GoCompare opens up APIs to fintech firms

Finextra, here.

Regulating machine data: less is more for global growth

General Electric, here. 

The Shape of Water: plagiarism accusations explained

S. Jacques, here.

Copyright And Artificial Intelligence

IP-Watch, here. 

Five reasons for a self-driving car slowdown

Marketplace, here. 

Privacy and data protection in mobile applications

Enisa, here. 

OLG Frankfurt a.M.: Kaufvertrag über Daten wegen fehlender Einwilligung nach dem BDSG unwirksam

Delegedata, here. 

German antitrust regulator: Why we're investigating Facebook

CNBC, here. 

Remarks delivered at the World Economic Forum

G. Soros, here.

Facebook Only Cares About Facebook

The Atlantic,  here.

EDEKA “wedding rebates” – German Federal Supreme Court removes roadblock to antitrust enforcement in food retail sector

K-S. JAnutta, P. Camesasca, here.

What kind of data can my car share?

Caratafacts.eu, here.

A letter to Delrahim re IP and competition law (SEPs, you know)

Here.

Kartellamtschef: Facebook ist marktbeherrschend

Noz.de, hier.

Engineered for Dystopia

The Baffler, here. 

The battle for consumers gets physical

TechCrunch, here. 

Appeals Court Says Accessing Data In A Way The Host Doesn't Like Doesn't Violate Computer Crime Laws

TechDirt here. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS GOING TO SUPERCHARGE SURVEILLANCE

The Verge, here. 

Versicherer starten Kampagne zum Datenschutz im Auto

AssCompact.de, hier. 

Towards a digital ethics

EDPS Ethics Advisory Group, here. 

Antitrust and the Platform Economy

Tech Policy Institute, Video here. 

Lessons from the EU General Data Protection Regulation to contribute to the global discourse on data protection

AccessNow, here. 

AmEx Supreme Court Amici Curiae: 28 Profs of Antitrust

Here.

Tech Policy: A Closer Look at GDPR

Capitol Forum, here. 

Germany threatens curbs on Facebook’s data use

Ft, here.

Facebook has...questioned the timing of the German authorities’ move, months before the EU implements its General Data Protection Regulation, a law that introduces sweeping data protection rules. Under the GDPR, businesses must give customers more information about which companies their data are shared with and to what end. “With the GDPR, Europe is already putting in place strong enforcement measures that hold Facebook and other companies accountable for privacy and data protection,” Facebook said. “We will comply with these new rules, just as we have complied with existing data protection law in Europe.”

A conversation with regulators on innovation in payment services

Hosted by ESB, here. 

Fairness, Competition, and Knitting

M. Vestager, here. 

ASICS dealers allowed to use price comparison engines - Federal Court of Justice confirms Bundeskartellamt's decision

Does it look like a luxury item to you? Where is the aura?

Bundeskartellamt, here.
Decision here. 

European Commission publishes guidance on upcoming new data protection rules

Press Release, here; Guidance here.

BGH: NEUE KARTELLRECHTLICHE SPIELREGELN FÜR VERHANDLUNGEN ZWISCHEN HANDEL UND HERSTELLERN

Schulte-lawyers.com, hier. 

Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

Press Release, here. 

Regulating Competition and Property in the Digital Economy – The Interface Between Data, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Fairness and Competition Law

B. Lundkvist, here.

GDPR: Harmonization or Fragmentation? Applicable Law Problems in EU Data Protection Law

K.Nolan, here.

Allianz fordert Treuhänder für Autodaten

FAZ, here. 

Artificial intelligence could yet upend the laws of finance

FT, here.

Banks and Fintechs Are Duelling In a ‘War For Talent’

Bloomberg, here. 

Artificial Differentiation between Avastin and Lucentis: CJEU

 Case C-179/16, here. 

LA VIE PRIVÉE ET LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA DONNÉE

A. Casilli, P. Tubaro, ici. 

Fusionieren Foodora und Lieferando?

FAZ, hier. 

Data is power: Towards additional guidance on profiling and automated decision-making in the GDPR

E. Bietti, F. Kaltheuner, here. 

“BREXIT” passes EU trademark test

WIPO Magazine, here. 

Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs

New Scientist, here. 

Big Tech’s trust issues at the forefront of Davos debate

FT, here. 

Focus on the User

Here.

United States v. Microsoft Corp.

Briefs amici curiae here. 

The Introduction of Data Breach Notification Legislation in Australia: A Comparative View

A. Daly, here. 

Ethics, algorithms and self-driving cars – a CSI of the ‘trolley problem’

A. Renda, here. 

EU antitrust regulators clear Qualcomm purchase of NXP

Reuters, here. 

The Future Computed - Artificial Intelligence and its role in society

Microsoft, here. See also here.

