Facebook just acquired TBH, the anonymous app popular with high school kids

Recode, here. 

Disney Fights Unlicensed 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Characters at Children's Birthday Parties

HollywoodReporter, here. 

Dear Google, You Could Start Fixing Content ID By Taking Down Dozens Of YouTube Videos On How To Defeat It

Hypebot.com, here. 

Access to In-vehicle Data and Resources

EC, here.

Automatic image retouching on your phone

MIT, here, 

Setting innovation free

M. Vestager, here. 

Google ditches Home Mini's top-touch panel feature after privacy blunder

ZDNet, here. 

Gericht verurteilt Tapetenhersteller zu Millionenbußen

Zeit.de, hier. . 

CMA provisionally clears Just Eat / Hungryhouse merger

CMA, here. 

Democratic Rep. Seeks Google Info From FTC

Broadcastingcable, here. 

Kartell-Bedenken gegen Fusion von T-Mobile US und Sprint

FAZ, hier.

Death and taxes

The Bookseller, here.

Slovenia signs the European declaration on high-performance computing

EC, here.

Concerns raised about privacy, GDPR as Lords peer over Data Protection Bill

The Register, here.

OTAs dominate the Chinese travel market with over 70% digital bookings

ChinaTravelNews, here.

Data Governance Regimes in the Digital Economy: The Example of Connected Cars

W. Kerber and J. Severin Frank, here.

For internet gatekeepers, consumer protection laws are better than utility-style regulation

Brookings, here. 

How Companies Use Personal Data Against People

W. Christl, here. 

Richard Thaler is a controversial Nobel prize winner – but a deserving one

R. Shiller, here. 

Exploring Copyright: History, Culture, Industry

FutureLearn, here. 

As Netflix raises prices, Hulu drops them—and acquires all its old favorites

Quartz, here. 

UK Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee

Submitted written evidence, here. 

Amazons größter Konkurrent investiert 15 Milliarden Dollar in Forschung

FAZ, hier. 

Google’s Home Mini needed a software patch to stop some of them from recording everything

TheVerge, here. 

What the proposed new EU rules on free flow of non-personal data could mean for businesses

ComputerWorld, here. 

Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality

M. Lemley, E. Volokh, here. 

Was Handydaten über die Psyche sagen

MorgenPost, hier. 

The Dynamics of Online Hotel Prices and the EU Booking.Com Case

A. Mantovani, C. Piga, C. Reggiani, here. 

Real Talk About Fake News: Towards a Better Theory for Platform Governance

N. Syed, here. 

Competencia estudia si las editoriales se repartieron el mercado de los libros de texto

ElDiario, aquì.

Celebrating Wavesblog!

Nike t. Action Sport

RECHTBANK AMSTERDAM, C/13/615474 / HA ZA 16-959, hier.

Yandex introduces Alice, a Alexa-like assistant that speaks Russian

TechCrunch, here.

Strengthening the Position of Press Publishers and Authors and Performers in the Copyright Directive

L. Bently, M. Kretschmer, T. Dudenbostel ,M. del Carmen Calatrava Moreno, A. Radauer for the EP, here.

Merger effects on innovation: A rationale for stricter merger control?

J. Haucap, here.

EU competition law in innovation and digital markets: fairness and the consumer welfare perspective

J. Laitenberger,  here.

I fixed my poor credit score by being a more loyal Alibaba consumer

Quartz, here.

The State of Data Innovation in the EU

Center for Data Innovation, here.

A Union of Equals: competition and growth throughout the EU

M. Vestager, here.

Big Data and Competition

Ecorys, here.

The PSD2 RTS and Open Banking in the EU

PPRO, here.

Tech’s fight for the upper hand on open data

Ft, here.

Euromyths A-Z index

EC, here.

Game Changers? A review of Next Generation Intermediary Services for Citizens Advice

R. Bates, here.

NEW THEORY CRACKS OPEN THE BLACK BOX OF DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS

Wired, here.

Die große E-Book-Enttäuschung

FAZ, hier.

Big Data und Wettbewerb

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

RICHARD H. THALER: INTEGRATING ECONOMICS WITH PSYCHOLOGY

THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, here.
Read also here. Watch him here.
9 October: #nudgeday

Beschränkung von Innovation: Kann das ein SIEC sein?

