Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Per i lobbisti del big tech il paradiso è in Italia

 Domani, qui

Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature

 J. Rietveld, M. Schilling, here

The digital payment revolution

 Bank of France, here

Anonymisierung und Pseudonymisierung von Daten für Projekte des maschinellen Lernens

 Bitkom, hier

Amazon's Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy

 Wired, here

Data protection and coronavirus: Case studies

 ICO, here

BigTech Firms in Finance in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

 FSB, here

Google v. Oracle and the search for an analogy

 M. Risch, here

The Lawless Realm

 M. Schaake, here

A ticking time bomb: The real and present danger of the data economy

 With C. Véliz, here (and here)

Press Publishers’ Right: the Court of Appeal of Paris upholds the Competition Authority’s order for Google to negotiate with the publishers

 B. Spitz, here

Dear Google: We Agree Search Competition Should Be "Only 1 Click Away" – So Why Is It 15+ on Android?

 DuckDuckGo, here

Future Market Dynamics Part 2 - Big Tech and data disruption

 FCA, here

No rivalry between public and private digital currency solutions – European Commission

 Finextra, here

EU Foreign Investment Screening Regulation takes effect: a high-level review of regimes across Europe

 Clifford Chance, here

What Will Drive Long-Run Growth in the Digital Age?

J. Growiec, here.  

The Big Tech antitrust report has one big conclusion: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are anti-competitive

 Vox, here

Abuse of Dominance in Digital Markets

 OECD, here

EU antitrust regulators may narrow Amazon investigation - sources

 Reuters, here

Facebook's Libra must not start until properly regulated - G7 draft

 Reuters, here

Monday, October 12, 2020

A Note about Spotify Transfers

 


SongShift, here

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS TO FIGHT COVID-19

 Council of Europe, here

YouTube testet Integration von Online-Shopping-Funktionen

 Heise Online, hier

Brussels eyes bigger stick to take on Big Tech

 Politico.eu, here

Digital transformation of Europe: State of Play

 Fireside chat with the Margrethe Vestager, here  and now.



Auguri!

 




Congress made a lousy case for breaking up Big Tech

 PPI, here.

EU automotive sector – exemption from antitrust rules (review)

 EC, here  (here the pdf of the questionnaire).

Lobbying and transparency: What Twitter can do...

 




Demystifying the Role of Data Interoperability in the Access and Sharing Debate

 J. Hoffmann, B. Gonzales Otero, here

Google should have picked Microsoft’s app store principles over Apple’s

 Venture Beat, here

CNIL observations on the US-accessible Health Data Hub

 I. Brown, here

Epic loses court bid to force Apple to reinstate Fortnite in the App Store

 Venture Beat, here

Google faces new antitrust case in India over abuse in smart TVs market

 Reuters, here

Google’s (Non-) Compliance with the EU Shopping Decision

 T. Hoppner, here

Frequently asked questions on Regulation (EU) 2019/452 establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union

 EC, here

BEREC Response to the Public Consultations on the Digital Services Act Package and the New Competition Tool

 Here.

Friday, October 09, 2020

We came to Fordham and we listened. And learned.

 M. Vestager, here

How to Make AI More Humane

 Oliver Wyman Forum, here

Capitalism Is Broken. The Fix Begins With a Free Covid-19 Vaccine.

 M. Mazzucato, here

Voedselmonitor geeft eerste inzicht in prijsvorming en belemmeringen voor biologische productie

 ACM, hier

Höchste Zeit für eine zukunftsfähige Datenstrategie

I. Bertschek, hier

Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers

 CEPR, here

The Interchange Fees Regulation in a rapidly evolving payment landscape

 EC, here

Big Tech’s Big Competition Problem: Analyzing the House Judiciary Antitrust Report

 Panel organized by Public Knowledge, here

10 app store principles to promote choice, fairness and innovation

Microsoft, here.  

