Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Online platforms and digital advertising: Market study interim report

UK data watchdog promises no regulatory changes before the New Year

The Drum, here

Exploring anonymity in central bank digital currencies

ECB, here

Internet Giants, Defied by Bitcoin, Now See Its Tech as a Remedy

NYTimes, here.
More here

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

Japan FTC, here

Amazon slams media for not saying nice things about AWS, denies it strip-mines open-source code for huge profits

The Register, here

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Japan to Tighten Screws on Tech Giants to Ensure Transparency

NYTimes, here

US: PNC blocks Venmo, tells users to Switch to Zelle

CPI, here

Data governance : Ethical, Political & Legal Challenges

GFAIH_SESSION 2, video here.

Tech *Pour* Good?

P. Méda, Vidéo ici

Faut-il remettre au pas les Big Techs qui « stérilisent l’innovation » ?

Larevuedudigital.com, ici

A genuine innovation in capitalism: big fines for treating consumers unfairly

D. Stalibrass, here

Amazon’s third-party merchants are now barred from using FedEx Ground for Prime shipments

TechCrunch, here

The Internet & Jurisdiction Global Status Report 2019

Secretariat of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, here.  

Twitter Wants Social Media to Be More Like Email

PCMag, here

Decentralized Finance – ein Protokoll-basiertes Finanzsystem

Blockchain-stuttgart.de, hier

Twitter tries to find another way to solve the censorship dilemma

Telecoms.com, here

Monday, December 16, 2019

U.S. Antitrust Policy: A Discussion with Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim

Hudson Institute, Video here

Japan to keep tight leash on Big Tech in antitrust push

Nikkei, here

ANTITRUST IN TIMES OF UPHEAVAL: CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING

R. Podszun, here

For me, the most remarkable antitrust development this year is...

V. Kathuria, here

Anticipated acquisition by Amazon of a minority shareholding and certain rights in Deliveroo

CMA, here

Google’s $2.1B acquisition of Fitbit faces DOJ probe: sources

New York Post, here

One year anniversary of the Consumer Council’s complaint against Google´s location tracking

Forbrukerradet, here

Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

NYTimes, here

Félix Tréguer : «L’informatique accentue les rapports de pouvoir plus qu’elle n’égalise les rapports de force»

Libé, ici

Google warns Turkish partners over new Android phones amid dispute

Reuters, here

Margrethe Vestager examines EU curbs on state-backed foreign companies

FT, here

Greed is dead

TLS, here

Lessons From the First Digital Gold Boom

CoinDesk, here

On the Privacy Implications of Real Time Bidding

M. Ahmad Bashir, here.

The Growing Trend of Ecosystems Within Financial Services

The Fintech Times, here

EuGH: Marke "Der Grüne Punkt" der Duales System Deutschland GmbH ist doch nicht überwiegend wegen Verfalls zu löschen

Beckmann und Norda, hier

Competition watchdog investigates Viagogo over £3bn StubHub takeover

The Guardian, here

Apple buys UK photography start-up Spectral Edge

FT, here

Chillin’Competition Conference 2019- The Videos

Here

Review of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation: Results Inside and Outside the Public Consultation

EC, here

Does the doctrine of exhaustion apply to videogames purchased digitally? French court says oui

M. Rucz, here

A sign referring to marijuana may not, as the law currently stands, be registered as an EU trade mark

EU GC, here

DRAFT ISSUES PAPER ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

WIPO Secretariat, here

Intelligence artificielle, innovation et propriétés intellectuelles

LexRadio, ici

30 RECOMMENDATIONS ON REGULATION, INNOVATION AND FINANCE

EU ROFIEG, here

DATA-INFORMED DUTIES IN AI DEVELOPMENT

F. Pasquale, here

TRUST, DECENTRALIZATION, AND THE BLOCKCHAIN

A. Guadamuz, here

Sharing is caring? That depends…

EDPS, here

AINow 2019 Report

Here

Towards a bolder Annual Report on EU Competition Policy

Renew Europe, here.

