Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Coronavirus: Implications For The EU [What Think Tanks Are Thinking]

EPRS Strategy, here

Datentreuhandmodelle: Themenpapier

A. Blankertz, hier

How a handful of Apple and Google employees came together to help health officials trace coronavirus

CNBC, here

May the Fourth Be With Disney (Terms and Conditions Apply)

NYTimes, here

Regierung will im Gesundheitssektor mehr Firmenbeteiligungen prüfen

Reuters, hier. 

The first EU Competition 's comfort letter (post-Regulation 1/2003)

Re Medicines for Europe, here

Deliveroo cuts ~15% of staff as coronavirus challenges food delivery

TechCrunch, here

Social Distancing, Internet Access and Inequality

L. Chiou, C. Tucker, here

The whole idea of global value chains will be reconsidered after coronavirus

The Conversation, here

Monday, April 27, 2020

Supreme Court Says States Cannot Copyright Official Code Annotations

EPIC, here

The ethics of artificial intelligence: Issues and initiatives

Study for the EP, here

HHS Finalizes Historic Rules to Provide Patients More Control of Their Health Data

Here

Chinese company CRRC can acquire Vossloh’s shunter division

Bundeskartellamt, here

BIG DATA AS AN ANTITRUST ISSUE

ABA, with Andreas Mundt et al., here (at 00:19:12);
-- Mundt: German essential facilities doctrine's restyling at 00:38:39 (the Scandlines saga escalated to the Federal Supreme Court, see here);
--Swire: data sharing defined as "wholesale portability" 00:43:25; HHS interoperability here.



Common Issues Relating to the Digital Economy and Competition

IDCTF, here

Avis sur le développement de l'application StopCOVID

Conseil national du numérique, ici

BIG TECH: TOO BIG TO BREAK UP?

ABA Virtual Spring Meeting, here.

Kovacic
- "all of the remedies have side effects" 0:16:33
- lots of hybrids and blurred boundaries between structural and behavioural remedies 0:17:22 -
- in praise of the UK market investigation regime (heard already from @Vestager)
- "market power by itself" (55:36) - or going back to the roots, if I may add.
- humbling: in some instances, you don't know what the effects of the case and remedies are going to be for many years to come (decades!) (1:05:30) "I'm not sure and I'm not sure when" (1:06);
- Judge Jackson (Microsoft case) on remedies: 1 morning (1:10:02);
- "We suffered from a badly cramped and distorted debate about what consumer welfare means" (1:20:27) ;


Banasevic (*interesting*question, he repeats)
- in some instances, "the harm can materialize in such a way that there is no way back once the harm has reached a certain point" (36:50)
- not a fan of the attention market concept (50:00)
- burden of proof or standard of proof, this is the question (51:00) - academic perfection ain't the goal
- The US at times goes further than the EU (examples: Intel, Qualcomm) (1:13: 50)
- complementary regulatory agenda"- "systemic or structural issues...beyond the realm of individual, case by case antitrust enforcement" (1:14:30) -  his Commissioner sounded slightly more resolute and engaged, if I may ;-), here (1:00:48);
- "...days, weeks, and months" (1:15:26) - not YEARS, hopefully @EU_Competition;
- mentioning a "thread" from Microsoft to Google re remedies (1:17:10) - or is it more of a pernicious form of "path dependency"?
- ongoing Amazon case: "the data advantage that Amazon Retail has compared to rivals to compete on Amazon Marketplace is an example perhaps of the issue that given the greater importance of data might be more prevalent in platform markets in the future...Linked to that is artificial intelligence." *Interesting" would be to call AI a buzzword.

Ohlhausen
- "doing better than the other guy is now suspect" (54:19); "companies that looked unassailable at one point have fallen off from that pinnacle" (1.19:25), etc.: The strange case of the US antitrust regime.






ENFORCERS ROUNDTABLE

ABA Spring Meeting, here

MERGER ANALYSIS GONE DIGITAL: TIME TO REBOOT?

Our Curious Amalgam Podcast, here.

- Illumina/PacBio mentioned by Shapiro, here (CMA's file here);
- Carl Shapiro combining an ex ante regulatory approach with a stricter M&A regime (59:26) - the latter not at all pandemic related, in case you were wondering;
- Results from FTC Issues 6(b) Orders (here), soon. 