Google Assistant gets deeper app integrations as voice assistant usage skyrockets

 Venture Beat, here

Digital Markets: using our existing tools and emerging thoughts on a new regime

 A. Coscelli, here

Health Data Hub : Cédric O prévoit de quitter Microsoft pour un prestataire français

 Numérama, ici

Theorising and mapping modern economic rents

 M. Mazzucato, J. Ryan-Collins, G. Gouzoulis, here

CLIMATE LAWSUIT AGAINST DUTCH STATE ON KLM BAILOUT

 Greenpeace, here

Thursday, October 08, 2020

NCT Public Consultation

  • 188 stakeholders' replies, here (apparently, but I couldn't find them); 
  • more Contributions here
  • 27 pp. Factual summary of the contributions received, here
  • 13 pp. Summary of NCAs' Contributions, here;
  • Experts' Reports
    - 63 pp. Motta/Peitz, here
    - 41 pp. Larouche/de Streel, here
    - 57-pp. Schweitzer, here
    - 68 pp. Whish, here;
    - XX EAGCP 
TOTAL for now: 269 pp.

Digital-Services-Act: So will die EU die Macht der Tech-Konzerne brechen

 T3n.de, hier

What is a digital gatekeeper?

 D. Geradin, here.

Sektoruntersuchung Nutzerbewertungen - Abschlussbericht

 Bundeskartellamt, hier.

The global semiconductor value chain

 SNV, here.

Naver faces 26.7 bln-won fine, accused of manipulating algorithms

 Yonhap News, here.

Paytm, other Indian startups vow to fight 'big daddy' Google's clout: sources

 Reuters, here

Ruling by EU’s highest court finds that UK, French and Belgian mass surveillance regimes must respect privacy, even in the context of national security

 Privacy International, here

Digital platforms’ boundaries: The interplay of firm scope, platform sides, and digital interfaces

 A. Gawer, here.

Regulating digital finance: At a Glance

 EPRS, here.

REPORT on intellectual property rights for the development of artificial intelligence technologies

 EP, here.

House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split

 ArsTechnica, here.

The Economics of Platforms: A Theory Guide for Competition Policy

 B. Jullien, W. Sand-Zantman, here.

Cour d'Appel de Paris: Google News

 Ici.

Monday, October 05, 2020

A sustainable future for European industry

 M. Vestager, here

Data institutions: reducing costs and improving sustainability

 ODI, here

Message to Enrolled Students (MIM)


Tomorrow, Tuesday 6 October at 5.30 PM, I'll record an International Competition Law catch up class  (MIM) that I'll then make available to enrolled Students. If you wish to participate in the recording, please go to Moodle to find the Zoom invite for tomorrow- dreading being all alone in the Zoom Classroom and looking forward to your inspiring questions! Today's slides here and also on Moodle!


Saturday, October 03, 2020

Offene Märkte und nachhaltiges Wirtschaften – Gemeinwohlziele als Herausforderung für die Kartellrechtspraxis

 Bundeskartellamt, hier

The Marsden/Podszun Report: Restoring Balance to Digital Competition – Sensible Rules, Effective Enforcement

 


P. Marsden, R. Podszun, here; trailer here

Wearable tech makers ramp up opposition to Google’s $2.1bn Fitbit deal

FT, here.  

CONFERENCE DEBRIEFING (21/22): SUSTAINABILITY, PLATFORMS

 D'Kart, here

Google’s Epic response: Android 12 will make it easier to install app stores

 VentureBeat, here

SHAPING THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN EUROPE

 EC DG DNCT, here

Common Shareholding in Europe

 JRC, here.

