Bloomberg, here. 

American Express Fee Accusations Get U.S.Supreme Court Hearing

Bloomberg, here. 

Supreme Court entscheidet über die Zukunft der Cloud

Zeit.de, hier. 

Privacy is a competitive advantage

FT, here. 

Facebook just acquired TBH, the anonymous app popular with high school kids

Recode, here. 

Disney Fights Unlicensed 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Characters at Children's Birthday Parties

HollywoodReporter, here. 

Dear Google, You Could Start Fixing Content ID By Taking Down Dozens Of YouTube Videos On How To Defeat It

Hypebot.com, here. 

Access to In-vehicle Data and Resources

EC, here.

Automatic image retouching on your phone

MIT, here, 

Setting innovation free

M. Vestager, here. 

Google ditches Home Mini's top-touch panel feature after privacy blunder

ZDNet, here. 

Gericht verurteilt Tapetenhersteller zu Millionenbußen

Zeit.de, hier. . 

CMA provisionally clears Just Eat / Hungryhouse merger

CMA, here. 

Democratic Rep. Seeks Google Info From FTC

Broadcastingcable, here. 

Kartell-Bedenken gegen Fusion von T-Mobile US und Sprint

FAZ, hier.

Death and taxes

The Bookseller, here.

Slovenia signs the European declaration on high-performance computing

EC, here.

Concerns raised about privacy, GDPR as Lords peer over Data Protection Bill

The Register, here.

OTAs dominate the Chinese travel market with over 70% digital bookings

ChinaTravelNews, here.

Data Governance Regimes in the Digital Economy: The Example of Connected Cars

W. Kerber and J. Severin Frank, here.

For internet gatekeepers, consumer protection laws are better than utility-style regulation

Brookings, here. 

How Companies Use Personal Data Against People

W. Christl, here. 

Richard Thaler is a controversial Nobel prize winner – but a deserving one

R. Shiller, here. 

Exploring Copyright: History, Culture, Industry

FutureLearn, here. 

As Netflix raises prices, Hulu drops them—and acquires all its old favorites

Quartz, here. 

UK Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee

Submitted written evidence, here. 

Amazons größter Konkurrent investiert 15 Milliarden Dollar in Forschung

FAZ, hier. 

Google’s Home Mini needed a software patch to stop some of them from recording everything

TheVerge, here. 

What the proposed new EU rules on free flow of non-personal data could mean for businesses

ComputerWorld, here. 

Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality

M. Lemley, E. Volokh, here. 

Was Handydaten über die Psyche sagen

MorgenPost, hier. 

The Dynamics of Online Hotel Prices and the EU Booking.Com Case

A. Mantovani, C. Piga, C. Reggiani, here. 

Real Talk About Fake News: Towards a Better Theory for Platform Governance

N. Syed, here. 

Competencia estudia si las editoriales se repartieron el mercado de los libros de texto

ElDiario, aquì.

Celebrating Wavesblog!

Nike t. Action Sport

RECHTBANK AMSTERDAM, C/13/615474 / HA ZA 16-959, hier.

Yandex introduces Alice, a Alexa-like assistant that speaks Russian

TechCrunch, here.

Strengthening the Position of Press Publishers and Authors and Performers in the Copyright Directive

L. Bently, M. Kretschmer, T. Dudenbostel ,M. del Carmen Calatrava Moreno, A. Radauer for the EP, here.

Merger effects on innovation: A rationale for stricter merger control?

J. Haucap, here.

EU competition law in innovation and digital markets: fairness and the consumer welfare perspective

J. Laitenberger,  here.

I fixed my poor credit score by being a more loyal Alibaba consumer

Quartz, here.

The State of Data Innovation in the EU

Center for Data Innovation, here.

A Union of Equals: competition and growth throughout the EU

M. Vestager, here.

Big Data and Competition

Ecorys, here.

The PSD2 RTS and Open Banking in the EU

PPRO, here.

Tech’s fight for the upper hand on open data

Ft, here.

Euromyths A-Z index

EC, here.

Game Changers? A review of Next Generation Intermediary Services for Citizens Advice

R. Bates, here.

NEW THEORY CRACKS OPEN THE BLACK BOX OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS

Wired, here.

Die große E-Book-Enttäuschung

FAZ, hier.

Big Data und Wettbewerb

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

RICHARD H. THALER: INTEGRATING ECONOMICS WITH PSYCHOLOGY

THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, here.
Read also here. Watch him here.
9 October: #nudgeday

Beschränkung von Innovation: Kann das ein SIEC sein?

R. Podszun, hier.

Summary report of the public consultation on the evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases

EC, here.

