Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Standards for Cybersecure IoT Devices: A Way Forward

M. Girard, here

WHAT IS IT ABOUT LOCATION?

K. Martin, H. Nissenbaum, here

India, Jio, and the Four Internets

Stratechery, here.

The old and the new of fintech

A. Boot et al., here.

The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power From the Inside

NYTimes, here

Avviata istruttoria nei confronti di Apple e Amazon per divieto vendita di prodotti a marchio Apple e Beats ai rivenditori che non aderiscono al programma ufficiale

AGCM, qui.

Europe must not rush Google-Fitbit deal

F. Bria et al., here.

New Blueprint for Platform Governance

H. Tworek, here

Case AT.39711 – Qualcomm (predation)

Decision here

Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition

NYTimes, here

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Contact Tracing App Privacy: What Data Is Shared By Europe’s GAEN Contact Tracing Apps

D. Leith, S. Farrell, here

Big-Tech Mergers: Innovation, Competition for the Market, and the Acquisition of Emerging Competitors

M. Katz, here

Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis

Q. Grundy et al., here

Dangerous Skills Got Certified: Measuring the Trustworthiness of Amazon Alexa Platform

L. Cheng et al., here

HOW SHOULD COMPETITION POLICY REACT TO CORONAVIRUS?

A. Tyrie (CMA), here

Microsoft accused of sharing data of Office 365 business subscribers with Facebook and its app devs

The Register, here

Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data

NYTimes, here

Terminaux et plateformes, maillons structurants de l’accès à internet

Arcep, ici (il y a aussi Diane Coyle); anglais, here

Libre choix du consommateur dans le cyberespace

Sénat, ici

The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity

Privacy International, here

Monday, July 20, 2020

Fiona, Apple, and Amazon: How Big Tech Pays to Win the Battle of Ideas

D. Dayen, here.

Applied IO Policy Panel: What should IO economists be working on in tech? [Answer: it depends]

CEPR, here.
💰 1:13:30.

Addressing trust in public sector data use

UK Gov, here

The social imaginaries of data activism

T. Lehtiniemi, M. Ruckenstein, here

Application « StopCovid » : la CNIL tire les conséquences de ses contrôles

CNIL, ici

EU Regulators Halt LSE, Refinitiv Probe, Await Data

NYTimes, here

Fintech Strategic Review: Terms of Reference

UK Treasury, here

The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice

E. Ash et al., here

BIDEN-SANDERS UNITY TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS

Here

Applying new models of data stewardship to health and care data

ODI, here

Uber drivers to launch legal bid to uncover app's algorithm

The Guardian, here

EDPS Statement following the Court of Justice ruling in Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Ltd and Maximilian Schrems (“Schrems II”)

EDPS, here

A proxy for privacy uncovering the surveillance ecology of mobile apps

S. Lai, S. Flensburg, here

Plateformes coopératives

Caisse des Dépôts, ici

The Dark Side of Public Innovation

A. Meijer, M. Thaens, here

Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance

J. Van Dijck, here

Monday, July 13, 2020

Bank-Fintech Partnerships, Outsourcing Arrangements and the Case for a Mentorship Regime

L. Enriques, W.-G. Ringe, here

Smart Contracts ‘Have Limited Potential’ Without IoT Sensors

Cointelegraph, here

Report by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework

For the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, here.  

Fintech Needs IDIoTs

Forbes, here

India panel proposes new regulator for non-personal data: draft report

Reuters, here.
Submissions here

When Scholars Collaborate With Tech Companies, How Reliable Are the Findings?

NYTimes, here

Das Plattformgrundgesetz

Netzpolitik, hier

Google Shopping in Brazil: Highlights of CADE’s Decision and Takeaways for Digital Economy Issues

P. Burnier de Silveira, V. Oliveira Fernandes, here.

Freigabe eines Zusammenschlusses von Online-Dating-Plattformen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Thursday, July 09, 2020

Online platforms and digital advertising market study: An Overview

CMA, here

Mind Your Own Business: Protecting Proprietary Third-Party Information From Digital Platforms

H. Feld (Public Knowledge/Omidyar Network), here

EU MARKET STUDY ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN THE EU

Tender specifications, here

FAIRE DES DONNÉES ENVIRONNEMENTALES DES DONNÉES D’INTÉRÊT GÉNÉRAL

CNNum, ici

Sektoruntersuchung im Bereich öffentlich zugänglicher Ladeinfrastruktur für Elektrofahrzeuge

Bundeskartellamt, hier

In Novel Ruling, 5th Circ. Curbs Privacy On Bitcoin Exchanges

Law360, here (and here).

