Thursday, July 25, 2019

Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement

Vice, here

Viele neue Account-Sperren auf Amazon - Händler sind ratlos

Internet World, hier

Les clefs pour comprendre l'activisme de la Commission européenne contre Amazon

F. Marty, ici

Big Tech and Antitrust: A Discussion With Randal Picker

Technology Policy Institute, Podcast here

Facebook amasses army to lobby on Libra

Politico, here

Why You’ll Never Quit Amazon Prime

Land of the Giants, Podcast here

Digital Europe: Draft Orientations for the preparation of the work programme(s) 2021-2022

EC, here

New EU rules for the Platform Economy

EC, Video here

What affects the flow of data-enabled international trade?

ODI, here

Interview with Andreas Mundt

Who Owns Americans’ Personal Information and What Is It Worth?

R. Shapiro, S. Aneja, here.

Calls Mount to Ease Big Tech’s Grip on Your Data

NYTimes, here

Regulator prohibits use of transaction data for marketing purposes

White & Case, here

Spielregeln für Giganten

Die Zeit, hier

Geo­blocking: Online-Beschwerdeformular

Bundesnetzagentur, hier

Treasury's Mnuchin says Amazon 'destroyed' U.S. retail sector

Reuters, here

The real threat/d

A. Stamos, Thread here

Facebook ends friend data access for Microsoft and Sony, the last 2 of its legacy partners, under FTC deal

TechCrunch, here

Businesses begin to benefit from Current Account Switching Service

FinExtra, here

Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain

United States Senate Banking Committee, Hearing, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 4 pm Trento Time, live here

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Data isn't the new oil, it's the new CO2

M. Tisné, here

The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom

A. Stamos, Video here

Facebook to Pay $100 Million for Misleading Investors About the Risks It Faced From Misuse of User Data

SEC, Press Release here; juicy complaint here

FTC Imposes $5 Billion Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook

FTC, here. Complaint here.
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER ROHIT CHOPRA, here.
DISSENTING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER REBECCA KELLY SLAUGHTER, here.

The Great Hack

Documentary, here

The EC Report on Competition Policy for 2018: Themes and Trends

Hausfeld, here

EU privacy ruling against Facebook to come by end 2019

Politico.eu, here

THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2019

WIPO, here.

General Data Protection Regulation shows results, but work needs to continue

EC, here

Do cities have access to the private sector data they need to make effective decisions?

ODI, here

EU draws up sweeping rules to curb illegal online content

FT, here

Justice Department Reviewing the Practices of Market-Leading Online Platforms

DOJ, here

Technology: how the US, EU and China compete to set industry standards

FT, here

Innovation is more than amassing customers

FT, here

Competition Issues in the Digital Economy

Russian Federation, here

Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models

L. Rocher et al., ici

Amazon Testimony May Have Been Untruthful, Top Democrat Says

Bloomberg, here

WHITE PAPER: THE DATA MOBILITY OPPORTUNITY

digi.me, here

L'apport du droit de la compliance à la gouvernance d'internet

Rapport commandé par Monsieur le Ministre en charge du Numérique, ici.

(DROIT DE LA CONCURRENCE ET DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE ici.)

Guidance on the interpretation and application of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts

EC, here

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

How Russia Defeated Google’s Monopoly

M. Stoller, here

Unlocking Access to Self-Driving Research: The Lyft Level 5 Dataset and Competition

Lyft, here

Datenökonomie: Sommerlektüre

Hier

Competition rules must continue to evolve

G. Clark, here

Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific Capitalism

K. Birch, here

Commission fines US chipmaker Qualcomm €242 million for engaging in predatory pricing

EC, here

Common Understanding of G7 Competition Authorities on “Competition and the Digital Economy”

Here.
Présentation Isabelle de Silva, présidente de l’Autorité de la concurrence, here

Update from the Chair of the G7 working group on stablecoins

G7, here

Cade instaura processos para apurar cartéis em licitações de estádios da Copa e de edificações especiais da Petrobras

CADE, aqui

G7 warns on ‘serious risks’ posed by Libra and other digital coins

FT, here

Competition & regulation

C. Ritter, here

Cookies et autres traceurs : la CNIL publie de nouvelles lignes directrices

CNIL, here

Breaking Up: “It’s Not You, It’s Me”, “Maybe We Should See Other People” and “with or without You”

P. Marsden, here

UK CMA’s Digital Market Strategy

Antitrust Digest, here

Antitrust in the Digital Economy

Conversable Economist, here

The EU's latest antitrust probe could hit Amazon where it hurts

Wired, here

Crémer Report on Competition for the Digital Era Misses the Mark

Disco, here

Separation without a Breakup

P. Guniganti, here

Legal risk as a competitive advantage

Former Apple general counsel interviewed here

Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech

T. O'Reilly, here

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

India plan to merge ID with health records raises privacy worries

FT, here

G-7-Finanzminister machen Front gegen Facebooks Libra

FAZ, hier

Amazon Faces Probe in Europe Over Third-Party Selling

WSJ, here

Examining Facebook’s Proposed Cryptocurrency and Its Impact on Consumers, Investors, and the American Financial System