Competition/Antitrust Rap

P. Marsden, Video here

High-Priced Acquisitions of Tech Startups Do Not Always Stimulate More Innovation

Pro-Market, here

Privacy in the EU and US: Consumer experiences across three global platforms

TACD, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, here

Report on Experience Gained in the Implementation of the GDPR

 Conference of Independent German Federal and State Data Protection Supervisory Authorities (DSK), here

Steel manufacturers fined approx. 646 million euros for agreeing on prices of quarto plates

Bundeskartellamt, here

The deployment of algorithms and Artificial Intelligence systems in markets

N. Petit, here

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INNOVATION FAILURES AND INSTITUTIONS IN CONTEXT

B. Frischmann, M. McKenna, here

CONFRONTING BLACK BOXES

AI Now Institute, here

Regulating in the digital age

AU Government Response and Implementation Roadmap for the Digital Platforms Inquiry, here

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

M. Masnick, here

India proposes first major data protection law

FT, here

The EU’s Whistleblowing Directive

Orrick, here

JAYAPAL PRESSES GOOGLE ON HEALTH DATA COLLECTION

Letter here

Competition Policy in a Globalized, Digitalized Economy

WEF, here

A Payments System for the Digital Economy

P. Lowe, here

Forward together - the socio-economic dimension of cash and remittances

J. Beermann, here

The Digital Roadmap: how developing countries can get ahead

Pathways for Prosperity Commission, here

Exploitative Conducts in Digital Markets: Time for a Discussion after the Facebook Decision

M. Botta, K. Wiedemann, here

Framing the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis

H. Hovenkamp, F. Scott Morton, here

Big tech's next prey: Big Finance

Axios, here

Monday, December 09, 2019

Sanofi will Biotechfirma Synthorx für 2,5 Milliarden Dollar kaufen

Handelsblatt, hier

Brussels asks news groups to describe data deals with Google

FT, here

Microsoft’s GitHub mulls expansion in China

The Economist, here

Defining markets in a new age

M. Vestager, here

BMW Sues Air Conditioning Suppliers Over Price Fixing

NYTimes, here

NATO-Linked Researchers Bought Fake Social Media Engagements To Test How Facebook, Twitter, And Google Combat Manipulation. The Companies Failed.

Buzzfeednews, here

Embraer investor wants EU to block "killer" Boeing deal

Reuters, here

IS IT TIME TO BREAK UP BIG TECH?

Bu.edu, here

The laws protecting our data are too weak

Yahoo.com, here

General principles for the use of Artificial Intelligence in the financial sector

Dutch Central Bank, here

La Libra, un stablecoin aux multiples enjeux juridiques

Dl4t.org, ici

Bitcoin: the Good and the Bad

M. Rauchs, TedTalk here

China survey shows high concern over facial recognition abuse

FT, here

Facebook Gets $4m Fine From Hungary for Claim Services Are Free

Bloomberg, here

Chinese Courts and Internet Judiciary.

Supreme People’s Court (SPC), here

Data-Driven and Digital Procurement Governance: Revisiting Two Well-Known Elephant Tales

A. Sanchez-Graells, here. 

Third-party dependencies in cloud services

FSB, here. 

BigTech in finance

FSB, here

France Plans a Revolution to Rein in the Kings of Big Tech

Wired, here

Is the fintech bubble bursting?

FT, here

WIE ALGORITHMEN VERSTÄNDLICH WERDEN

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, hier

Pseudonymisation techniques and best practices

Enisa, here

Thursday, December 05, 2019

Monday, December 02, 2019

Assessing Innovation Theories of Harm in EU Merger Control

S. Solidoro, here

Consciously decoupling the US economy

FT, here

He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk in North Korea. The U.S. Arrested Him.

NYTimes, here

Explaining decisions made with AI

ICO, Alan Turing Institute:
The basics, here;
Explaining AI in practice, here;
What explaining AI means for your organisation, here.


Data Services Market Inquiry: Final Report Presentation

South Africa Competition Commission, Video here.
Final Report's SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, here

Wo fängt Marktmachtmissbrauch in Zeiten von Algorithmen und Datensammlern an?