REPORT ON THE RESULTS OF THE ICN SURVEY ON DOMINANCE/SUBSTANTIAL MARKET POWER IN DIGITAL MARKETS

ICN, here

EUROPEAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POLICY: MAPPING THE INSTITUTIONAL LANDSCAPE

Data Justice Lab, here.

ICN Conglomerate Mergers Project Report

ICN, here

Mobile applications to support contact tracing in the EU’s fight against COVID-19: Progress reporting June 2020

EC, here

Statement on ACM public consultation on sustainability guidelines

EC, here. ACM, hier.
See also Giovanni's Manifesto, here (p. 13).



Live tweeting from a great Webinar (and there's also the video link)!



Tweets Here.
Video here.


Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power

Nature, here

Publication de l'étude sur l'interopérabilité suivie d'un panel

CNNum, vidéo ici

Monday, July 06, 2020

For a Few Dollars More (Section)

Per un pugno di dollari (Original motion picture soundtrack) de Ennio  Morricone sur Amazon Music - Amazon.fr  A Lawyer's Tribute to Ennio Morricone, here (here).

Audrey Tang - Taiwan's Covid19 response.

Copernicani, from 4:00, Video here

Concurrence et régulation des plateformes. Étude de cas sur l’interopérabilité des réseaux sociaux

CNNum, ici.

Hinweise für Berliner Verantwortliche zu Anbietern von Videokonferenz-Diensten

Die Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Hier

Rana Foroohar: The Surveillance Economy

Economics and beyond Podcast, here

From National Marketplaces to Global Providers of Financial Infrastructures: Exchanges, Infrastructures & Structural Power in Global Finance

J. Petri, here

Termite Capitalism: how private equity is undermining the economy

S. Smith, here

Documenting the financialisation of the pharmaceutical industry

J. Busfield, here

The 2020 Covid‑19 pandemic and global value chains

R. Strange, here

Panopticon Reborn: Social Credit as Regulation for the Age of AI

K. Werbach, here

Platform Capitalism’s Hidden Abode: Producing Data Assets in the Gig Economy

N. van Doorn, A. Badger, here.

Digitale Souveränität in der EU

Bertelsmann Stiftung, hier

Ad boycotts alone will not curb Big Tech

FT, here

Legislative framework for the governance of common European data spaces

EC, here

Thursday, July 02, 2020

GDPR And AI: Making Sense Of A Complex Relationship

EPthinktank.eu, here.

Here Come the 4 Horsemen of the Techopolypse

K. Swisher, here

The future of behavioural science: ambition with a dose of humility

FCA, here

Analyse und konstruktive Kritik der offiziellen Datenschutzfolgenabschätzung der Corona-Warn-App

FIfF, hier

Germany’s ‘Lex Apple Pay’: Payment Services Regulation Overtakes Competition Enforcement

J.-U. Franck, D. Linardatos, here

Central banks and payments in the digital era

BIS, here

Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity 2020

GSMA, here

Evaluation of the effects of too-big-to-fail reforms: consultation report

FSB, here

Data Spaces and the EU Data Strategy

IDSA, here

Bank of England to host an Innovation Hub Centre

Press Release, here

Data, Compute, Labour

Ada Lovelace Institute, here

Sektoruntersuchung Smart-TVs

Bundeskartellamt, Bericht, hier

High-risk AI applications need to be properly regulated

M. Vestager, here

Plateformes numériques

Assemblée Nationale, Rapport d'information, ici.

Is it time for a ‘Digital New Deal’ to rein in Big Tech?