Google Ads by Adlc in English

Here

Covid-19 has blown apart the myth of Silicon Valley innovation

MIT Technology Review, here.

Embedded supervision: How to regulate Libra 2.0 and the token economy

R. Auer, here.

Avis sur un projet d’application mobile dénommée « StopCovid

CNIL, ici

Friday, April 24, 2020

Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility

TechCrunch, here

Congress Can Move Now to Stop Amazon’s Cloning Factory. Here’s How

H. Singer, here

A tiny selection of things it might be interesting to be part of, all CET (tbc)

Monday 4
14:00  MEPs to quiz Margrethe Vestager on the EU’s response to the pandemic, here.

Wednesday 6 
13:00 Ascola UK, Angus McCulloch, The 'public' wrong of cartels and the Article 101 TFEU 'object box'; you need to register here.
18:15 GAFA, 5G : Peut-on faire du numérique un bien commun ?, avec Sébastien Soriano, s'inscrire ici

Thursday 7 
13:00  Thriving: the role of culture in defining and advancing well-being, here
15:00  Virtual IO Seminar is Michael Kummer (University of East Anglia). He will present his paper "GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps", joint work with Rebecca Janssen, Reinhold Kesler, and Joel Waldfogel, register here

Friday 8
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed the Way We Should Think About Antitrust Law? here.

Saturday 9 
9:30 ASCOLA-India e-colloquium on "The Future of Hub-and-Spoke Cartels in India", to participate drop a line at vikaskathuria@gmail.com


Comunicazione sugli accordi di cooperazione e l’emergenza COVID-19

AGCM, qui

Here are the innovations we need to reopen the economy

B. Gates, here.

My almost daily dose of Margrethe's meditations (so important in times like these IMHO)

Madame de Vestager, une femme des Lumières en ces temps sombres.




👈

Contact tracing and tech

Very informative Webinar organized by Renew Europe, Here.

👈 Google.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Deliveroo and Just Eat deals show politics rules trustbuster

FT, here.

Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products

WSJ, here

Competition Overdose

Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke present and discuss their new book, video here

Shock-proof: Building Resilient Systems in the 21st Century

Open Markets, NAEC OMI Roundtable live here NOW.

China's digital currency pilots pick up pace

Finextra, here

Will Libra Live Up To Its Initial Ambitions?

Binance Research, here

Nous devons rester maîtres de la politique sanitaire de l’Europe et de la France

LaCroix, ici

L'app Immuni cambia. Seguirà il modello decentralizzato di Apple e Google

Ilsole24ore, qui

The antitrust case against the Apple App Store

D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here

CMA gives Just Eat and Takeaway.com deal the green light

CMA, here. 

„Tödlich für die Akzeptanz“ – Spahn entscheidet sich für umstrittenes Corona-App-Modell

Handelsblatt, hier

Facebook and Jio deal creates huge lake of Indian data

FT, here

Covid-19 is resetting the way we talk about the economy

W. Carlin, here

Time-limited availability of our modest contribution to the blockchain/antitrust discussion

Rob and I, here.

#pandemicantitrust: Dawn raids in the food sector

Hellenic Competition Commission, here

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Pune’s mobile App Saiyam tracks Home Quarantined Citizens

India Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, here

Pourquoi Facebook investit 7,5 milliards de dollars en Inde

Le Monde, ici

Digital sovereignty in the age of pandemics

Live(ly) debate with Margrethe Vestager et al., 24/04/2020 - 14:00 to 15:00, live streaming here

Price-gouging suit filed against Amazon on behalf of California consumers

Here

Commission approves the merger of Mylan and Pfizer's Upjohn division, subject to conditions

EC, here

Feds Seize PPE Using Unlitigated Hoarding Statute

E. Tyler, here

Facebook invests $5.7B in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms

TechCrunch, here

Price regulation in times of crisis can be tricky

M. Motta, here

Coronavirus: Commission launches data sharing platform for researchers

EC, here.