Tactical Leak: List of (potentially) unfair practices (DSA)

 Who knows (from politico.eu), here (and OCR'd here - H/T @1Br0wn)

Consumer Data Right Rules amended to include intermediaries

 ACCC, here

DATA SHARING FOR DIGITAL MARKETS CONTESTABILITY

 CERRE, here

Google to pay out $1B to publishers to license content for new Google News Showcase

 TechCrunch, here

Report on a digital euro

 ECB, here

Cookies et autres traceurs : la CNIL publie des lignes directrices modificatives et sa recommandation

 CNIL, ici

Blockchain as a cult, Ant Group edition

 FT, here

An Alternative to Data Ownership: Managing Access to Non-Personal Data through the Commons

 T. Fia, here

Essential Platforms

 N. Guggenberger, here ( and accompanying video here). 

First firms to begin move to new data collection platform, RegData

 FCA, here

Digital services act: European added value assessment

 EPRS, here

New legal challenges of big data

 

J. Cannataci, V. Falce and O. Pollicino, here

Facebook's "reviews" the Social Dilemma

 Here

Monday, September 28, 2020

Saturday, September 26, 2020

Spotify criticizes new Apple services bundle on antitrust grounds

Reuters, here

The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website

The MarkUp, here

A Far Reach

Global Finance, here

Converging Disruptions

EPRS, here

Erneuter Vorwurf: Amazon soll bei Eigenprodukten Konkurrenz behindern

Heise, hier

FTC Petition for Ninth Circuit Rehearing in Qualcomm Antitrust Case

Here

A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy roadmapping for the SDGs: The case of plastic-free oceans

M. Miedzinski, M. Mazzucato, P. Ekins, here

Interoperability as a competition remedy for digital networks

M. Kades, F. Scott Morton, here

Digital Finance Package: Commission sets out new, ambitious approach to encourage responsible innovation to benefit consumers and businesses

EU Commission, here

Die Corona-Transformation – Wie die Pandemie die Globalisierung bremst und die Digitalisierung beschleunigt

BertelsmannStiftung, hier

UK regulator says Google not doing enough about scam ads

FT, here

Video del seminario: “Competencia, Privacidad y Datos Personales”

Capítulo América Latina de la Academic Society for Competition Law, Video aquì.










Is it game over for the console?

FT, here

New farm bill 2020: Who is protesting & why

Times of India, here.

And CCI 2012 Onion Study here

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Lessons in Data Access, Portability and Interoperability from Digital Agriculture

DataFed, here

The Green Deal and competition policy

M. Vestager, here

How can competition rules support the Green Deal?

With Margrethe, here

EPIC Demands Privacy Commitments From Oracle, TikTok

Here

The Progressive Case for a TikTok Sale

Wired, here

INNOVATION POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY FOR POST-COVID ECONOMIC RECOVERY

M. Mazzucato, G. Dibb, here

Data Futures: Research to shift power through data governance

Mozilla, here

SURVEILLANCE IN AN ERA OF PANDEMIC AND PROTEST

N. Klein, S. Zuboff, and S. Browne, here

Why we need to do something about the monopsony power of employers

A. Manning, here

Microsoft Grabs Some of World’s Biggest Games in $7.5 Billion Deal

NYTimes, here

Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles

Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group, here

Decentralised Futures: How digital technologies will change the shape of organisations to come

Nesta, here

Digital Minilateralism: How governments cooperate on digital governance

T. Filer, A. Weiss, here

FTC: Virtual workshop on data portability

 This afternoon, here.
My draft paper presented at the Ascola 2020 Conference here, si jamais. 

Monday, September 21, 2020

Russischer Internetriese Yandex zieht sich aus Türkei zurück

Heise.de, hier

Aline Blankertz: «Das Internet wird zum geopolitischen Spielball»

SRF.ch, hier

DIE ZUKUNFT DER DATENSCHUTZAUFSICHT

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier

Humanising Machine Intelligence

Conference Videos, here. 👀

Google to pass on [regulatory operating cost] to advertisers

CityAm, here

Data institutions play critical role in solving global social problems

ComputerWeekly, here

Amazon staffers took bribes, manipulated marketplace, leaked data including search algorithms – DoJ claims

The Register, here

Ireland’s data watchdog slammed for letting adtech carry on ‘biggest breach of all time’

TechCrunch, here

This Deal Helped Turn Google Into an Ad Powerhouse. Is That a Problem?