The quest for truly user centric services

D. Alexander, here. 

Google, Tencent Agree to Share Patents in Global Tech Alliance

Bloomberg, here. 

The Right to Privacy, 70 Years On

BSR, here. 

Wie der Mensch die Kontrolle über den Algorithmus behalten kann

Netzpolitik, hier. 

Seminario "Economia digitale e Big Data"

Università Bocconi, presentazioni qui.

How to tame the tech titans

The Economist, here. 

Judgement from the Swedish Patent and Market Court - Nasdaq dismissed of all allegations

Nasdaq, here.
The Decision by the Swedish Competition Authority is here.

Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements

Washington Post, here. 

Transparency of Automated Decisions in the GDPR: An Attempt for Systemisation

E. Bayamlıoğlu, here. 

Global antitrust in 2018

Freshfields, here. 

Is Your Company’s Data Actually Valuable in the AI Era?

A. Agrawal, J. Gans, A. Goldfarb, here. 

Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world

S. Pink1 , M. Ruckenstein, R. Willim and M. Duque, here. 

‘We get audience data at virtually no cost’: Confessions of a programmatic ad buyer

DigiDay, here. 

THE TAKING ECONOMY: UBER, INFORMATION, AND POWER

R. Calo, A. Rosenblat, here. 

Big businesses band together in urging lawmakers to sell out your privacy

Los Angeles Times, here. 

Artificial Intelligence is Trade Policy's New Frontier

Cigionline, here. 

Alexa, What Are You Doing with My Family's Personal Info?

Scientific American, here. 

Fangt die Internetgiganten ein!

SZ, hier. 

Terms of service and human rights: an analysis of online platform contracts

Here. 

DYNAMIC AIRLINE PRICING AND SEAT AVAILABILITY

K. Williams, here. 

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

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here.

Abstract: The revised EU Directive on payment services in the internal market (PSD2) entered into application on 13 January 2018. The PSD2 introduces a sector-specific data portability rule dubbed access to account, or XS2A. Under the PSD2, specific categories of third parties (“Fintechs”) are allowed to access bank account data to provide payment-related services requested by the customer.
The Paper first outlines how the PSD2 intends to tackle well-known market failures and other issues in the EU payment sector. Second, it discusses the role of competition enforcement in the shadow of the PSD2. Finally, the Paper asks whether the XS2A rule could serve as a template for further access regimes in the data economy.

Alternative title: The Devil in Data Access Regimes

Fintech in 2018: start-ups going global; innovation in payments and breach notification fatigue

Out-Law.com, here. 

Digital Proletariat: Should internet firms pay for the data users currently give away?

The Economist, here.

Open Banking set to shake up the way we bank

FT, here.

European banks brace for shake-up in customer data

FT, here.

The Social Contract at the Basis of Competition Law: Should we Recalibrate Competition Law to Limit Inequality?

M. Gal, here.

How the Uber & Lyft case provides an impetus to re- examine buyer power in the world of big data and algorithms

I. Herrera Anchustegui, J. Nowag, here.

Why the future of social data is partnering with your users

Digi.me, here.

Wettbewerbskommissarin: "Die Menschen müssen sorgsamer werden"

Der Standard, hier.

Researchers develop data portability recommendations for the cloud

Iapp, here.

Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark

Bloomberg, here.

Notes on attention, fake news and noise #1: scratching the surfaces

Perscrutor, here.

Richard Smith: A Big Brother future for science publishing?

Blogs.bmj.com, here.

ePrivacy Verordnung: Mitgliedstaaten sollen über opt-in oder opt-out für den Einsatz von Cookies für Werbezwecke entscheiden

Delegedata, hier.

AI trust and AI fears: A media debate that could divide society

V. Polonski, here.

Techmate: How AI rewrote the rules of chess

FT, here.

XXXLutz verzichtet auf rückwirkende Hochzeitsrabatte

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Qualcomm Set to Win European Backing for $39 Billion NXP Buy

WSJ, here. 

Canada's competition watchdog settles with HarperCollins

Reuters, here. 

About the ISU decision: a policy perspective

Chilling Competition, here. 

Bundeskartellamt sends preliminary assessment to Facebook

S. Heinz, here. 

A letter about Google AMP

here. 

The New Digital Wild West: Regulating the Explosion of Initial Coin Offerings

R. Robinson, here. 

Baidu Sees Maps for Self-Driving Cars as Bigger Business Than Web Search

Technology Review, here. 

The Alice Drizzle—Barely Even Noticeable

PatentProgress, here. 

Trucks Cartel

CDC, here. 

Facebook and Google’s Dirty Secret: They’re Really Junk Mail Empires

TheDailyBeast, here. 

Connected Cars Workshop

FTC STaff, here. 

Amicus Briefs support Arista in Cisto Litigation

J. Band, here. 

Enhancing Fairness in Platform-to-Business Relations in the EU Through a Change of Legal Landscape

Orrick, here. 

