Thursday, October 19, 2017

Le Parlement européen échoue à protéger notre vie privée

La Quadrature du Net, ici.

Songkick To Shut Down, Continue Legal Battle With Ticketmaster/Live Nation

Liveformusic, here.

One simple chart shows why Facebook just bought an anonymous chat app for teens

BusinessInsider, here.

Compromise ePrivacy Regulation text as adopted today in EU Parliament LIBe committee.

ePrivacy – An Outlook on a New Framework

M. Lauristin, here

AI​ ​Now​ ​2017​ ​Report

Here

Kemira reached a settlement with CDC in the damage claim litigation in Dortmund related to hydrogen peroxide business in 1994-2000

Kemira, here

The Recommendation on Measures to Safeguard Fundamental Rights and the Open Internet in the Framework of the EU Copyright Reform

Martin Senftleben,a Christina Angelopoulos,b Gianfranco Frosio,c Valentina Moscon,d Miquel Peguera,e Ole-Andreas Rognstad, here

Why Surge Prices Make Us So Mad: What Springsteen, Home Depot and a Nobel Winner Know

NYTimes, here

EU-Copyright-Reform: Einschränkung von Text- und Data-Mining droht

Heise, hier

Enslaving the Algorithm: From a ‘Right to an Explanation’ to a ‘Right to Better Decisions’?

L. Edwards, M. Veale, here

ACCC welcomes new era in competition law

ACCC, here

Competition through interoperability

C. Riley, here

Hollywood Confronts a Copyright Argument With Potential for Mass Disruption

HollywoodReporter, here

EU-Urheberrechtsreform: Streit über Upload-Filter und Grundrechte

iRights, hier

Trump Picks Joseph Simons, Corporate Antitrust Lawyer, to Lead F.T.C

NYTimes, here

Intelligence artificielle : toujours plus puissant, AlphaGo apprend désormais sans données humaines

Le Monde, ici

Like Uber, for socialism: Chinese leader calls for more use of AI, big data and sharing economy

TheRegister, here

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Der Bundeskartellamt-Chef erklärt, wie er sich gegen Amazon, Facebook & Co. durchsetzen will

BusinessInsider, hier.

Tapetenkartell: Gericht erhöht Bußgelder für Mandanten von Hengeler und Gibson Dunn

Juve, hier.

Competition, Innovation, and Competition Law: Dissecting the Interplay

W. Kerber, here.

Véhicules connectés : un pack de conformité pour une utilisation responsable des données

CNIL, ici

Taiwan targets Google on Android

GCR, here

Qualcomm hit with $773 million fine in Taiwan for antitrust violations

AndroidAuthority, here

Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK

W. Hall and Jérôme Pesenti for the UK  Business Secretary and Culture Secretary, here

Guidelines on Personal data breach notification under Regulation 2016/679

WP29, here

Guidelines on automated individual decision-making and profiling for the purposes of Regulation 2016/679

WP29, here

How Can We Reveal Bias in Computer Algorithms?

Theregreview, here

Spotify launches an app for artists with real-time streaming data, audience demographics

TechCrunch, here

Big Data and Canadian Competition Policy

D. Sokol, here

IMPLEMENTING THE MARRAKESH TREATY IN EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES: A GUIDE FOR LIBRARIES

IFLA, EBLIDA here.

Droits d'auteur, une directive contre productive?

France Culture, ici

Dow/Dupont

EU CASE M.7932, here

Major Studios, Streamers Declare Legal War on TickBox

Hollywood Reporter, here

German researchers resign from Elsevier journals in push for nationwide open access

ScienceMag, here

Vermeer was brilliant, but he was not without influences

The Economist, here (and here). 

Qualcomm Seeks China iPhone Ban, Expanding Apple Legal Fight

Bloomberg, here

American Express Fee Accusations Get U.S.Supreme Court Hearing

Bloomberg, here

Supreme Court entscheidet über die Zukunft der Cloud

Zeit.de, hier

Privacy is a competitive advantage

FT, here

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

Thursday, October 12, 2017

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.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

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.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

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.

Monday, October 09, 2017

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.

Saturday, October 07, 2017

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.

Tuesday, October 03, 2017

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.

Monday, October 02, 2017

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.

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Google makes changes amid wider antitrust fire

Politico.eu, here.

S.E.C. Hacking Response Provides Road Map for Compromised Companie

NYTimes, here.

Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show

The Verge,.here.

Getting your data out of Tinder is really hard – but it shouldn't be

P.-O. Dehaye, here.

Commission fines Scania €880 million for participating in trucks cartel

EC, here.

Watchdog to meerkats: comparison is not the same as competition

FT, here.

Pfizer sues Johnson & Johnson, alleging anticompetitive practices to maintain a drug monopoly

The Washington Post, here.

China’s security chief calls for greater use of AI to predict terrorism, social unrest

SCMP, here.

Google now lets you mute an ad because it 'knew too much'

Mashable.com, here.