NYTimes, here

U.S. app maker Blix in letter to EU's Vestager says Apple not playing fair

Reuters, here.
"The founders of Blix, an email app maker that has fought with Apple, suggested to me that Apple create an independent app review process to make sure it isn’t unfairly punishing rival apps" here

Privacy Experts Alarmed at Oracle’s Role in Proposed TikTok Deal

Digital Privacy News, here

The impact of algorithms for online content filtering or moderation

Study for the EP, here

Friday, September 18, 2020

Digitale Ordnungspolitik

Interdisziplinäre Konferenz, hier

The Case of Google ‘Snippets’: An IP Wrong that Competition Law Cannot Fix

V. Kathuria, J. Lai, here

Vins d’Alsace : l’Autorité de la concurrence sanctionne 3 organisations professionnelles pour entente

ADLC, ici

Google’s Call for Enforcement Action?

Foundem, here

Exploring principles for data stewardship: a case study analysis

Ada Lovelace Institute, here

Banksy trademark 'at risk' after street artist loses legal battle

The Guardian, here

Bringing an end to Apple’s anti-competitive practices on the App Store: A response to Völcker & Baker

D. Geradin, D. Katsifis, here

Apple Pay tech likely to be open to rivals in rules mulled by EU

TheStar, here

Tech investor Fred Wilson says Apple and Google ‘monopolies’ on app sales ‘must stop’

9to5Mac, here

Thursday, September 17, 2020

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

C. Doctorow, here (and pdf, if you want to speechify it for the gym, here). 

How can we fight surveillance capitalism?

Columbia Journalism Review, here

How to Govern Facebook: A Structural Model for Taxing and Regulating Big Tech

S. Benzell, A. Collis, here

DRAFT STAFF DISCUSSION PAPER ON SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES AND COMPETITION LAW

 Hellenic Competition Commission, here

Not a Monopoly


The Potential of Open Digital Ecosystems

ODE, here

Angriff auf das Monopol: Streit von Amazon mit Marktplatzhändlern eskaliert

Handelsblatt, hier

DSA: Google

 Here.

„Datenzugang, Verbraucherinteressen und Gemeinwohl“

J. Globocnik, S. Scheuerer, hier.

Der Facebook-Fall vor dem BGH: Kein kompletter Austausch der rechtlichen Begründung 😉

FRAND-Einwand: Bundesgerichtshof, Urteil vom 5. Mai 2020 - Az. KZR 36/17

 Hier

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

BIg Tech Hearing: GAFA’s responses for the record

 Here.

FTC takes aim at Google’s OS monopoly

The Korea Herald, here

Investiga COFECE posibles prácticas monopólicas relativas en el mercado de servicios de publicidad digital y servicios relacionados

COFECE, aquì

Rise of the central bank digital currencies: drivers, approaches and technologies

BIS, here

How to destroy surveillance capitalism

C. Doctorow, here

The ACCC’s ‘bargaining code’: A path towards ‘decentralised regulation’ of dominant digital platforms?

C. Caffarra, here

The effects of narrow price parity clauses on online sales – Investigation results from the Bundeskartellamt’s Booking proceeding

Bundeskartellamt, here

Competition in digital markets: a review of expert reports

F. Lancieri, P. Sakowski, here

On concentration screens in horizontal merger review

V. Nocke, M. Whinston, here

Statement on Facebook

ACCC, here

Emerging health data platforms: From individual control to collective data governance

T. Kariotis et al., here

Wie Europas digitale Wettbewerbspolitik verschärfen?

With A. Fletcher, here

Digital platform services Inquiry – March 2021 report on app marketplaces: Issues Paper

ACCC, here

Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox probed over ‘unfair’ T&Cs in Italy

TechCrunch, here

COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EVALUATION of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation

EC, here

Remèdes aux problèmes posés par les plateformes numériques structurantes

Arcep, ici

Arcep’s contribution to the public consultation on the DSA Package and the New Competition Tool

Here

Altmaier: Mit dem GWB-Digitalisierungsgesetz schaffen wir neue Wettbewerbsregeln für große Internetunternehmen und entlasten den Mittelstand

BMWI, hier

How competition impacts data privacy

A. Blankertz, here

Industrie 4.0: Innovationen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung

BMBF, hier.