#DigitalerMut mit @AdDeuschle, Podcast hier

Data, technology and policy coordination

A. Carstens, here. 

COMPETITION FOR-THE-MARKET: TACKLING THE INCUMBENCY ADVANTAGE

E. Iossa for the OECD, here

Summaries of the various written contributions received for the discussion on "Merger control in dynamic markets"

OECD, here

CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING (16): DIE 10. GWB-NOVELLE BEIM 6. BERLINER KOLLOQUIUM DES FIW

D'Kart, hier

Digital power at the service of humanity

M. Vestager, here (my very own copy with highlights as I currently can't find it back on the EC's website)

EU spotlight on Big Tech

FT, here

UK competition watchdog invites to comment on Google’s $2.6bn Looker deal

FT, here

Updating Competition Policy for the Digital Economy? An Analysis of Recent Reports in Germany, UK, EU, and Australia

W. Kerber, here

Google Accused by Rival of Antitrust Violations in Ad Market

Bloomberg, here.
Complaint, here

Große DSGVO-Verfahren: Deutsche Datenschützer wollen die Iren zum Jagen tragen

Heise.de, hier

EU antitrust regulators seek details of Google's data practices: document

Reuters, here

L’EUROPE FACE AUX NATIONALISMES ÉCONOMIQUES AMÉRICAIN ET CHINOIS (1) POLITIQUE DE CONCURRENCE ET INDUSTRIE EUROPÉENNE

Fondapol.org, here/ici.

More (or Less) Economic Limits of the Blockchain

N. Gandal, J. Gans, here

US-Kartelluntersuchung soll Apples neue Datenschutzfunktionen prüfen

Heise.de, hier

Shipper anger at EC extension to shipping consortia block exemption regulation

TheLoadStar, here

Towards the retail payments of tomorrow: a European strategy

B. Cœuré, here

Data flows in international trade: what are the governance options?

ODI, here

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

J. Furman, here

A Guide on the use of cookies

AEPD, here

Bank-Manager über PSD2: Datenteilen nutzt vor allem Google, Facebook und Apple

Heise.de, hier

Axel Springer unit, others say Google still playing unfairly, want EU to act

Reuters, here

Proceeding against Deutsche Bahn AG - Bundeskartellamt examines possible anticompetitive impediment of mobility platforms

Bundeskartellamt, here

Even Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency Can Spill Your Secrets

Wired, here

« L'antitrust doit prendre en compte la protection des données personnelles », déclare la présidente de la CNIL Irlandaise

LesEchos, ici

Untersuchung der Umsetzung der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) durch Online-Dienste

Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, hier

Innovation in Financial Services: A Regulator’s Perspective

E. Sibley, here

If a monopoly gives away free services is it a problem?

FT, here

Bundestag beschließt „Lex ApplePay“

BargeldlosBlog, hier

Connected car prices may rise if Qualcomm wins antitrust case: auto makers

Reuters, here

SURVEILLANCE GIANTS: HOW THE BUSINESS MODEL OF GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK THREATENS HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International, here

FAIR play in geoscience data

Nature.com, here

The World Trade Organization Is Dying. What Should Replace It?

NYTimes, here

Independent Sector Regulators

BEUC, here

Chinese tech groups shaping UN facial recognition standards

FT, here

Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City

NYTimes, here

EU investigates Google data collection practices

Engadget, here

Industriestrategie 2030

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi), hier

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The State of Online Privacy and Data Security

M. Cantwell, here.

US floats approval process for tech that poses security threat

FT, here

Tech Nationalism 5G, Cybersecurity and Trade

IGF 2019, Video here

New Directions in Privacy and Competition Policy

Forbes, here

Human Rights and Digital Platforms

IGF 2019, Video (from 4:40), here

Principles for a human-centric, thriving and balanced data economy

EU2019.fi, here

A Roadmap for a Fair Data Economy

L. Ilves and D. Osimo, here

Position Paper on National and European Champions in Merger Control

Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, here

Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data

OECD, here

What Can Be Done? Digital Media Policy Options for Strengthening European Democracy

R. Kleis Nielsen, R. Gorwa, and M. de Cock Buning, here

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EAT THE LAW? THE RISE OF HYBRID SOCIAL-ORDERING SYSTEMS

T. Wu, here

Amazon Doesn’t Favor Its Own Brands—Except When It Does

Wired, here

The Second Wave of Algorithmic Accountability

F. Pasquale, here

Kill Zone

S. Kamepalli, R. Rajan, L. Zingales, here

Facebook and Twitter say hundreds of users accidentally gave improper access to personal data through third-party apps

Cnbc, here

Leaving Hotel California: Promoting alternatives to the internet giants

IGF 2019, Video (from 2:28:27), here.