Protocol, here

Competition and the Industrial Challenge for the Digital Age

J. Tirole, here

Brazil antitrust agency revokes decision blocking WhatsApp, Cielo venture

Reuters, here

New regime needed to take on tech giants

CMA, Press Release  here.
Final Report, here.
Selection of essential Annexes:
- B: summary of responses to our interim report consultation, here;
- E: ecosystems of Google and Facebook, here;
- F: the role of data in digital advertising, here;
- G: the role of tracking in digital advertising, here;
- H: default positions in search, here;
- I: search quality and economies of scale, here;
- J: Facebook Platform and API access, here;
- K: consumer controls over platforms’ data collection, here;
- L: summary of research on consumers’ attitudes and behaviour, here;
- M: intermediation in open display advertising, here;
- N: understanding advertiser demand for digital advertising, here;
- Q: exploitation of market power, here;
- R: fees in the adtech stack, here;
- T: our approach to assessing data remedies, here;
- U: supporting evidence for the code of conduct, here;
- V: assessment of pro-competition interventions in general search, here;
- W: assessment of pro-competition interventions in social media, here;
- X: assessment of pro-competition interventions to enable consumer choice over personalised advertising, here;
- Y: choice architecture and Fairness by Design, here;
- Z: assessment of potential data-related interventions in digital advertising markets, here;
- ZA: assessment of potential pro-competition interventions to address market power in open display advertising, here.

Jigsaw Qualitative Research Report, Digital Advertising Services, here.


Covid Economics Vetted and Real-Time Papers

CEPR, here

Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) on Facebook (translation)

Here

Contre la domination des Big Tech : le duo gagnant des autorités de concurrence et de régulation

S. Soriano, ici

Informatiker vermisst klare Konzepte für digitale Bildung

Heise.de, hier

CONSUMER AND CITIZEN GROUPS HAVE SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT GOOGLE FITBIT TAKEOVER

Consumer and citizen groups, here

EU signals deeper investigation of Google Fitbit deal

FT, here

Monday, June 29, 2020

Positionspapier zur Anonymisierung unter der DSGVO unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der TK-Branche

BfDI, hier.
Stellungnahmen der Konsultationsteilnehmer, hier

Visa International Service Association / Plaid Inc. merger inquiry

CMA, Commencement Notice here

Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: the Future of Artificial Intelligence for Policy Making

BCCP Virtual Mini-Conference 2020, Video here.

The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on artificial intelligence

STOA Study, here; Options Brief, here

Margrethe Vestager on EU-China relationships

ECFR, Video here

Case study: £4.5 million fine for Fender for illegally preventing online price discounts

CMA, here

Telegram to pay SEC fine of $18.5 million and return $1.2 billion to investors as it dissolves TON

TechCrunch, here

Musical instrument firms to pay millions after breaking competition law

CMA, here

Artificial intelligence: How does it work, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

EP, Study, here

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Bundeskartellamt gibt den Erwerb der Vossloh Locomotives GmbH durch die die chinesische CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotives Co. nach umfangreichen Ermittlungen frei

Bundeskartellamt, hier

LIKED by Margrethe Vestager HERSELF 😳













...besides a @Google Software Engineer 😲😲😳😳

Competition in a Digital Age: Changing Enforcement for Changing Times

ImageM. Vestager, here (and really *here*).

The state we’re in

NewStatesman, here

15º ASCOLA (virtual) Conference - Algorithms and Competition Law

You can watch the video here

A Council of Citizens Should Regulate Algorithms

Wired, here

EU-Ratspräsidentschaft: Deutschland will mehr digitale Souveränität

Heise.de, hier

How Amazon Used the Pandemic to Amass More Monopoly Power

The Nation, here

Die pragmatischen Puristen

Republik.ch, hier

Thursday, June 25, 2020

"Un test di civiltà" - Come conciliare sorveglianza e privacy durante una pandemia

La qui presente, su YouTube.

Operationalizing Research Access in Platform Governance

Algorithm Watch, here

Competition Policy in Transition: Exploring Data Portability’s Roles

Yours Very Truly, here.

Yes, it has actually to do with 👈

Very first draft...Please let me know if you have comments!

