Friday, October 22, 2021

1st Giovanni Buttarelli Award at Global Privacy Assembly goes to...Shoshana Zuboff!

 Video here

1970-2021 : la protection des données essaime le monde

 LINC, ici.

Plaid Pushes Into Payments Business After Scuttled Visa Deal

 WSJ, here.

Unique on Facebook: Formulation and Evidence of (Nano)targeting Individual Users with non-PII Data

 J. Gonzales-Cabañas et al., here. More here

Should platforms be allowed to sell on their own marketplaces?

 A. Hagiu et al., here

Regarding the CFPB’s Inquiry into Big Tech Payment Platforms

 R. Chopra, here

Google slashes service fees in its app store after similar move by Apple

 CNBC, here

Facebook agrees to pay French publishers for news reuse

 TechCrunch, here

YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku, and the fight is going all the way to Congress

 CNBC, here

Amazon Warns Sellers: Marketplace Could Shut Down If Congress Tries to Regulate It

 The Prospect, here

In re: Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation (Amended Complaint)

 Here

Monday, October 18, 2021

Nudging Humans

 B. Frischmann, here

Retour sur un mandat : la présidence de l’Autorité de la concurrence, 2016-2021 (le seul quinquennat qu'on ne oubliera jamais)

 


La bravissima Isabelle de Silva, ici and here.

Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business

 FT, here

A letter to Amazon (final opportunity to provide exculpatory evidence)

 Here

The future of online advertising

 McCann/Stronge/Jones for the Greens/EFA, here

Biden pick for bank regulator says critics ‘demonise’ her identity

 FT, here

DSGVO: Irische Datenschutzbehörde nickt Facebooks Einwilligungstrick ab

 Heise, hier and here

Competition in Australia faces big challenges

 R. Sims, here

Google's practices in the online advertising sector

 L. Hoffmann, here

AI's technological Diversification to counter the market concentration

 S&D AIDA Webinar, here.

PROTECTING EUROPEAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD OF CONNECTED DEVICES

 BEUC, here

When Amazon Takes the Buy Box, It Doesn’t Give It Up

The Markup, here and here.

Lawmakers seek to rein in big tech with bills aimed at competition and liability

 The Guardian, here

Tech Companies Don't Need to Be Creepy to Make Money

 Wired, here

U.K. Pays Price for Energy Market That Anyone Could Join

 Bloomberg, here

The unintended consequences of Vestager’s tougher take on ‘killer acquisitions’

 Politico, here

Friday, October 08, 2021

Some thoughts on the Google Android hearing before the General Court

 The Platform Law Blog, here

CMA welcomes government proposals on new powers

 CMA, here.

Via libera al “progetto antifrode” dell’ANIA nei rami danni e vita

 AGCM, here.

Can competition be toxic? And if so, who’s pushing this toxic competition?

 A. Ezrachi, here.

Apple and Google under antitrust scrutiny in Japan for mobile OS

 Nikkei Asia, here.

RECOMMENDATION OF THE COUNCIL ON ENHANCING ACCESS TO AND SHARING OF DATA

 OECD, here.

NFT-Deal mit Sorare: Fußball-Bundesliga kriegt Blockchain-Sammelbilder

 Heise.de, hier.

What if deepfakes made us doubt everything we see and hear?

 EPRS, here

Response to DCMS consultation “Data: a new direction”

 ICO, here.

What do iOS and Android have in common? Their apps suck at privacy, boffins say

 The Register, here

How Lina Khan Debunked the DOJ Antitrust Case against Google

 NR, here.

Google rivals want EU lawmakers to act via new tech rules

 Reuters, here

BUSTING THE DANGEROUS MYTHS OF BIG ID PROGRAMS: CAUTIONARY LESSONS FROM INDIA

 Access Now, here.

Daten, Demokratie und Kartellrecht – Zur Entwicklung eines evidenzbasierten Umgangs mit Demokratiedefiziten in digitalen Märkten aus kartellrechtlicher Sicht

 V. Robertson, hier.

Überwachung in Venedig: Smart City auf dem Wasser

 Netzpolitik, hier

DMA IN IMCO: SHADOWS PRESENT IDEAS, RAPPORTEUR SHOWS A COMPROMISE

 A. Mazgal, here

China's experience with regulating big tech

 Y. Gang, Video here. The whole, excellent Conference here.

Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Si vos GIFs sont gratuits, savez-vous qui est le produit ?

 LADN, ici.

Change is needed in the next generation of economists

 FT, here

India can benefit from China’s regulatory crackdown, says Ola chief

 FT, here

Chinese AI gets ethical guidelines for the first time, aligning with Beijing’s goal of reining in Big Tech

 SCMP, here

Analysis of Google’s Privacy Budget Proposal

 Mozilla, here

Why the Digital Markets Act (DMA) should be enforceable under the Representative Actions Directive

 BEUC, here

CMA response to the government’s consultation ‘A new pro-competition regime for digital markets’

 Here

Disputing the Dogmas of Surveillance Advertising

 FTC, here

Recommendations for an effective and efficient Digital Markets Act

 Monopolkommission, here

Saturday, October 02, 2021

EU-US Trade and Technology Council New forum for transatlantic cooperation

 EPRS, here

Richard Blumenthal Was Right to Ask Facebook About “Ending Finsta”

 Slate, here

“Wayforward Machine” provides a glimpse into the future of the web

 ArsTechnica, here

Funding for fintechs: patterns and drivers

 G. Cornelli et al., here

Monopole und Preiswirrwarr: Was an deutschen Ladesäulen schiefläuft

 PlusMinus, hier

What if objects around us flocked together and became intelligent?

