Friday, July 12, 2019

The UK Furman Report as "digested" by Pedro

Antitrust Digest, here

Superpredators

Washingtonmonthly, here

Japan grants certification for first time to 'information banks'

The Japan Times, here

Data Protection and Competitiveness in the Digital Age

A. Mundt, here Video (from 5:49) . 

The end of Fintech

The Finanser, here

Big Fair Use Win Concerning Andy Warhol's Paintings Of Prince

TechDirt, here

Bundeskartellamt's Facebook Decision in English

Here

Reg. (EU) 2019/1150 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services

Here

Google’s 4,000-Word Privacy Policy Is a Secret History of the Internet

NYTimes, here

Uber in London: the battle between public and private regulation

Y. Marique, here

Tommaso/Tommasso Valletti Tells the Truth, Nothing But the Truth

MLex Market Insight, here

The price of data security

AON, here

Interoperability: Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Companies

C. Doctorow, here

Guidelines 3/2019 on processing of personal data through video devices

EDPB, here

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Zulässigkeit der Transkribierung und Auswertung von Mitschnitten der Sprachsoftware "Alexa" durch Amazon

Deutscher Bundestag, hier

Brüsseler Podiumsdiskussion zu Datenschutz und Wettbewerb

BfDI, hier

BIG DATA: INDAGINE CONOSCITIVA CONGIUNTA

LINEE GUIDA E RACCOMANDAZIONI DI POLICY, qui

Smart Data: Putting consumers in control of their data and enabling innovation

UK Gov, here

UK to create a 'Digital Markets Unit'

Hogan Lovells, here

IBM Bets $34 Billion That Red Hat Can Help It Catch Amazon and Microsoft

NYTimes, here

Artificial Intelligence: the global landscape of ethics guidelines

A. Jobin, M. Ienca, E. Vayena, here

Heineken's pub and bar business investigated by PCA over 'beer tie'

The Guardian, here

„Wir müssen das Wettbewerbsrecht für das digitale Zeitalter fit machen“

Inclusive Productivity, hier

COMMENT LE NUMÉRIQUE TRANSFORME LE DROIT ET LA JUSTICE VERS DE NOUVEAUX USAGES ET UN BOULEVERSEMENT DE LA PRISE DE DÉCISION

L. Godefroy et al., Rapport, ici

Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice

BBC, here

Europas Behörden wollen Datenschutz und Wettbewerbsrecht verheiraten

Netzpolitik.org, here.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Cade condena 11 empresas e 42 pessoas por formação de cartel em licitações de trens e metrôs

NovoDia, aqui

Frydenberg puts Facebook and Google on notice over market power

SMH, here

Intention to fine Marriott International, Inc more than £99 million under GDPR for data breach

ICO, here

How much is your data worth?

Quartz, here

10 Ans: Accompagner la modernisation de l'économie

Autorité de la concurrence, ici

Missed opportunities in the EU’s revised open data and re-use of public sector information directive

OKFN, here

Concurrence : soupçons de cartel dans la compote

Le Monde, ici

The UK's Entire Approach To 'Online Harms' Is Backwards... And No One Cares

TechDirt, here

Facebook v. Max Schrems

L. Kayali, Twitter Thread here

Banks in no rush to join Facebook’s crypto project

FT, here

All hands on deck: we’ve updated the Data Access Map

ODI, here

Commission fines Sanrio €6.2 million for restricting cross-border sales of merchandising products featuring Hello Kitty characters

EC, here

DEBRIEFING: ASCOLA CONFERENCE, AIX-EN-PROVENCE, JUNE 2019

R. Podszun, here

Unter Umständen ist es rechtswidrig, über WhatsApp schülerbezogene Daten zu verschicken

MDR, hier

Transparency you can trust: Transparency requirements for artificial intelligence between legal norms and contextual concerns

H. Felzmann et al., here

Bonn gegen das Silicon Valley

Deutschlandfunk.de, hier

What if policy anticipated advances in science and technology?

