Artificial intelligence: the hidden algorithms shaping our lives

EP News, here. Video of the event here.

European Commission fines five car safety equipment suppliers € 34 million in cartel settlement

Press Release, here.

L'impatto delle nuove tecnologie sui settori finanziario, creditizio e assicurativo

G. Pitruzzella, qui.

Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People’s Data

Bloomberg, here.

A state Supreme Court justice’s open letter to AI

Quartz, here.

Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems

N. Seaver, here. 

Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

Quartz, here. 

Linky, Gazpar : quelles données sont collectées et transmises par les compteurs communicants ?

CNIL, ici. 

Enquête sectorielle sur le fonctionnement de la concurrence dans le secteur du médicament et de la biologie médicale

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. Saisine d’office pour avis ici. 

China: Police ‘Big Data’ Systems Violate Privacy, Target Dissent

Human Rights Watch, here. 

Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media

Spectrum.ieee, here. 

The Department of Justice's Long-Awaited and Much Needed Course-Correction on FRAND-Assured Standard-Essential Patents

D. Ginsburg, K. Wong-Ervin, here. 

U.S. Sues to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger

NYTimes, here. 

Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke, Princeton Researchers Find

MotherBoard, here. 

This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Senate Once Again Passes Antitrust Whistleblower Bill

Biglawbusiness, here. 

Use GDPR to future-proof business models

ComputerWeekly, here. 

UK regulator accuses Concordia of abusing position with 5700% drug price hike

FT, here. 

Digital Single Market: EU negotiators agreed to end unjustified geoblocking

EC, here. 

Helping people cope with technological change

M. Vestager, here. 

Legal and Regulatory Challenges Facing Platforms in Europe

Conf call with Alec Burnside, Transcript here.

The Next Frontier of Antitrust?

K. Christensen, here. 

Shifting the Dial

Productivity Commission, Chapter 5 here

DOJ bucks China, urges SCOTUS to hear case against vitamin cartel

Reuters, here.

Blablacar Wants to Become a Car Insurance Broker

Bloomberg, here.

Payment systems

Autoritat Catalana de la Competència,  here.

Intangible Capital in Global Value Chains

WIPO, here.

How much …? The rise of dynamic and personalised pricing

The Guardian, here. 

A practical approach to rebates

BakerMcKenzie, here. 

Bundesnetzagentur geht gegen Kinderuhren mit Abhörfunktion vor

Bundesnetzagentur, hier. 

Japanese regulators raid Airbnb over suspected antitrust practices

Reuters, here. 

AI Can Be Made Legally Accountable for Its Decisions

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Régulation économique : quels secteurs réguler et comment ?

M. Bacache-Beauvallet, A. Perrot, ici. 

Here’s what we learned from ordering 213 curries at Wetherspoons

FT, here. 

Commission and China start new dialogue on State aid control and discuss competition policy

EC, Press Release here.

"The European Commission and the three Chinese competition agencies confirmed their readiness to develop closer cooperation on the enforcement of their respective competition laws in the fields of antitrust, mergers and State aid enforcement".

L’autorité de la concurrence pas assez indépendante, selon un rapport

Euractiv, ici. 

Companies face high cost to meet new EU data protection rules

FT, here.

Amazon’s exclusive deal with Calvin Klein is about much more than underwear

Quartz, here.

The role of antitrust in the ongoing deregulatory push

M. Delrahim, here. 

The First Wealth is Health: Protecting Competition in Healthcare Markets

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

#WatchOut Analysis of smartwatches for children

Norwegian Consumer Council, here. 

Acquisti discussing privacy at a PwC Event

Video, here. 

Differential privacy, part 2: It’s complicated

AccessNow, here. 

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'

Guardian, here. 

Accountability of AI Under the Law: The Role of Explanation

F. Doshi-Velez, M. Kortz, R. Budish, C. Bavitz, S. Gershman, D. O'Brien, S. Schieber, J. Waldo, D. Weinberger, A. Wood, here. 

Facebook investor says he wants the company to contact everyone who saw fake news during the election

CNBC, here. 

Vers la démocratie culturelle

Conseil économique, social et environnemental, Avis ici.
P.37: "Dans son avis Pour un renouveau des politiques publiques de la culture, le CESE s’était exprimé sur le rôle des grandes multinationales de l’industrie numérique dans le financement de la création artistique. La position défendue à l’époque n’a pas changé : « Afin d’associer fiscalement les géants du numérique au soutien de la création et sans préjuger des actions nécessaires pour faire respecter l’ensemble des droits, le CESE est favorable à l’imposition des bénéfices qu’ils réalisent sur le territoire et à la création d’une taxe pour les entreprises qui exercent une forme exclusive de captation des données personnelles ». Afin de compenser en partie les atteintes à la création qu’entraînent l’explosion du numérique et le partage illégal, il pourrait être prévu le fléchage d’une partie des impôts prélevés sur les GAFA vers un fond de soutien à la création musicale, théâtrale et chorégraphique, des arts visuels, du livre."