Traitement de la DMLA : l'Autorité sanctionne 3 laboratoires pour des pratiques abusives

ADLC, ici

5G: a cosa serve davvero? Quintarelli: “Ecco quale sarà il vero traino delle nuove reti”

AgendaDigitale, qui

The technical components of interoperability as a tool for competition regulation

I. Brown, here

Essential requirements for establishing and operating data trusts: practicalguidance co-developed by representatives from fifteen canadian organizationsand initiatives

A. Paprica et al., here

The future of EU merger control

M. Vestager, here

CMA: EC public consultations on the Digital Services Act package and the New Competition Tool

CMA, here

ICN 2020 Virtual Annual Conference

ICN, here

À VOTRE ÉCOUTE

CNIL, here

Evidence and scenarios for global data systems

Gov Office for Science, here

GOOGLE’S SUBMISSION IN RESPONSE TO SUBCOMMITTEE QUESTIONS FOR THE RECORD FOLLOWING JULY 29, 2020 HEARING

Google, here

BGH setzt Facebook Grenzen für die Datennutzung

Noerr, hier

AI Governance through Political Fora and Standards Developing Organizations

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, hier

Nvidia's CEO argues that buying Arm won't threaten CPU neutrality

PCWorld, here

La justice européenne confirme que le « trafic gratuit » enfreint les règles sur la neutralité du net

Numérama, ici

Radical Restorative Remedies for Digital Markets

N. Petit, M. Gal, here

Russian Apple decision(s)

FAS, here

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Oh what a feeling: New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums based on driver behaviour

The Register, here

Market Investigations for Digital Platforms: Panacea or Complement?

A. Fletcher, here

Oracle’s Ellison [does not step] out of character with approach for TikTok

FT, here

'Surveillance Capitalism' and the Angst of the Petit Sovereign

F. Johns, here.

Girocard in Apple Pay mit Beschränkungen

Heise, hier

Concorrência em mercados digitais: uma revisão dos relatórios especializados

CADE, aqui

What if Apple was forced to allow app sales outside of the iOS store?

Engadget, here

Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies

I. Letina et aliud, here

Should we be paid for our data?

LiveMint, here

The Monopoly Harms That Antitrust Keeps Missing

H. Singer, here

This app could end Apple's monopoly — and Steve Jobs would love it

InputMag, here

Commission approves acquisition of Nets' account-to-account payment business by Mastercard, subject to conditions

EC, here

Google spreading 'misinformation' about new rules, says ACCC chief

SMH, here

How the European Commission Lost Its Tax Battle Against Ireland and Apple

ProMarket, here

Uber and Lyft Consider Franchise-Like Model in California

NYTimes, here

The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy.

Technology Review, here.

Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights

NYTimes, here

How Duolingo uses AI in every part of its app

VentureBeat, here

Our response to Google: Privacy isn't a Luxury

Privacy Int, here

Nvidia boss sets out plan to rule the data centre

FT, here.

Datenschützer wollen Cookie-Banner prüfen

Heise, hier

Friday, August 14, 2020

Epic Games v. Google

The Complaint, here

More of a river than a lake

IDFC, here

Fortnite Creator Sues Apple and Google After Ban From App Stores

NYTimes, here

Epic Games' Lawsuits Fire a Shot at Apple and Google's App Store 'Monopolies'

Wired, here

Epic Games v. Apple

The Complaint, here

Fortnite for Android has also been kicked off the Google Play Store

The Verge, here

Bataille à couteaux tirés entre « Fortnite » et les géants de la tech Apple et Google

Le Monde, ici

Fortnite v. Apple: The first ever antitrust complaint with video and hashtag

Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite, here.
Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer, here.

Compare also with this Almunia days' video 

Monday, August 10, 2020

Servus, Amazon

Wiener Zeitung, hier

Apple’s antitrust woes stem from its obsessions with control and money

VentureBeat, here

India data-curb plan 'anathema', U.S. tech giants plan pushback

Reuters, here.
Submissions will be published here, eventually. 

Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19

J. Budd et al., here

For Amazon, Mall Is Beautiful (Amazon se come al retail físico)

E. Dans, here

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

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

Market Power, Inequality, and Financial Instability

Federal Reserve Board, here

Advance notification of order to rectify unfairly processed and incorrect personal data - International Baccalaureate Organization

Norwegian Data Protection Authority, here.

Google Search Mobile Market Share Likely to Drop Around 20% through Search Preference Menus

DuckDuckGo, here

Facebook, Amazon and Google Emails Make an Antitrust Case...

Bloomberg, here (and here). 

Amazon Is a Private Government. Congress Needs to Step Up.

The Atlantic, here

ФАС признала Apple злоупотребившей доминирующим положением на рынке распространения приложений

ФАС, здесь

Friday, August 07, 2020

Banning TikTok: Are We Reproducing the Chinese Internet in America?

M. Stoller, here

Here’s why Apple believes it’s an AI leader—and why it says critics have it all wrong

Ars Technica, here

Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes

The Daily, here

To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo

The Markup, here

"Jeder Nutzer soll Herr über seine eigenen Daten sein"

SZ, hier

Economic Rents and the Contours of Conflict in the Data-driven Economy

D. Ciuriak, here

Google-Fitbit deal to be scrutinized in Europe over data competition concerns

TechCrunch, here

Antitrust Policy in the 21st Century: Is There a Need for Reform?

CPI, here

Make AI Enhance Your Productivity—Not A ‘Surveillance State’

C. Makridis, here

Platform for Disruption

With P. Malik, here

Letter: Europe is right to worry about Big Tech power

J. Eskanazi, here

SPARTOO : sanction de 250 000 euros et injonction sous astreinte de se conformer au RGPD

CNIL, ici

How open data could tame Big Tech’s power and avoid a breakup

P. Leblond, here

Data is an economic resource. Gopalakrishnan committee report shows how its value can be shared, governed

The Indian Express, here

Managing Privacy & Data Governance for Next Generation Architecture

InfoQ, here

Warum wir unsere Daten zurückfordern müssen

SZ, hier

Apple using machine learning for almost everything, and privacy-first approach actually better

B. Lovejoy, here

Microsoft expands TikTok takeover ambitions to entire global business

FT, here

WEBINAR ON THE “EX-POST ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF EUROPEAN COMPETITION POLICY”

EC and Lear, here

Dominant Tech Companies Should Live Under Enhanced Privacy Rules

Forbes, here

IS COVID-19 ACCELERATING AUTOMATION? LESSONS FOR THE ADVENT OF AI

Uva Darden, here

Redesigning Data Privacy: Reimagining Notice & Consent for human technology interaction

WEF, here

Facebook: Apple-Regeln führen zu minderwertigen iPhone-Apps

Heise.de, hier

Google launches Recommendations AI ecommerce tool in public beta

Venture Beat, here

Microsoft and Facebook blast Apple for restrictive rules on gaming apps

CNBC, here

Some thoughts on the Conseil National du Numérique interoperability study

I. Brown, here

Apple confirms cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines

The Verge, here

Here’s why Apple believes it’s an AI leader—and why it says critics have it all wrong

ArsTechnica, here

Monday, August 03, 2020

Der Umsetzung ein Stück näher

A. Wambach, hier

Sustainable Data Access

ODI, Podcast here

Tech Titans at Bay?

D. Coyle, here.

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism

VPRO Documentary, here

EUROPE’S DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY: FROM RULEMAKER TO SUPERPOWER IN THE AGE OF US-CHINA RIVALRY

ECFR, here

Citi’s New Credit Card Perk Gives Amazon Edge in Winning Big Orders

Bloomberg, here

Consumer Protection (E-commerce) Rules 2020: A Step In The Right Direction?