Monday, November 25, 2019

The Clash of Codes

IGF 2019, Video here

Data Governance and Competition

IGF 2019, 26 Nov at 9.30 am, streaming here.

ICN’s Merger Working Group held a teleseminar on digital mergers

J. Neely, here.

Uber Is Fighting to Survive in London After Losing Its License

NYTimes, here

Google runs into data fears over $2.1bn Fitbit deal

FT, here

GOOD PRACTICES FOR SECURITY OF SMART CARS

ENISA, here

Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web

The Guardian, here

FSFE begrüßt CDU Parteitagsbeschluss zum verpflichtenden Einsatz Freier Software

FSFE, hier

Privacy 2030: A New Vision for Europe

Iapp, here

'Privacy 2030'

C. D'Cunha, here

Report of the Competition Law Review Committee

Here

German car manufacturers fined for anticompetitive practices in the purchase of steel

Bundeskartellamt, here

Games consoles: The Autorité launches a market consultation

Adlc, here

Faster and more effective enforcement of competition rules in digital markets - the complementary role of ex ante regulation

EP, Question for written answer, here

Competing funeral businesses in a tiny and saturated market

Wooden Overcoats, Podcast here

"My jokes will still work"

S. Baron Cohen, Video here

Guidelines 4/2019 on Article 25 Data Protection by Design and by Default

EDPB, here

Privacy and competition in an age of data

M. Vestager, here

The CNMC investigates the possible use of price algorithms to facilitate collusion in the real estate brokerage market

A. Robles Martín-Laborda, here.

Valuing data is tricky but crucial for the public good

D. Coyle, here

Amazon admits to Congress that it uses ‘aggregated’ data from third-party sellers to come up with its own products

CNBC, here.  Amazon's responses here

China goes full digital with its currency market

Fintech Finance, here

Antitrust and High Tech, Platform Companies - A New Future for Antitrust?

University of Utah October 25-26, Video here.

Ad tech industry questions intentions behind Google’s latest privacy moves

Digiday, here

Unearthing the complete set of harms to patients and innovation

R. Chopra, here

Integration and Monopoly

Stratechery, here

The Utah Statement: Reviving Antimonopoly Traditions for the Era of Big Tech

T. Wu, here

„Lex ApplePay“ – Sternstunden in Berlin und woanders

Paymentandbanking, hier

Big Tech Acquisitions and the Potential Competition Doctrine: The Case of Facebook

M. Glick, C. Ruetschlin, here

Facebook's Libra testnet has logged over 51,000 transactions, deployed 34 projects

The Block, here

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Friday, November 15, 2019

Apple warns of risks from German law to open up mobile payments

Reuters, here

Competition policy cannot be responsible of everything

A. Faya, here

States’ massive Google antitrust probe will expand into search and Android businesses

CNBC, here

AI regulation in the EU: The risks of a human-rights based approach

Fingleton, here

Les bacs à sable réglementaires

Petit-déjeuner de la Chaire Gouvernance et Régulation, ici

Enough With the Big Corporate Mergers

N. Colin, here

ACCESS TO CONSUMERS’ DATA IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

BEUC, here

Google-Fitbit Deal Should Be Blocked by U.S., Groups Say

Bloomberg, here

Protocols As Minimally Extractive Coordinators

Placeholder.vc, here

Apple launches research app in push to gather users’ health data

FT, here

AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers

SkyNetToday, here

Avis sur la proposition de loi du pays interdisant l'importation et la distribution de certains écrans solaires contenant des perturbateurs endocriniens

Autorité de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, ici

Data for money: App facilitating data portability now under the EDPB's scrutiny

Iapp, here

Data Network Effects: The Example of Internet Search

M. Schaefer, G. Sapi, here

Lex Apple Pay: Kopfschmerzen in Cupertino? Der Kommentar von Rudolf Linsenbarth

IT Finanzmagazin, hier

Data, technology and policy coordination

A. Carstens, here

Google plan to lock down user data draws fire from advertisers

FT, here

Data Trusts: Why, What and How

Algotithm Watch, here

EU needs to get its own digital house in order

FT, here

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

More Pros and Cons of Vertical Restraints

Swedish competition authority, here

Facebook Pay consolidates payments across apps

FinExtra, here

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of WeWork

Bloomberg, Video here

A tale of two money markets - fragmentation or concentration

B. Cœuré, here

UK AI - Where are we now?

