Monday, September 30, 2019

Digitalcharta Innovationsplattform: D

Beschluss des Bundesvorstandes der CDU Deutschlands, hier

FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Facebook's $5 billion fine, YouTube's COPPA violations, and the dangers of under-enforcement

Recode Decode, here

Solicitor General recommends Supreme Court deny cert in Google v Oracle

Here

AI ethics and the limits of code(s)

Nesta, here

Gesamtverband Autoteile-Handel eV v KIA Motors Corporation

Case C‑527/18, here

New Anti-Monopoly Regulations in Force in China

Orrick, here

Google Expands Digital Payments Push in India

Bloomberg, here

Co-Regulation and the Competitive Advantage in the GDPR: Data Protection Certification Mechanisms, Codes of Conduct and the 'State of the Art' of Data Protection-by-Design

M. Grafenstein, here

Google Android

EC, CASE AT.40099, here

THE FUTURE OF COMPETITION LAW: TIME TO CHANGE OR TIME TO ADAPT?

I. de Silva, here

Facebook may copy your app, but Amazon will copy your shoe

The Verge, here

Ecosystem Businesses Are Changing the Rules of Strategy

J. Birkinshaw, here

The Right Way to Regulate Digital Platforms

G. Kimmelman, here

Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier

WSJ, here

EBA outsourcing guidelines: What banks, fintechs and cloud providers need to know

Computer Weekly, here

Competition Law and the Brics

Video here

Big Tech Regulation Shouldn’t Sweep Up Startups, Uber CEO Says

Bloomberg, here

Gov't targeting global OTAs' 'unfair request' over hotel rate

The Korea Times, here

Completed acquisition by PayPal Holdings, Inc. of iZettle AB: Failure to comply with requirements imposed on PayPal by the Initial Enforcement Order

CMA, here

‘We have reached “peak cloning” in Silicon Valley’: when does copying your competitor’s product become anticompetitive?

F. Bostoen, here

Are Key Word Searches Key to Competition? An Analysis of FTC v. 1-800 Contacts

M. Ohlhausen, here

The industry that cries wolf: pharma and innovation

M. Carrier, G. Tung, here

Digitalisering en consumentenbescherming

AFM, hier

Recommendations for the Artificial Intelligence Research Agenda for the Netherlands

C. Muller, here

La CNMC investiga posibles prácticas anticompetitivas en relación con el acceso a las redes de cajeros por parte de ciertas entidades bancarias

CNMC, aquì.

Social Networks or Social Nightmares?

Panel Discussion / Vienna Humanities Festival 2019, September 29, MARX HALLE with Roger McNamee, Evgeny Morozov, Max Schrems and Shalini Randeria, Video here

Proving that competition principles are sufficiently flexible and fit for the future (?)

M. Snoep, here

Data Politics Worlds, Subjects, Rights

Edited By D. Bigo, E. Isin, E. Ruppert, here

WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

WIPO, here

BRISER LE MONOPOLE DES BIG TECH

S. Soriano et al., ici

A new governance for personal data in the XXIst century

PrivacyTech White Paper, here

Jeff Bezos says Amazon is writing its own facial recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers

Vox, here

David Marcus über Libra: «Wenn wir den Zahlungsverkehr nicht revolutionieren, machen es andere»

NZZ, hier

The Fantasy of Opting Out

F. Brunton & H. Nissenbaum, here

Leitfaden Preisspitzen

Bundeskartellamt, hier

THE OECD INTERNATIONAL CARTEL DATABASE

Here

Commission fines Coroos and Groupe CECAB €31.6 million for participating in canned vegetables cartel

EC, here

Düsseldorf Court of Appeal Revokes Antitrust Authority's Data Processing Prohibition for Facebook

CR Online, here

Italian Supervisory Authority approves Code of Conduct for consumer credit agencies

Covington & Burling, here

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

BRICS in the digital economy

Here

Labor markets and competition

R. Chopra, here

Advertising executives point to five ways Google stifles business

Reuters, here

Infrastructure Data Sharing

UK's Regulators Framework, here.

Are Regulatory Agreements to Address Climate Change Anticompetitive?

