Facebook’s Libra: it’s not the ‘crypto’ that’s the issue, it's the organisation behind it

B. Maurer, D. Tischer, here.

RTB RIP? The Writing Could Be On The Wall For Real-Time Bidding In Europe

AdExchanger, here.

ACM: Extension of enforcement toolkit to increase effectiveness in dealing with competition problems in the digital economy

ACM, here. 

Blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation

M. Finck for the EP, here. Policy options here. 

FedNow: FAQs

Fed, here. 

Facebook fine reveals Congress has set up FTC to fail

J. Brookman, here. 

Joint statement on global privacy expectations of the Libra network

ICO et al., here. 

"IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization

EFF, here. 

European Competition Policy in Digital: What’s Next?

N. Petit, here. 

Merger Brief: SHARING is CAR-ing: Daimler/BMW/Car Sharing JV

Here. 

Merger brief: A remix of your favourite tunes of data issues in merger control (Apple/Shazam)

Here. 

Energy Data Taskforce Report

Here.

A blueprint for re-regulating the tech sector: ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report released

Corrs, here.

Google, Siri und Alexa US-Konzerne stoppen umstrittene Auswertungspraxis

Tagesspiegel.de, hier.

UK Government Launches ‘Smart Data’ Proposals as Data-Portability Agenda Intensifies

Latham & Watkins, here. 

Huawei tests smartphone with own operating system, possibly for sale this year: Chinese state media

Reuters, here. 

Takeaway.com and Just Eat agree food delivery tie-up

FT, here.

Goldman-Backed Apple Card Restricts Cryptocurrency Purchases

Bitcoin.com, here. 

The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers

The Verge, here. 

Banning cryptocurrencies in India not the solution: Nasscom

The Economic Times, here.
Report here.

Google to Ask Rivals to Bid to Be Default Search on Phones

Bloomberg, here.
More from Qwant here. 

Sprachassistenzsysteme auf dem Prüfstand – Datenschutzbehörde eröffnet Verwaltungsverfahren gegen Google

Datenschutz-hamburg.de, hier. 

Speech Renegade Pandas: Opportunities for Cross Border Cooperation in Regulation of Digital Assets

SEC, here. 

Hot questions on data portability under the GDPR from Italy

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, here. 

Overseeing the Fintech Revolution: Domestic and International Perspectives on Fintech Regulation

Task Force on Financial Technology, Hearing, Video here (C. Woolard at 40:00, his written evidence here).
SEC's Fintech Forum, Video here. 

U.S. FTC Probes Facebook's Acquisition Practices-WSJ

NYTimes, here. 

How cities are using private sector data

J. Hardinges, here. 

Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe

The Verge, here. 

Amazon fera payer la « taxe GAFA » à ses vendeurs français

Le Monde, ici. 

Chinese financial services apps accused of overcollecting user data

TechNode, here.

Piano supplier fined £3.7m for illegally preventing price discounts

CMA, here. 

Jerome Powell: Fed 'seriously considering' faster payments system

Politico.com, here.

How To Stay Ahead Of Evolving, Unpredictable Digital Platforms

Forbes, here. 

Challenge to FTC/Facebook 2019 Settlement

EPIC, here. 

AGCOM: AVVIATA ANALISI DI MERCATO NEL SETTORE DELLA PUBBLICITÀ ONLINE

AGCOM, here. 

Digital Platforms and Digital Moments

R. Picker, Video here. 

Sampling-Urteil des EuGH: Im Zweifel für die Kunstfreiheit

Heise.de, hier.

Carrier bags data

Data.defra.gov.uk, here. 

Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing project

The Verge, here. 

Paiement en ligne: L'Autorité rejette la saisine de l'hébergeur de contenus en ligne Dstorage (1fichier.com)

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Daten – das Öl des 21. Jahrhunderts

Auszug aus Justus Haucap »Macht, Markt und Wettbewerb«, S. 5–13, hier. 

Guidance on Cryptoassets

FCA, here.

Visa pitches a program offering fintechs faster market access through an ecosystem of partners

TechCrunch, here. 

TECH-OVER: AN OVERVIEW OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN DIGITAL MARKETS

Lear, here. 

Our Data Future

Privacy International, here. 

Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the human rights impacts of algorithmic systems

Council of Europe, here. 

Why Google employees are donating to Warren and Sanders — presidential candidates who want to break up Google

Recode, here. 

Réguler au niveau européen

Le Soir, ici. 