Hearing, here

Innovationen: Open-Source-Veteran soll Deutschland auf die Sprünge helfen

Heise.de, hier

Ein wachsames Auge auf Amazon

FAZ, hier

PSD2's narrow focus limiting the potential of Open Banking - report

FinExtra, here

Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon

EC, here

UK National Data Strategy: OKFN's Response

OKFN, here

Calls to rein in the tech titans are getting louder

The Economist, here

It’s Time to Reboot the Startup Economy

T. Wu, here

Reframing platform power

J. van Dijck, D. Nieborg, T. Poell, here

IBM announces Data Asset eXchange (DAX) to help developers use free and open data and AI

IBM blog, here

Open Banking: Preparing for Lift Off

ODI, Fingleton, here

An agent-based model on the effects of data sharing on economic innovation

ODI, here

‘I Don’t Trust You Guys’: Lawmakers Unite to Take Aim at Big Tech

NYTimes, here

Amazon ändert Geschäftsbedingungen

BWB, hier.
Fallbericht hier

Bundeskartellamt obtains far-reaching improvements in the terms of business for sellers on Amazon’s online marketplaces

Bundeskartellamt, here.
Fallbericht hier

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

EPIC Seeks Public Release of FTC Settlement with Facebook

EPIC, here

Amazon offers $10 to Prime Day shoppers who hand over their data

Yahoo Finance, here

Only Regulation Can Jump-start Competition in Big Tech

Public Knowledge, here

Competition merger brief

EC, July 2019, here

Everything you need to know about Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency

CNN, here

Habile : le WWF a inventé une fausse géolocalisation Instagram pour protéger des sites naturels

Numérama, ici

Why YouTube Keeps Demonetizing Videos of the Hong Kong Protests

One Zero, here

Libra, the GAFA, and Libra again.

Testimonies, herehere and here. 

Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

J. Stiglitz, here

Data sharing code of practice

ICO, here

UK National Data Strategy: ODI's Response

ODI, here

Regulator's increased interest in technology transactions

White and Case, here

@Echelle : la politique de concurrence à l'ère du numérique

Le nez dans le code
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Vidéo ici (dès 21:51; accès aux données pour l'entraînement des algos AI dès 1:01:40; more technological approach dès 1:38:07 "nez dans le code"). 

Calibra: Testimony

US Senate COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS, here

1 big thing: Using a privacy law to filch data

Axios, here

Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional y la aplicación para dispositivos móviles de La Liga

AEDP, aquì

Monday, July 15, 2019

YouTube's Trampled Foes Plot Antitrust Revenge

BloombergQuint, here

The Toxic Potential of YouTube’s Feedback Loop

Wired, here.

U.S. Proposes Barring Big Tech Companies From Offering Financial Services, Digital Currencies

NYTimes, here

The Rise of Digital Money

IMF, here

Digital upstarts need to play by the same rules as everyone else

FT, here

Geleaktes Arbeitspapier: EU-Kommission erwägt neues Gesetz für Plattformen

Netzpolitik.org, hier

Régime juridique applicable aux traitements poursuivant une finalité de recherche scientifique (hors santé)

CNIL, ici

Elements of strong customer authentication under PSD2

EBA, Opinion, here

CYBG launches energy switching service within banking mobile app

FinExtra, here.

Licensing of FinTech business models

ESMA, Report here

Protecting Journalism in the Age of Digital Platforms

Stigler Center, Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms, here

Commission d'enquête: Souveraineté numérique

Audition du CSA, de l'ARCEP, de l'Autorité de la concurrence, Vidéo ici.

Décision: (pas de) mesures conservatoires à l'encontre de Amazon

Conseil de la Concurrence, ici

Congressional leaders have drafted a bill that would ban Big Tech from launching a digital asset

The Block, here

Digital Dystopia

J. Tirole, here

Canada’s nascent AI sector needs data standards to thrive

TheGlobeandMail, here

Digital Manipulation

TED Radio Hour, here

The Value of Trustworthy AI

D. Danks, here.

Invisible Influence

D. Susser, here

Compensation at the Crossroads

T. Hresko Pearl, here

AI + Art = Human

A. Daniele, Y.-Z. Song, here

TED: Teaching AI to Explain its Decisions

M. Hind, here

Requirements for an Artificial Agent with Norm Competence

B. Malle et al., here.

Moment des Aussterbens

S. Spiekermann, hier

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