EP, here

Blockchain and freedom of expression

Article 19, here

EBA thematic report on the impact of FinTech on PIs’ and EMI’s business models

EBA, here

Monday, July 08, 2019

Blockchain Disables Real-World Governance

H. Matsushima, here

Amazon’s Alexa may soon know if you’re happy or sad

Venture Beat, here

The Record of Weak U.S. Merger Enforcement in Big Tech

AAI, here

LA CONCENTRATION DES ENTREPRISES EST-ELLE LA SOLUTION ?

Les Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence, Vidéo ici.

FTC to Ask About Disabling YouTube Ads for Kids’ Privacy

Bloomberg, here

La régulation par la donnée

Autorité de la concurrence, AMF, Arafer, Arcep, CNIL, CRE, CSA, ici

Les données personnelles : un levier pour différents régulateurs

LINC, ici

India's latest Google probe sparked by junior antitrust researchers

Reuters, here.
CCI's Android Order here

German data protection authorities publish guidelines on data transfers in the context of asset deals

C. Piltz, here

Who will win? The Banks, FinTechs or BigTechs?

FinExtra, Video here

Competition Law for a Complex Economy

I. Lianos, here

ICO statement: Intention to fine British Airways £183.39m under GDPR for data breach

ICO, here

Your Data Could Be at the Center of the Fight Against Big Tech

NYTimes, here

Charting the precursors to Facebook’s Libra coin

FT, here

Vertical Mergers: Ex Post Evidence and Ex Ante Evaluation Methods

M. Slade, here

CMA launches digital markets strategy and market study into online platforms and digital advertising

Allen & Overy, here

Economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI)

EP Think Tank, here. Podcast here.

7-Eleven Japanese customers lose $500,000 due to mobile app flaw

Zdnet, here

Selling Your Private Information Is a Terrible Idea

NYTimes, here

Emergence of collective digital innovations through the process of control point driven network reconfiguration and reframing: the case of mobile payment

B. Rukanova et al., here

Banking’s Digital Revolution Is Here But No One Is Ready

Which-50.com, here

The Strange Politics of Facial Recognition

The Atlantic, here

THE DIGITAL ADVERTISING ECOSYSTEM VISUALIZATION - LITERATURE REVIEW

V. Stallone, M. Klaas, here

Friday, July 05, 2019

Self-destructing ebooks reveal a dark digital truth

FT, here

Are FANGs Monopolies? A Theory of Competition under Uncertainty

N. Petit, here

Battle over illegal data harvesting looms for online advertising

FT, here.

It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even tried

S. Zuboff, here

Reporte conferencia ASCOLA

LaLibreCompetencia, día 1, días 2 y 3.

Deutschland, Frankreich und Polen legen gemeinsame Initiative zur Modernisierung der EU-Wettbewerbspolitik vor

Papier here (auf Englisch).

Amazon / Deliveroo merger inquiry

CMA, Initial Enforcement Order here

The bank of Lithuania starts adding fintech companies' innovations on the blockchain

EC, here

Apple Korea seeks FTC consent decree over power abuse charges

Pulse, here

'MIRROR WORLDS' CREATOR WANTS TO DISPLACE FACEBOOK—WITH BLOCKCHAIN

Wired, here

Libra, 2 weeks in

Facebook, here

CCI order says Google appears to have abused Android dominance in India: report

Medianama, here

How Sai Baba Was Made To Spy On Your Phone For Credit Ratings

HuffingtonPost, here

Article 102 and Exclusivity Rebates in a Post-Intel World: Lessons from the Qualcomm and Google Android Cases

M. Kadar, here

Thursday, July 04, 2019

Fintech Workshop in Trento 21 October 2019: Call for Abstracts

Call for Abstracts HERE

The Boston Tea Party Was a Protest Against Monopoly

M. Stoller, here.

The Technology Trap

D. Coyle, here

Excessive Data Collection: Privacy Considerations and Abuse of Dominance in the Era of Big Data

V. Robertson, here.

The journey towards PSD2 compliance

FinExtra, Video here

Can I buy a phone that doesn’t use anything from Google or Apple?