You can't simply pay a fine to make us go away

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Interview here. 

New DPIA on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

PrivacyCompany, here. 

Can Antitrust Enforcement Improve Privacy Protection? Privacy as a Parameter of Competition in Merger Reviews

M. MacCarthy, here. 

Data Right set to sail through

InnovationAus, here. 

The DPO Handbook

Elaborated for the EU‐funded “T4DATA” programme , here. 

Petre warns on ACCC tech report

Innovationaus, here. 

US Defense Department to Develop Blockchain Cybersecurity Shield

CoinDesk, here. 

Digital Socialism?

E. Morozov, here. 

Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain

Congressional Research Service, here.
Blockchain Association, here.
M. Baradaran, here. 

CJEU rules that use of a protected work for the purpose of reporting current events does not, in principle, require authorization

IPKat, here. 

Will Facebook’s Libra Change the Way the World Banks?

Foreign Affairs, here. 

China’s Long View

Project Syndicate, here. 

What comes next? The business analysis of no deal preparations

CBI, here. 

Data subjects as data controllers: a Fashion(able) concept?

L. Edwards et al., here.

Fashion ID ruling here. 

Monsanto seeks time to respond to CCI probe on it abusing dominant position in India

The Economic Times, here.

Capital One: hacker stole data of over 100m Americans

The Guardian, here. 

Ant-Financial-Backed Startup Rides Indonesian Fintech Wave

Bloomberg, here. 

From energy to insurance: How Open Banking could fix the loyalty penalty headache

Citya.m., here. 

ICO selects first participants for data protection Sandbox

ICO, here.

CJEU rules that freedom of information and of the press cannot justify a derogation from the rights of copyright holders beyond allowed exceptions and limitations

IPKat, here. 

The future of online advertising regulation

ICO, here. 

Facebook’s Libra and the scourge of hot money

FT, here. 

IP Rights for Data: Mortaring Over the Cracks

Mayer Brown, here. 

Facebook's Libra could massively help the cryptocurrency industry — or hurt it badly

CNN, here.

Value of data: There’s no such thing as a free lunch in the digital economy

Voxeu, here. 

The FTC and Facebook

MSNBC, here. 

@ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry: First Takes

C. Beaton-Wells, here.

K. Kemp, R. Nicholls, here.

My longish Twitter thread here.

Facebook needs more than a $5 billion fine. It needs a new business model

CNN, here. 

Student Challenge Quadriptych – “Shaping Competition Policy in the Era of Digitisation”

CPI, here. 

Consumer watchdog calls for new measures to combat Facebook and Google’s digital dominance

R. Nicholls, K. Kemp, here. 

Chris Hughes Worked to Create Facebook. Now, He Is Working to Break It Up.

NYTimes, here. 

Holistic, dynamic reforms needed to address dominance of digital platforms

ACCC, here. Report here.

From Rod Sims himself, Video here. 

Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement

Vice, here. 

Viele neue Account-Sperren auf Amazon - Händler sind ratlos

Internet World, hier. 

Les clefs pour comprendre l'activisme de la Commission européenne contre Amazon

F. Marty, ici. 

Big Tech and Antitrust: A Discussion With Randal Picker

Technology Policy Institute, Podcast here. 

Facebook amasses army to lobby on Libra

Politico, here. 

Why You’ll Never Quit Amazon Prime

Land of the Giants, Podcast here. 

Digital Europe: Draft Orientations for the preparation of the work programme(s) 2021-2022

EC, here. 

New EU rules for the Platform Economy

EC, Video here. 

What affects the flow of data-enabled international trade?

ODI, here. 

Interview with Andreas Mundt

Here.

Who Owns Americans’ Personal Information and What Is It Worth?

R. Shapiro, S. Aneja, here.

Calls Mount to Ease Big Tech’s Grip on Your Data

NYTimes, here. 

Regulator prohibits use of transaction data for marketing purposes

White & Case, here. 

Spielregeln für Giganten

Die Zeit, hier. 

Geo­blocking: Online-Beschwerdeformular

Bundesnetzagentur, hier. 

Treasury's Mnuchin says Amazon 'destroyed' U.S. retail sector

Reuters, here. 

The real threat/d

A. Stamos, Thread here. 

Facebook ends friend data access for Microsoft and Sony, the last 2 of its legacy partners, under FTC deal

TechCrunch, here. 

Businesses begin to benefit from Current Account Switching Service

FinExtra, here. 

Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain

United States Senate Banking Committee, Hearing, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 4 pm Trento Time, live here. 

Data isn't the new oil, it's the new CO2

M. Tisné, here. 

The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom

A. Stamos, Video here. 

Facebook to Pay $100 Million for Misleading Investors About the Risks It Faced From Misuse of User Data

SEC, Press Release here; juicy complaint here. 

FTC Imposes $5 Billion Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

FTC, here. Complaint here.
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER ROHIT CHOPRA, here.
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER REBECCA KELLY SLAUGHTER, here.

The Great Hack

Documentary, here. 

The EC Report on Competition Policy for 2018: Themes and Trends

Hausfeld, here. 

EU privacy ruling against Facebook to come by end 2019

Politico.eu, here. 

THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2019

WIPO, here.

General Data Protection Regulation shows results, but work needs to continue

EC, here. 

Do cities have access to the private sector data they need to make effective decisions?

ODI, here. 

EU draws up sweeping rules to curb illegal online content

FT, here. 

Justice Department Reviewing the Practices of Market-Leading Online Platforms

DOJ, here. 

Technology: how the US, EU and China compete to set industry standards

FT, here. 

Innovation is more than amassing customers

FT, here. 

Competition Issues in the Digital Economy

Russian Federation, here. 

Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models

L. Rocher et al., ici. 

Amazon Testimony May Have Been Untruthful, Top Democrat Says

Bloomberg, here. 

WHITE PAPER: THE DATA MOBILITY OPPORTUNITY

digi.me, here. 

L'apport du droit de la compliance à la gouvernance d'internet

Rapport commandé par Monsieur le Ministre en charge du Numérique, ici.

(DROIT DE LA CONCURRENCE ET DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE ici.)

Guidance on the interpretation and application of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts

EC, here. 

How Russia Defeated Google’s Monopoly

M. Stoller, here. 

Unlocking Access to Self-Driving Research: The Lyft Level 5 Dataset and Competition

Lyft, here. 

Datenökonomie: Sommerlektüre

Hier. 

Competition rules must continue to evolve

G. Clark, here. 

Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capitalism

K. Birch, here. 

Commission fines US chipmaker Qualcomm €242 million for engaging in predatory pricing

EC, here. 

Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on “Competition and the Digital Economy”

Here.
Présentation Isabelle de Silva, présidente de l’Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Update from the Chair of the G7 working group on stablecoins

G7, here. 

Cade instaura processos para apurar cartéis em licitações de estádios da Copa e de edificações especiais da Petrobras

CADE, aqui. 

G7 warns on ‘serious risks’ posed by Libra and other digital coins

FT, here. 

Competition & regulation

C. Ritter, here. 

Cookies et autres traceurs : la CNIL publie de nouvelles lignes directrices

CNIL, here. 

Breaking Up: “It’s Not You, It’s Me”, “Maybe We Should See Other People” and “with or without You”

P. Marsden, here. 

UK CMA’s Digital Market Strategy

Antitrust Digest, here. 

Antitrust in the Digital Economy

Conversable Economist, here. 

The EU's latest antitrust probe could hit Amazon where it hurts

Wired, here. 

Crémer Report on Competition for the Digital Era Misses the Mark

Disco, here. 

Separation without a Breakup

P. Guniganti, here. 

Legal risk as a competitive advantage

Former Apple general counsel interviewed here. 

Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech

T. O'Reilly, here. 

India plan to merge ID with health records raises privacy worries

FT, here. 

G-7-Finanzminister machen Front gegen Facebooks Libra

FAZ, hier. 

Amazon Faces Probe in Europe Over Third-Party Selling

WSJ, here

Examining Facebook’s Proposed Cryptocurrency and Its Impact on Consumers, Investors, and the American Financial System

Hearing, here. 

Innovationen: Open-Source-Veteran soll Deutschland auf die Sprünge helfen

Heise.de, hier. 

Ein wachsames Auge auf Amazon

FAZ, hier. 

PSD2's narrow focus limiting the potential of Open Banking - report

FinExtra, here. 

Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon

EC, here. 

UK National Data Strategy: OKFN's Response

OKFN, here. 

Calls to rein in the tech titans are getting louder

The Economist, here. 

It’s Time to Reboot the Startup Economy

T. Wu, here. 

Reframing platform power

J. van Dijck, D. Nieborg, T. Poell, here. 

IBM announces Data Asset eXchange (DAX) to help developers use free and open data and AI

IBM blog, here. 

