Friday, May 19, 2017

Data protection impact assessments in the European Union: complementing the new legal framework towards a more robust protection of individuals


d.pia.lab, here.

Just Eat and Hungryhouse merger faces competition probe

BBC News, here

The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

D. Autor, D. Dorn,  L. Katz, C. Patterson, MIT J. Van Reenen, here

This is the age of the Microsoft and Amazon economy

FT, here

Bundestag beschließt halbgares Open-Data-Gesetz

Heise.de, hier

Traité de Marrakech : l'injuste compensation financière pour les oeuvres adaptées

ActuaLitté, ici

Hayek Meets Information Theory. And Fails.

Evonomics, here.

Google says it is ‘rethinking all our products’ for the AI age

FT, here and here

Facebook/WhatsApp merger: BEUC welcomes fine but regrets failure to tackle consumer data concerns

BEUC, here

Merger enforcement: getting the priorities right

C. Esteva Mosso. here

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The Belgian Privacy Commission publishes new recommendation relating to the processing of personal data by Facebook through cookies, social plug-ins and pixels

PrivacyCommission.be, here

The Path To Weakening Antitrust Policy

A. Gavil, here

New EU Regulations Could Limit Apple's Control Of The App Store

IBTimes, here

Sanction pécuniaire (franchement ridicule) à l'encontre de Facebook

CNIL, Délibération, ici.
A lire aussi ici.

DeepMind's Access to U.K. Health Data Deemed `Inappropriate'

Bloomberg Technology, here

The volatility of tech stocks has fallen below the volatility of utility stocks

ATimes, here

Dieser Plan soll die Macht der Superkonzerne zügeln

SZ, hier.
Vorschlag hier

Dutch data protection authority: Facebook violates privacy law

Autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl, here

Monday, May 15, 2017

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

Thursday, May 04, 2017

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.

Monday, May 01, 2017

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

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

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.

Monday, April 24, 2017

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

Truyes (Indre-et-Loire), 1433 électeurs: 0% d'abstention


How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All

The Atlantic, here.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

How Technology Has Failed to Improve Your Airline Experience

NYTimes, here.

Siae, aperta istruttoria per presunte condotte escludenti nella gestione e intermediazione dei diritti d’autore

AGCM, qui

Where does all that data go?

LINC, here

Europe vs Silicon Valley: behind enemy lines with the woman deciding Google's fate

Wired, here

The Ostroms and Hayek as Theorists of Complex Adaptive Systems: Commonality and Complementarity

P. Lewis, here

Strengthening confidence in the digital world

G20 Consumer Summit, here

New ways of providing consent in data protection - technical, legal and economic challenges

Stiftung Datenschutz, here

AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning

L. Daly, here

AG Wahl: agricultural producer organisations and their associations may be held liable under competition law

Case C-671/15, Opinion here

Customer Sues Charter For Selling Their Data Without Consent

Consumerist, here

Two Artificial Neural Networks Meet in an Online Hub and Change the Future (of Competition, Market Dynamics and Society)

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here