Ford arbeitet mit Uber-Konkurrent zusammen

FAZ, hier.

REGULATING DATA PROTECTION

B. Van Alsenoy, here.

Behavioral Insights and Trends for Millennials in the UK, France and Germany

EMarketer, here.

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed merger between Essilor and Luxottica

Press Release, here.

Google Splits Off Shopping Service to Meet EU Demands

Bloomberg, here.

Personal Data Economy

E. Hafen, Video here.

How the Russian search market looks now

SearchEngineLand, here.

Kontroverse um Piraterie-Studie der EU-Kommission

Heise.de, hier.

Trivago bought an AI startup that eased peoples’ fears about giving up data

FastCompany, here.

A Data Commons for Food Security


J. Baarbé, M. Blom, J. de Beer, here.

AI and Privacy

C. Tucker, Video here; slides here. Discussant's slides here.

Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS and Spotlight on Mac

TechCrunch, here

Digital comparison tools: Competitive landscape and effectiveness of competition

CMA, here

CMA steps in to give people a better deal on comparison sites

CMA, here

I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets

TheGuardian, here

Monday, September 25, 2017

Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence

NBER Conference, Video here (from 06:08).

A patent on convolutional 
nets was filed in 1989, which then expired in 2007. 
 Clément Ader, you know?

EXPEDIA TARGETED ONCE AGAIN BY THE FRENCH

EU-competitionlaw, here

Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails

TheGuardian, here

Antitrust gets the John Oliver treatment

Axios, here.

Video here

Artificial Intelligence and Competition

H. Varian, C. Shapiro, Video here.
Interesting disagreement between Varian and Shapiro on how easy it is to "purchase data specific to the application" (16:38).

Book Review : What if we could reimagine copyright? Let's fix copyright.

IPKat, here

Première plainte contre « l’obsolescence programmée » : « La loi risque d’être difficile à mettre en œuvre »

Numérama, ici

Photo marketplace Picfair raises £1.5M, aims to ‘weaponise’ photographers

TechCrunch, here.

European Conference on Data Ethics

Here

Friday, September 22, 2017

Women used this fertility app more after AI learned when best to ping them

FastCompany, here.

Hackers broke into SEC computer systems and may have traded on the stolen information

Quartz, here.

BGH: Googles Bildersuche verletzt Urheberrecht nicht

Heise.de, hier.

Search Engines and Data Retention: Implications for Privacy and Antitrust

L. Chiou, C. Tucker, here.

Industrie 4.0: Verfassungsschutzchef warnt vor Massendaten im "Hochrisikoraum"

Heise.de, here.

Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to acq-hire 2,000 HTC engineers

Recode, here.

Do Tech Companies Really Need All That User Data?

W.Frick, here.

iOS 11: toggling wifi and Bluetooth in Control Centre doesn't actually turn them off

The Guardian, here.

Mitfahrgelegenheiten: Google bindet BlaBlaCar in Maps ein

Onlinehaendler-news.de, here.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Data governance: Landscape Review

Royal Society, here.

Warum Google HTC will

FAZ, hier

Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted content in the EU

EU, here

Japan to certify big-data providers to drive innovation

Asia.nikkei, here

How competition can build trust in our societies

M. Vestager, here

Music Industry Recovery Continues, Powered by a Surge in Subscriptions

WSJ, here

Competition policy from a European perspective: A conversation with EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager

AEI, here

The ICO craze, explained

Recode, here

What’s affiliate marketing? Should I care?

FTC, here

Data management and use: Governance in the 21st century

 British Academy and Royal Society, here

The implications for Australian companies navigating the new section 46 misuse of market power test after the European court of justice decision in intel

Clifford Chance, here

Google confirms it will pay $1.1 billion to acquire HTC's Pixel team and license technology

AndroidPolice, here

"DISRUPTION" IS HOW SILICON VALLEY EATS ITS YOUNG

Wired, here

Netflix and Escobar Family in Bitter Trademark Dispute Over 'Narcos'

HollywoodReporter, here

Big Tech's power remains unchallenged

FT, Audio here.

Hal Singer on the Digital Show

Audio here

Waymo wants Uber to pay $2.6 billion in damages—just for starters

ArsTechnica, here

What Role for Economists in Policy-Making?

A. Bénassy-Quéréa , O. Blanchardb and J. Tirole, here

Amazon Reviewing Site After Algorithm Suggests Bomb Supplies

Bloomberg, here

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Time for a Conservative Anti-Monopoly Movement

TheAmericanConservative, here.

Study: EU-US Privacy Shield Essential to Leading European Companies

FPF, here

National Data Opt-out Programme

NHS, here

US Cross-Border Data Deal Could Open Surveillance Floodgates

HRW, here

No university needed: A Stanford-born company is equipping India’s youth for well-paid tech jobs

Quartz, here

Founder of the information age

Enlightenmenteconomics, here

Drugmaker AbbVie Can’t Convince Judge on ‘Sham’ Lawsuits

Bloomberg BNA, here

Focus on Google DeepMind under the GDPR’s Lens

Hogan Lovells, here

On a testé les premiers pas de l’Open Data « par défaut »

NextImpact, here

Response to calls for automated takedowns of online extremist content

ORG, here.