The Guardian, here

Open Banking could be worth £18bn a year to UK consumers and SMEs - report

FinExtra, here

Artificial intelligence: the new electricity

WIPO Magazine, here

The return of the MFN clauses – platform ranking as an enforcement mechanism for price parity

D. Mandrescu, here

FCA Competition Director Christopher Woolard Testifies before House Committee Fintech Task Force

CrowdFundInsider, here

Antitrust regulators may also scrutinize internet firms' cryptocurrencies: German cartel chief

Reuters, here

French consumer group files class-action against Google for alleged GDPR violations

iapp, here

Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview

H. Surden, here

Copyright Law on Blockchains: Between New Forms of Rights Administration and Digital Rights Management 2.0

M. Finck, V. Moscon, here

BIS to set up Innovation Hub for central banks

BIS, here

Intelligent interfaces

Deloitte, here

Facebook’s Inches Towards Global Regulatory Compliance, Applies for New York BitLicense

CoinDesk, here

Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide

J. Metcalf, K. Crawford, here

New York Governor Cuomo orders probe into Facebook's advertising platform

Reuters, here

Facebook’s privacy game – how Zuckerberg backtracked on promises to protect personal data

ComputerWeekly, here

Guidance to national courts: Quantification of harm caused by infringements of the EU antitrust rules

EC, here

First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence

J. Tasioulas, here

CMA launches digital markets strategy

Press release, Here.
The CMA’s Digital Markets Strategy, here.
Online platforms and digital advertising market study: Statement of Scope, here.  

Bundeskartellamt legt Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde ein

AHGZ, hier

Der Spion im Schulzimmer

Republik, hier

FCA proposes ban on cryptocurrency products

The Guardian, here. 

Friday, June 21, 2019

ALGORITHMS AS ILLEGAL AGREEMENTS

M. Gal, here

Bundesbank-Präsident und weitere Notenbanker warnen vor Facebooks Kryptowährung

FAZ, hier

Public Comments of 43 State Attorneys General

FTC Hearings, here

CMA expects Facebook and eBay to tackle sale of fake reviews

CMA, here

Libra Q&A thread

Populism or overpopulation? When antitrust really matters

Economic Times, here

BCCP Conference 2019 Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: The Rise of Corporate Power

Livestream now here. Conference program here

Ycor withdraws from Sizmek bid, paving the way for Amazon's adtech ambitions

The Drum, here

Do biologics really need 12 years of market exclusivity?

Statnews, here

Facebook usage has collapsed since scandals, data shows

The Guardian, here

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Enable, Empower, Ensure: A New Finance for the New Economy

M. Carney, here

Battle intensifies to unlock value in the ‘internet of things’

FT, here

Google releases open-source tool to assist in secure data sharing

iapp, here

Méga alliance belge pour contrer les Gafa

L'Echo, ici

Surveillance Capitalism

Exponential View, Podcast here (on Google Podcasts).

The “Too Big to Fail” Problem

S. Omarova, here

Post-M&A Synergies and Changes in Development Trajectory of Pharmaceutical Firm

H. Meder, here

Adtech industry operating illegally, rules UK regulator

FT, here.

Four big questions facing Facebook’s Libra coin

FT, here

Facebook's Libra will not help the unbanked

FT, here

Danish DPA approves Automated Facial Recognition

EDRi, here

Japan's antitrust law amended to encourage companies under investigation to cooperate with FTC

Japan Times, here

Facebook-Weltwährung: Geht's noch?

Finews.ch, hier

Alipay's AI wealth tech platform adopted by six out of ten China's asset managers

FinExtra, here

Should’ve Stayed in Vegas

Your Undivided Attention Podcast, here.

Update report into adtech and real time bidding

ICO, here

The EU wants to create 10 million smart lampposts

WEF, here

Platforms and Blockchain Will Transform Logistics

S. Choudary, M. Van Alstyne, G. Parker, here

Facebook’s Libra: blockchain, but without the blocks or chain

FT, here (do not miss the comments ;-)).