C. Middleton, here

The Geography of Innovation: Local Hotspots, Global Networks

WIPO, here

The Google Squeeze

Stratechery, here

Technical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence: An Understanding from an Intellectual Property Law Perspective

J. Drexl et al, here

EU looks to join digital currency wave in response to Libra

FinExtra, here

China is Pushing Toward Global Blockchain Dominance

Wired, here

The Dark Psychology of Social Networks

The Atlantic, here

Let´s call a spade a spade: abuse of power in the digital economy must end

BEUC, here

What Google’s access to health data means for Fitbit deal

Politico.com, here

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Germany’s Pressing Ahead: The Proposal for a Reformed Competition Act

R. Podszun, F. Brauckmann, here

SPD will mit staatlicher Agentur Datenmonopol von Internetkonzernen brechen

Handelsblatt, hier

China regulator warns e-commerce platforms to stop monopolistic practices

Reuters, here

How Google Edged Out Rivals and Built the World’s Dominant Ad Machine: A Visual Guide

WSJ, here

Bill Gates thinks Windows Mobile would have beaten Android without Microsoft’s antitrust woes

The Verge, here

China: Doch keine weiteren Beschränkungen für Bitcoin-Mining

Heise.de, hier

Comparative Competition Law

CCL, here

Consummated Merger of Microprocessor Prosthetic Knee Companies Was Anticompetitive

FTC, here

Completed acquisition by Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. of Experian Limited’s Experian Payments Gateway Business and related assets

CMA, Decision to refer here

Corporate Surveillance of Everyday Life. How Companies Use Personal Data against People

W. Christl, here

77m Ltd v Ordnance Survey Ltd

Here

Why Facebook’s data-sharing initiative is faltering

FT, here

EU's Vestager says Google's antitrust proposal not helping shopping rivals

Reuters, here

How the GDPR Approaches Algorithmic Accountability

TAP, here

Powerful Coalition Pushes Back on Anti-Tech Fervor

NYTimes, here

A Guide to Privacy by Design

AEPD, here

Die EU bastelt an einem Recht auf Reparatur

Heise.de, hier

Decentralised digital ecosystems and competition law: a conceptual framework

R. Nicholls, S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here (very first draft, please do let us know if you have any comments!).

Tuesday, November 05, 2019

What is Google going to do with your Fitbit data? Anything it likes

Wired, here

Competition for-the-market: Advocacy & Enforcement in Concessions

OECD Background Paper, here

COMPETITION POLICY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

OECD Background Paper, here

Open Banking: Regulatory Challenges for a New Form of Financial Intermediation in a Data-Driven World

N. Remolina, here

Restrictions on Privacy and Exploitation in the Digital Economy: A Competition Law Perspective

N. Economides, I. Lianos, here.

Facial recognition: A solution in search of a problem?

EDPS, here

CLIMATE CHANGE, SUSTAINABILITY AND COMPETITION LAW

S. Holmes, here

Canada's competition watchdog investigating travel site Flighthub

CBC, here

Google’s CSS Auction: Different Name, Same Illegal Conduct

Search Neutrality, here

Monopolization in the Name of Privacy: Google Is Slowly But Steadily Closing Its Advertising Ecosystem

H. Singer, here

IIF’s panel on the Future of Money

Video, here

The Government will share the Spanish financial and health data with companies

VozPopuli, here

Facebook reportedly was in talks to buy Fitbit before Google was

The Verge, here

Anti-Hipster Antitrust

J. Newman, here

What Google's Fitbit Buy Means for the Future of Wearables

Wired, here

Elements of Zuboff’s surveillance capitalism

G. Greenleaf, here

Entwurf eines Gesetzes für eine bessere Versorgung durch Digitalisierung und Innovation

Deutscher Bundestag, hier.  

Teens Love TikTok. Silicon Valley Is Trying to Stage an Intervention.

NYTimes, here

Apple Pay in EU antitrust spotlight as regulators seek details

Reuters, here

INTRODUCTION TO THE HASH FUNCTION AS A PERSONAL DATA PSEUDONYMISATION TECHNIQUE

EDPS, here

WSJCoin: To Understant Cryptocurrencies, We Created One

Video, here

I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too.