H. Hovenkamp, here

A national vision for digital agriculture

M. Keogh, here

GDPR in the automotive sector - Data protection authority North Rhine-Westphalia on car garages, joint controllership and product monitoring

C. Pitz, here

The alternatives to privatisation and nationalisation

The Economist, here

Facebook to the ACCC

Regulating digital markets - do we tame the big beasts or set them free?

Diginomica, here

iHuman perspective: Neural interfaces

The Royal Society, here

METHODOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND THE GDPR

M. Hildebrandt, here

Law for Computer Scientists

M. Hildebrandt, here

Digital platforms will soon face more regulatory scrutiny in Japan

White and Case, here

briefing on RTB and the GDPR

J. Ryan, here

Online-Banking: Bafin sieht wenig Probleme bei Umstellung auf PSD2

Heise.de, hier

US regulator says Amazon search algorithm may be ‘problematic’

FT, here

Le défi de l'explicabilité des algorithmes publics

BdT, ici

Blockchain-Strategie der Bundesregierung

BMWI, hier

CJEU decides that the originality level is the same for all copyright works, including works of applied art

E. Derclaye, here

Digital challenges to the international monetary and financial system

B. Cœuré, here

Migration between platforms

G. Biglaiser, J. Crémer and A. Veiga, here

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Friday, September 13, 2019

Faut-il mettre fin aux monopoles des GAFA ?

France Culture, Podcast ici

Justice Department presses Google rivals for info as part of antitrust inquiry

Axios, here

Senate creates select committee on fintech and regtech

AFR, here

Zunehmende Distanz der Politik zu Facebooks Libra

Heise.de, hier

House Antitrust Panel Seeks Documents From 4 Big Tech Firms

NYTimes, here.
The four letters here

Is there a role for blockchain in responsible supply chains?

OECD, here

Phishing & Co: Betrüger nutzen Start der PSD2-Richtlinie aus

Heise.de, hier

We’re living in an era of digital feudalism. Here’s how to take your data and identity back

Quartz, here

Copyright in artificially generated works

AIPPI, here

Google adjusts search algorithm to boost original journalism

FT, here

Security and trust in a digital world

M. Vestager, here

The Council of Europe established an Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence - CAHAI

COE, here

Sorry, Silicon Valley: your tormentor-in-chief just got a bunch of new powers

MIT Technology Review, here

Data trusts raise questions on privacy and governance

FT, here

Why Europe should take the lead on trade

The Economist, here (and here). 

Über influential?

Corporate Europe, here

Brave's Johnny Ryan and IAB Europe clash over GDPR real-time bidding legality

The Drum, here

« Avec le Libra, nous n'allons pas faire de création monétaire »

LesEchos, ici

Advertising executives point to five ways Google stifles business

Reuters, here

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Brad Smith: "Cambridge Analytica was the Three Mile Island for the Tech Sector"

Yahoo Finance, Interview here (from 2:00). 

Smart Speakers and Voice Assistants

CDEI, here

AI and Personal Insurance

CDEI, here

Uber argues its drivers aren’t core to its business, won’t reclassify them as employees

The Verge, here

Friends or foes? Examining platform owners’ entry into complementors’ spaces

F. Zhu, here

France to block development of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency

The Guardian, here (Vidéo ici).

48 States Announce Google Antitrust Investigation, California Not Among Them

KQED, Podcast here

Airbus wants to know everything passengers do on an airplane — including how often they use the bathroom

CNBC, here

OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum 2019

Here. And here.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Fintech’s need to watch their digital backs – short-term lending banned by Google

Daily Fintech, here

Google, Mayo Clinic strike sweeping partnership on patient data

StatNews, here

Google’s cloud chief Thomas Kurian on antitrust, Amazon competition

CNBC, here

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that internet downloads of ebooks are covered by right of communication to the public, not distribution (so, no, there is no digital exhaustion under InfoSoc Directive)

IPKat, here

Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules

ArsTechnica, here and here

Tom Kabinet's Opinion

Here

MARGRETHE VESTAGER AGAIN!!!!!!!!


Announcement here, at (7:56, also from 54:00 and 1:04:00).