Open Banking: Preparing for Lift Off

ODI, Fingleton, here. 

An agent-based model on the effects of data sharing on economic innovation

ODI, here. 

‘I Don’t Trust You Guys’: Lawmakers Unite to Take Aim at Big Tech

NYTimes, here. 

Amazon ändert Geschäftsbedingungen

BWB, hier.
Fallbericht hier. 

Bundeskartellamt obtains far-reaching improvements in the terms of business for sellers on Amazon’s online marketplaces

Bundeskartellamt, here.
Fallbericht hier. 

EPIC Seeks Public Release of FTC Settlement with Facebook

EPIC, here. 

Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data

Yahoo Finance, here. 

Only Regulation Can Jump-start Competition in Big Tech

Public Knowledge, here. 

Competition merger brief

EC, July 2019, here. 

Everything you need to know about Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency

CNN, here. 

Habile : le WWF a inventé une fausse géolocalisation Instagram pour protéger des sites naturels

Numérama, ici. 

Why YouTube Keeps Demonetizing Videos of the Hong Kong Protests

One Zero, here. 

Libra, the GAFA, and Libra again.

Testimonies, here, here and here. 

Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

J. Stiglitz, here. 

Data sharing code of practice

ICO, here. 

UK National Data Strategy: ODI's Response

ODI, here. 

Regulator's increased interest in technology transactions

White and Case, here. 

@Echelle : la politique de concurrence à l'ère du numérique

Le nez dans le code

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Vidéo ici (dès 21:51; accès aux données pour l'entraînement des algos AI dès 1:01:40; more technological approach dès 1:38:07 "nez dans le code"). 

Calibra: Testimony

US Senate COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, here. 

1 big thing: Using a privacy law to filch data

Axios, here. 

Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional y la aplicación para dispositivos móviles de La Liga

AEDP, aquì. 

YouTube's Trampled Foes Plot Antitrust Revenge

BloombergQuint, here. 

The Toxic Potential of YouTube’s Feedback Loop

Wired, here.

U.S. Proposes Barring Big Tech Companies From Offering Financial Services, Digital Currencies

NYTimes, here. 

The Rise of Digital Money

IMF, here. 

Digital upstarts need to play by the same rules as everyone else

FT, here. 

Geleaktes Arbeitspapier: EU-Kommission erwägt neues Gesetz für Plattformen

Netzpolitik.org, hier. 

Régime juridique applicable aux traitements poursuivant une finalité de recherche scientifique (hors santé)

CNIL, ici. 

Elements of strong customer authentication under PSD2

EBA, Opinion, here. 

CYBG launches energy switching service within banking mobile app

FinExtra, here.

Licensing of FinTech business models

ESMA, Report here. 

Protecting Journalism in the Age of Digital Platforms

Stigler Center, Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms, here. 

Commission d'enquête: Souveraineté numérique

Audition du CSA, de l'ARCEP, de l'Autorité de la concurrence, Vidéo ici.

Décision: (pas de) mesures conservatoires à l'encontre de Amazon

Conseil de la Concurrence, ici. 

Congressional leaders have drafted a bill that would ban Big Tech from launching a digital asset

The Block, here. 

Digital Dystopia

J. Tirole, here. 

Canada’s nascent AI sector needs data standards to thrive

TheGlobeandMail, here. 

Digital Manipulation

TED Radio Hour, here. 

The Value of Trustworthy AI

D. Danks, here.

Invisible Influence

D. Susser, here. 

Compensation at the Crossroads

T. Hresko Pearl, here. 

AI + Art = Human

A. Daniele, Y.-Z. Song, here. 

TED: Teaching AI to Explain its Decisions

M. Hind, here. 

Requirements for an Artificial Agent with Norm Competence

B. Malle et al., here.

Moment des Aussterbens

S. Spiekermann, hier. 

Extending Facebook Interoperability as a Remedy

KEI, here.

The UK Furman Report as "digested" by Pedro

Antitrust Digest, here. 

Superpredators

Washingtonmonthly, here. 

Japan grants certification for first time to 'information banks'

The Japan Times, here. 

Data Protection and Competitiveness in the Digital Age

A. Mundt, here Video (from 5:49) . 

The end of Fintech

The Finanser, here. 

Big Fair Use Win Concerning Andy Warhol's Paintings Of Prince

TechDirt, here. 

Bundeskartellamt's Facebook Decision in English

Here. 

Reg. (EU) 2019/1150 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services

Here. 