Decisione FISE: inottemperanza agli impegni

AGCM, qui

Stopp Corona-App des Österreichischen Roten Kreuzes: Bericht über die Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung für die Anwendung

Hier

Summary of CMA’s position on mergers involving ‘failing firms

CMA, here

First fuctioning European "Corona App" reviewed by noyb, epicenter.works and BSA Research

noyb, here

Setzt die Corona-App aus der Schweiz europaweit Standards?

Republik.ch, hier

First #AntitrustTeaBreak: password needed by default (?) 👇

Here.

@wavesblog is inviting you to the first (and last?) #AntitrustTeaBreak discussing blockchain, Libra and antitrust with Thibault Schrepel

As I wrote to Thibault:
"Hi! Thank you again, looking forward to our chat tomorrow [...] I would like us to discuss the *topic* of your paper and, of course, your perspective on it - as well as to investigate parallel perspectives, why not? -It’s really early days and curious to understand also how it could evolve. Perhaps I could get us started by briefly making a couple of general observations to which you could react and then everyone could jump in (by raising their hands) - to which you could react first but also others could have something to say...Too chaotic? Any suggestions? Thank you!"
Thibault agreed - settled.

Topic: #AntitrustTeaBreak
Time: Apr 23, 2020 05:00 PM CET

Door opens at 16.55 and closes at 17.05 (chi c'è, c'è) 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92793480270?pwd=dnhyNEI2ZWVqaTdVZVVmMFFub2pqUT09

Meeting ID: 927 9348 0270
Password: 003340

I don't expect it to be an issue AT ALL (also due to the reading pledge=barrier to entry), but I've a basic Zoom account (100 max).

Epic Games launches Fortnite on the Google Play Store and they’re not happy about it

TechCrunch, here

Privacy and Security Risk Evaluation of Digital Proximity Tracing Systems

The DP-3T Project, here

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

US Senator to Sundar and Tim

Here.

(Not much on the EU decentralized/centralized discussion in the letter) 

Guidelines 03/2020 on the processing of data concerning health for the purpose of scientific research in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak

EDPB, here

DNBulletin: Digital currency issued by central banks can protect public interests in payment systems

Here

Developing International Perspectives on Digital Competition Policy

S. Ennis, A. Fletcher, here

Mind the app - considerations on the ethical risks of COVID-19 apps

L. Floridi, here

France urges Apple and Google to ease privacy rules on contact tracing

The Guardian, here

La última víctima británica de la crisis es la política antitrust contra Amazon

CincoDías, aquí.

OS neutrality and Contact tracing apps: unfolding

Zorgverzekeraars mogen gezamenlijk zorgaanbieders financieel steunen tijdens coronacrisis

ACM, hier

Studenten protesteren tegen tentamensoftware die beelden van hun huiskamer opslaat

IusMentis, hier

A data trust for Covid-19 tracking data?

Policy Options, here

Monday, April 20, 2020

Machine learning could check if you’re social distancing properly at work

MIT Technology Review, here

AmerisourceBergen Corporation Business Review Request Pursuant to COVID-19 Expedited Procedure

DOJ, here

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing

Business Insider, here.

Promote Tradition of Separating Banking and Commerce Regarding Dominant Platforms

AFR, here

Facebook just released its coronavirus symptom tracking map

CNBC, here

Scientists and researchers from across the globe: Joint Statement on Contact Tracing

Here

Amazons neue Systemrelevanz wird für Deutschland gefährlich

Welt, hier

Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims

M. Brundage et al., here

LIABILITY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER EMERGING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

 Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies, here

CONVERGENCE OF BLOCKCHAIN, AI AND IOT

THE EUROPEAN UNION BLOCKCHAIN OBSERVATORY & FORUM, here.  

COMPLEXITY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH IN THE EMERGING DIGITAL WORLD

H. Benbya et al., here

Exit through the App Store?

Ada Lovelace Institute, here

Will Covid-19 set the stage for new mergers in the digital world? Time for antitrust authorities to lend special attention to the role of data.