Digital 'Mash-Ups,' Patents, and Copyright

E. Boudreau, L. Jeppesen, M. Miric, here. 

Monologue of the Algorithm: how Facebook turns users data into its profit

Panoptykon Foundation, Video here. 

EU privacy boom’s a business bust

Politico.eu, here. 

MEO – Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia SA contre Autoridade da Concorrência

C‑525/16, CONCLUSIONS DE L’AVOCAT GÉNÉRAL M. NILS WAHL, here. 

Non-price competition and 'witches' persecution

The Guardian, here. 

VW verbündet sich mit dem Chiphersteller der Künstlichen Intelligenz

FAZ, hier. 

Internet Users in China Expect to Be Tracked. Now, They Want Privacy.

NYTimes, here. 

Horizontal Mergers, Innovation and the Competitive Process

G. Federico, here. 

‘It Can’t Be True.’ Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown

Bloomberg, here. 

La vie numérique bientôt protégée comme le corps?

20 Minutes, ici. 

Israel's anti-trust regulator to look at internet giants

Reuters, here. 

How to Fix Facebook—Before It Fixes Us

R. McNamee, here. 

Why Are We Paying Different Prices? Hint: Artificial Intelligence is Learning What You’re Willing to Pay

T. Gaubert, here. 

Open banking’: radical shake-up, or a threat to your private data?

The Guardian, here. 

Improving Ourselves to Death

NewYorker, here. 

Oracle v. Rimini Street

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, here. 

Zuckerberg Money Manager Iconiq Bets on European Data Startup

Bloomberg, here. 

The personal data of many of India's citizens is for sale on WhatsApp for less than $10.

MotherBoard, here. 

Lufthansa räumt Einfluss auf höhere Flugpreise ein

Rbb24.de, hier. 

The Concept of Fairness: Linking EU Competition and Data Protection Law in the Digital Marketplace

H. Kalimo, K. Majcher, here. 

Bundeskartellamts: "Gegen Facebook können wir vorgehen"

Rheinische Post, hier.

Deep Learning Blindspots

K. Jarmul, Video here.

Facebook Can’t Be Fixed.

J. Battelle, here.

How to Curb Silicon Valley Power—Even With Weak Antitrust Laws

Wired, here.

Singularity Skepticism

E. Felden, here.

Could New York City's AI Transparency Bill Be a Model for the Country?

GovTech, here. 

Apple Says Developers Earned 30% More From App Store in 2017

Bloomberg, here. 

Tough new German law puts tech firms and free speech in spotlight

TheGuardian, here. 

Exploitative abuse and abuse of economic dependence: What can we learn from the industrial organization approach?

P. Bougette, O. Budzinski, F. Marty, here. 

Southwest Airlines to pay $15 million to settle price collusion lawsuit

Reuters, here. 

Drei Monate Hölle

SZ, hier.

Versicherungen aus dem Netz

FAZ, hier. 

Data take centre stage as Ant Financial fails in MoneyGram bid

FT, here. 

Fintech leads the way as investment in UK tech firms doubles in 2017

FinExtra, here. 

Why Google's And Facebook's Dominance Is Normal Market Evolution

AdExchanger, here. 

Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees

Nature, here. 

How the FTC keeps up on technology

FTC, here. 

Can This App That Lets You Sell Your Health Data Cut Your Health Costs?

FastCompany, here. 

EU Copyright Law and the Cloud: VCAST and the intersection of private copying and communication to the public

J.Quintais, T. Rendas, here. 

The economics of the Bitcoin payment system

VOXEU, here. 

What Is at Stake with Supreme Court Review of United States v. American Express Co.?

A. Shampine, here. 

EBA's finalised guidance for banks on outsourcing to the cloud lacks detail

Out-Law.com, here. 

Gartner Highlights 10 Uses for AI-Powered Smartphones

Gartner, here. 

Data aggregators: a solution to open data issues

Blog.okfn.org, here. 

No Idea What MiFID Stands For? Here’s What You Need to Know

Bloomberg, here.

Merger Policy for Tech Giants and Broadband Providers Panel

Capital Forum, here.

Personal information more at risk than ever in age of big data, Hong Kong privacy watchdog head says

SCMP, here. 

How Uber could be building a restaurant empire with your data

TNW, here. 

The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine

NYTimes, here. 

Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond "Free"

I. Arrieta Ibarra, L. Goff, D. Jiménez Hernández, J. Lanier, E. Weyl, here. 

Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence

2017 Talks, here. 

Using AdWords API to export to third-party ad networks will remain OK as Google keeps terms it adopted in FTC settlement

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Are FinTechs hindered by supervisory fees in the Netherlands?

EY for the ACM, here. 

INSIDE CHINA'S VAST NEW EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL RANKING

Wired, here. 

