Proposed Italian consumer protection law unlikely to have any effect on Apple's iPhone sales

AppleInsider, here.

Google Shopping: Die Schweizer sind frohe Trittbrettfahrer

TagesAnzeiger, hier. 

Oversight of use of open source code crucial as GDPR approaches, says industry expert

Out-Law.com, here. 

Real reform must follow ruling on flawed NHS-DeepMind data deal

H. Hodson, here. 

New EU court blow for Uber over French taxi case

Reuters, here. 

BIG DATA AND ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT

G. Pitruzzella, here. 

Dateneigentum der Bürger

K.-H. Fezer, hier. 

Kein Eigentumsrecht an Daten?

Identity-economy.de, hier. 

Produktlebensdauer: EU-Parlament gegen "Software-Obsoleszenz"

Heise.de, hier.

Exceptions and limitations to copyright

European Audiovisual Observatory, here.

To tackle Google’s power, regulators have to go after its ownership of data

E. Morozov, here. 

Will Amazon-Whole Foods Survive Antitrust Scrutiny Under Trump?

Forbes, here. 

Europe’s Geo-Blocking Debate: Booksellers on the Ropes

PublishingPerspectives, here. 

Off-Topic: Bill Clinton at the Helmut Kohl Memorial in Strasbourg

Video, here.
"He loved being an European"

Jetzt will Maas an die Algorithmen

Spiegel.de, hier.

Royal Free - Google DeepMind trial failed to comply with data protection law

ICO, here.

A Way to Own Your Social-Media Data

L. Zingales, G. Rolnik, here. 

Yelp’s Six-Year Grudge Against Google

NYTimes, here. 

The EU’s Google Decision: Algorithms Are Hard

M. Patterson, here. 

EU considers tough new competition powers

FT, here. 

UK urged to clarify data rules from connected cars

FT, here. 

Korea’s FTC may look at Google antitrust practices

Koreajoongangdaily.joins.com, here.

Big Tech is cut off from the real world

FT, here. 

Protecting IP in the Blockchain Sector

S. Jalfin, here.

Die höchste Strafe in der Geschichte des EU Kartellrechts: Was bedeutet der Fall...

T. Duso und H. Ullrich, hier. 

Urheberrecht für Wissenschaft und Bildung: Bundestag beschließt Reformen

iRightsInfo, hier. 

How we’re using behavioural insights to give better energy advice

Citizens Advice, here. 

Germany approves plans to fine social media firms up to €50m

TheGuardian, here. 

Internet of Humans - How we would like the internet of the future to be

R. Viola, here. 

Some reactions to the European Commission’s decision on Google Shopping

CEPIC, here. 

Was Sie über das Gesetz gegen Hass im Internet wissen müssen

FAZ, hier. 

Wer zahlt für das Schienenkartell?

FAZ, hier. 

Google v. Equustek: Unnecessarily Hard Cases Make Unnecessarily Bad Law

A. Katz, here. 

How AI will make smartphones much smarter

VentureBeat, here. 

What Amazon really wants from Whole Foods is data about you

DallasNews, here. 

India and the Visible Hand of the Market

K. Basu, here. 

What's wrong with the Copyright Office's DRM study?

BoingBoing, here. 

Quand Heineken achète tes data pour personnaliser ta bière

L'ADN, ici. 

Recent Trends in International Antitrust Enforcement

Judiciary Committee, here (live streaming).

Google ein „Leuchtturmfall“

Welt.de, hier.

Windows 10 : clôture de la procédure de mise en demeure à l’encontre de MICROSOFT CORPORATION

CNIL, ici.

GDPR : les actions indispensables de conformité

T. Devergranne, ici.

Connected Cars

M. Ohlhausen, here.

Worldwide de-indexing order against Google upheld by Supreme Court of Canada

B. Sookman, here.

The Google Case: First Comments by Haucap, Kersting, Podszun

D-Kart.de, here.

CMA accepts commitments offered to address online auction concerns

CMA, here.

Preisvorgaben: Kartellamt weist Beschwerde gegen McDonald’s zurück

Mobil.cafe-future, hier.

Antitrust Worries? Amazon Hires Former Justice Department Experts For Whole Foods Deal

IBTimes, here. 

Data, algorithms, and EU competition law

C. Ritter, Presentation here. 

OMINOUS: CANADIAN COURT ORDERS GOOGLE TO REMOVE SEARCH RESULTS GLOBALLY

D. Keller, here. 

How Margrethe Vestager went after Google

Politico.eu, here. 

Google Faces Record Fine for Monopolistic Search Practices

EPIC, here. 