Google to pay some publishers in Australia, Brazil, Germany for content

Reuters, here

Bundesgerichtshof bestätigt vorläufig den Vorwurf der missbräuchlichen Ausnutzung einer marktbeherrschenden Stellung durch Facebook

BGH, hier

Capitaliser et valoriser les données de paiement : l’exemple de l’industrie des cartes de crédit

LINC, ici

Konsultationspapier zur Sektoruntersuchung Nutzerbewertungen

Bundeskartellamt, hier

Bank-Fintech Partnerships, Outsourcing Arrangements and the Case for a Mentorship Regime

L. Enriques, W.-G. Ringe, here

Gatekeepers and digital markets set for further EU regulation

Pinsent Masons, here

RGPD : le Conseil d’État rejette le recours dirigé contre la sanction de 50 millions d’euros infligée à Google par la CNIL

Ici

Antitrust & Corruption: Overruling Noerr

T. Wu, here

EP REPORT on competition policy

Here

Why was Frankfurt so blind for so long about Wirecard?

FT, here

Cash Less Society : comment préserver la vie privée dans une société sans argent liquide ?

LINC, ici

To tame the giants, the EU needs to step up competition enforcement

BEUC, here

Are cookie banners indeed compliant with the law? Deciphering EU legal requirements on consent and technical means to verify compliance of cookie banners

C. Santos, N. Bielova, C. Matte, here

Amazon’s Enforcement Failures Leave Open a Back Door to Banned Goods—Some Sold and Shipped by Amazon Itself

TheMarkUp, here

Why open science is critical to combatting COVID-19

OECD, here

Apple will let users pick their own default email and browser apps

TechCrunch, here

Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets

D. Srinivasan, here

BREAKING NEWS: Federal Cartel Office of Germany asks regional courts to refer component-level standard-essential patent licensing questions to CJEU, disagrees with Nokia

FOSS Patents, here

City-wide data in London (Part 2): Where we want to get to

Smart London, here

Data and Covid-19: why standards matter

ODI, here

Regtechs, fintechs and datasharing

EU Data Staring, here

EU rights and data protection bodies: new technology and data protection have to go hand in hand

Joint FRA & EDPS statement, here

Interview with Olivier Guersent, Director General, Directorate General for Competition, European Commissio

The Antitrust Source, here

Cape Town company agrees to pay R600,000 for over-charging for sanitisers

Times Live, here

Empowering the consumer for the green transition

EC, IIA, here

EU PROPOSALS FOR NEW POWERS TO ADDRESS FOREIGN SUBSIDIES

Clifford Chance, here

The Google/Fitbit merger - NOT ON OUR WATCH!

Privacy International, here

Facebook’s Libra 2.0: Why you might like it even if we can’t trust Facebook

Brookings, here

Market studies by CCI: Towards healthy competition

Financial Express, here

New protections for UK businesses key to national security and fight against coronavirus

CMA, here

Digital Services Act: Opportunities and Challengesfor the Digital Single Market and Consumer Protection

EU Parliament, here

Does The Relaunch Of Google Meet Breach Antitrust Law?

Forbes, here

Bungled Lancet study casts shadow over health data industry

Politico.eu, here

Data protection as a pillar of citizens’ empowerment and the EU’s approach to the digital transition - two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation

EC, here

Central banks and payments in the digital era

BIS, here

Facebook's investment in Jio Platforms gets CCI nod

Econoomic Times, here

Kapitalismus braucht Regeln

J. Haucap, hier

GOOGLE’S PLAN TO BUY FITBIT – SHOULD WE BE ALARMED?

K. Kemp, Radio Interview here

GDPR IN NEED FOR A CENTRALIZED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM TO PROPERLY WORK WITH GLOBAL PLATFORMS

Radiobruxelleslibera, here

Sunlight alone is not a disinfectant: Consent and the futility of opening Big Data black boxes (without assistance)

J. Obar, here

Germany flexes its muscles on foreign investment

FT, here

Bundeskartellamt clears Intersport’s online platform sales model

Bundeskartellamt, here

viagogo / StubHub merger inquiry

CMA, here

Friday, June 12, 2020

Tackling the COVID-19 challenge - competition policy perspectives

Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, here.


THE JURY IS OUT: AN ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSED REFORMS TO AUSTRALIA’S MERGER CONTROL REGIME FOR ADDRESSING COMPETITIVE HARM IN THE (DIGITAL) ECONOMY

CliffordChance, here

Facebook hit by antitrust scrutiny after buying a site for GIFs

CNN, here

What's in a Name? The Marginal Standard of Review of "Complex Economic Assessments" in EU Competition Enforcement

A. Kilintiri, here

Resilience and competition law, in times of emergencies and crises: two research agendas

J. Nowag, here

The CMA is investigating the completed acquisition by Facebook, Inc of Giphy, Inc.