The price of the bitcoin bubble: Patent trolls are digging into the blockchain

CNBC, here. 

Brenntag sanctionnée à hauteur de 30 millions d'euros pour obstruction à l'instruction.

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Apple confirms iPhones with older batteries will take hits in performance

The Verge, here. 

21st Century Competition Commission Act

Ellison.house.gov, here. 

ECJ puts some fizz in German retail market with ‘Champagner Sorbet’ decision

FT, here. 

Barclays begins preparations for Open Banking

FinExtra, here. 

Consumer Watchdog Asks FTC to Act Against Google Home; Amazon Echo Digital assistants for Deception, COPPA Violation

PRNewswire, here. 

Gemeinsam gegen das Lastwagen-Kartell

FAZ, hier. 

La banca teme nuevos conflictos con los clientes ante la futura regulación de pagos

CincoDias, aquì. 

Platform Regulations How Platforms are Regulated and How They Regulate Us

L. Belli and N. Zingales (Eds), here. 

Génériques de Durogesic: arrivée sur le marché retardée, développement freiné

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

We Can't Find Your Data, But a Hacker Could: How 'Privacy by Design' Trades-Off Data Protection Rights

M. Veale, R. Binns, J. Ausloos, here. 

Uber Dealt Setback After European Court Rules It Is a Taxi Service

NYTimes, here. 

Here’s What Happens to a Startup When Google Gets All Up in Its Business

Bloomberg, here. 

Facebook wants your face data — in the name of privacy, it says

The Washington Post, here. 

Digitale Handelspolitik: Datenschutz gegen Bananen?

Heise.de, hier. 

Fintechs in het betalingsverkeer

ACM, hier (Google translation here; as some of the footnotes got lost in translation, I collected them separately here; for any remaining doubt ask your spouse - if he/she happens to be Dutch or at least Flemish).

Konditionenmissbrauch durch Ausplünderung von Plattform Nutzerdaten

S. Telle, hier. 

Preliminary assessment in Facebook proceeding: Facebook's collection and use of data from third-party sources is abusive

Bundeskartellamt, here. See also Background information on the Facebook proceeding, here and hier.

Bin mir nicht sicher, ob die Uebersetzung hier überhaupt stimmt:

 Der Bundesgerichtshof hat hier eine Rechtsprechung entwickelt, wonach die Unangemessenheit von Konditionen auch anhand von Wertungen des Zivilrechts, etwa des AGB-Rechts, oder anhand einer grundrechtlichen Interessenabwägung überprüft werden kann. Dies gilt für alle gesetzlichen Wertungen, die den Schutz einer Vertragspartei in einer ungleichgewichtigen Vertragsposition bezwecken. Hieran anknüpfend prüft das Bundeskartellamt die Vertragskonditionen Facebooks anhand datenschutzrechtlicher Wertungen. Denn auch das Datenschutzrecht bezweckt den Schutz des Betroffenen vor ungerechtfertigten Datenverarbeitungen seiner personenbezogenen Daten durch die Marktgegenseite. Es soll gewährleisten, dass ein Nutzer selbstbestimmt und freiwillig über den Umgang mit seinen personenbezogenen Daten entscheiden kann.

According to the case-law of the German Federal
Court of Justice, civil law principles can also be
applied to determine whether business terms are
exploitative. On principle, any legal principle
that aims to protect a contract party in an
imbalanced negotiation position can be applied forthis purpose. Often, such principles stem from the
legislation on unfair contract terms or the German
Basic Law. Following the Federal Court of Justice's
approach, the Bundeskartellamt also applies data
protection principles in its assessment of
Facebook's terms and conditions. In this regard,
data protection law has the same objective as competition law, which is to protect individuals
from having their personal data exploited by the
opposite market side. Data protection legislation
seeks to ensure that users can decide freely and
without coercion on how their personal data are
used."

Hier nicht falsch aber zu unpräzis (Selbstbestimmung=rechtlicher Begriff):


"Der Schaden liegt hier vielmehr in einem Kontrollverlust für den Nutzer: Er kann nicht mehr selbstbestimmt über seine persönlichen Daten verfügen."

" The damage for the users lies in a
loss of control: they are no longer able to control
how their personal data are used."

New letter: Top Uber officials engaged in illegal wiretapping, shady spycraft

ArsTechnica, here. 

Transmission de données de WHATSAPP à FACEBOOK : mise en demeure publique pour absence de base légale

CNIL, ici. 

Disney Files Lawsuit Against Redbox Claiming Copyright Infringement

IP Wire, here. 

How to Build a Better Antitrust Policy

H. Hovenkamp, Podcast and Transcript here. 

Google Search (Shopping)

CASE AT.39740, here. 

Can Facebook and Google Be Disrupted?