Data Flows – Future Scenarios

Prepared by Policy Department A at the request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), here. 

Open Data Maturity in Europe 2017

European Data Portal, here. 

Streit über Wetter-App: "WarnWetter" des DWD muss Geld kosten

Heise.de, hier. 

Making human organs through 3D printing

BBC, here.

Data Portability and Data Control: Lessons for an Emerging Concept in EU Law

I. Graef, M. Husovec, N. Purtove, here. 

Finance's Tech Revolution Risks Being Stymied by Wary Bosses

Bloomberg, here. 

Data Protection Commissioner raises CCTV concerns with Garda

IrishTimes, here. 

The ACCC’s approach to colluding robots

R. Sims, here. 

Algorithmia now helps businesses manage and deploy their machine learning models

TechCrunch, here. 

Awake on the Autobahn: Academics, algorithms and accountability

S. Venkatasubramanian et al., here. 

Taming the masters of the tech universe

FT, here. 

Digital Economics

A. Goldfarb, C. Tucker, here. 

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO WIDER CALL FOR EVIDENCE FROM THE HOUSE OF LORDS COMMITTEE ON AI

Here. 

Albrecht: ePrivacy reg will change business models

Iapp, here. 

Defending access to lawful information at Europe’s highest court

Google, here. 

Umfrage KI: „ ...dann werden wir abgehängt“

FAZ, hier. 

Verbraucherschützer: Online-Bezahldienste erheben zu viele Daten

Ausburger Allgemeine, hier. 

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and the Rule of Law

The Law Society, here. 

Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts. But They’re Still Easy to Spot.

NYTimes, here. 

Measuring the Information Society Report 2017

ITU, here. 

"AI: Intelligent Machines, Smart Policies"

OECD, Presentations here. 

Some EU regulators still don't get internet economics

EUObserver, here. 

Much ado about endives

CJEU C-671/15, here. 

"On peut faire beaucoup plus avec les données quand on maitrise le contexte réglementaire"

JournalDuNet, ici. 

Lead MEP: member states’ slow pace on ePrivacy is unacceptable

Euractiv, here. 

New legal opinion may have implications for class actions in EU

Iapp, here. 

Antitrust in a Time of Populism

C. Shapiro, here. 

Liability for Providing Hyperlinks to Copyright-Infringing Content: International and Comparative Law Perspectives

J. Ginsburg, L. Buduardjo, here. 

UNDERSTANDING CORPORATE DATA SHARING DECISIONS: PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARING CORPORATE DATA WITH RESEARCHERS

Future of Privacy Forum, here. 

Google Pays to Put Search Back on Firefox Browser in U.S.

Bloomberg, here.

Regulatory Sandboxes — a Global Stocktake

Latham & Watkins, here.

The role of antitrust law in the context of standard setting organizations

M. Delrahim, here. 

Democrats Seek Hearings on Trump's Role in AT&T-Time Warner Deal

Bloomberg, here. 

EU set to rule in favour of speed skaters over ISU ban threat: sources

Reuters, here. 

The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech

NYTimes, here. 

It’s Time to Tax Companies for Using Our Personal Data

NYTimes, here. 

The Automated Public Sphere

F. Pasquale, here.

Swiss watchmakers permitted to refuse to supply independent watch repairers

CMS Germany, here. 

Equifax says it owns all its data about you

The Washington Post, here. 

Platform Regulation: A Preface

D. Kaye, here. 

Missourians deserve to know what Google does with their information

KansasCity.com, here.

SCOPING STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ON COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION ADOPTED BETWEEN 2006 AND 2016

G. Rostama for WIPO, here.

Web companies should make it easier to make your data portable: FTC's McSweeny

USA Today, here.

From Bayer to Qualcomm, M&A Gets Costlier in the EU

Bloomberg, here.

Public consultation on fake news and online disinformation

EC, here.

Why people ruin others’ lives by exposing all their data online

New Scientist, here.

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New Draft Action Plans On Copyright Limitations And Exceptions At WIPO

IP-Watch, here.

Missouri AG Josh Hawley launches investigation of Google

Kansascity.com, here.

Use of algorithms must respect competition rules, says EU competition official

Out-law.com, here.

Who’s responsible for what happens on Facebook? Analysis of a new ECJ opinion

L. Woods, here.

Report on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society

Japan's Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society, here.

UK competition regulator builds new tech team

UK, here.