Mercedes: „Datenschutz ist für uns ein Vorteil“

StN.de, hier. 

Patents and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

EPO, here. 

In Your Face: China’s all-seeing state - A Must Watch

BBC, here. 

Antitrust Examining Google Dominance on Web Advertising

Haaretz, here. 

Sources: Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam

TechCrunch, here.

Algorithmic collusion

Seminar, Antonio Capobianco @OECD Trento University Dec. 13, 10.30 am, Conference Room. You're welcome! Tutti/e benvenuti/e!

BPatG: Nespresso-Kaffekapsel verliert markenrechtlichen Schutz für Kaffee, Kaffeeextrakte und kaffeebasierte Zubereitungen, Kaffeeersatz und künstliche Kaffeeextrakte

Beckmann und Norda, hier.

BLOCKCHAINS AND DATA PROTECTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

M. Finck, here.

International Skating Union's restrictive penalties on athletes breach EU competition rules

EC, Press Release here.

EU merger control: how to remove anti-competitive effects?

C. Esteva Mosso, here.

Selective distribution and online sales: complying with EU competition law after the Coty judgment

Hogan Lovells, here.

European Commission to intervene before the US Supreme Court in the Microsoft case

Press Release, here.

Bundeskartellamt begrüßt geplante Einführung einer Zementhandelsplattform

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Data Spending To Hit $10 Billion This Year: IAB/DMA Report

MediaPost, here.

Warren: "No exception in antitrust law for Big Tech"

Axios, here.

Carmakers Want Silicon Valley’s Tech Without Its Patent Wars

Bloomberg, here.

Hotelverband unterstützt Hotels bei der Geltendmachung von Schadensersatzansprüchen gegen HRS

Hotellerie, hier.

Gelati Algida, sanzione da oltre 60 milioni di euro a Unilever per abuso di posizione dominante

AGCM, here. 

A battle between Apple and an app developer has caught Congress’ attention

Recode, here. 

Inside Oracle’s cloak-and-dagger political war with Google

Recode, here. 

Coty: A supplier of luxury goods can prohibit its authorised distributors from selling those goods on a third-party internet platform such as Amazon

C-230/16, here.

Enceintes intelligentes : des assistants vocaux connectés à votre vie privée

CNIL, ici.

Wholesale Local Access Market Review

Ofcom, here.

Safe harbours and legal presumptions in competition law

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here.

Common Ownership by Institutional Investors and its Impact on Competition

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here.

The Extraterritorial Reach of Competition Remedies

OECD Secretariat, Issues Paper, here.

10 years on from the Financial Crisis: Co-operation between Competition Agencies and Regulators in the Financial Sector

OECD Background Note, here.

Competition Policy and Sector-Specific Regulation in the Financial Sector

M. Hellwig, here.

How are companies preparing for GDPR?

Computer World, here.

How Can the Data Economy Be Regulated to Promote New Emerging Markets?

J. Drexl, Video here.

Artificial intelligence and behavioral economics

C. Camerer, here.

Ryanair sues Expedia, accusing online travel giant of illegally scraping its site to sell flights

GeekWire, here.

Australia to probe Facebook, Google over media disruption

Reuters, here.

A way to poke Facebook off its uncontested perch

T. Harford, here.

When Our Thoughts Are No Longer Our Own

NYTimes, here.

The right to data portability in the GDPR: Towards user-centric interoperability of digital services

I. Sanchez et al., here.

Australia to legislate to open up access to consumer data across sectors

Out-law.com, here.

Praktische Umsetzung des Rechts auf Datenübertragbarkeit

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier.

Fintech: Privacy and Identity in the New Data-intensive Financial Sector (India and Kenya)

Privacy International, here.

DFB erleichtert die Voraussetzungen für den Ticketkauf zur WM 2018

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Investigation of Parity Clauses in Japan

Japan FTC, here.

China’s Tech Giants Have a Second Job: Helping Beijing Spy on Its People

WSJ, here.

Jurisdiction, Conflict of Laws and Data Protection in Cyberspace

M. Requejo, here.

EU gibt der Lufthansa mehr Zeit für Air-Berlin-Deal

FAZ, hier.

What I Learned from the People who Built the Atom Bomb

MIT Technology Review, here.

Why Robots (and Animals) Never Need Rights

J. Bryson, here.

False Negatives Can Be a Matter of Life and Death

C. O'Neal, here. 

Justices Seem Ready to Boost Protection of Digital Privacy

NYTimes, here. 

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google should be broken up

                                                                                  S. Galloway, Video here. 

First Person Extradited From Europe to the United States for Criminal Antitrust Charges—Continued

Orrick, here. 

Bad Science: Abuse And Effects In Online Markets

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, here. 

U.S. Joins Europe in Fighting China’s Future in W.T.O.

NYTimes, here. 

Behavioural Law and Economics as Litmus Test

P. Cserne, here. 

Google kämpft nun auch gegen Ticketwucher

Heise.de, hier. 

Commission sends Statement of Objections to AB InBev for preventing cheaper imports of beer into Belgium

EC, here

Data protection gone digital

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Section 46 no defence for uncompetitive firms

ACCC, here. 

UK class action accuses Google of unlawfully harvesting personal data

The Guardian, here. 