Synthèse de la consultation publique sur la transmission de certains titres financiers au moyen de la technologie "blockchain

Trésor, ici

The State of the Data Protection Union

EDPS, here

The first autonomous drone delivery network will fly above Switzerland starting next month

TheVerge, here

Alt-Right Twitter App Developers Sue Google After Gab.Ai App Is Kicked Out Of The Play Store

TechDirt, here

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Synopsis report of the public consultation on building a European data economy

EC, here. Annex here. Position papers here

Closer together: The Case for International Cooperation

J. Laitenberger, here.

Brexit and Competition Policy (and the Google Case)

House of Lords and CMA, watch here.
CMA Submission here

Me, my data and I: The future of the personal data economy

Decode Project, here.

Now Apple needs to reinvent the digital economy

FT, here.

Auswirkungen der Markttransparenzstelle für Kraftstoffe (MTS-K): Änderungen im Anbieterund Nachfragerverhalten

J. Haucap, U. Heimeshoff, C. Kehder, J. Odenkirchen, S. Thorwarth, hier.

Swiss Crypto Valley Association Calls for ‘Careful’ ICO Regulation

CryptoCoinsNews, here.

Artificial Intelligence's Fair Use Crisis

B. Sobel, here.

Automotive Data Treasure

Deloitte, hier.

Whole Foods Is Becoming Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Pricing Lab

H. Simon, here.

Apple is facing questions from the U.S. Senate on the privacy protections in iPhone X and Face ID

Recode, here.

The Amazon Monopoly Problem: Prime Time For Antitrust Action Vs. These Internet Giants?

Investors, here.

Big data and Innovation: Implications for Competition Policy in Canada

Competition Bureau, here

EFF Resigns From W3C After DRM In HTML Is Approved In Secret Vote

TechDirt, here

How competition can build a better market

M. Vestager, here

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Evaluating market consolidation in mobile communications


C. Genakos, T. Valletti and F. Verboven, here.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation

I. Cockburn, R. Henderson, S. Stern, here.

Economics of Artificial Intelligence

NBER Conference, here. Videos here.

US: Trump blocks Lattice Semiconductor’s $1.3 billion sale to China

CPI, here

The robots are coming for Mozart

Qz, here

Facial recognition is here. The iPhone X is just the beginning

The Guardian, here.

Questions on Article 13 and Recital Art. 38 of the Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market

MPI, Contributions here.

Data will be oil for robot cars so these humans are hoarding it now

FastCompany, here.

Flux raises $1.5 million as Starling Bank opens fintech Marketplace

FinExtra, here.

On the Equifax Data Breach

Schneier.com, here.

U.S. agency demands endorsement info from Instagram 'influencers'

Reuters, here.

Autortiesību un komunicēšanās konsultāciju aģentūra / Latvijas Autoru apvienība v Konkurences padome,

CJEU, C-177/16, here.

Opinion Paper on Cryptocurrencies in the EU

ENISA, here.

The Amazon Monopoly Problem: Prime Time For Antitrust Action Vs. Internet Giants?

Investors.com, here.

Acxiom’s European Privacy Officer (Mostly) Demystifies GDPR

AdExchanger, here.

Equifax Isn’t A Data Problem. It’s A Political Problem

M. Stoller, here.

Apple is facing questions from the U.S. Senate on the privacy protections in iPhone X and Face ID

Recode, here.

Der Google-Staat

Zeit.de, here.

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Algorithms and Collusion: Competition policy in the digital age

OECD, here

What percentage will consent to tracking for advertising?

PageFair, here

Apple explains how it’s making Siri smart without endangering user privacy

FastCompany, here

The Dynamics Of Platform Business Value Creation

E. Garcés-Tolon, here.

Rights on Data: The EU Communication ‘Building a European Data Economy’ From an Economic Perspective

W. Kerber, here.

Chatbot lets you sue Equifax for up to $25,000 without a lawyer

The Verge, here.

An Exit Interview With Richard Posner, Judicial Provocateur

NYTimes, here.

Keeping It Real?

D. Gangjee, here

What does Google know about you? Its new privacy dashboard should reveal all

ZDNet, here

Leaked Draft Regulation on a framework for the free flow of data in the EU

Here

Competition Policy at the FTC in the New Administration

M. Ohlhausen, here

Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability

NYTimes, here

Bridging Policy, Regulation, and Practice? A Techno-Legal Analysis of Three Types of Data in the GDPR

R. Hu, S. Stalla-Bourdillon, M. Yang, V. Schiavo, V. Sassone, here

How blockchain will finally convert you: Control over your own data

VentureBeat, here

A New Way to Learn Economics

Newyorker.com, here