NYTimes, here

Global Think-in: The Code of Capital

Podcast, here

EU-Parlamentsvize Barley will Aufspaltung von Amazon

Presse-Augsburg.de, hier.

Rana Foroohar on taming big tech

FT, Podcast here

Pixel Watch : pourquoi le rachat de Fitbit est une excellente affaire pour Google

Numérama, ici

Commission opens investigation into possible collusion by two French retailers in a purchasing alliance

EC, here

Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte verhängt Bußgeld gegen Immobiliengesellschaft

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, here

A Libra Co-Creator on How Facebook Will Make Money From Calibra

Unchained, Podcast here.

Bedroht Facebooks eigene Währung das staatliche Geldmonopol? Bundesbankvorstand Wuerme­ling sieht große Risiken

SZ, hier

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

China Announces New Regulatory Authority to Certify Digital Payments, Blockchain Products

Coindesk, here

The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets

T. Philippon, here

Restrictions on Privacy and Exploitation in the Digital Economy: A Competition Law Perspective

N. Economides, I. Lianos, here

Google sued by ACCC after allegedly misleading customers over location data collection

Google, here

HOW MUCH BRANDEIS DO THE NEO-BRANDEISIANS WANT?

D. Crane, here

RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT AND FACILITATE REGULATORY CO-OPERATION BETWEEN DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITIES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMPETITION AUTHORITIES TO ACHIEVE CLEAR AND CONSISTENTLY HIGH STANDARDS OF DATA PROTECTION IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners October 2019, Tirana, Albania, here

Antitrust and Tech: Europe and the United States Differ, and it Matters

G.Werden & L. Froeb, Audio here

Tying in evolving industries, when future entry cannot be deterred

C. Fumagalli, M. Motta, here

Google is reportedly trying to buy Fitbit

The Verge, here

Digitale Souveränität im Kontext plattformbasierter Ökosysteme

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, hier

Money 20/20: Calibra head claims Libra AML efficacy higher than other payment networks

FinExtra, here

Building a positive digital world

M. Vestager, here

MERGER CONTROL IN DYNAMIC MARKETS

OECD, here

Margrethe Vestager eyes toughening ‘burden of proof’ for Big Tech

FT, here

VERS DES PRIX PERSONNALISÉS À L’HEURE DU NUMÉRIQUE ?

E. Combe, ici

Monday, October 28, 2019

Xi Jinping’s endorsement of blockchain sparks China stocks frenzy

FT, here. The discourse here

Which antitrust investigations should Big Tech worry about?

FT, here

Google Sweetens Search-Engine Remedy After EU Pressure

WSJ, here (and here).

Blockchain, FinTechs and their relevance for international financial institutions

EIB, here

Conference on Competition Law and Sustainability

Video here.

Competition Authorities to Investigate Mobile Application Store Dominance

B. Yüksel, N. Acar, M. Salan, here

Cipher Technologies Bitcoin Fund

Here

Blockchain/crypto: a new digital economy

C. Jeanneau, Slides here

ACM ontwikkelt leidraden voor het delen van infrastructuur

ACM, hier

Applications mobiles : un texte sénatorial veut libérer les utilisateurs des règles des GAFA

Publicsenat.fr, ici

Ethikgremium empfiehlt Algorithmen-Verordnung

FAZ, hier

New Rules for Credit Reporting Systems in the Digital Economy

EDPB, here

Yelp on Google

Here

Antitrust, Tech Monopoly and the Apple Case

C. Sagers, here.

Banks may cut ties with Facebook on Libra concerns, ING warns

FT, here

Gutachten der Datenethikkommission

Hier.
Executive Summary here.

The Code-ification of Law and Its Potential Effects

T. Kaeseberg, here

Data Ownership: Exploring Implications for Data Privacy Rights and Data Valuation

US Senate Committee, here

DESIGNING SELF- AND CO-REGULATION INITIATIVES: EVIDENCE ON BEST PRACTICES

BEIS, here

Libra and its potential role

OMFIF Podcast, here

The Regulatory Regime for Stablecoins

Libra, here

Was Libra wirklich bringt

Libra in FAZ, hier. and auf Englisch here.