E. Chiel, here. 

Chinese tech groups look for edge in using artificial intelligence

FT, here. 

Netflix and Spotify Ask: Can Data Mining Make for Cute Ads?

NYTimes, here.

Expedia, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Kayak : comment les Américains imposent leurs lois aux hôtels, restaurants, compagnies aériennes et commerces français?

France Culture, Podcast ici. 

If you go down to the mall today, you're watched by a thousand eyes

TheAge, here. 

Pourquoi Bercy assigne Amazon en justice

Le Parisien, ici. 

La CNIL se prononce sur l'éthique des algorithmes et de l'intelligence artificielle

Sciencesetavenir.fr, ici. 

Europe gears up to play pivotal role in ‘internet of things’

FT, here. 

PROTECTION AND CONTROL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN THE EU MEMBER STATES

EUIPO, here.

Joining Disney and Fox's sports channels may raise antitrust concerns: experts

Reuters, here.

Data and the role of antitrust enforcement

B. Nigro, here.

Drones, volcanoes and the 'computerisation' of the Earth

The Conversation, here.

Data will change the world, and we must get its governance right

The Guardian, here.

AI isn’t just compromising our privacy—it can limit our choices, too

Quartz, here.

Hard Questions: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?

Facebook, here.

Top Silicon Valley tech battle judge probed over sex pest claims

TheRegister, here.

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

FCA to examine ‘high risk’ initial coin offering market

FT, here. 

CMA launches digital tool to fight bid-rigging

CMA, here. 

Comment permettre à l'homme de garder la main ? Les enjeux éthiques des algorithmes et de l’intelligence artificielle

CNIL, ici. 

Accuracy and administrability go hand in hand

J. Laitenberger, here. 

"Die Bundesregierung hat sich auf die Lufthansa versteift"

FAZ, hier.

DOJ confirms new criminal probe linked to Waymo v. Uber lawsuit

ArsTechnica, here. 

The Hidden Side of Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from the Airline Market

M. Alderighi, A. Gaggero, C. Piga, here. 

Berlin regrets EU decision on airline Niki as insolvency looms

Reuters, here.

Guidelines on Consent and transparency

Art29WP, here and here.

Validating scraped data using goodtables

Ofnlabs, here.

Bundeskartellamt will Lufthansa-Preise prüfen

FAZ, hier.

The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust: Outdated or a Harbor in a Sea of Doubt?

US Senate, here.

Demain ce sera: à. Chacun son prix !

E. Combe, TEDxMarseille, ici.

Connected Cars: What Happens To Our Data On Rental Cars?

Privacy International, here.

ICANN; No, you can't

Article 29WP, here.

33 Theses for an Economics Reformation

Rethinking Economics, here.

Der Todes-Algorithmus

Tagesschau, hier.

The Rhetorical “We” and the Ethics of Technology

M. Sacasas, here.

Bing soll schlauer suchen – dank KI und Reddit

Heise.de, hier.

Wiedergabe von Vorschaubildern in Google-Bildersuche

BGH I ZR 11/16, hier.

Mytaxi pide flexibilizar horarios y tarifas para dinamizar el taxi

CincoDías, Aquí

Competition policy in the digital era (with a special focus on the challenges raised by algorithms)

A. Capobianco, Presentation here. 

"Unfaire Praktiken": Spotify, Deezer & Co. beschweren sich über Apple bei der EU

Heise.de, hier. 

Artificial intelligence is guiding venture capital to start-ups

FT,  here.

Federal Advisory Committee on the Development and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence

A Bill, here. 

Google is opening a China-based research lab focused on artificial intelligence

TechCrunch, here. 

EBay acquires Terapeak to provide more analytics to marketplace sellers

TechCrunch, here. 

ALEXA WANTS YOU TO TALK TO YOUR ADS

Wired, here. 

Lufthansa zieht Angebot für Niki zurück

ORF.at, hier. 

Amazon is coming. Game over for the insurance industry?

InsurTechNews, here. 

10 Things you wish you didn't know about elections (and what to do about them)

Socsci.ox.ac.uk, here.

What Would You Pay to Keep Your Digital Footprint 100% Private?

HBR, here. 

ICN Merger Workshop 2017

COFECE, Videos here. 

Uber's Massive Scraping Program Collected Data About Competitors Around The World

Gizmodo, here.

Comment on Canada's Big Data and Innovation White Paper

Antonin Scalia Law School, here.

A different model for personal data

D. Alexander, here. 

Birkenstock beliefert Amazon nicht mehr

FAZ, hier. 

Platform Market Power

K. Bamberger, O. Lobel, here. 

Brits flock to digital-only banks

FinExtra, here. 

Merger and national security concerns

City of London Law Society, here. 

"LUXUSPROBLEME" - EUGH ZU VERTRIEBSVERBOT ÜBER AMAZON, EBAY & CO.