LiveLawIn, here

UK chemical industry warns of £1bn cost to duplicate EU regime

FT, here

Justice Department Is Scrutinizing Takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit, Maker of TurboTax

ProPublica, here

Boycotts Can’t Be a Test of Moral Purity

Z. Teachout, here

Facebook/Instagram: again


Non-personal data: Tread wisely in the new gold rush

B. Singh and K. Jain  

University mandates wearable COVID-19 tracker, sparking student protest

VentureBeat, here

Platform Rules: A Case Study of Samsung’s Failure in the Smartphone Platform Industry

H. Seo, here

Google signs up six more partners for its digital banking platform coming to Google Pay

TechCrunch, here

Friday, July 31, 2020

Amazon investing $10 billion to compete against SpaceX in satellite broadband

ArsTechnica, here.

Technology Theatre

CIGI, here.

Commission clears Alstom's acquisition of Bombardier, subject to conditions

EC, here

Top 10 Admissions from Tech CEOs Secured at the Antitrust Hearing

Tech(no)Bosses - click on image
H. Singer, here. 

Emails detail Amazon’s plan to crush a startup rival with price cuts

ArsTechnica, here

In a world first, Australia plans to force Facebook and Google to pay for news (but ABC and SBS miss out)

Rob (Nicholls), here

„Das Informatikstudium war eher langweilig“, sagt KI-Star Sepp Hochreiter

FAZ Digitec-Podcast, hier

Evaluating competition in the Internet’s infrastructure: a view of GAFAM from the Internet exchanges

J. Sowell, here

Documents from the Hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

US House Committee on the Judiciary, here

Guidance on AI and data protection

ICO, here

Google and Facebook to be forced to share revenue with media in Australia under draft code

The Guardian, here

Die Wichtigkeit von Transparenz im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung

FAZ, hier

London Stock Exchange may sell Milan bourse to secure Refinitiv deal

Reuters, here

China's central bank urges antitrust probe into Alipay, WeChat Pay - sources

Reuters, here

Regulating the Digital Economy

 Competition Commission of India, here.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Favorable ad search terms for Apple considered in deal with Amazon: documents

Reuters, here

Lego propose à l’Autorité des engagements afin de modifier sa politique de remise tarifaire

Autorité de la concurrence, ici

Google Search: Summer Read

Here

"Congressman, I'm really focused on getting users what they want"

Why it matters that TikTok wants to reveal its algorithms

Recode, here

Antitrust finally gets its hearing

C. Newton, here

The Triumphant Return of Congress

D. Dayen, here.

A New Paradigm for Business of Data

WEF, here

Big Tech Hearing: My Modest Take in a Tweet



Telegram is the latest company to make antitrust complaint against Apple

B. Lovejoy, here

Google’s $2bn Fitbit deal faces longer EU probe

FT, here

Interoperability as a tool for competition regulation

I. Brown, here

‘This Is a New Phase’: Europe Shifts Tactics to Limit Tech’s Power

NYTimes, here

Lawmakers want privacy protections included in coronavirus stimulus package

CNET, here

Margrethe to David

Here

Big Tech’s leaders squirm as documents reveal their power

FT, here

MYDATA OPERATOR 2020 STATUS AWARDED TO 16 ORGANISATIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

MyData, here

Examining the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

D. Ciciline, here.

Google’s business model ‘is the problem,’ David Cicilline says

The Verge, here

Amazon and aggregate data

Today’s Congressional Hearing Will Test Big Tech’s Simplest Algorithm: If An Ex-Regulator, Then Hire [either directly or indirectly - via a law office/thinktank/consulting firm]

The Ringer, here

"Indirectly the Buy Box does favor products that can be shipped with Prime"

Here

Google-Fitbit: In-depth merger control

C. Caffarra, here

‘INSTAGRAM CAN HURT US’: MARK ZUCKERBERG EMAILS OUTLINE PLAN TO NEUTRALIZE COMPETITORS

The Verge, here

Baidu's Review Fast Track

Here

Neutralize a potential competitor?