To Take Down Big Tech, They First Need to Reinvent the Law

NYTimes, here

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

GC: Adidas

T-307/17, here

Green light to the Digital Markets Unit


‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I.

NYTimes, here

Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Libra: Not to be Confused with Libre

Privacy International, here.

Technological change shapes markets in ways participants do not expect

P. Roscoe, here

Some tweets on Facebook's Libra

O. Havrylchyk, here

Termination of Legacy Antitrust Judgments

DoJ, here.

Major publisher group DCN tells regulators “the sky won’t fall” if RTB switches to safe, non-personal data.

Brave, here

What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising?

NYTimes, here

IBM to win unconditional EU okay for $34 billion Red Hat deal: sources

Reuters, here

Consultation on Open Banking designation instrument (second round)

AU Government, here

Dealing with mergers in a digital age

M. Vestager, here

Facebook’s Undemocratic Currency

M. Stoller, here

Facebook’s cryptocurrency has a trust problem

The Verge, here

Facebook’s Libra: Three things we don’t know about the digital currency

MIT Technology Review, here

Sorry, Mr. Delrahim: Big Tech’s Worst Abuses Can’t Be Cured Without Stiffer Regulation

H. Singer, here

Activists Urge Google to Break Up Before Regulators Force It To

NYTimes, here

Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know

TechCrunch, here

Regulation through “bricking”: private ordering in the “Internet of Things”

N. Tusikov, here

Are eIDAS certificates sufficient for PSD2 Open Banking?

FinExtra, here

Braucht es mehr materielles Kartellrecht für digitale Plattformen?

S. Louven, hier.

Google will start attributing lyrics in its search results to their third-party providers

TechCrunch, here

Market Design for a Blockchain-Based Financial System

C. Catalini, R. Jagadeesan, S. Kominers, here

UN makes ‘declaration of digital interdependence’, with release of tech report

UN News, here

Cofece bloqueó la compra de Cornershop porque Walmart habría podido utilizar datos de minoristas rivales

El Economista, aquì

Alphaville's Libra cheat sheet

FT, here

Control de operaciones de concentración en plataformas digitales: qué dice el reporte externo encargado por la CMA británica

FN.cl, aquì

Why we joined the Libra Association

J. Gans, here

How a Dispute Over Rap Lyrics Illustrates That Google Has Too Much Power

Slate, here

WIPO Director General Gurry on AI and IP

WIPO, here

What a Facebook breakup would mean for investors

Yahoo Finance, here

Suppliers of antidepressants accused of illegal anti-competitive conduct

CMA, here

GAFAM : le déclin de l’empire américain ?

April, here

Facebook, Google brace for the release of Australia’s ground-breaking digital platforms report

MLex Podcast, here

ONE YEAR UNDER THE EU GDPR

AccessNow, here

Bitcoin Antitrust

Didyouknowcrypto, here

Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings

TechCrunch, here

Market disruptors' impact on the future of blockchain

Deloitte, here

THE SEPARATION OF PLATFORMS AND COMMERCE

L. Khan, here

Google allegedly used stolen Genius lyrics, caught through Morse code trick

AndroidPolice, here

Banks accused of overcharging small customers for forex services

FT, here

The Common Ownership Boom - Or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love Antitrust

A. Tzanaki, here

Potential for Discrimination in Online Targeted Advertising

T. Speicher et al, here

The truth behind the dumbest GDPR myths, one year later

Wired, here

Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman: "15 years battling Google"

Danny in the Valley, Podcast here

Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics

G. Akerlof, here

Here’s Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends report

TechCrunch, here

Bons et mauvais Chinois

Le Monde, ici

Amazon seeks to revive its faltering loans business

FT, here

AI: inhuman after all?