Google’s 4,000-Word Privacy Policy Is a Secret History of the Internet

NYTimes, here. 

Uber in London: the battle between public and private regulation

Y. Marique, here. 

Tommaso/Tommasso Valletti Tells the Truth, Nothing But the Truth

MLex Market Insight, here. 

The price of data security

AON, here. 

Interoperability: Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Companies

C. Doctorow, here. 

Guidelines 3/2019 on processing of personal data through video devices

EDPB, here. 

Zulässigkeit der Transkribierung und Auswertung von Mitschnitten der Sprachsoftware "Alexa" durch Amazon

Deutscher Bundestag, hier. 

Brüsseler Podiumsdiskussion zu Datenschutz und Wettbewerb

BfDI, hier. 

BIG DATA: INDAGINE CONOSCITIVA CONGIUNTA

LINEE GUIDA E RACCOMANDAZIONI DI POLICY, qui. 

Smart Data: Putting consumers in control of their data and enabling innovation

UK Gov, here. 

UK to create a 'Digital Markets Unit'

Hogan Lovells, here. 

IBM Bets $34 Billion That Red Hat Can Help It Catch Amazon and Microsoft

NYTimes, here. 

Artificial Intelligence: the global landscape of ethics guidelines

A. Jobin, M. Ienca, E. Vayena, here. 

Heineken's pub and bar business investigated by PCA over 'beer tie'

The Guardian, here. 

„Wir müssen das Wettbewerbsrecht für das digitale Zeitalter fit machen“

Inclusive Productivity, hier. 

COMMENT LE NUMÉRIQUE TRANSFORME LE DROIT ET LA JUSTICE VERS DE NOUVEAUX USAGES ET UN BOULEVERSEMENT DE LA PRISE DE DÉCISION

L. Godefroy et al., Rapport, ici. 

Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice

BBC, here. 

Europas Behörden wollen Datenschutz und Wettbewerbsrecht verheiraten

Netzpolitik.org, here.

Cade condena 11 empresas e 42 pessoas por formação de cartel em licitações de trens e metrôs

NovoDia, aqui. 

Frydenberg puts Facebook and Google on notice over market power

SMH, here. 

Intention to fine Marriott International, Inc more than £99 million under GDPR for data breach

ICO, here. 

How much is your data worth?

Quartz, here. 

10 Ans: Accompagner la modernisation de l'économie

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Missed opportunities in the EU’s revised open data and re-use of public sector information directive

OKFN, here. 

Concurrence : soupçons de cartel dans la compote

Le Monde, ici. 

The UK's Entire Approach To 'Online Harms' Is Backwards... And No One Cares

TechDirt, here. 

Facebook v. Max Schrems

L. Kayali, Twitter Thread here. 

Banks in no rush to join Facebook’s crypto project

FT, here. 

All hands on deck: we’ve updated the Data Access Map

ODI, here. 

Commission fines Sanrio €6.2 million for restricting cross-border sales of merchandising products featuring Hello Kitty characters

EC, here. 

DEBRIEFING: ASCOLA CONFERENCE, AIX-EN-PROVENCE, JUNE 2019

R. Podszun, here. 

Unter Umständen ist es rechtswidrig, über WhatsApp schülerbezogene Daten zu verschicken

MDR, hier. 

Transparency you can trust: Transparency requirements for artificial intelligence between legal norms and contextual concerns

H. Felzmann et al., here. 

Bonn gegen das Silicon Valley

Deutschlandfunk.de, hier. 

What if policy anticipated advances in science and technology?

EP, here. 

Blockchain and freedom of expression

Article 19, here. 

EBA thematic report on the impact of FinTech on PIs’ and EMI’s business models

EBA, here. 

Blockchain Disables Real-World Governance

H. Matsushima, here. 

Amazon’s Alexa may soon know if you’re happy or sad

Venture Beat, here. 

The Record of Weak U.S. Merger Enforcement in Big Tech

AAI, here. 

LA CONCENTRATION DES ENTREPRISES EST-ELLE LA SOLUTION ?

Les Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence, Vidéo ici.

FTC to Ask About Disabling YouTube Ads for Kids’ Privacy

Bloomberg, here. 

La régulation par la donnée

Autorité de la concurrence, AMF, Arafer, Arcep, CNIL, CRE, CSA, ici. 

Les données personnelles : un levier pour différents régulateurs

LINC, ici. 

India's latest Google probe sparked by junior antitrust researchers

Reuters, here.
CCI's Android Order here. 