Hashtag trademarks: what can be protected?

WIPO, here.

EU raids Polish and Dutch banking groups over fintech access to customer data

FT, here.

3D Printing: a threat to global trade

Ing, here.

Protect faith in privatised monopolies with tougher regulation

FT, here.

Let’s take back control of our data – it’s too precious to leave to the tech giants

R. Naik, here.

Vernetzte Autos: Erbitterter Kampf um die Daten

Digital-Fairplay, hier.

Règlement européen sur la protection des données : un guide pour accompagner les sous-traitants

CNIL, ici.

Patenting the Output of Autonomously Inventive Machines

R. Abbott, here.

How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Problem

A. Levendowski, here.

Algorithmic Pricing Agents and Tacit Collusion: A Technological Perspective

A. Ittoo, N. Petit, here.

Amateurs

K. Boudreau, here.

Vivrons-nous demain au moyen-âge ?

LINC, ici.

CMA issues strong warning as information sharing fine is upheld

CMa, here.

Virginie Rozière : « Sur le géoblocage, la Commission a compris que musique et livres sont une ligne rouge pour les États »

Contexte Numérique, ici.

L'AI, intelligence artificielle, va bouleverser le monde de la création graphique, motion, art -

Kob-one, ici.

Liens hypertextes : la justice allemande en rébellion contre la CJUE

Droit-technologie, ici.

Un accord entre Google et l'ALPA pour un meilleur respect du droit d'auteur

Zebulon.fr, here.

Was sagt der BGH zur Linkhaftung im Urheberrecht?

SpiritLegal, hier. 

Ce qui va changer pour les avis de clients sur Internet en 2018

Numerama, ici. 

Why Behavioral Economics Is Really Marketing Science

Evonomics, here. 

Apple trapped me on iOS — perhaps forever

Mashable, here. 

EDPS recommendations on specific aspects of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation

Here. 

Netflix Increases Price 10% for Its Most Popular U.S. Plan

Bloomberg, here. 

Mattel has canceled plans for a kid-focused AI device that drew privacy concerns

The Washington Post, here. 

Algorithmic regulation: A critical interrogation

K. Yeung, here. 

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Call for contributions: study on detection and take-down of illegal content

EC, here. 

Innovationen – Herausforderungen für die Kartellrechtspraxis

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Google Invites Competitors. They Fail to Show Up.

Bloomberg, here. 

Tenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy: Conference Summary

TAP, here.

Regulating big data. The guidelines of the Council of Europe in the context of the European data protection framework

A. Mantelero, here.

IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency

Fee.org, here.

The Google comparative shopping case

Clifford Chance, here.

Information Technology and Industry Concentration

J. Bessen, here.

High Court asks European Court of Justice to examine Facebook case

The Irish Times, here.
Executive summary by the Court here. See also here.

Artificial intelligence and copyright

A. Guadamuz, here.

Here’s the due diligence report Alphabet wants to use in its lawsuit against Uber

Recode, here.

The Information Economy Report 2017: Digitalization, Trade and Development

UNCTAD, here.

Users must own their love lives

TheGuardian, here.

Privacy, Poverty, and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans

M. MADDEN, M. GILMAN, K. Levy, A.  MARWICK, here.

Competition law case studies

CMA, here.

In AI We Trust?

U. Gasser, here.

Mergers Are Bad for Innovation, Says Tommaso

ProMarket, here.

EU legal mechanism may help expose how Big Data firms get their information

The Guardian, here.

EC fines Lithuanian Railways €28 million for hindering competition on rail freight market

Press Release, here.

For everyone to benefit from technology, we need to ensure the free flow of information

J. Brill, here.

Service public de la donnée: les données du cadastre sont maintenant disponibles sur data.gouv.fr

Etalab, ici.

Striking the right balance in the enforcement of competition rules

J. Laitenberger, here.

EU pressures internet giants to remove illegal content sooner

Reuters, here. See also here.

Why Monetize Information?

D. Laney, here.

Uber: A New Challenge for Regulation and Competition Law?

M. Colangelo, M. Maggiolino, here.

The GDPR’s likely impact on Asian organizations

Iapp, here.

Health Data for Sale?

Norwegian Consumer Council, here.

Why does Google look different in Europe?

The Economist, here.

Puissance publique et plateformes numériques : accompagner l’«ubérisation»

Conseil d'État, ici.

Google makes changes amid wider antitrust fire

Politico.eu, here.

S.E.C. Hacking Response Provides Road Map for Compromised Companie

NYTimes, here.

Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show

The Verge,.here.

Getting your data out of Tinder is really hard – but it shouldn't be

P.-O. Dehaye, here.