COMPETITION ISSUES IN THE DIGITAL ERA – EU DEVELOPMENTS

K. Fountoukakos, S. Hall, here

COMPETITION 4.0

D'Kart, here

48 states are probing Google on antitrust grounds. Why isn’t California?

LATimes, here

AdC condena 14 bancos a coima de 225 milhões de euros

AdC, aqui.

The Case for Employing Hybrid Welfare Standards in Antitrust Matters

S. Walker, Audio here

Technology Tencent Music Dives as Watchdog Probes Its Record-Label Ties

Bloomberg, here

Draft Guidelines Concerning Abuse of a Superior Bargaining Position in Transactions between Digital Platform Operators and Consumers that Provide Personal Information

FTC Japan, here

Monday, September 09, 2019

50 State AGs announce Google antitrust probe

Live, here.  Also watch here.

Frank Pasquale, the Father of Algorithmic Transparency (and Much More) on Competition Lore

Podcast, here

Australia is figuring out its own way to wrestle with tech giants

MarketplaceTech, Podcast here

@Echelle : Furman report

Video here

Ex-ante competition law enforcement and online platforms – a tool with no (clear) instructions

D. Mandrescu, here

Tech Firms Need More Regulation

B. Smith, C. Browne, here

Apple tweaks its App Store algorithm as antitrust investigations loom

TechCrunch, here

Ein neuer Wettbewerbsrahmen für die Digitalwirtschaft

Kommission Wettbewerbsrecht 4.0, hier (Zusammenfassung hier).

FACEBOOK VS. BUNDESKARTELLAMT

R. Podszun, hier

ICYMI: Silvie Goulard moderating an important panel

Here (from 7:46:00).

Le tribunal de commerce de Paris condamne Amazon à une amende de 4 M€ et lui impose de revoir ses conditions générales d’utilisation

Jugement ici

Data portability and privacy

Facebook (yes), here

@Echelle event on 11 April 11 2019 looks at blockchain

Autorité de la concurrence, here

EU competition rules on horizontal agreements between companies – evaluation

EC, here

Wanted: fast solutions for fast-growing platforms

Stibbe, here

EU looking to see if Facebook's Libra currency poses competition risks

Reuters, here

How Each Big Tech Company May Be Targeted by Regulators

NYTimes, here

NY attorney general will lead antitrust investigation into Facebook

TechCrunch, here

How Robert Bork Fathered the New Gilded Age

ProMarket, here

China says new digital currency will be similar to Facebook's Libra

Reuters, here

KI-Enquete: Schon bald erste Empfehlungen?

Tagesspiegel, hier und hier

Digital Economy Report 2019

UNCTAD, here

America’s Existential Antitrust Crisis

Nota Bene, Podcast here

Steve Wozniak on Big Tech

Bloomberg, here.

Bavarian Data Protection Authority publishes new FAQ on requirements for WebFonts, Maps, GoogleAnalytics, Facebook Custom Audience and more

C. Piltz, here

Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers

FT, here.
More here

How a ‘regulatory sandbox’ can drive innovation in financial services

World Finance, here

Monday, August 19, 2019

Google discloses last year's acquisition of mobile learning app Socratic as it relaunches on iOS

TechCrunch, here

Techlash, the Aspen Way


Why Google’s rivals refuse to pay for a slice of the Android search market

The Week, here

DeepMind: The Podcast

Coming soon here

Column: AT&T’s promise of better pay-TV prices and service is ‘bordering on the absurd’

LATimes, here

Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite

NYTimes, here.
AAP's Statement here

What does it even mean to be a tech company in 2019?

Recode, here

Crypto Behemoth Binance Is Planning a Rival to Facebook’s Libra

Bloomberg, here

Privacy for the General Public? The Expansion of Privacy Regulation in California & Beyond

Our Curious Amalgam, Podcast here

Kartellrecht und Ökonomik: Institutions Matter!