German data protection authorities publish guidelines on data transfers in the context of asset deals

C. Piltz, here. 

Who will win? The Banks, FinTechs or BigTechs?

FinExtra, Video here. 

Competition Law for a Complex Economy

I. Lianos, here. 

ICO statement: Intention to fine British Airways £183.39m under GDPR for data breach

ICO, here. 

Your Data Could Be at the Center of the Fight Against Big Tech

NYTimes, here. 

Charting the precursors to Facebook’s Libra coin

FT, here. 

Vertical Mergers: Ex Post Evidence and Ex Ante Evaluation Methods

M. Slade, here. 

CMA launches digital markets strategy and market study into online platforms and digital advertising

Allen & Overy, here. 

Economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI)

EP Think Tank, here. Podcast here.

7-Eleven Japanese customers lose $500,000 due to mobile app flaw

Zdnet, here. 

Selling Your Private Information Is a Terrible Idea

NYTimes, here. 

Emergence of collective digital innovations through the process of control point driven network reconfiguration and reframing: the case of mobile payment

B. Rukanova et al., here. 

Banking’s Digital Revolution Is Here But No One Is Ready

Which-50.com, here. 

The Strange Politics of Facial Recognition

The Atlantic, here. 

THE DIGITAL ADVERTISING ECOSYSTEM VISUALIZATION - LITERATURE REVIEW

V. Stallone, M. Klaas, here. 

Self-destructing ebooks reveal a dark digital truth

FT, here. 

Are FANGs Monopolies? A Theory of Competition under Uncertainty

N. Petit, here. 

Battle over illegal data harvesting looms for online advertising

FT, here.

It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even tried

S. Zuboff, here. 

Reporte conferencia ASCOLA

LaLibreCompetencia, día 1, días 2 y 3.

Deutschland, Frankreich und Polen legen gemeinsame Initiative zur Modernisierung der EU-Wettbewerbspolitik vor

Papier here (auf Englisch).

Amazon / Deliveroo merger inquiry

CMA, Initial Enforcement Order here. 

The bank of Lithuania starts adding fintech companies' innovations on the blockchain

EC, here. 

Apple Korea seeks FTC consent decree over power abuse charges

Pulse, here. 

'MIRROR WORLDS' CREATOR WANTS TO DISPLACE FACEBOOK—WITH BLOCKCHAIN

Wired, here. 

Libra, 2 weeks in

Facebook, here. 

CCI order says Google appears to have abused Android dominance in India: report

Medianama, here. 

How Sai Baba Was Made To Spy On Your Phone For Credit Ratings

HuffingtonPost, here. 

Article 102 and Exclusivity Rebates in a Post-Intel World: Lessons from the Qualcomm and Google Android Cases

M. Kadar, here. 

Fintech Workshop in Trento 21 October 2019: Call for Abstracts

Call for Abstracts HERE. 

The Boston Tea Party Was a Protest Against Monopoly

M. Stoller, here.

The Technology Trap

D. Coyle, here. 

Excessive Data Collection: Privacy Considerations and Abuse of Dominance in the Era of Big Data

V. Robertson, here.

The journey towards PSD2 compliance

FinExtra, Video here. 

Can I buy a phone that doesn’t use anything from Google or Apple?

The Guardian, here. 

Open Banking could be worth £18bn a year to UK consumers and SMEs - report

FinExtra, here. 

Artificial intelligence: the new electricity

WIPO Magazine, here. 

The return of the MFN clauses – platform ranking as an enforcement mechanism for price parity

D. Mandrescu, here. 

FCA Competition Director Christopher Woolard Testifies before House Committee Fintech Task Force

CrowdFundInsider, here. 

Antitrust regulators may also scrutinize internet firms' cryptocurrencies: German cartel chief

Reuters, here. 

French consumer group files class-action against Google for alleged GDPR violations

iapp, here. 

Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview

H. Surden, here. 

Copyright Law on Blockchains: Between New Forms of Rights Administration and Digital Rights Management 2.0

M. Finck, V. Moscon, here. 

BIS to set up Innovation Hub for central banks

BIS, here. 

Intelligent interfaces

Deloitte, here. 

Facebook’s Inches Towards Global Regulatory Compliance, Applies for New York BitLicense

CoinDesk, here. 

Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide

J. Metcalf, K. Crawford, here. 

New York Governor Cuomo orders probe into Facebook's advertising platform

Reuters, here. 