Merkel - Digitalwirtschaft erfordert neues Kartellrecht

Reuters.de, hier. 

Learning Analytics : quelles sont les données du problème ?

LINC, ici. 

Google case shows how Europe is still playing catch-up

FT, here. 

Amazon Starts Charm Offensive as Merchants Defect to Wal-Mart

Bloomberg, here.

Three Thoughts On EU's $2.7 Billion Antitrust Google Fine

M. Masnick, here.

Google must block websites of company accused of stealing another business’s trade secrets: Supreme Court

TorontoStar, here.

Channel 4 on Google Shopping

Video here.

The internet of things: industry’s digital revolution

FT, here (and here).

Why Europe got tough on Google but the U.S. couldn’t

Washington Post, here. 

State aid and fair competition worldwide

M. Vestager, here. 

Competition Commission finds that online shopping platform violates Competition Act (Pakistan)

Vellani&Vellani, here. 

Consumer Watchdog Calls on U.S. Antitrust Authorities to Act Against Google’s Anti-Competitive Practices After European Commission Hits Internet Giant with Record $2.7 Billion Antitrust Fine

ConsumerWatchdog, here. 

Regulation of Big Data: Perspectives on Strategy, Policy, Law and Privacy

P. Casanova, L. de Koker, D. Mendelson, D. Watts, here. 

Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children

ProPublica, here. 

European authorities fine Google for search tactics

Freedom to Tinker, here. 

CCI dismisses allegation of abuse of dominance against WhatsApp

ILO, here. 

Ends, Means, and Antitrust

Stratechery, here.

Datenschutzgrundverordnung: Böses Erwachen der Domainverwaltung ICANN

Heise.de, hier. 

How Weak Mobile Health App Privacy, Security Affects Patients

Healthitsecurity.com, here. 

U.S. antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm to proceed, judge rules

Reuters, here. 

Initial Reactions to the Infringement Decision in Google Search

P. Akman, here. 

These are the next industries that will go the way of taxis and hotels

MarketWatch, here. 

How data is set to replace people behind the wheel in driverless cars

TheHill, here. 

The EU isn't splitting up Google. But it is sending a message

Wired, here. 

Google Shopping Decision- First Urgent Comments

A. La Madrid, here. 

AI and the Law: Setting the Stage

U. Gasser, here.

Law for the Platform Economy

J. Cohen, here.

Margrethe Vestager’s Google decision risks messy endgame

Politico.eu, here.

IBM is telling Congress not to fear the rise of an AI ‘overlord’

Recode, here.

L’obsolescence programmée, l’autre virus du secteur IT

GreenPeace, here.

Washington lobbyists pushed anti-EU letter ahead of Google decision

Politico.eu, here.

Amtsgericht: Weitergabe von Kontaktdaten an WhatsApp unzulässig

FAZ, hier.

Canadian Supreme Court Doesn't Like Facebook Clickwrap in Big Privacy Suit

Hollywood.com, here.

The European Commission decision on online shopping: the other side of the story

Google, here.

Commission fines Google €2.42 billion for abusing dominance as search engine by giving illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service

Press release, here.
Commissioner Vestager's statement here. 

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder gegen Hersteller von Industriebatterien in Höhe von insgesamt rd. 28 Mio. Euro

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Amazon Robots Poised to Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses

Bloomberg, here.

Yelp, Oracle and News Corp have signed a letter supporting EU action against Google

Recode, here.

Algorithms and Collusion – the debate by the OECD Competition Committee

Cms-lawnow.com, here. 

Autodesk Generative Design takes in constraints and makes its own 3D models

TechCrunch, here. 

South Korea: KFTC reviews Google and Facebook’s market dominance

CPI, here. 

Google to Face EU Antitrust Fine as Soon as Tuesday

Bloomberg, here.
Press conference at 12 pm CET: confirmed. Watch it live, here.

From @WavesBlog's archive:
Brussels, 30 November 2010
Commission probes allegations of antitrust violations by Google, here.

On likely mood beyond the pond here.

EU tests limits of drug pricing freedom in landmark probe

Reuters, here.

The Massive Data Collection by Facebook – Visualized

DataEthics, here.

"Wurstlücke“ – Weitere Bußgelder in Höhe von rund 110 Mio. Euro entfallen in Folge von unternehmensinternen Umstrukturierungen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Mydex, data protection, privacy online and, of course, social enterprise.

Kibble, Podcast here. 

PRIVACY, PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND REPUTATION RIGHTS

UNICEF, here. 

The great intellectual property trade-off

T. Harford, here.