O. Budzinski, J. Haucap, hier

Peter Altmaier erlaubt Fusion von Miba und Zollern

Handelsblatt, hier.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

UK data protection regulator launches King's Cross facial recognition probe

FT, here

CMA breaks up assistive communication technology merger

CMA, here

A ‘big data’ firm sells Cambridge Analytica’s methods to global politicians, documents show

Quartz, here

Apple is reportedly in talks to let Siri play Spotify tracks

Engadget, here

What an Ongoing Lawsuit Says About Google’s Power in Online Travel

Open Markets, here

Spain: Legal fight over an algorithm’s code

Algotithm Watch, here

CMA pharma probe secures £8m for the NHS

CMA, here

Irish regulator queries Facebook on transcription of users' audio

Reuters, here

Democratic U.S. senator asks Facebook CEO if he gave 'incomplete' testimony

Reuters, here

Spotify will reportedly test a price hike for its premium service in some markets

TechCrunch, here

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Amazon Is a Monopoly, an Interview With Sally Hubbard

MarketplacePulse, here

Huawei officially reveals Harmony OS, its first party operating system

XDADevelopers, here

EPIC, Legal Scholars, Technology Experts Publish Statement on US AI R&D Policy

EPIC, here

Europa braucht eine Antwort auf Chinas Industriepolitik

J. Haucap, hier

How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power

NYTimes, here

Google's jobs search draws antitrust complaints from rivals

Reuters, here

U.S. LEADERSHIP IN AI

NIST, here

Spotify’s pitch to podcasters: valuable listener data

The Verge, here

L'Autorité de la concurrence autorise sous conditions la création de la plateforme Salto

ADLC, ici

The Revolution Will Not Be Automated

Sydney Review of Books, here

Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle

C. Doctorow, here

Friday, August 09, 2019

Wednesday, August 07, 2019

AI and the Economy

Working Capital, Podcast and Transcript here

Japan's FTC probes Apple over pressuring parts makers

The Mainichi Shimbun, here

How much does Google know about you?

The Guardian, Podcast (at the beach) here

Japan's FTC demands action from four big contractors who keep cropping up in antitrust cases

Japan Times, here

Ten Things To Know About The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry

C. Beaton-Wells, here

Concealed Data Practices and Competition Law: Why Privacy Matters

K. Kemp, here

Twitter says it may have used user data for ads without permission

Reuters, here

Brexit: Food industry seeks no-deal competition waiver

BBC News, here

Antitrust гласность (glasnost): A summer thread

La nouvelle politique de Google sur Android fâche les moteurs de recherche indépendants

Le Monde, ici

Monday, August 05, 2019

FedNow: FAQs

Fed, here

Facebook fine reveals Congress has set up FTC to fail

J. Brookman, here

Joint statement on global privacy expectations of the Libra network

ICO et al., here

"IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization

EFF, here

European Competition Policy in Digital: What’s Next?

N. Petit, here

Merger Brief: SHARING is CAR-ing: Daimler/BMW/Car Sharing JV

Here

Merger brief: A remix of your favourite tunes of data issues in merger control (Apple/Shazam)

Here

Energy Data Taskforce Report

A blueprint for re-regulating the tech sector: ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report released

Corrs, here.

Google, Siri und Alexa US-Konzerne stoppen umstrittene Auswertungspraxis

Tagesspiegel.de, hier.

UK Government Launches ‘Smart Data’ Proposals as Data-Portability Agenda Intensifies

Latham & Watkins, here

Huawei tests smartphone with own operating system, possibly for sale this year: Chinese state media

Reuters, here

Takeaway.com and Just Eat agree food delivery tie-up

FT, here.

Goldman-Backed Apple Card Restricts Cryptocurrency Purchases

Bitcoin.com, here

Friday, August 02, 2019

The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers

The Verge, here

Banning cryptocurrencies in India not the solution: Nasscom

The Economic Times, here.
Report here.