Facebook’s privacy game – how Zuckerberg backtracked on promises to protect personal data

ComputerWeekly, here. 

Guidance to national courts: Quantification of harm caused by infringements of the EU antitrust rules

EC, here. 

First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence

J. Tasioulas, here. 

CMA launches digital markets strategy

Press release, Here.
The CMA’s Digital Markets Strategy, here.
Online platforms and digital advertising market study: Statement of Scope, here.  

Bundeskartellamt legt Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde ein

AHGZ, hier. 

Der Spion im Schulzimmer

Republik, hier. 

FCA proposes ban on cryptocurrency products

The Guardian, here. 

Dow/DuPont: Another step towards a proper assessment concept of the innovation effects of mergers

W. Kerber, S. Vezzoso, Presentation here.

Motivations to Scale

Nesta, here. 

New economy, new finance, new Bank

Bank of England, here. 

Big tech in finance: opportunities and risks

BIS, here. 

ALGORITHMS AS ILLEGAL AGREEMENTS

M. Gal, here. 

Bundesbank-Präsident und weitere Notenbanker warnen vor Facebooks Kryptowährung

FAZ, hier. 

Public Comments of 43 State Attorneys General

FTC Hearings, here. 

CMA expects Facebook and eBay to tackle sale of fake reviews

CMA, here. 

Libra Q&A thread

Here.

Populism or overpopulation? When antitrust really matters

Economic Times, here. 

BCCP Conference 2019 Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: The Rise of Corporate Power

Livestream now here. Conference program here. 

Ycor withdraws from Sizmek bid, paving the way for Amazon's adtech ambitions

The Drum, here. 

Do biologics really need 12 years of market exclusivity?

Statnews, here. 

Facebook usage has collapsed since scandals, data shows

The Guardian, here. 

Enable, Empower, Ensure: A New Finance for the New Economy

M. Carney, here. 

Battle intensifies to unlock value in the ‘internet of things’

FT, here. 

Google releases open-source tool to assist in secure data sharing

iapp, here. 

Méga alliance belge pour contrer les Gafa

L'Echo, ici. 

Surveillance Capitalism

Exponential View, Podcast here (on Google Podcasts).

The “Too Big to Fail” Problem

S. Omarova, here. 

Post-M&A Synergies and Changes in Development Trajectory of Pharmaceutical Firm

H. Meder, here. 

Adtech industry operating illegally, rules UK regulator

FT, here.

Four big questions facing Facebook’s Libra coin

FT, here. 

Facebook's Libra will not help the unbanked

FT, here. 

Danish DPA approves Automated Facial Recognition

EDRi, here. 

Japan's antitrust law amended to encourage companies under investigation to cooperate with FTC

Japan Times, here. 

Facebook-Weltwährung: Geht's noch?

Finews.ch, hier. 

Alipay's AI wealth tech platform adopted by six out of ten China's asset managers

FinExtra, here. 

Should’ve Stayed in Vegas

Your Undivided Attention Podcast, here.

Update report into adtech and real time bidding

ICO, here. 

The EU wants to create 10 million smart lampposts

WEF, here. 

Platforms and Blockchain Will Transform Logistics

S. Choudary, M. Van Alstyne, G. Parker, here. 

Facebook’s Libra: blockchain, but without the blocks or chain

FT, here (do not miss the comments ;-)).

To Take Down Big Tech, They First Need to Reinvent the Law

NYTimes, here. 

GC: Adidas

T-307/17, here. 

Green light to the Digital Markets Unit

‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I.

NYTimes, here. 

Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Libra: Not to be Confused with Libre

Privacy International, here.

Technological change shapes markets in ways participants do not expect

P. Roscoe, here. 

Some tweets on Facebook's Libra

O. Havrylchyk, here. 

Termination of Legacy Antitrust Judgments

DoJ, here.

Major publisher group DCN tells regulators “the sky won’t fall” if RTB switches to safe, non-personal data.

Brave, here. 

What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising?

NYTimes, here. 

IBM to win unconditional EU okay for $34 billion Red Hat deal: sources

Reuters, here. 

Consultation on Open Banking designation instrument (second round)

AU Government, here. 

Dealing with mergers in a digital age

M. Vestager, here. 

Facebook’s Undemocratic Currency

M. Stoller, here. 

Facebook’s cryptocurrency has a trust problem

The Verge, here. 