M. Schäfer, here

Facebook and Google to face mandatory code of conduct to 'level playing field' with traditional news media

ABC, here

Facebook and Google to be forced to share advertising revenue with Australian media companies

The Guardian, here

Life in the era of COVID-19

N. Modi, here

Friday, April 17, 2020

Apple and Google joint initiative on COVID-19 contact tracing technology

ICO, here

SALVIAMO I DATI ECONOMICI DAL COVID-19

Banca d'Italia, qui

Privacy-Protective Contact Tracing Depends on More Than an API

PublicKnowledge, here

Vestager: It’s not a choice between fighting the virus and protecting privacy

Euractiv, here

Facebook ändert Pläne für Libra

FAZ, hier

A Post-COVID-19 Digital Bretton Woods

R. Medhora, T. Owen, here

CMA provisionally clears Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo

CMA, here. Decision here

Lecturers condemn Durham University's plan to shift degrees online

The Guardian, here

Widerstandsfähiger durch mehr Technik!

Digitec, Podcast hier.

An Investigation Into PEPP-PT

N. Kobeissi, here

Ola opens its tech platform to Indian government to combat coronavirus crisis #BigTrackTech

TechCrunch, here

Les réseaux comme bien commun

S. Soriano, ici

Immuni: Ordinanza relativa alla stipula del contratto

Qui.

Guidance on Apps supporting the fight against COVID 19 pandemic in relation to data protection

EC, here

Principles for Technology-Assisted Contact-Tracing

ACLU, here

National Artificial Intelligence Strategies and Human Rights: A Review

Global Partners Digital, here

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Antitrust Remedies and Dynamic Industries

P. Weiser, Zoom recording here (pw T4?!?=#c ) 

Facebook-Backed Libra Cryptocurrency Project Is Scaled Back

NYTimes, hier.
libra White Paper • v2.0 • From the Libra Association Members, here

COMMISSION CRACKS DOWN ON EXCESSIVE PRICING

CC, here

Institutional Design Issues and Policy Challenges

M. Berry, here (home made pdf here). 

Innovation Considerations in Horizontal Merger Control

I. Kokkoris, T. Valletti, here

Our Beloved EU Queen: "I think that it is very, very important that we're vigilant"

Bloomberg, here

Mobile applications to support contact tracing in the EU’s fight against COVID-19

EU eHealth Network, here

The Impact of Unfair Commercial Practices on Competition in the EU Passenger Transport Sector, in particular Air Transport

Study for the EP, here

Berliner Datenschutzaufsicht: Stellungnahme und Checkliste zum Datenschutz bei Videokonferenzen

Reuschlaw, hier

Ordoliberalism 2.0: Towards a New Regulatory Policy for the Information Age

M. Wörsdörfer, here.

(I actually forgot how viscerally ordoliberal I'm) ⇒ the 4th Chapter is so refreshing.

AI Breakfasts: Covid-19 - Myths and realities of tracking applications

Now, here

First #AntitrustTeaBreak


Thibault's paper here.
Zoom's invite here.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

🦠 digcomp silver linings

Interoperability between OSs           ✅

Android forking issues                     ✅

Murky Amazon's dual role               ✅ (F)

App stores' regulatory oversight      ✅

When Google and Apple get privacy right, is there still something wrong?

T. Sharon, here

DATENTEILUNG & DATENZUGANG – WELCHE LÖSUNGEN BRAUCHEN WIR?

DatenDialog mit Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, am 16. April 2020 von 16:00 - 17:00 Uhr, hier

GSK and Sanofi join forces to work on coronavirus vaccine

The Guardian, here

Apple & Google Partner to Promote Coronavirus Contact Tracing. Should You be Worried?

The Radical AI Podcast, here (from 4:25).
The quoted "Long tail of contact tracing" here

Will the Pandemic Usher in an Era of Mass Surveillance in Higher Education?

Chronicle, here

THE STATE OF ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT AND COMPETITION POLICY IN THE U.S.

AAI, here. 

Letter concerning the European Commission's draft Guidance on apps supporting the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

EDPB, here

Proceeding against Sky and DAZN discontinued – Award procedure relating to Champions League broadcasting rights

Corona Dump "Valley of Ashes" (Great Gatsby)
Bundeskartellamt, hier

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

JOINT ANTITRUST STATEMENT REGARDING COVID-19 AND COMPETITION IN LABOR MARKETS

FTC, DOJ, here

Europe Must Take Urgent Copyright Law Action To Support Distance Learning & Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Liber, here

Amazon condamné à ne plus livrer que les produits alimentaires, médicaux et d’hygiène

Le Parisien, ici

Grubhub, DoorDash, Postmates, Uber Eats are sued over restaurant prices amid pandemic

Reuters, here

Wie weit dürfen Wettbewerber in der Krise kooperieren? – Kartellamtschef warnt vor Preisabsprachen

Handelsblatt, hier.

