Consumers Are Losing Confidence In Data Privacy, Healthcare, Car Safety

NationalMemo, here. 

SANZIONE DA 3 MILIONI DI EURO PER WHATSAPP, HA INDOTTO GLI UTENTI A CONDIVIDERE I LORO DATI CON FACEBOOK

Provvedimento qui. 

BEUC applies to join Google Android and Facebook/WhatsApp competition investigations

Press Release, here. 

EC opens formal investigation into Aspen Pharma's pricing practices for cancer medicines

Press Release, here. 

Google makes changes to AdSense in a bid to increase transparency for website publishers

TechCrunch, here. 

HERE’S WHY ALGORITHMS ARE NOT (REALLY) A THING

T. Schrepel, here. 

Why Amazon is eating the world

TechCrunch, here. 

There is a conversation in the US about whether antitrust law should be rethought

FT, here. 

Sorry, Dave, I can't code that: AI's prejudice problem

TheRegister, here. 

Designer l'absence

V. Duchatelle, ici. 

Big Data and Competition Law

Concurrences.com, here. 

Privacy in Automation: An Appraisal of the Emerging Australian Approach

A. Daly, here. 

“Be Careful; Things Can Be Worse Than They Appear” — Understanding Biased Algorithms and Users’ Behavior Around Them in Rating Platforms

M. Eslami, K. Vaccaro, K. Karahalios, K. Hamilton, here. 

E-commerce Sector Inquiry Final Report Heralds Renewed Enforcement by the Commission

Cooley, here. 

CÓDIGO DE BUENAS PRÁCTICAS EN PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS PARA PROYECTOS BIG DATA

AEPD y ISMS Forum Spain, here. 

Automated Machine Learning — A Paradigm Shift That Accelerates Data Scientist Productivity @ Airbnb

Airbnb, here. 

The Uber electronic platform, whilst innovative, falls within the field of transport

AG, Case C-434/15, here. 

EC publishes final report on e-commerce sector inquiry

Press Release, here.
Final Report here; Staff Working Document here. 

EU to tackle complaints over tech companies' unfair practices

Reuters, here.
EC here. 

Will Siri Ever Outsmart Us?

Decrypted, Audio here. 

Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm

WSJ, here. 

Transcript of Antitrust Conference Call with Professor Mark Patterson, Author of Antitrust Law in the New Economy: Google, Yelp, LIBOR, and The Control of Information

The Capitol Forum, here.

Spotify, others file EU complaint over Apple and Google app store practices

AppleInsider, here. 

Deutschland AG gegen Silicon Valley

FAZ, hier. 

This could be Amazon’s Echo with a built-in display

TechCrunch, here. 

How Much Money are Drivers Losing from Upfront Pricing?

Therideshareguy, here. 

Macht van Google is groot, maar wettelijk niet verboden

Nrc.nl, hier. 

Amazon Echo Look : et si vos vêtements étaient vos données personnelles les plus intimes ?

Numérama, ici. 

European Data Market: Final Report

IDC for the EC, here. 

The Dark Age of Connectionism

Video here. See also here. 

The Industrial Internet and the Industrial Internet of Things

I-scoop.eu, here. 

WTO ruling could light the way to a tobacco-free future

M. Rimmer, here. See also here.

The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules

TheEconomist, here.

Algorithms and Markets: Virtual or Virtuous Competition?"

90th GCLC Lunch Talk, Slides here. 

Price-bots can collude against consumers

TheEconomist, here.

Data is giving rise to a new economy

TheEconomist, here.

The state of privacy 2017: mid-mandate report

G. Buttarelli, here.

New Seattle cable rule to protect internet data privacy

SeattleTimes, here.

EDPS Annual Report 2016

Here. 

The many dividends of keeping markets open, fair and contestable

J. Laitenberger, here.

Sektoruntersuchung Submetering

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

EC accepts commitments from Amazon on e-books

Press Release, here.

L’Antitrust si schiera con Uber Taxi in rivolta: «Vergognoso»

Corriere.it, qui.

Le père de Siri et celui de M for Messenger dézinguent la hype autour de l'intelligence artificielle

L'usine digitale, ici.

Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms

NYTimes, here.
Justice Roberts on tech and the law, Video here (at 10:34).

I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads

TheGuardian, here.

Summary of Discussion of the OECD Hearing on Big Data

OECD Secretariat, here.

La libre circulation des données

CNNumérique, Avis ici.

Online competition and online search

Findings from qualitative research prepared for the CMA, here.

The market for vital information is not merely a market

J. Zittrain, here.

Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments

TechCrunch, here.

Amid Brick-and-Mortar Travails, a Tipping Point for Amazon in Apparel

NYTimes, here.