Commission fines Scania €880 million for participating in trucks cartel

EC, here.

Watchdog to meerkats: comparison is not the same as competition

FT, here.

Pfizer sues Johnson & Johnson, alleging anticompetitive practices to maintain a drug monopoly

The Washington Post, here.

China’s security chief calls for greater use of AI to predict terrorism, social unrest

SCMP, here.

Google now lets you mute an ad because it 'knew too much'

Mashable.com, here.

Ford arbeitet mit Uber-Konkurrent zusammen

FAZ, hier.

REGULATING DATA PROTECTION

B. Van Alsenoy, here.

Behavioral Insights and Trends for Millennials in the UK, France and Germany

EMarketer, here.

Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed merger between Essilor and Luxottica

Press Release, here.

Google Splits Off Shopping Service to Meet EU Demands

Bloomberg, here.

Personal Data Economy

E. Hafen, Video here.

How the Russian search market looks now

SearchEngineLand, here.

Kontroverse um Piraterie-Studie der EU-Kommission

Heise.de, hier.

Trivago bought an AI startup that eased peoples’ fears about giving up data

FastCompany, here.

A Data Commons for Food Security

J. Baarbé, M. Blom, J. de Beer, here.

AI and Privacy

C. Tucker, Video here; slides here. Discussant's slides here.. 

Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS and Spotlight on Mac

TechCrunch, here. 

Digital comparison tools: Competitive landscape and effectiveness of competition

CMA, here. 

CMA steps in to give people a better deal on comparison sites

CMA, here. 

I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets

TheGuardian, here. 

Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

NBER Conference, Video here (from 06:08).

A patent on convolutional 

nets was filed in 1989, which then expired in 2007. 

 Clément Ader, you know?

EXPEDIA TARGETED ONCE AGAIN BY THE FRENCH

EU-competitionlaw, here. 

Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails

TheGuardian, here. 

Antitrust gets the John Oliver treatment

Axios, here.

Video here. 

Artificial Intelligence and Competition

H. Varian, C. Shapiro, Video here.
Interesting disagreement between Varian and Shapiro on how easy it is to "purchase data specific to the application" (16:38).

Book Review : What if we could reimagine copyright? Let's fix copyright.

IPKat, here. 

Première plainte contre « l’obsolescence programmée » : « La loi risque d’être difficile à mettre en œuvre »

Numérama, ici. 

Photo marketplace Picfair raises £1.5M, aims to ‘weaponise’ photographers

TechCrunch, here.

European Conference on Data Ethics

Here. 

Spain and Catalonia Wrestle Over .Cat Internet Domain

NYTimes, here.

Amazon at one time thought it could really compete with Alibaba. No longer

Recode, here.

WeChat confirms that it makes all private user data available to the Chinese government

MoneyControl, here.

When Machines Learn to Collude: Lessons from a Recent Research Study on Artificial Intelligence

A. Deng, here.

Women used this fertility app more after AI learned when best to ping them

FastCompany, here.

Hackers broke into SEC computer systems and may have traded on the stolen information

Quartz, here.

BGH: Googles Bildersuche verletzt Urheberrecht nicht

Heise.de, hier.

Search Engines and Data Retention: Implications for Privacy and Antitrust

L. Chiou, C. Tucker, here.

Industrie 4.0: Verfassungsschutzchef warnt vor Massendaten im "Hochrisikoraum"

Heise.de, here.

Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to acq-hire 2,000 HTC engineers

Recode, here.

Do Tech Companies Really Need All That User Data?

W.Frick, here.

iOS 11: toggling wifi and Bluetooth in Control Centre doesn't actually turn them off

The Guardian, here.

Mitfahrgelegenheiten: Google bindet BlaBlaCar in Maps ein

Onlinehaendler-news.de, here.

Data governance: Landscape Review

Royal Society, here.

Warum Google HTC will

FAZ, hier, 

Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted content in the EU

EU, here. 

Japan to certify big-data providers to drive innovation

Asia.nikkei, here. 

How competition can build trust in our societies

M. Vestager, here. 

Music Industry Recovery Continues, Powered by a Surge in Subscriptions

WSJ, here. 

Competition policy from a European perspective: A conversation with EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager

AEI, here. 

The ICO craze, explained

Recode, here. 

What’s affiliate marketing? Should I care?

FTC, here. 

Data management and use: Governance in the 21st century

 British Academy and Royal Society, here. 

The implications for Australian companies navigating the new section 46 misuse of market power test after the European court of justice decision in intel

Clifford Chance, here. 

Google confirms it will pay $1.1 billion to acquire HTC's Pixel team and license technology

AndroidPolice, here. 