K. M. Künstner, hier. 

Mercedes: „Datenschutz ist für uns ein Vorteil“

StN.de, hier. 

Patents and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

EPO, here. 

In Your Face: China’s all-seeing state - A Must Watch

BBC, here. 

Antitrust Examining Google Dominance on Web Advertising

Haaretz, here. 

Sources: Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam

TechCrunch, here.

Algorithmic collusion

Seminar, Antonio Capobianco @OECD Trento University Dec. 13, 10.30 am, Conference Room. You're welcome! Tutti/e benvenuti/e!

BPatG: Nespresso-Kaffekapsel verliert markenrechtlichen Schutz für Kaffee, Kaffeeextrakte und kaffeebasierte Zubereitungen, Kaffeeersatz und künstliche Kaffeeextrakte

Beckmann und Norda, hier.

BLOCKCHAINS AND DATA PROTECTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

M. Finck, here.

International Skating Union's restrictive penalties on athletes breach EU competition rules

EC, Press Release here.

EU merger control: how to remove anti-competitive effects?

C. Esteva Mosso, here.

Selective distribution and online sales: complying with EU competition law after the Coty judgment

Hogan Lovells, here.

European Commission to intervene before the US Supreme Court in the Microsoft case

Press Release, here.

Bundeskartellamt begrüßt geplante Einführung einer Zementhandelsplattform

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Data Spending To Hit $10 Billion This Year: IAB/DMA Report

MediaPost, here.

Warren: "No exception in antitrust law for Big Tech"

Axios, here.

Carmakers Want Silicon Valley’s Tech Without Its Patent Wars

Bloomberg, here.

Hotelverband unterstützt Hotels bei der Geltendmachung von Schadensersatzansprüchen gegen HRS

Hotellerie, hier.

Gelati Algida, sanzione da oltre 60 milioni di euro a Unilever per abuso di posizione dominante

AGCM, here. 

A battle between Apple and an app developer has caught Congress’ attention

Recode, here. 

Inside Oracle’s cloak-and-dagger political war with Google

Recode, here. 

Coty: A supplier of luxury goods can prohibit its authorised distributors from selling those goods on a third-party internet platform such as Amazon

C-230/16, here.

Enceintes intelligentes : des assistants vocaux connectés à votre vie privée

CNIL, ici.

Wholesale Local Access Market Review

Ofcom, here.

Safe harbours and legal presumptions in competition law

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here.

Common Ownership by Institutional Investors and its Impact on Competition

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here.

The Extraterritorial Reach of Competition Remedies

OECD Secretariat, Issues Paper, here.

10 years on from the Financial Crisis: Co-operation between Competition Agencies and Regulators in the Financial Sector

OECD Background Note, here.

Competition Policy and Sector-Specific Regulation in the Financial Sector

M. Hellwig, here.

How are companies preparing for GDPR?

Computer World, here.

How Can the Data Economy Be Regulated to Promote New Emerging Markets?

J. Drexl, Video here.

Artificial intelligence and behavioral economics

C. Camerer, here.

Ryanair sues Expedia, accusing online travel giant of illegally scraping its site to sell flights

GeekWire, here.

Australia to probe Facebook, Google over media disruption

Reuters, here.

A way to poke Facebook off its uncontested perch

T. Harford, here.

When Our Thoughts Are No Longer Our Own

NYTimes, here.

The right to data portability in the GDPR: Towards user-centric interoperability of digital services

I. Sanchez et al., here.

Australia to legislate to open up access to consumer data across sectors

Out-law.com, here.

Praktische Umsetzung des Rechts auf Datenübertragbarkeit

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier.

Fintech: Privacy and Identity in the New Data-intensive Financial Sector (India and Kenya)

Privacy International, here.

DFB erleichtert die Voraussetzungen für den Ticketkauf zur WM 2018

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Investigation of Parity Clauses in Japan

Japan FTC, here.

China’s Tech Giants Have a Second Job: Helping Beijing Spy on Its People

WSJ, here.

Jurisdiction, Conflict of Laws and Data Protection in Cyberspace

M. Requejo, here.

EU gibt der Lufthansa mehr Zeit für Air-Berlin-Deal

FAZ, hier.

What I Learned from the People who Built the Atom Bomb

MIT Technology Review, here.

Why Robots (and Animals) Never Need Rights

J. Bryson, here.

False Negatives Can Be a Matter of Life and Death

C. O'Neal, here. 

Justices Seem Ready to Boost Protection of Digital Privacy

NYTimes, here. 

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google should be broken up

                                                                                  S. Galloway, Video here. 

First Person Extradited From Europe to the United States for Criminal Antitrust Charges—Continued

Orrick, here. 

Bad Science: Abuse And Effects In Online Markets

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, here. 

U.S. Joins Europe in Fighting China’s Future in W.T.O.