Will Google’s and Apple’s COVID Tracking Plan Protect Privacy?

J. Angwin, here

Payment aspects of financial inclusion in the fintech era

BIS, World Bank Group, here

Web of Things ist offizieller W3C-Standard

Heise.de, hier

Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung für die Corona-App

FIfF, hier

Libra: A Concentrate of "Blockchain Antitrust"

T. Schrepel, here

There will be no 'back to normal'

Nesta, here

A letter to Prime Minister Rutte & Co on COVID-19 tracking- and tracing app and healt happ

Here

Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment

M. Nanni et al., here

Wednesday, April 08, 2020

The Pandemic Feeds Tech Companies’ Power

NYTimes, here.

Competition during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

ICN, here

Answering 8 Privacy Questions About SafeTrace

Enigma, here

Privacy Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus

NYTimes Editorial Board, here. 

In many ways, we [in the US] have the worst of all possible worlds

S. Waller, here

Uso delle nuove tecnologie e della rete per contrastare l'emergenza epidemiologica da Coronavirus

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali , qui

Europäische Corona-Warn-App soll in zehn Tagen fertig sein

Der Spiegel, hier

Coronavirus and the Future of Surveillance

Foreign Affairs, here

THE VACCINE RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

A. Santos Rutschman, here

Corona-Datenspende App: Datenschutzrechtliche Bedenken

EP Mitglied, hier.

Bank of England Discussion Paper on Central Bank Digital Currency

Bank of England, Webinar video here

Alipay offers boost to Covid-19-hit Wuhan merchants

FinExtra, here

Comment penser l’alternative au capitalisme de plateforme dans une logique de réencastrement polanyien ?

L. Aufrère et al. ici

Generic drugmakers win EU okay to cooperate in coronavirus fight

Reuters, here

Fair data economy standardisation is proceeding

Sitra, here

Intellectual Property Justification for Artificial Intelligence

R. Hilty, J. Hoffmann, S. Scheuerer, here

Lax Antitrust Enforcement Has Made America’s Medical Supply Shortages So Much Worse

Slate, here

Competition and Risk

D. Bloomfield, here

How Tech’s Lobbyists Are Using the Pandemic to Make Gains

NYTimes, here

Open letter asking 37 WTO Members to declare themselves eligible to import medicines manufactured under compulsory license in another country, under 31bis of TRIPS Agreement

KEIOnline, here

Sabre wins court fight with Justice Dept over Farelogix acquisition

Reuters, here.
Decision here.

ABA Antitrust: Virtual Spring Meeting 💗

Here

Commission Recommendation on a common Union toolbox for the use of technology and data to combat and exit from the COVID-19 crisis

EC, here

Guidance on allowing limited cooperation among businesses during the coronavirus outbreak

EC, here.
The comfort letter's blessed recipient, here

Responses to the CMA interim report

Here

Monday, April 06, 2020

Antitrust review at the FTC: staying the course during uncertain times

FTC, here

Patents Cannot Impede Canada’s Response to COVID-19 Crisis

CIGI, here

10 requirements for the evaluation of "Contact Tracing" apps

CCC, here

How Dutch activists got an invasive fraud detection algorithm banned

AlgorithmWatch, here

Gurry COVID Letter

Here

LEAK: EU in push for digital transformation after COVID-19 crisis

Euractiv, here

Here are the side projects fintechs are launching to ease strain of coronavirus

Altfi, here

La libre competencia y la peste

F. Irarrázabal, here

COVID-19 – implications for consumers and BEUC recommendations for policy responses

BEUC, here

EU Digital Solidarity: a call for a pan-European approach against the pandemic

EDPS, Video here

EU focuses antitrust probe on Facebook’s online classifieds service

FT, here

South Africa: TRIBUNAL DIRECTIVE FOR COVID-19 EXCESSIVE PRICING COMPLAINT REFERRALS

If we don’t protect small businesses during and after the pandemic, corporate America will swallow them whole

Business Insider, here

POWER: Trust and Distrust

E. Fox, here

Feds ramp up probe of $2.1B Google-Fitbit deal amid privacy worries

New York Post, here

Business Review Letter Under Expedited Procedure for COVID-19 Pandemic Response

DOJ, here.