On Apple’s monopoly power to destroy HEY

DHH, here

WHO, WIPO, WTO launch updated study on access to medical technologies and innovation

WTO, here

Google’s ‘no choice’ screen on Android isn’t working, says Ecosia — querying the EU’s approach to antitrust enforcement

TechCrunch, here

Lawmakers From Both Sides Take Aim at Big Tech Executives

NWTimes, here

Amazon: Diapers.com

Here

Everything you need to know from the tech antitrust hearing

The Verge, here.

Canadian smart glasses going 'offline' weeks after company bought by Google

CTV News, here

Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store

FT, here

Apple Copycats

Here

Bezos Admits To Serious Issues For Retail Brands In Antitrust Inquiry. What Will Change?

Forbes, here

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

A plan for Indian self-sufficiency in an AI-driven world

P. Singh, here

#BigTechBarons Hearing Bingo


Amazon’s Monopoly Tollbooth

ILSR, here

Brazil antitrust watchdog questions Facebook's WhatsApp payment fees

Reuters, here.

Chinese state capitalism: A challenge for the European market economy

Monopolkommission, here

Missbrauchsaufsicht in der Plattformwirtschaft

Monopolkommission, hier

Wettbewerb in der Corona-Krise

Monopolkommission, hier

Proposal for a legal act of the European Parliament and the Council laying down requirements for Artificial Intelligence: IIA

Here

Summary Report on the open public consultation on the European strategy for data

EC, here

Gekommen um zu kaufen

SZ, hier

Implementing act on a list of High-Value Datasets: IIA

EC, here

THE hearing: A Memo

Here

A Balancing Act - Big Tech in India

Tandem Research, here

Label "Numérique Souveraineté France"

La Tribune, ici

A Handbook to Today’s Tech Hearing

NYTimes, here.

Four of the World’s Wealthiest Men Are Preparing for Battle

NYTimes, here

Friday, July 24, 2020

Platformization in Europe

V. Lehdonvirta et al., here

Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival Android apps to develop competitors

The Verge, here

How a Tech-Funded Think Tank Influence[d] Global Antitrust Regulators

NYTimes, here

European Digital Identity (EUid)

EC, Inception Impact Assessment, here

Three basic facts Congress must understand about Big Tech

ProtonMail, here

REGTECH: REGULATORY IMPACT ON DATA BY DESIGN

E. Chaltseva, here (published with permission).

This is a Master Student 's Thesis at Trento University that I really enjoyed supervising (mostly on Zoom, since February) but, especially, reading. Brava Ekaterina (молодец!) 

Department Of Justice Issues Business Review Letter To Monoclonal Antibody Manufacturers To Expedite And Increase The Production Of Covid-19 Mab Treatments

DoJ, here

Investiga COFECE posibles prácticas monopólicas relativas en el mercado de la producción, distribución y comercialización de oxígeno medicinal en el territorio nacional

COFECE, aquì.

Slack: Break up the Microsoft Teams bundle and let us interoperate

The Protocol, here

Conspiracy Theories

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, here.

BEREC Guidelines on the Implementation of the Open Internet Regulation

Thursday, July 23, 2020

The Rare Parrot Monopolist

Audubon, here

Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products

WSJ, here

EU demands major concessions from Google over Fitbit deal

FT, here.

Tweet aging well, possibly...


ICO regulatory sandbox

ICO, here

Guidelines 06/2020 on the interplay of the Second Payment Services Directive and the GDPR - Version 1.0

EDPB, here

Viagogo/StubHub: Issues statement

CMA, here

Lignes directrices de l’Autorité de la concurrence relatives au contrôle des concentrations

Autorité de la concurrence, ici

Four Questions Congress Should Be Asking the Titans of Tech

Bloomberg, here

Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 6: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

US House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, Wed July 29, 2020, 6 PM CEST, here

Apple releases study defending App Store’s 30% cut ahead of Tim Cook’s congressional testimony next week

CNBC, here

Ein App-Store für die Industrie

FAZ, hier (und hier). 

Slack v. Microsoft on Twitter

Whose century?

A. Tooze, here

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