NYTimes, here. 

Behavioural Law and Economics as Litmus Test

P. Cserne, here. 

Google kämpft nun auch gegen Ticketwucher

Heise.de, hier. 

Commission sends Statement of Objections to AB InBev for preventing cheaper imports of beer into Belgium

EC, here

Data protection gone digital

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Section 46 no defence for uncompetitive firms

ACCC, here. 

UK class action accuses Google of unlawfully harvesting personal data

The Guardian, here. 

How to Tame Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple

Bloomberg, here.

The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death.

NYTimes, here.

Examining the Fintech Landscape

US SENATE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, Testimonies and Video here.

Legal Scholarship on Data Protection: Future Challenges and Directions

L. Bygrave, here. 

At least one US state is probing Google’s secret tracking of Android users

Quartz, here. 

Identity Verification in a Post-Breach World

T. Hunt, here. 

Unlocking the Promise of Antitrust Enforcement

Conference, Washington 
Center for Equitable Growth, here. 

Interesting Tidbits From FTC’s Antitrust Win Against 1-800 Contacts’ Keyword Ad Restrictions

E. Goldman, here. 

FCA issues first statement of objections to four asset management firms

FCA, here. 

An innovative introductory economics course at Stanford is now free online

Quartz, here. 

The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Announces New Standards Projects

IEEE, here. 

EU regulator spells out license guidelines to prevent patent wars

Reuters, here.
Communication here. 

Uber, Tinder, Snapchat and other top apps include trackers that secretly watch everything users do

The Independent, here.

Brüssel setzt Grenzen für das gläserne Bankkonto

FAZ, hier.

Mapping the Real Routes of Trade in Fake Goods

OECD, EUIPO, here.

PSD2: 'screen scraping' ban confirmed in finalised standards

Out-law, here.

Fairness in platform-to-business relations: Feedback Received by the EC

Here.
Google in praise of competition policy? "This decision, which hinges on specific facts related to online shopping ads, is under appeal to the European Union General Court. It shows that in situations where ranking is a matter of concern,
competition authorities have the appropriate tools to determine legal compliance
and therefore an additional ex ante regulation is not needed."

Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported

TechCrunch, here. 

"Screen Scraping ist nicht tot“

It-Finanznmagazin, hier.

Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft begrüßt Festlegungen der Europäischen Kommission zum PSD2-Kontozugang für Drittdienstleister

die-dk.de, hier.

L’économie des plateformes : dissipation ou concentration de la rente ?

F. Marty, ici. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE FOR LEGAL SERVICES

CliffordChance.com, here. 

Video Startup Can’t Outspend YouTube, So It Created a New Currency to Pay Creators

Bloomberg, here. 

Le numérique et la concurrence dans une économie et une société en transformation

J. Laitenberger, ici. 

German Kid Smartwatch Ban Opens Voice-Activated Privacy Debate

BNA, here. 

The Purchase Data Playbook For Marketers

AdExchanger, here. 

Algorithms: How Companies’ Decisions About Data and Content Impact Consumers

House of Representatives, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, Hearing Info  here.
Testimonies and Video available here.
The following issues may be examined at the hearing:
• How is personal information about consumers collected through the Internet, and how do companies use that information?
• How do companies make decisions about content that consumers see online?
• How effective are current policies and communications with consumers regarding the collection and use of personal data?   

Payment services: Consumers to benefit from safer and more innovative electronic payments

EC, here. Regulatory Technical Standards here.

Inside the Revolution at Etsy

NYTimes, here.

I'm Testifying in Front of Congress in Washington DC about Data Breaches - What Should I Say?

Troyhunt.com, here.

Das gläserne Bankkonto

FAZ, hier.

Love in the Digital Age

Futurism.com, here.

Neue Fraunhofer-App entlarvt geheimes Tracking über Apps

TelTarif.de, hier.

Brazil pushes back decision on Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

Reuters, here.

The Economic Case Against an A.T. & T.-Time Warner Merger

The New Yorker, here.

Des mouchards cachés dans vos applications pour smartphones

LeMonde, ici.

Media in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

C. Moedas, here.

Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner merger is good antitrust economics and law

S. Salop, here. 

WIE DAS EU-PARLAMENT UNSERE PRIVATSPHÄRE SCHÜTZEN WILL

Fink, hier. 

CJEU on commitment decisions

C‑547/16, here.

28      It follows that a decision taken on the basis of Article 9(1) of Regulation No 1/2003 cannot create a legitimate expectation in respect of the undertakings concerned as to whether their conduct complies with Article 101 TFEU. As the Advocate General observed in point 39 of her Opinion, the commitment decision cannot ‘legalise’ the market behaviour of the undertaking concerned, and certainly not retroactively.