Spiked, here

Google Stadia has kicked off a new age of gaming data harvesting

Wired, here

Face aux GAFA

E. Combe.

Image

Hotel Site Accuses Booking, Expedia of EU Antitrust Breaches

Bloomberg, here

Tech and Antitrust

Stratechery, here

Anger at Big Tech Unites Noodle Pullers and Code Writers. Washington Is All Ears

New York Times, here

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Why Salesforce's Tableau Buy Might Be A Blunder

Forbes, here

Antitrust Probe Starts Today With Focus On Big Tech's Profits From News

Forbes, here

Warren Demands DOJ Antitrust Head Recuse Himself From Google, Apple Probes

Bloomberg, here

Datenökonomie

bpb, APUZ, hier

Kartellrecht in der Datenökonomie

R. Podszun, hier

Jeux vidéo : Ubisoft fait le pari de la blockchain

Les Echos, ici

Huawei's operating system in pipeline

China Daily, here

Revolut dials up Apple Pay

FinExtra, here

Thermo Fisher scraps Roper deal after U.K. antitrust hurdle

Reuters, here

Microsoft President Says 'Hipster Antitrust' Is Coming

Fortune, here.
Antitrust: Video, from 18:47.

General Principles of Law in EU Antitrust Law

M. Hjärtström, J. Nowag, here

By calling Huawei Android fork a security risk, Google contradicts its own open source arguments

Venture Beat, here

Account information now in Rabobank's PSD2 store

FinExtra, here

No License, No Chips? No Dice: Dissecting Judge Koh's Opinion in FTC v. Qualcomm

Washington Bytes, here

The different approaches to increasing access to data while retaining trust

J. Hardinges, P. Wells, here

Data Extra Commercium

V. Janeček, G. Malgieri, here

Sports Data Policies Could Represent Next Big Antitrust Challenge For Pro Sports Leagues

Forbes, here

Trump Questions Whether UTC-Raytheon Deal Hurts Competition

Bloomberg, here

Brave's Presentation to FTC tech taskforce

J. Ryan, here

PM speech opening London Tech Week

T. May, here

Roche's $4.3 billion Spark bid delayed again amid U.S., UK scrutiny

Reuters, here

Friday, June 07, 2019

The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined

S. Zuboff, here

Digital disruption in financial markets: Presentations available!

OECD (bravi), here.

(Links to several countries' contributions not working though).

And my ASCOLA 2018 presentation ICYMI here

Sir Tim versus Black Mirror

Still my fav
E. Zuckerman, here

Competition policy: access to data, and more

P. Wells, Presentation here.

What Duopoly? Why Amazon’s Sizmek Purchase Is Just The Next Step In Its March Toward Ad Dominance

AdExchanger, here

Bring Back the Golden Age of Broadcast Regulation: Especially for YouTube and Facebook.

Slate, here

Three ways that Big Tech could be broken up

FT, here

Blockchain's Appeal Is Limited for Retail Banks, McKinsey Says

Bloomberg, here

How to rein in the web of lies

Chatman House, here

Google to Buy Data Analytics Company Despite New Antitrust Scrutiny

NYtimes, here.

Machine Learning and AI as business tools: Threat or blessing for competition?

CCP 15th Annual Conference 6th – 7th June 2019, Blog post here

Facebook plant eigene Kryptowährung

FAZ, hier

Google übernimmt den BI-Spezialisten Looker für 2,6 Milliarden US-Dollar

Heise.de, hier

From Innovation Hub to Innovation Culture

FCA, here

Making Big Tech companies share data could do more good than breaking them up

MIT Technology Review, here

Facebook’s Anticompetitive Lean in Strategies

L. Lovdall Gormsen, J.T. Llanos, here

A duty of care to prevent online exploitation of consumers? Digital dominance and special responsibility in EU competition law

W. Sauter, here

IBM withdraws notification of its acquisition of staff, hardware and software from T-Systems’ mainframe business after the Bundeskartellamt expressed concerns

Bundeskartellamt, here

iOS developers file class-action against Apple over ‘profit killing’ App Store practices

9to5mac.com, here

Google erweitert die Pay API für umfangreichere Bezahloptionen

Heise, hier

Kelkoo ready to take Google complaint to U.S. antitrust regulators - CEO

Reuters, here

Report: Facebook plans to create independent foundation to manage its cryptocurrency; will charge members $10M licensing fees for right to operate node