Thursday, April 02, 2020

Hilfe…ist „Zoom“ etwa eine Datenschleuder?

Datenschutz Guru, hier

Covid-19: What has Open Banking (ever) Done for "Us"?

Here

Amazon Pushes Into Making Video Games, Not Just Streaming Their Play

NYTimes, here

Evaluating COVID-19 contact tracing apps? Here are 8 privacy questions we think you should ask.

Computational Privacy Group, here

Re-Engineering Humanity in the 21st Century

B. Frischmann, TEDx here

Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together

NYTimes, here

The GDPR from a different perspective

M. Gal & O. Aviv, Zoom recording here.

Paper here.

Apple Lets Some Video Apps Sell Shows Without Taking 30% Cut

Bloomberg, here

Data and Competition: a General Framework with Applications to Mergers, Market Structure, and Privacy Policy

A. de Cornière, G. Taylor, here.
And at 3 pm Trento Time on Zoom, here.

The Doctrine of Exhaustion in Limbo - Critical Remarks on the CJEU’s Tom Kabinet Ruling

P. Mezei, here

Mergers in the Digital Economy

A. Gautier, J. Lamesch, here

From Principles to Practice>An interdisciplinary framework to operationalise AI ethics

AIEI Group, here

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, New Data Suggest

NYTimes, here

The Law of Informational Capitalism

A. Kapczynski, here

Data To Go: An FTC Workshop on Data Portability

FTC, here (hopefully on Zoom as alternative venue)

Der Handel sucht die Rettung auf Online-Plattformen

FAZ, hier

Tim Wu's THE CURSE OF BIGNESS reviewed by Lina Khan

Here

Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production

Medtronic, here.
Permissive license here

Ventilator Maker’s 2012 Merger Spurs Query From FTC Official (1)

Bloomberg Law, here

New York Attorney General Looks Into Zoom’s Privacy Practices

NYTimes, here.

Mylan/Upjohn: Commitments submitted


Competition by Design, Compliance by Design oder Antitrust by Design?

S. Louven, hier

Data collaboratives and the COVID-19 pandemic: an interview with Alberto Alemanno

EuroConsumers, here

Access to In-Vehicle Data by Third-Party Service Providers: Is there a Market Failure and, if so, How Should it be Addressed?

D. Geradin, here

The Competitive Effects of the GDPR

M. Gal, O. Aviv, here

Zoom Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Sharing Data with Facebook

Vice, here

Hansel and Gretel and the Virus: Privacy Conscious Contact Tracing

J.-H., Hoepman, here

Monday, March 30, 2020

Economic Competition in a Time of Crisis

F. Scott Morton, here

Financial Operating Systems

Zetzsche et al., here

On the scope and limits of antitrust when it comes to policing dominant tech platforms.

H. Singer, Here

Competition Law in Isolation Series


Startup Acquisitions, Error Costs, and Antitrust Policy

K. Bryan, E. Hovenkamp, here

The Race to the Bottom: What Competition Overdose Does to Our Wallets and Well-Being

M. Stucke, A. Ezrachi, here (two Bolsheviks?).


Neglected infectious diseases: are push and pull incentive mechanisms suitable for promoting drug development research?

F. Mueller-Langer, here

Selecting a data sharing structure: a value-based choice

S. Delacroix et al., here

Joint statement by the European Competition Network (ECN) on application of competition law during the Corona crisis

Here

EU Competition Law and COVID-19

F. Costa-Cabral et al., here

Competition Law as a Form of Social Regulation

I. Lianos, here

Antitrust rules and coronavirus

EC, here

The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed.

NYTimes, here

Joint Statement on the right to data protection in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Council of Europe, here

Bottomline/EPG: Final Report

CMA, here

Covid-19 and the comeback of compulsory licensing

Medicine Law & Policy, here

Global Innovation, Local Regulation: Navigating Competition Rules in the Digital Economy

C. Wilson, here

Google v. Oracle: What is the Case About?