AI RIGHTS FOR CONSUMERS

BEUC, here

Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral

NiemanLab, here.

Open Banking: Regulatory challenges for a new form of financial intermediation in a data-driven world

N. Remolina, here

Saturday, October 19, 2019

A G7 stablecoin report that tells it how it is

FT, here.
Report here

Big Tech and the Future of Finance

A gaze is worth a thousand words.........

IMF Seminar, Video here

Banking disrupted by FinTech and Big Tech

Bruegel, Video here

Technology is a Tool and Weapon

B. Smith, Boss Files Podcast here (antitrust from 23:44).

Financialisation of the Food Value Chain, Common Ownership and Competition Law

I. Lianos et al., here

How much does the lack of competition in digital markets cost?

J. Furman, here

Competition is no longer a click away

R. Chopra, here

Why is privacy a competition problem?

T. Valletti, here

Data-opolies: Congress needs to act

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here

Competition policy with a (holistic) view

R. Sims, here

Glad to be of any help!

M. Vestager, here

China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother

NYTimes, here

Google is in serious trouble, warns top anti-trust lawyer

ZDNet, here

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Commission imposes interim measures on Broadcom in TV and modem chipset markets

EC, here.

QUO VADIS VERTICAL BER? – THE BUNDESKARTELLAMT’S BACKGROUND PAPER

D'Kart, here

DER REFERENTENENTWURF ZUM GWB

D'Kart, hier

Soziale Marktwirtschaft für den europäischen Datenraum

U. von der Leyen, hier

Apple is suffocating mobile-payment rivals

Quartz, here

Google confirms acquisition of data science community Kaggle

ZdNet, here

We may need a whole new approach to data protection

Live Mint, here

Why the government is investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook for antitrust — but not Microsoft

Vox, here

There’s a big problem with Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Ars Technica, here

Google’s $2.6 Billion Looker Deal Said to Get Closer DOJ Review

Bloomberg, here

The Interaction of EU Competition, Consumer, and Data Protection Law in the Digital Economy: The Regulatory Dilemma in the Facebook Odyssey

M. Botta, K. Wiedermann, here

Sports Direct calls for probe into Nike and Adidas dominance

BBC News, here

Antitrust After Big Data

J. Yun, here.

RGPD : Vueling sanctionnée par la CNIL espagnole pour sa politique de cookies

Next Inpact, ici.. 

Amazon's massive investment in food delivery startup Deliveroo faces further delays thanks to a formal antitrust probe

Business Insider, here

Is Libra Dead?

E. Reineris, here

Antitrust in Digital Markets

J. Newman, here

Brave highlights critical CCPA omission in letter to the Attorney General of California

Brave, here

Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 3: The Role of Data and Privacy in Competition

Friday, October 18, 2019 - 3 pm Trento Time, streaming here

Competition Authorities to Investigate Mobile Application Store Dominance

Kluwer Competition Law Blog, here

Apple Pay rückt angeblich ins Fadenkreuz der EU-Kommission

Heise.de hier

Fear of Facebook spurs momentum for Fed to build its own digital currency

Politico.eu, here

Thursday, October 10, 2019

NYSE Arca Order

SEC, here

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

F. Foer, here

Competing at Scale: EU Competition Policy fit for the Global Stage

ERT, here

Brave writes to all European governments to press for strong ePrivacy protections

Brave, here

EU-Kommission: Digitalchefin Vestager plädiert bei KI für "Vertrauen by Design"

Heise.de, hier

Joint memorandum of the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg competition authorities on challenges faced by competition authorities in a digital world

B, NL, LUX Competition Authorities, here

Rights as Methodology?

CIM, here

Tether Backers Sued Over Market Manipulation

Bloomberg, here

Desktop OS Market Share Worldwide

Statcounter, here

Germany finalizes proposed changes in competition rules

PoliticoPro, here

Geldbuße gegen Bose Ges.m.b.H.

Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, hier

Adversarial Interoperability

C. Doctorow, here

CMA alleges guitar firm illegally prevented price discounts

CMA, here

Interoperability Is Not the Only Obstacle to Blockchain Adoption

CMSWire, here

BLOCKCHAIN NOW AND TOMORROW

EU Science Hub, here

Senators Caution Mastercard, Visa, Stripe on Libra Membership

Bloomberg, here

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Policy and Regulation

UCLP Public Policy, Video here

The anthropology of #cryptocurrency and the possible end of the nation state

A. Tripathi, here

GOVERNING DLT NETWORKS

Accenture, here

The internet: broken or about to be broken?

G. Smith, here

The Next Generation of Data-Sharing in Financial Services: Using Privacy Enhancing Techniques to Unlock New Value

WEF, here

Order approves 11 interveners in Android Case

T-804/18, here

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Google’s new competition cop, says everything is "on the table"

The Texas Tribune, here

Data scraping and the implications of the latest LinkedIn-hiQ court ruling

iabb, here. 

The Ties That Bind Facebook's Libra

Wired, here

Insight report on sharing engineering data

Lloyd’s Register Foundation, here

Thursday, October 03, 2019

On Libra, trust, etc.

From Erasmus University, Video here.

Droits voisins : enquête « exploratoire » de l'Autorité de la concurrence

Le Point, ici. Mais ici

House panel taps startup for Facebook files

660 News, here

Malaysia proposes $20 million fine on Grab for abusive practices

Reuters, here. See also here

REGULATORY MARKETS FOR AI SAFETY

J. Clark, G. Hadfield, here

Google faces UK class action lawsuit over collecting iPhone data

FT, here

Libra member companies are planning to meet this month in Switzerland

CNBC, here

Huawei backdoor to Google apps slams shut

Mobile World Live, here

Open Banking and the Closed Ecosystem: The Tech Banks Need to Navigate GDPR

BizTechMagazine, here

Du droit et des algorithmes

M. Teller, ici

Criteo porte plainte contre Facebook devant l'Autorité de la concurrence

LesEchos, ici

Regulating the Internet of Things

UK House of Commons, Debate Pack here

Competitive Edge: Five building blocks for antitrust success: the forthcoming FTC competition report

Equitable Growth, here

Finance et acteurs numériques : fintechs, GAFA, transformation des banques

@Echelle, vidéo ici

FASHION-ID: INTRODUCING A PHASE-ORIENTED APPROACH TO DATA PROTECTION?

European Law Blog, here

Bierkartell-Bußgeld: Preisnachlass für Edeka Nord in Sicht

Welt.de, hier

Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content, E.U.’s Top Court Rules

NYTimes, here

US: Siri will no longer default to using Apple messaging

CPI, here

3 drug firms accused of illegal market sharing

CMA, here.

What Are the Benefits of Data Sharing?

H. Huttunen et al., here

Andrew Yang's privacy proposal sounds great, but could be awful

Cnet, here

Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Bottom-up data Trusts: disturbing the ‘one size fits all’ approach to data governance

S. Delacroix, N. Lawrence, here

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF MARK ZUCKERBERG’S LEAKED INTERNAL FACEBOOK MEETINGS

The Verge, here

Banking, FinTech, Big Tech: Emerging challenges for financial policymakers

K. Petralia, T. Philippon, T. Rice, N. Véron, here

Digitale Währungen, insbesondere Libra

Öffentliche Anhörung des Ausschusses Digitale Agenda 25. September 2019, Stellungnahmen hier

Understanding the economics of information sharing

BBVA, here

Storing cookies requires internet users’ active consent

Judgment in Case C-673/17, press release here. Ruling here

Guiding Policies and Procedures under Section F of the UN Set on Competition

UNCTAD, here

Erster Kfz-Versicherungstarif mit Dashcam-Bonus

Heise.de, hier

PayPal gets Chinese payments license

FinExtra, here

A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

P. Aghion, here

House Antitrust Investigators Now Scrutinizing Google's Plans to Add DNS Encryption to Chrome

Gizmodo, here

Snapchat's Secret Dossier on Facebook

The Journal, Podcast here

Dezentrale Datenpools – Europas Chance in der Plattformökonomie

D. Janecek, D. Bayaz, hier. 

MFN Clauses and Antitrust Enforcement: On a Slow Path to Convergence?

I. Vandenborre & C. Janssens, Podcast here

Facebook says Libra is out of its control. But Libra's overseers are a web of Silicon Valley insiders

CNN, here

Libra: Articles of Association