The Block, here

Amazon executive says company welcomes scrutiny of big tech

Reuters, here

How Big Tech funds the debate on AI ethics

NewStatesman, here

The Fintech Bubble Floats Toward a $64 Billion Pin

Bloomberg, here

Competition and Regulation in the Data Economy

Panel, videos here

Governance of Data in IoT Contexts


















W. Kerber, Presentation here

Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set

FT, here

Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Facebook can be told to cast a wider net to find illegal content, says EU court advisor

TechCrunch, here

Konzern liest mit: Facebook trackt Nutzer auf drei Viertel aller deutschen Nachrichtenseiten

Netzpolitik.org, hier

Apple announces new sign-in tool to compete with Facebook and Google

The Verge, here

UK financial regulator clamps down on peer-to-peer investment

FT, here

"Daten müssen nicht böse sein"

SZ, hier

ASSISTANTS VOCAUX ET ENCEINTES CONNECTÉES: l’impact de la voix sur l’offre et les usages culturels et médias

Hadopi, CSA, ici

Uber’s Path of Destruction

American Affairs, here

Aptoide, a Play Store rival, cries antitrust foul over Google hiding its app

TechCrunch, here

Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System

The Law Society, here

Hotelbuchungen im Internet: "Enge" Bestpreisklauseln sind zulässig

OLG Düsseldorf, hier

Vertical Mergers in the Technology, Media and Telecom Sector

OECD Secretariat, Background Note here

The standard of review by courts in competition cases

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here

PayPal invests in Tink

FinExtra, here

Facebook in talks with US regulator over digital currency

FT, here

Vestager’s grand plan for regulating the digital economy

Euractiv, here

House Judiciary Committee Launches Antitrust Investigation of Tech Giants

Daily Beast, here.
More here

Project explAIn: Interim report

ICO, here

Apple Backs Off Crackdown on Parental-Control Apps

NYTimes, here

Thursday, May 23, 2019

The FTC’s Big Tech Revolving Door Problem

Public Citizen, here.


<= from 1:12 ICYMI (pure genius)

From David to Makan

Letter, here

Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority for “suspected infringement” of the GDPR

Brave, here

The start-ups building ‘dark kitchens’ for Uber Eats and Deliveroo

FT, here

Canada announces Digital Charter, promises serious fines to business for not protecting privacy

IT World Canada, here

India antitrust probe finds Monsanto abused dominant position

Reuters, here

OECD Principles on AI

OECD, here

N26 under fire from BaFin over money laundering failures

FinExtra, here

How Silicon Valley gamed Europe’s privacy rules

Politico.eu, here

Apple pledges clearer information on iPhone performance

Gov.UK, here

Irish regulator opens first privacy probe into Google

Reuters, here

Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets*

C. Shapiro, here

Female voice assistants fuel damaging gender stereotypes, says a UN study

MIT Technology Review, here

Open Banking hobbled by outages

FinExtra, here

Drug firms accused of illegal market sharing over anti-nausea tablets

CMA, here

Speaking points on the occasion of the first anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

V. Jourová, here

GitHub launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors

TechCrunch, here

The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics

VOX, here

Blockchain sicher gestalten

BSI, hier

Court rules Uber must turn over data on driver congestion, double parkers to San Francisco

SFExaminer, here

GDPR Enforcement Tracker

Here

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

THE FUTURE OF DATA-DRIVEN FINANCE AND REGTECH: LESSONS FROM EU BIG BANG II

D. Zetzsche, D. Arner, R. Buckley, R. Weber here

Blockkedjeteknik utifrån ett konkurrensperspektiv

P. Lindblom for the Swedish Competition Authority, here

Unlocking digital competition

J. Furman, Oxford Martin School, Live here.

Retailer Amazon nears victory in rainforest battle over domain name

Reuters, here

Nie mehr WhatsApp? EU-Staaten könnten Messenger zur Öffnung zwingen

Netzpolitik, hier.