Santa Clara University, Video here.

WHO is asked to create a voluntary intellectual property pool to develop Covid-19 products

StatNews, here

Review of the two Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations

EC, here

Roche releases recipe, after European Commission considers intervention due to lack of coronavirus tests

FTM.nl, here

Society as a Broadband Network

W. Davies, here

Plattformökonomie: neue Wettbewerbsregeln – Renaissance der Missbrauchsaufsicht

J. Haucap, hier

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Monday, March 16, 2020

Open Data for SME finance

Bank of England, here

DPAs issue reports on data processing related to COVID-19

Iapp, here

The Man With 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer Just Donated Them

NYTimes, here

Coronavirus, l’ingegnere italiano che sfida le multinazionali per salvare la vita ai pazienti con le sue valvole in stampa 3

TPI.it, qui

Verily’s coronavirus screening website launches with very limited access

The Verge, here

Cade investigates Bayer and Monsanto for alleged anti-competitive conduct

CADE, aqui.

Apple, Tech Data et Ingram Micro sanctionnés

Autorité de la concurrence, ici.

Some 2000 thoughts on the abus de dépendence écononique (en italien), qui

Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

Brave, here

Venture Capital and Antitrust

Stanford/DOJ, here

Sharing data to create value in the private sector

ODI, here

Defining Artificial Intelligence

JRC, here

LinkedIn Appeals Important CFAA Ruling Regarding Scraping Public Info Just As Concerns Raised About Clearview

TechDirt, here

Digital markets taskforce: terms of reference

UK Gov, here

How Google kneecapped Amazon’s smart TV efforts

Protocol, here

Ad Tech Inquiry: Issues Paper

ACCC, here

Key Elements and Functions of a New Digital Regulatory Agency

Public Knowledge, here

Competition in Digital Technology Markets: Examining Self-Preferencing by Digital Platforms

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, here.

A Commons Approach to Smart City Data Governance

New America, here

AUSTRALIAN INFORMATION COMMISSIONER v FACEBOOK INC & ANOR

Complaint, here

The Economic Impact of Open Data

European Data Portal, here

Friday, March 06, 2020

Should Antitrust Laws Tackle Privacy Issues? DOJ and State AGs Continue Google Investigations in Response to Privacy Concerns

BakerHostetler, here

Antitrust: sanzione di 116 mln a TIM per aver ostacolato lo sviluppo della fibra

AGCM, qui.

Technology with purpose

M. Vestager, here

The Myth of the Privacy Paradox

D. Solove, here

WIE DIE EUROPÄISCHE UNION IM GLOBALEN WETTBEWERB BESTEHEN KANN

Gastbeitrag von A. Schwab auf D'Kart, hier

„Soll das staatliche Geldmonopol gesichert werden? Ja!“

Dezernat Zukunft, hier

Draft Competition (Amendment) Bill Proposes Extension of Protection to IPR Holders in Abuse of Dominance Cases

V. Kathuria, here

IP and Artificial Intelligence: More than 250 Submissions to WIPO Consultation

EU IP Desk, here

THE ROMANO-GERMANIC SYSTEM OF LIABILITY AND ITS FORMULAS APPLIED TO AN ANTITRUST TRIAL, REGARDING THE FACEBOOK CASE

M. Velandia, here

Banking landscape in the 21st century

S. Das, here

Die Industrie für digitale Werbung verletzt die Privatsphäre der Verbraucher

Digitale Gesellschaft, hier. 

Tech and democracy

Pew, here.