Google to Ask Rivals to Bid to Be Default Search on Phones

Bloomberg, here.
More from Qwant here

Sprachassistenzsysteme auf dem Prüfstand – Datenschutzbehörde eröffnet Verwaltungsverfahren gegen Google

Datenschutz-hamburg.de, hier

Speech Renegade Pandas: Opportunities for Cross Border Cooperation in Regulation of Digital Assets

SEC, here

Hot questions on data portability under the GDPR from Italy

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, here

Overseeing the Fintech Revolution: Domestic and International Perspectives on Fintech Regulation

Task Force on Financial Technology, Hearing, Video here (C. Woolard at 40:00, his written evidence here).
SEC's Fintech Forum, Video here

U.S. FTC Probes Facebook's Acquisition Practices-WSJ

NYTimes, here

How cities are using private sector data

J. Hardinges, here

Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe

The Verge, here

Amazon fera payer la « taxe GAFA » à ses vendeurs français

Le Monde, ici

Chinese financial services apps accused of overcollecting user data

TechNode, here.

Piano supplier fined £3.7m for illegally preventing price discounts

CMA, here

Jerome Powell: Fed 'seriously considering' faster payments system

Politico.com, here.

How To Stay Ahead Of Evolving, Unpredictable Digital Platforms

Forbes, here

Challenge to FTC/Facebook 2019 Settlement

EPIC, here

AGCOM: AVVIATA ANALISI DI MERCATO NEL SETTORE DELLA PUBBLICITÀ ONLINE

AGCOM, here

Digital Platforms and Digital Moments

R. Picker, Video here

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Sampling-Urteil des EuGH: Im Zweifel für die Kunstfreiheit

Heise.de, hier.

Carrier bags data

Data.defra.gov.uk, here

Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing project

The Verge, here

Paiement en ligne: L'Autorité rejette la saisine de l'hébergeur de contenus en ligne Dstorage (1fichier.com)

Autorité de la concurrence, ici

Daten – das Öl des 21. Jahrhunderts

Auszug aus Justus Haucap »Macht, Markt und Wettbewerb«, S. 5–13, hier

Guidance on Cryptoassets

FCA, here.

Visa pitches a program offering fintechs faster market access through an ecosystem of partners

TechCrunch, here

TECH-OVER: AN OVERVIEW OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN DIGITAL MARKETS

Lear, here

Our Data Future

Privacy International, here

Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the human rights impacts of algorithmic systems

Council of Europe, here

Why Google employees are donating to Warren and Sanders — presidential candidates who want to break up Google

Recode, here

Réguler au niveau européen

Le Soir, ici

You can't simply pay a fine to make us go away

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Interview here

New DPIA on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

PrivacyCompany, here

Can Antitrust Enforcement Improve Privacy Protection? Privacy as a Parameter of Competition in Merger Reviews

M. MacCarthy, here

Data Right set to sail through

InnovationAus, here

The DPO Handbook

Elaborated for the EU‐funded “T4DATA” programme , here

Petre warns on ACCC tech report

Innovationaus, here

US Defense Department to Develop Blockchain Cybersecurity Shield

CoinDesk, here

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Digital Socialism?

E. Morozov, here. 

Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain

Congressional Research Service, here.
Blockchain Association, here.
M. Baradaran, here

CJEU rules that use of a protected work for the purpose of reporting current events does not, in principle, require authorization

IPKat, here

Will Facebook’s Libra Change the Way the World Banks?

Foreign Affairs, here

China’s Long View

Project Syndicate, here

What comes next? The business analysis of no deal preparations

CBI, here

Data subjects as data controllers: a Fashion(able) concept?

L. Edwards et al., here.

Fashion ID ruling here

Monsanto seeks time to respond to CCI probe on it abusing dominant position in India

The Economic Times, here.

Capital One: hacker stole data of over 100m Americans

The Guardian, here

Ant-Financial-Backed Startup Rides Indonesian Fintech Wave

Bloomberg, here

From energy to insurance: How Open Banking could fix the loyalty penalty headache

Citya.m., here

ICO selects first participants for data protection Sandbox

ICO, here.

CJEU rules that freedom of information and of the press cannot justify a derogation from the rights of copyright holders beyond allowed exceptions and limitations

IPKat, here

The future of online advertising regulation

ICO, here

Facebook’s Libra and the scourge of hot money

FT, here

IP Rights for Data: Mortaring Over the Cracks

Mayer Brown, here

Facebook's Libra could massively help the cryptocurrency industry — or hurt it badly

CNN, here.

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