Trust, transparency and Tech

Policy Connect, here

Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations, say insiders

Open Democracy, here

Technology is messing with our emotions: an historical perspective

Chips with Everything Podcast, here

Cryptocurrencies are going mainstream – the battle is on to bring them under global control

Phys.org, here

Intesa nelle gare per l’assegnazione dei diritti internazionali del calcio in TV. Sanzionati MP Silva, IMG e B4 Capital per 67 milioni di euro

AGCM, here

Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the Impact of Data Privacy and Competition Policy

US Senate, Hearing here.


<= This is how my students react when they understand how programmatic advertising works

This is Johnny's testimony, here

Ahem, ahem... AI engine said to be good as human docs at spotting lung cancer developing

The Register, here

Lithuanian DPA hands down GDPR fine to e-payment company

iapp, here. Google translation of the press release of the LT DPA here

Your Car Knows When You Gain Weight

NYTimes, here

Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at Reagan National causing artificial price surges

WJLA, here

Google’s Huawei restrictions are a wake-up call for all Android phone makers

Venture Beat, here

Friday, May 17, 2019

POTs: Protective Optimization Technologies

S. Gürses et al., here.
And also Privacy after the Agile Turn, here.
And here

Blockchain: practices and perspectives

UNESCO, here

Justice and Data Market

S. Gürses, Video here

Datenschutz im digitalen Zeitalter: Umsetzung der Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) – Bilanz ein Jahr nach Inkrafttreten

P. Schaar, A. Dix, hier

Open banking take-up in the Netherlands less than expected because government promoted GDPR so well

ComputerWeekly.com, here

How can we tell if Google is serious about privacy?

FT, here.

Merger Cooperation and Information Exchange: Types of Information

ICN, here

Uber offers chastening lesson for platform businesses of the future

FT, here

Google, avviata istruttoria per presunto abuso di posizione dominante

AGCM, here

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Clouds over Chicago but not so in Cartagena, Colombia


Do you remember that Finnish anti-discrimination board decision about algorithmic decision-making?

Available in English now, here

Concurrence et commerce : quelles politiques pour l’Europe ?

Conseil d'analyse économique, ici

Already wondering about your summer beach reads? Some great suggestions

J. Ito, here

Review of the VBER - process and timing

P. Bridgeland, here (41/95)

Commission fines Barclays, RBS, Citigroup, JPMorgan and MUFG €1.07 billion for participating in foreign exchange spot trading cartel

EC, here

Google’s new plan to push Google Pay in India: cashback incentives in Android apps

TechCrunch, here

Droht Google & Co. neues Ungemach aus Brüssel?

NZZ, hier

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

The Anti-monopoly Backlash Reaches the Supreme Court

TheAtlantic, here

The 'Scott Morton Review': How to Protect Competition and Consumers in Digital Markets

Report, here.

Chancen und Herausforderungen von DLT (Blockchain) in Mobilität und Logistik

BMVI, hier

BBC to launch 'public service algorithm' to break down filter bubbles

BBC, here

San Francisco becomes the first US city to ban facial recognition by government agencies

TheVerge, here

How the ICO’s Sandbox can help make your innovative idea a reality

ICO, here

Big Tech leapt on the blockchain bandwagon but its applications are stuck in cryptocurrency

The Register, here

App stores and (potential) abuses of dominance – an opportunity to reshape competition law enforcement in digital markets

D. Mandrescu, here

A Review of Competition Policy for the Digital Era

N. Petit, Presentation here

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Antitrust complaint on behalf of HIV patients alleging that Gilead conspired with other drug makers

Here

Unboxing Artificial Intelligence: 10 steps to protect Human Rights

Council of Europe, Recommendation, here.

Por ley buscan regular las empresas de criptomonedas

RCNRadio, aquì

People say they care about privacy but buy devices that can spy on them anyway

Vox, here

Die Datenmacht von Google und Co. Eine Gefahr für den Wettbewerb?