Un logiciel pour aider les juges à décider

LeParisien, ici.

Social and Ethical Behavior in the Internet of Things

F. Berman, V. Cerf, here.

Facebook helped advertisers target teens who feel “worthless”

ArsTechnica, here.

Uber, les gouvernances fantômes

Internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr, ici. 

The mind in the machine: Demis Hassabis on artificial intelligence

FT, here. 

What You Need to Know Before Starting a Platform Business

Interview with R. Schmalensee and D. Evans, here and here.

Artificial Intelligence Pushes the Antitrust Envelope

BNA, here. 

The Risks of Businesses Learning How Consumers Think

C. Sunstein, here. 

Algorithmic accountability

TechCrunch, here

Google Assistant bekommt ein SDK

Heise.de, here.

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

F. Marty, ici. 

How Your Digital Helper May Undermine Your Welfare, and Our Democracy

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

Fehlender Hinweis auf die Provisionspflicht der im Preisvergleich berücksichtigten Anbieter: Verstoß gegen § 5a Abs. 2 UWG

Bundesgerichtshof, hier.

"Die Information muss so erteilt werden, dass der Verbraucher sie zur Kenntnis nehmen kann. Ein Hinweis auf der Geschäftskundenseite des Internetportals reicht hierfür nicht aus."

EC welcomes Court of Justice ruling on South European bananas cartel appeal

Press Release, here.

Pour la CNIL, "la France doit garder la souveraineté de ses données scolaires"

Letudiant.fr, ici. 

Competition at the digital frontier

J. Laitenberger, here. 

For World 'Intellectual Property' Day, A Reading From Thomas Macaulay (1841)

TechDirt, here. 

Privacy-Related Worries Are Keeping Users From Using E-Commerce, Survey At UNCTAD Finds

IP-watch, here. 

Amazon Wants to Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom

Motherboard, here.

Can Amazon's AI Fashionista beat the best HI Fashionista (here)? 

Lawmakers Seek Stronger Monitoring of Racial Disparities in Car Insurance Premiums

ProPublica, here.

Addressing Competition Challenges in Financial Markets

OECD Secretariat, here.

CJEU Judgment on Multimedia Player and Copyright Breaches

SCL, here.

European Commission, experts uneasy over WP29 data portability interpretation

IAPP, here.

Who Wouldn’t Want a Digital Butler?

A.Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

The Sharing Economy Meets the Sherman Act: Is Uber a Firm, a Cartel, or Something in Between?

M. Anderson, M. Huffman, here. 

Mylan Tried to ‘Squelch’ EpiPen Rival, Sanofi Says in Lawsuit

Bloomberg, here. 

Hell: Gonzales v. Uber

Gonzales v. Uber Technologies Inc., 17-cv-02264, here.

Swedish Carriers Raided by EU Over Anti-Competition Concerns

Bloomberg, here.

Microsoft's Nadella banks on LinkedIn data to challenge Salesforce

Reuters, here. 

Machine learning: the power and promise of computers that learn by example

The Royal Society, here.

Facebook kommt vorerst nicht an Whatsapp-Daten

FAZ, hier.

Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?

NYTimes, here. 

EDPS Opinion on the Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications (ePrivacy Regulation)

EDPS, here. 

Tech companies need to move less fast and break fewer things

Wired, here.

Interview with Professors Eleanor Fox and William Kovacic

Antitrust, here. 

The evidence is piling up — Silicon Valley is being destroyed

BusinessInsider, here. 

It’s This Easy To Look Inside An Algorithm

Fastcodesign, here. 

'The Handmaid's Tale' And Surveillance: Silicon Valley Acts As Trump's Eyes, Whether Willing Or Not

Forbes, here. 

WIPO Cybersquatting Cases Hit Record in 2016, Driven by New Top-Level Domain Names

Press Release, here. 

Uber broke Apple’s iOS privacy rules and Tim Cook wasn't happy about it

TheGuardian, here. 

Three Hard Lessons the Internet Is Teaching Traditional Stores

WSJ, here.

Complex Antitrust Harm in Platform Markets

J. Newman, here. 

Machine intelligence is the future of monetization for Facebook

TechCrunch, here. 

Fan-made subtitles for TV shows and movies are illegal, court rules

ArsTechnica, here. 

Should Antitrust Regulators Stop Companies from Collecting So Much Data?

HBR, here. 

Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

HBR, here. 

From publishers to self-publishing: The disruptive effects of digitalisation on the book industry

M. Hviid, S. Jacques, S. Izquierdo Sanchez, here. 

Algorithmic Decision-Making and Human Rights

HRSEssex, here.