How to Tame Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple

Bloomberg, here.

The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death.

NYTimes, here.

Examining the Fintech Landscape

US SENATE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, Testimonies and Video here.

Legal Scholarship on Data Protection: Future Challenges and Directions

L. Bygrave, here. 

At least one US state is probing Google’s secret tracking of Android users

Quartz, here. 

Identity Verification in a Post-Breach World

T. Hunt, here. 

Unlocking the Promise of Antitrust Enforcement

Conference, Washington 
Center for Equitable Growth, here. 

Interesting Tidbits From FTC’s Antitrust Win Against 1-800 Contacts’ Keyword Ad Restrictions

E. Goldman, here. 

FCA issues first statement of objections to four asset management firms

FCA, here. 

An innovative introductory economics course at Stanford is now free online

Quartz, here. 

The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Announces New Standards Projects

IEEE, here. 

EU regulator spells out license guidelines to prevent patent wars

Reuters, here.
Communication here. 

Uber, Tinder, Snapchat and other top apps include trackers that secretly watch everything users do

The Independent, here.

Brüssel setzt Grenzen für das gläserne Bankkonto

FAZ, hier.

Mapping the Real Routes of Trade in Fake Goods

OECD, EUIPO, here.

PSD2: 'screen scraping' ban confirmed in finalised standards

Out-law, here.

Fairness in platform-to-business relations: Feedback Received by the EC

Here.
Google in praise of competition policy? "This decision, which hinges on specific facts related to online shopping ads, is under appeal to the European Union General Court. It shows that in situations where ranking is a matter of concern,
competition authorities have the appropriate tools to determine legal compliance
and therefore an additional ex ante regulation is not needed."

Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported

TechCrunch, here. 

"Screen Scraping ist nicht tot“

It-Finanznmagazin, hier.

Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft begrüßt Festlegungen der Europäischen Kommission zum PSD2-Kontozugang für Drittdienstleister

die-dk.de, hier.

L’économie des plateformes : dissipation ou concentration de la rente ?

F. Marty, ici. 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE FOR LEGAL SERVICES

CliffordChance.com, here. 

Video Startup Can’t Outspend YouTube, So It Created a New Currency to Pay Creators

Bloomberg, here. 

Le numérique et la concurrence dans une économie et une société en transformation

J. Laitenberger, ici. 

German Kid Smartwatch Ban Opens Voice-Activated Privacy Debate

BNA, here. 

The Purchase Data Playbook For Marketers

AdExchanger, here. 

Algorithms: How Companies’ Decisions About Data and Content Impact Consumers

House of Representatives, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, Hearing Info  here.
Testimonies and Video available here.
The following issues may be examined at the hearing:
• How is personal information about consumers collected through the Internet, and how do companies use that information?
• How do companies make decisions about content that consumers see online?
• How effective are current policies and communications with consumers regarding the collection and use of personal data?   

Payment services: Consumers to benefit from safer and more innovative electronic payments

EC, here. Regulatory Technical Standards here.

Inside the Revolution at Etsy

NYTimes, here.

I'm Testifying in Front of Congress in Washington DC about Data Breaches - What Should I Say?

Troyhunt.com, here.

Das gläserne Bankkonto

FAZ, hier.

Love in the Digital Age

Futurism.com, here.

Neue Fraunhofer-App entlarvt geheimes Tracking über Apps

TelTarif.de, hier.

Brazil pushes back decision on Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

Reuters, here.

The Economic Case Against an A.T. & T.-Time Warner Merger

The New Yorker, here.

Des mouchards cachés dans vos applications pour smartphones

LeMonde, ici.

Media in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

C. Moedas, here.

Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner merger is good antitrust economics and law

S. Salop, here. 

WIE DAS EU-PARLAMENT UNSERE PRIVATSPHÄRE SCHÜTZEN WILL

Fink, hier. 

CJEU on commitment decisions

C‑547/16, here.

28      It follows that a decision taken on the basis of Article 9(1) of Regulation No 1/2003 cannot create a legitimate expectation in respect of the undertakings concerned as to whether their conduct complies with Article 101 TFEU. As the Advocate General observed in point 39 of her Opinion, the commitment decision cannot ‘legalise’ the market behaviour of the undertaking concerned, and certainly not retroactively.

29      Nonetheless, national courts cannot overlook that type of decision. Such acts are, in any event, in the nature of a decision. In addition, both the principle of sincere cooperation laid down in Article 4(3) TEU and the objective of applying EU competition law effectively and uniformly require the national court to take into account the preliminary assessment carried out by the Commission and regard it as an indication, if not prima facie evidence, of the anticompetitive nature of the agreement at issue in the light of Article 101(1) TFEU.

30      In those circumstances, the answer to the first question is that Article 16(1) of Regulation No 1/2003 must be interpreted as meaning that a commitment decision concerning certain agreements between undertakings, adopted by the Commission under Article 9(1) of that regulation, does not preclude national courts from examining whether those agreements comply with the competition rules and, if necessary, declaring those agreements void pursuant to Article 101(2) TFEU.

In charts: how US retailers fared as Amazon powered ahead

FT, here. 

Making globalisation work for Europeans

M. Vestager, here.