Bertelsmaan Stiftung, hier

Locked-in Data Production: User-Dignity and Capture in the Platform Economy

E. Bietti, here

FinTech or TechFin

C. Skinner, here

There is more to airline dynamic pricing than meets the eye

Podcast, from 10:35, here

Similarities and differences in the assessment of the same three vertical mergers

ICN, here

Vertical Restraints Project - Hypotheticals on Online Parity Requirements and Online Sales Bans

ICN, here

Commission opens investigation into Insurance Ireland data pooling system

EC, here

Monday, May 13, 2019

Chris Hughes on The Daily Podcast

Surprise: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs

Reuters, here.

Première rencontre avec Mark Zuckerberg

C. O, ici

Global Platform Governance: Private Power in the Shadow of the State

H. Bloch-Wehba, here

Antitrust: gara Consip FM4, sanzioni per circa 235 milioni di euro

AGCM, qui.. Provvedimento qui.

Apple v. Pepper

US Supreme Court, here.


Update on Google Shopping

Here

Talking to the Law Student With a Novel Theory About Amazon’s Power

NYMag, here

The EU Needs to Reform the GDPR to Remain Competitive in the Algorithmic Economy

Center for Data Innovation, here

A new government agency to regulate all big tech companies.

Recode with C. Hughes, Podcast here

On sandboxes and those profound mysteries of the algorithmic age


Commission fines AB InBev €200 million for restricting cross-border sales of beer

EC, here

Marketing Agencies and Collusive Bidding∗ in Online Ad Auctions

F. Decarolis, M. Goldmanis, A. Penta, here

Friend portability is the must-have Facebook regulation FTC must pave the path to competition

Techcrunch, here

Allons-nous retrouver notre vie privée?

Lecho.be, ici. 

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Much ado about nothing? Online platform price parity clauses and the EU Booking.com case

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

Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer

N. Clegg, here

New: Participative Antitrust Must Haves Playlist

On Spotify (fittingly?), here.  How it all started here. And this classic treatment in the literature (the file was there until last Saturday, I swear, but you can catch it up live sometime, perhaps, if you're lucky).

...and growing.



Why Google believes machine learning is its future

ArsTechnica, here

France seeks handle on Facebook algos to help combat hate speech

Reuters, here

Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse

TechCrunch, here

Competition Concerns in Labour Markets – Background Note

OECD, Background Note by the Secretariat, here

Licensing of IP Rights and Competition Law

OECD, Background Note by the Secretariat, here

Google, Amazon Patent Filings Reveal Digital Home Assistant Privacy Problems

Consumer Watchdog, here

Créer un cadre français de responsabilisation des réseaux sociaux : agir en France avec une ambition européenne

Rapport de la mission « Régulation des réseaux sociaux – Expérimentation Facebook », ici.  

Friday, May 10, 2019

The Blockchain (R)evolution and the Role of Antitrust

Antitrust Digest, here

Millions of people uploaded photos to the Ever app. Then the company used them to develop facial recognition tools.

NBC News, here

Competition and the rule of law

M. Vestager, here

Rod Sims, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Capitol Forum, Interview here (Video).

Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019

ArsTechnica, here

Antitrust and Innovation: Welcoming and Protecting Disruption

G. Federico, F. Scott Morton, C. Shapiro, here

India orders anti-trust probe of Google for alleged Android abuse - sources

Reuters, here

Antitrust Reading List Proposed by Chris Hughes

Here. And more suggestions here

Mark Zuckerberg has to go. Here are 25 reasons why

The Guardian, here

The German Facebook Antitrust Case Viewed from Brussels?

M. Vestager, here.

Asnef-Equifax is an "interesting" ruling, to be understood in the specific context of the case. My impression is that EU judges would be willing to view things differently today...

Dublin-based Ion Group in talks to buy Mergermarket owner

FT, here

Fintech and Blockchain: Where Silicon Alley Meets Hyperconverged Infrastructure

BankInnovation.net, here

2019 Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Can We Hold Machines Accountable?

Silicon Flatirons Conference, Videos here

GOOGLE’S NEW PRIVACY FEATURES PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY ON USERS

Wired, here

Expedia Under Investigation by Utah Over Hotel Collusion Claims

D. McLaughlin, here.

Not the first time that Expedia and TravelPass lock horns, here