Here

Competition Law in Isolation

Video library, here

What will the Regulatory Horizons Council do for "us"?

Here

Shaping Europe's Digital Future

Council of the European Union, here

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Apple adds anonymous symptom and health info sharing to its COVID-19 app and website

TechCrunch, here

GitLab acquires DevSecOps startups Peach Tech and Fuzzit

VentureBeat, here

General Magic

Documentary, here

How advertisers should adapt to the privacy-first future

J. Ryan, Remote Keynote here

Amazon Set to Face Antitrust Charges in European Union

NYTimes, here.
[Note to self: 2018 short "Amazon and the Law of the Jungle" here; 2016 article here]. First time I wondered about it here]

How we make decisions during a pandemic

K. Harmon Courage, here

Another response to the public consultation on “A European strategy for data”

 Transatlantic project “Principles for a Data Economy”, here

Competition rules for Big Tech and the digital economy

N. Petit & I. de Silva, Video here

Thursday, June 04, 2020

§ 19a GWB (Referentenentwurf „GWB-Digitalisierungsgesetz“)

S. Louven, hier

Understanding EU data protection policy

EP Briefing, here

TWO YEARS UNDER THE EU GDPR

Access Now, here

Nicolas Anciaux : « L’agentivité, c’est le pouvoir d’utiliser collectivement nos données personnelles, sous forme de Big Data citoyen »

LINC, ici

Support studies for the evaluation of the VBER

EC, here

Two years into new EU privacy regime, questions hang over enforcement

Politico.eu, here

Avis concernant une proposition de loi relative à l’utilisation d’applications numériques de dépistage de contacts

Autorité de protection des données, ici

Verbesserung der DSGVO zum Schutz unserer Grundrechte

Digitale Gesellschaft, hier

An opportunity for openness and user agency in the proposed Facebook-Giphy merger

Mozilla, here

Google faces antitrust case in India over payments app

Reuters, here

Report by the DPC on the use of cookies and other tracking technologies

Data Protection Commission, here

REVISED ISSUES PAPER ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

WIPO, here

Kartellgericht verurteilt Peugeot für Preisdiktat

Der Standard, hier

Amazon sellers are marking products as ‘collectible’ to get around price gouging rules

The Verge, here

The General Court annuls the European Commission’s prohibition of the Three/O2 merger – a reset for EU merger control?

Allen & Overy, here

The Law and Policy of Government Access to Private Sector Data (‘B2G Data Sharing’)

H. Richter, here

„Die wichtigste digitale Bestrebung Europas in dieser Generation“

FAZ, hier

What’s good for the goose ain’t good for the gander: heterogeneous innovation capabilities and the performance effects of R&D

A. Coad, N. Mathew, E. Pugliese, here

Designing regulation for digital platforms: Why economists need to work on business models

C. Caffarra et al., here

Decision 20-MC-01 of April 09, 2020

Autorité de la concurrence, here

Blockchain for supply chains and international trade

EPRS, here

Emergency Remote Teaching: a study of copyright and data protection policies of popular online services

R. Ducato et al. Part I, Part II

National COVID-19 contact tracing apps

EP Briefing, here

Fusión entre Uber y Cornershop

FNE, aquì.
And also @oecd, here

GAIA-X: The European project kicks off the next phase

Here

Commission to assess the proposed acquisition of Nets A/S account-to-account payment business by Mastercard

EC, here

App Users Say Plaid Collects Bank Logins Without Consent (1)

Bloomberg Law, here.
Complaint here

New Directions in Privacy and Competition Policy

M. MacCarthy, here

Show Me The (Data About The) Money! What You Didn’t Know About Data Aggregation Can Hurt You.

N. Packin, here

“The Portability and Other Required Transfers Impact Assessment (PORT-IA): Assessing Competition, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Other Considerations”

P. Swire, here

Data & Society Data & Society An Ecological Approach to Data Governance

J. McNealy, Podcast here