Facebook’s Libra: Three things we don’t know about the digital currency

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Sorry, Mr. Delrahim: Big Tech’s Worst Abuses Can’t Be Cured Without Stiffer Regulation

H. Singer, here. 

Activists Urge Google to Break Up Before Regulators Force It To

NYTimes, here. 

Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know

TechCrunch, here. 

Regulation through “bricking”: private ordering in the “Internet of Things”

N. Tusikov, here. 

Are eIDAS certificates sufficient for PSD2 Open Banking?

FinExtra, here. 

Braucht es mehr materielles Kartellrecht für digitale Plattformen?

S. Louven, hier.

Google will start attributing lyrics in its search results to their third-party providers

TechCrunch, here. 

Market Design for a Blockchain-Based Financial System

C. Catalini, R. Jagadeesan, S. Kominers, here. 

UN makes ‘declaration of digital interdependence’, with release of tech report

UN News, here. 

Cofece bloqueó la compra de Cornershop porque Walmart habría podido utilizar datos de minoristas rivales

El Economista, aquì. 

Alphaville's Libra cheat sheet

FT, here. 

Control de operaciones de concentración en plataformas digitales: qué dice el reporte externo encargado por la CMA británica

FN.cl, aquì. 

Why we joined the Libra Association

J. Gans, here. 

How a Dispute Over Rap Lyrics Illustrates That Google Has Too Much Power

Slate, here. 

WIPO Director General Gurry on AI and IP

WIPO, here. 

What a Facebook breakup would mean for investors

Yahoo Finance, here. 

Suppliers of antidepressants accused of illegal anti-competitive conduct

CMA, here. 

GAFAM : le déclin de l’empire américain ?

April, here. 

Facebook, Google brace for the release of Australia’s ground-breaking digital platforms report

MLex Podcast, here. 

ONE YEAR UNDER THE EU GDPR

AccessNow, here. 

Bitcoin Antitrust

Didyouknowcrypto, here. 

Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings

TechCrunch, here. 

Market disruptors' impact on the future of blockchain

Deloitte, here. 

THE SEPARATION OF PLATFORMS AND COMMERCE

L. Khan, here. 

Google allegedly used stolen Genius lyrics, caught through Morse code trick

AndroidPolice, here. 

Banks accused of overcharging small customers for forex services

FT, here. 

The Common Ownership Boom - Or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love Antitrust

A. Tzanaki, here. 

Potential for Discrimination in Online Targeted Advertising

T. Speicher et al, here. 

The truth behind the dumbest GDPR myths, one year later

Wired, here. 

Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman: "15 years battling Google"

Danny in the Valley, Podcast here. 

Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics

G. Akerlof, here. 

Here’s Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends report

TechCrunch, here. 

Bons et mauvais Chinois

Le Monde, ici. 

Amazon seeks to revive its faltering loans business

FT, here. 

AI: inhuman after all?

Spiked, here. 

Google Stadia has kicked off a new age of gaming data harvesting

Wired, here. 

Face aux GAFA

E. Combe.

Hotel Site Accuses Booking, Expedia of EU Antitrust Breaches

Bloomberg, here. 

Tech and Antitrust

Stratechery, here. 

Anger at Big Tech Unites Noodle Pullers and Code Writers. Washington Is All Ears

New York Times, here. 

Why Salesforce's Tableau Buy Might Be A Blunder

Forbes, here. 

Antitrust Probe Starts Today With Focus On Big Tech's Profits From News

Forbes, here. 

Warren Demands DOJ Antitrust Head Recuse Himself From Google, Apple Probes

Bloomberg, here. 

Datenökonomie

bpb, APUZ, hier. 

Kartellrecht in der Datenökonomie

R. Podszun, hier. 

Jeux vidéo : Ubisoft fait le pari de la blockchain

Les Echos, ici. 

Huawei's operating system in pipeline

China Daily, here. 

Revolut dials up Apple Pay

FinExtra, here. 

Thermo Fisher scraps Roper deal after U.K. antitrust hurdle

Reuters, here. 

Microsoft President Says 'Hipster Antitrust' Is Coming

Fortune, here.
Antitrust: Video, from 18:47.

General Principles of Law in EU Antitrust Law

M. Hjärtström, J. Nowag, here. 

By calling Huawei Android fork a security risk, Google contradicts its own open source arguments

Venture Beat, here. 

Account information now in Rabobank's PSD2 store

FinExtra, here. 

No License, No Chips? No Dice: Dissecting Judge Koh's Opinion in FTC v. Qualcomm

Washington Bytes, here.