"DISRUPTION" IS HOW SILICON VALLEY EATS ITS YOUNG

Wired, here. 

Netflix and Escobar Family in Bitter Trademark Dispute Over 'Narcos'

HollywoodReporter, here. 

Big Tech's power remains unchallenged

FT, Audio here.

Hal Singer on the Digital Show

Audio here. 

Waymo wants Uber to pay $2.6 billion in damages—just for starters

ArsTechnica, here. 

What Role for Economists in Policy-Making?

A. Bénassy-Quéréa , O. Blanchardb and J. Tirole, here. 

Amazon Reviewing Site After Algorithm Suggests Bomb Supplies

Bloomberg, here. 

Time for a Conservative Anti-Monopoly Movement

TheAmericanConservative, here.

Study: EU-US Privacy Shield Essential to Leading European Companies

FPF, here. 

National Data Opt-out Programme

NHS, here. 

US Cross-Border Data Deal Could Open Surveillance Floodgates

HRW, here. 

No university needed: A Stanford-born company is equipping India’s youth for well-paid tech jobs

Quartz, here, 

Founder of the information age

Enlightenmenteconomics, here. 

Drugmaker AbbVie Can’t Convince Judge on ‘Sham’ Lawsuits

Bloomberg BNA, here. 

Focus on Google DeepMind under the GDPR’s Lens

Hogan Lovells, here. 

On a testé les premiers pas de l’Open Data « par défaut »

NextImpact, here. 

Response to calls for automated takedowns of online extremist content

ORG, here.

Synthèse de la consultation publique sur la transmission de certains titres financiers au moyen de la technologie "blockchain

Trésor, ici. 

The State of the Data Protection Union

EDPS, here. 

The first autonomous drone delivery network will fly above Switzerland starting next month

TheVerge, here. 

Alt-Right Twitter App Developers Sue Google After Gab.Ai App Is Kicked Out Of The Play Store

TechDirt, here. 

Synopsis report of the public consultation on building a European data economy

EC, here. Annex here. Position papers here. 

Closer together: The Case for International Cooperation

J. Laitenberger, here.. 

Brexit and Competition Policy (and the Google Case)

House of Lords and CMA, watch here.
CMA Submission here. 

Me, my data and I: The future of the personal data economy

Decode Project, here.

Now Apple needs to reinvent the digital economy

FT, here.

Auswirkungen der Markttransparenzstelle für Kraftstoffe (MTS-K): Änderungen im Anbieterund Nachfragerverhalten

J. Haucap, U. Heimeshoff, C. Kehder, J. Odenkirchen, S. Thorwarth, hier.

Swiss Crypto Valley Association Calls for ‘Careful’ ICO Regulation

CryptoCoinsNews, here.

Artificial Intelligence's Fair Use Crisis

B. Sobel, here.

Automotive Data Treasure

Deloitte, hier.

Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

H. Simon, here.

Apple is facing questions from the U.S. Senate on the privacy protections in iPhone X and Face ID

Recode, here.

The Amazon Monopoly Problem: Prime Time For Antitrust Action Vs. These Internet Giants?

Investors, here.

Big data and Innovation: Implications for Competition Policy in Canada

Competition Bureau, here. 

EFF Resigns From W3C After DRM In HTML Is Approved In Secret Vote

TechDirt, here. 

How competition can build a better market

M. Vestager, here. 

HOW ONE OF APPLE'S KEY PRIVACY SAFEGUARDS FALLS SHORT

Wired, here.

To control AI, we need to understand more about humans

TechCrunch, here.

Cambridge Analytica: 'Getting people to vote no different from marketing toothpaste'

Campaignlive, here.

The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics

S. Athey, here.

Tesla’s Damaged Goods Problem

A. Tabarrok, here.

Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser

AdWeek, here.

Evaluating market consolidation in mobile communications

C. Genakos, T. Valletti and F. Verboven, here.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation

I. Cockburn, R. Henderson, S. Stern, here.

Economics of Artificial Intelligence

NBER Conference, here. Videos here.

US: Trump blocks Lattice Semiconductor’s $1.3 billion sale to China

CPI, here. 

The robots are coming for Mozart

Qz, here. 

Facial recognition is here. The iPhone X is just the beginning

The Guardian, here.

Questions on Article 13 and Recital Art. 38 of the Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

MPI, Contributions here.

Data will be oil for robot cars so these humans are hoarding it now

FastCompany, here.

Flux raises $1.5 million as Starling Bank opens fintech Marketplace

FinExtra, here.

On the Equifax Data Breach

Schneier.com, here.

U.S. agency demands endorsement info from Instagram 'influencers'

Reuters, here.