29      Nonetheless, national courts cannot overlook that type of decision. Such acts are, in any event, in the nature of a decision. In addition, both the principle of sincere cooperation laid down in Article 4(3) TEU and the objective of applying EU competition law effectively and uniformly require the national court to take into account the preliminary assessment carried out by the Commission and regard it as an indication, if not prima facie evidence, of the anticompetitive nature of the agreement at issue in the light of Article 101(1) TFEU.

30      In those circumstances, the answer to the first question is that Article 16(1) of Regulation No 1/2003 must be interpreted as meaning that a commitment decision concerning certain agreements between undertakings, adopted by the Commission under Article 9(1) of that regulation, does not preclude national courts from examining whether those agreements comply with the competition rules and, if necessary, declaring those agreements void pursuant to Article 101(2) TFEU.

In charts: how US retailers fared as Amazon powered ahead

FT, here. 

Making globalisation work for Europeans

M. Vestager, here. 

Challenges For Me of Discussing the Google Comparison Shopping Decision With My Students Without the Decision

Challenges for Competition Law Enforcement and Policy in the Digital Economy

A. Capobianco, A. Nyeso, here (and here). 

Facebook will help some users figure out if they saw Russian propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Recode, here. 

ICO backs development of medical data sharing tool

UKAuthority, here. 

Tracking Walls, Take-It-Or-Leave-It Choices, the GDPR, and the ePrivacy Regulation

F. Borgesius, S. Kruikemeier, S. Boerman, N. Helberger, here. 

ESMA Provides Further Clarity on Initial Coin Offerings in Europe

Latham Watkins, here. 

Germany’s Cyber Valley aims to become leading AI hub

FT, here. 

What’s Next for SWIFT? APIs, Realtime Payments, and Cryptocurrency

BankInnovation, here.

Will online platforms be able to access your bank data?

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here. 

Uber's data breach handling provides lessons for others ahead of GDPR

Out-Law.com, here. 

Economic Analysis of Network Effects and Intellectual Property

P. Menell, here. 

EU-Abgeordnete stimmen für Rückgaberecht auch bei "kostenlosen" Apps und Online-Diensten

Heise.de, hier. 

E-Books: Börsenverein begrüßt Einigung zum Geoblocking

Presse-Information, hier. 

Bundesregierung: ePrivacy-Verordnung kommt erst 2019

Wuv.de, hier.

Artificial intelligence: the hidden algorithms shaping our lives

EP News, here. Video of the event here.

European Commission fines five car safety equipment suppliers € 34 million in cartel settlement

Press Release, here.

L'impatto delle nuove tecnologie sui settori finanziario, creditizio e assicurativo

G. Pitruzzella, qui.

Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People’s Data

Bloomberg, here.

A state Supreme Court justice’s open letter to AI

Quartz, here.

Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems

N. Seaver, here. 

Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

Quartz, here. 

Linky, Gazpar : quelles données sont collectées et transmises par les compteurs communicants ?

CNIL, ici. 

Enquête sectorielle sur le fonctionnement de la concurrence dans le secteur du médicament et de la biologie médicale

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. Saisine d’office pour avis ici. 

China: Police ‘Big Data’ Systems Violate Privacy, Target Dissent

Human Rights Watch, here. 

Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media

Spectrum.ieee, here. 

The Department of Justice's Long-Awaited and Much Needed Course-Correction on FRAND-Assured Standard-Essential Patents

D. Ginsburg, K. Wong-Ervin, here. 

U.S. Sues to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger

NYTimes, here. 

Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke, Princeton Researchers Find

MotherBoard, here. 

This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Senate Once Again Passes Antitrust Whistleblower Bill

Biglawbusiness, here. 

Use GDPR to future-proof business models

ComputerWeekly, here. 

UK regulator accuses Concordia of abusing position with 5700% drug price hike

FT, here. 

Digital Single Market: EU negotiators agreed to end unjustified geoblocking

EC, here. 

Helping people cope with technological change

M. Vestager, here. 

Legal and Regulatory Challenges Facing Platforms in Europe

Conf call with Alec Burnside, Transcript here.

The Next Frontier of Antitrust?

K. Christensen, here. 

Shifting the Dial

Productivity Commission, Chapter 5 here

DOJ bucks China, urges SCOTUS to hear case against vitamin cartel

Reuters, here.

Blablacar Wants to Become a Car Insurance Broker

Bloomberg, here.

Payment systems

Autoritat Catalana de la Competència,  here.

Intangible Capital in Global Value Chains

WIPO, here.

How much …? The rise of dynamic and personalised pricing

The Guardian, here. 

A practical approach to rebates

BakerMcKenzie, here. 

Bundesnetzagentur geht gegen Kinderuhren mit Abhörfunktion vor

Bundesnetzagentur, hier. 

Japanese regulators raid Airbnb over suspected antitrust practices

Reuters, here.