R. Podszun, hier.

Summary report of the public consultation on the evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases

EC, here.

Hashtag trademarks: what can be protected?

WIPO, here.

EU raids Polish and Dutch banking groups over fintech access to customer data

FT, here.

3D Printing: a threat to global trade

Ing, here.

Protect faith in privatised monopolies with tougher regulation

FT, here.

Let’s take back control of our data – it’s too precious to leave to the tech giants

R. Naik, here.

Vernetzte Autos: Erbitterter Kampf um die Daten

Digital-Fairplay, hier.

Règlement européen sur la protection des données : un guide pour accompagner les sous-traitants

CNIL, ici.

Patenting the Output of Autonomously Inventive Machines

R. Abbott, here.

How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Problem

A. Levendowski, here.

Algorithmic Pricing Agents and Tacit Collusion: A Technological Perspective

A. Ittoo, N. Petit, here.

Amateurs

K. Boudreau, here.

Vivrons-nous demain au moyen-âge ?

LINC, ici.

CMA issues strong warning as information sharing fine is upheld

CMa, here.

Virginie Rozière : « Sur le géoblocage, la Commission a compris que musique et livres sont une ligne rouge pour les États »

Contexte Numérique, ici.

L'AI, intelligence artificielle, va bouleverser le monde de la création graphique, motion, art -

Kob-one, ici.

Liens hypertextes : la justice allemande en rébellion contre la CJUE

Droit-technologie, ici.

Un accord entre Google et l'ALPA pour un meilleur respect du droit d'auteur

Zebulon.fr, here.

Was sagt der BGH zur Linkhaftung im Urheberrecht?

SpiritLegal, hier. 

Ce qui va changer pour les avis de clients sur Internet en 2018

Numerama, ici. 

Why Behavioral Economics Is Really Marketing Science

Evonomics, here. 

Apple trapped me on iOS — perhaps forever

Mashable, here. 

EDPS recommendations on specific aspects of the proposed ePrivacy Regulation

Here. 

Netflix Increases Price 10% for Its Most Popular U.S. Plan

Bloomberg, here. 

Mattel has canceled plans for a kid-focused AI device that drew privacy concerns

The Washington Post, here. 

Algorithmic regulation: A critical interrogation

K. Yeung, here. 

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Call for contributions: study on detection and take-down of illegal content

EC, here. 

Innovationen – Herausforderungen für die Kartellrechtspraxis

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Google Invites Competitors. They Fail to Show Up.

Bloomberg, here. 

Tenth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy: Conference Summary

TAP, here.

Regulating big data. The guidelines of the Council of Europe in the context of the European data protection framework

A. Mantelero, here.

IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency

Fee.org, here.

The Google comparative shopping case

Clifford Chance, here.

Information Technology and Industry Concentration

J. Bessen, here.

High Court asks European Court of Justice to examine Facebook case

The Irish Times, here.
Executive summary by the Court here. See also here.

Artificial intelligence and copyright

A. Guadamuz, here.

Here’s the due diligence report Alphabet wants to use in its lawsuit against Uber

Recode, here.

The Information Economy Report 2017: Digitalization, Trade and Development

UNCTAD, here.

Users must own their love lives

TheGuardian, here.

Privacy, Poverty, and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans

M. MADDEN, M. GILMAN, K. Levy, A.  MARWICK, here.

Competition law case studies

CMA, here.

In AI We Trust?

U. Gasser, here.

Mergers Are Bad for Innovation, Says Tommaso

ProMarket, here.

EU legal mechanism may help expose how Big Data firms get their information

The Guardian, here.

EC fines Lithuanian Railways €28 million for hindering competition on rail freight market

Press Release, here.

For everyone to benefit from technology, we need to ensure the free flow of information

J. Brill, here.

Service public de la donnée: les données du cadastre sont maintenant disponibles sur data.gouv.fr

Etalab, ici.

Striking the right balance in the enforcement of competition rules

J. Laitenberger, here.

EU pressures internet giants to remove illegal content sooner

Reuters, here. See also here.

Why Monetize Information?

D. Laney, here.