Google and health data – Fitbit acquisition: privacy, GDPR and competition concerns in the activity-tracking wearable technology sector

EP Question, here

Defeating Tech Giants With Open Protocols, Interoperability, And Shared Stewardship

TechDirt, here

Cybersecurity: Hacking victims are uncovering cyberattacks faster - and GDPR is the reason why

ZDNet, here

Tech-over: Mergers and merger policy in digital markets

E. Argentesi et al., here.

...en anglais: The Autorité de la concurrence’s contribution to the debate on competition policy and digital challenges

Adlc, ici

The Search for (Artificial) Intelligence, in Capitalism

F. Engster, P. Moore, here

Réinventer la régulation pour le numérique : Regards croisés législateur-régulateur

P. Forteza, S. Soriano, ici

Why fairness cannot be automated: Bridging the gap between EU non-discrimination law and AI

S. Wachter et al., here

Case Studies on Principles for a Data Economy

 ALI-ELI Project, here

Programmable Infrastructures

TU Delft, here

Thursday, February 27, 2020

ACCC Goes After Fitbit Google Deal Full Investigation

ChannelNews, here

Brink’s fica proibida de realizar novas aquisições no mercado de transporte de valores por três anos

CADE, aqui.

Coronavirus, l’Autorità interviene nel settore della vendita di prodotti igienizzanti e di mascherine

AGCM, qui.
V. anche here

Première victoire en France devant la justice contre la reconnaissance faciale !

La Quadrature du Net, ici

Consumer Data Rights rollout now a full-blown crisis

New Economy, here

The Value of Data

 Bennett Institute for Public Policy & Open Data Institute, Report here; Accompanying Literature Review here

Le canadien Shopify rejoint l’association Libra

Cryptonaute, ici

Who's responsible for what you buy on Amazon? A court is about to decide

CNN, here

FIRST ANALYSIS OF THE EU WHITEPAPER ON AI

Allai, here

Artificial Intelligence [What Think Tanks Are Thinking]

EPRS, here

Data Ecosystems: Sovereign Data Exchange among Organizations

C. Cappiello et al., here

AI and Facial Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities

EDPS, here

PSD2: So geht es mit den Banking-Schnittstellen weiter

Heise.de, hier

It’s Now or Never for National Data Strategies

D. Coyle, here

Gutachten zu 5G-Patenten: "Nicht vorhersehbare" Risiken für Automobilindustrie

Heise.de, hier

Study on Blockchains: Legal, governance and interoperability aspects

EC, here

Trust and the competition delusion

N. Gruen, here

„Wir sind auf dem direkten Weg ins digitale Mittelalter“

Tagesspiegel, hier

Wir brauchen EU-Regeln für die Digitalisierung

A. Wambach, hier.

Competition Policy and Data Sharing on Data-driven Markets

J. Prüfer, here

A Maussian bargain: Accumulation by gift in the digital economy

M. fourcade, D. Kluttz, here

Failure to enforce the GDPR enables Google’s monopoly

Brave, here.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Thursday, February 20, 2020

MyData Global’s comment on the European data strategy released 19 February 2020

MyData, here

Google's decision to shift control of UK user data to the US looks like a calculated political bet that Brexit will be a privacy disaster

Business Insider, here

"vestagerly" - adj.


Adjective

Pronunciation: 📢 here  and -ly at the end

Examples for vestagerly



1. Such a vestagerly speech...

2. Another vestagerly decision.

3. Watch out for a vestagerly reaction!

4. A vestagerly interaction with Students.

5. Vestagerly European champions: "the champions we need are not just the biggest companies. What we need are businesses, big or small, that are the best in the world at what they do - and that share that success with Europeans, by creating jobs and paying taxes here"

Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos

Two-hour film, here.
Q&A: ‘Amazon Empire’ Director on the World’s Richest Man and His Mega-Company, here

Statement on privacy implications of mergers

EDPB, here

Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals

Bloomberg, here.

CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING (18): GWB10-VERBÄNDEANHÖRUNG

D'Kart, hier.

"Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das [l]ebendigste (Kartellrecht)"

Competencia ha rastreado el algoritmo de Idealista desde hace años y a nivel nacional

El Mundo, aquì

BLOCKCHAIN AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL ASSETS

 European Union Blockchain Observatory & Forum, here

Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and other exchange tokens

House of Commons Library, here

EDPB on Google/Fitbit

Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

TechCrunch, here

Big Tech will have to share data under EU proposals [perhaps]

FT, here

Draft Issues Paper of the World Intellectual Property Organization on Intellectual Property Policy and Artificial Intelligence: A Comment

MPI for competition and innovation, here

Taking a dive into Google’s Chrome cookie ban

D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here

Antitrust proceedings against seven firms for suspected price coordination in the real estate intermediation market

CNMC, here