 EP Thinktank, here

Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants

 C. Doctorow, here

Why you shouldn’t buy Facebook Ray-Ban smart glasses

 AccessNow, here

Experimental Regulations and Regulatory Sandboxes: Law without Order?

 S. Ranchordas, here

Private Carbon Payment Programs Funnel Farm Data to Big Ag

 Food and Power, here

AI’s Legal and Ethical Implications with Sandra Wachter

 Video, here

“Reviving Competition Part 4: 21st Century Antitrust Reforms and the American Worker

 L. Khan, here

Confidential medical records at the centre of a new claim against Google

 Mishcon, here

EU looks to make data sharing easier: Council agrees position on Data Governance Act

 The Council, here

I've gone to look for American Antitrust

 Read M. Vestager's speech while listening to the song

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

As privacy issues worsen, Congress looks to the FTC

 The Verge, here

EU considers single rules for regulate vacation rental platforms

 TechCrunch, here

Apple's iPhone comes under EU scrutiny for curbs on rival 'wearable' devices

 MLex, here

Prioritising gendered public interest considerations

 B. Mkatshwa et al., here.

See also A FEMINIST ACTION FRAMEWORK FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY, here

GOOGLE DRIVE,DROPBOX, ICLOUD APPLE: Clausole vessatorie

 AGCM, qui (p. 36 ss. )

Deepfake videos, parody, and everything else

 Here

Università Bocconi, volti degli studenti spiati durante gli esami a distanza: multa di 200 mila euro

 CdS, here

More here

ACM fines Samsung over 39 million euros for influencing the online prices of television sets

 Here

Cross-border data flows and development: For whom the data flow

 UNCTAD, here

What Can the U.S. Learn From China’s Crackdown on Crypto?

 Intelligencer, here

Under California Stars...


 ...we would have wished it too - very much so (here).

Monday, September 27, 2021

Goodbye, Last-Click Attribution: Google Ads Changes Default To Data Modeling

 AdExchanger, here

Supply chain issues at petrol forecourts in some areas of the UK

 UK Gov, here

Competition Problems and Governance of Non-personal Agricultural Machine Data: Comparing Voluntary Initiatives in the US and EU

 C. Atik, B. Martens, here

Is Facebook leading us on a journey to the metaverse?

 The Guardian, here

Why China crushed its tech giants

 Wired, here

The CMA investigated and cleared the anticipated acquisition by Facebook, Inc. of Kustomer, Inc.

Here.  

Competition Law, Big Tech and Financialisation: The Dark Side of the Moon

 I. Lianos, A. McLean, here

Chair Lina M. Khan TO: Commission Staff and Commissioners

 Here

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Google and Microsoft are at it again, now over government software

 Protocol, here

Article 114 TFEU as a Legal Basis for Strengthened Control of Acquisitions by Digital Gatekeepers

 Legal Opinion commissioned by Germany, here

[My bet: contrarian legal opinion by Ireland soon...]

Transcript of the Background Talk "New EU-rules for Big Tech: How to improve the Digital Services Act"

SNV, hier 

Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces

 MIT Tech Review, here.

Didi loses 30% of daily users after Beijing crackdown following IPO

 FT, here

‘New Directions in the European Union’s Innovation Policy?’

 MPI, here.

Wild West ist nun vorbei [?]

 SZ, hier.

India antitrust probe finds Google abused Android dominance, report shows

 Reuters, here

Amazon is piling ads into search results and top consumer brands are paying up for prominent placement

 CNBC, here.

Europe’s enforcement paralysis

ICCL, here.  

FDA to PTO

 Here

DIGITALE ÜBERWACHUNG UND KONTROLLE AM ARBEITSPLATZ

 W. Christli, hier

Waste from one bitcoin transaction ‘like binning two iPhones’

 The Guardian, here

Big Tech, Big Problems, & Big Solutions: The Legislative Package to Reinvigorate Platform Competition

 Public Knowledge, here

Australia proves that small publishers benefit from collective negotiation with Big Tech – Canada should follow suit

News Media Canada, here.

Withdrawal of the Vertical Merger Guidelines

 L. Kahn, here

Big tech companies snap up smaller rivals at record pace

FT, here.  

Big Data, Big Questions: Implications for Competition and Consumers

 Chez Senator Klobuchar, here.

The Commission adopts a Statement of Objections in view of adopting interim measures following Illumina's early acquisition of GRAIL

 EC, here

Early draft*s* of the DMA proposal: A take

 Coalition for App Fairness, here

Beyond Debiasing

 EDRi, here.

THE USE OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN THE EU’S BANKING AND PAYMENTS SECTOR

 EBA, here.

Comments regarding the draft revised VBER and VGL as published on 9 July 2021

 Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Bundeskartellamt, here

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces

 MIT Tecchnology Review, here

Non-HSR Reported Acquisitions by Select Technology Platforms, 2010–2019: An FTC Study

 FTC, here

Open FTC: Findings from the Commission’s inquiry into large technology platforms’ unreported acquisitions

 Live, soon, here

Sektoruntersuchung Mobile Apps

 Bundeskartellamt, Bericht hier

Why Turkey’s Regulators Became Such a Problem for Google

 NYTimes, here

How France tamed Google

 Wired, here

L’autorité luxembourgeoise de protection des données a prononcé à l’encontre d’Amazon Europe Core une amende de 746 millions d’euros

 CNIL, ici

CMA accuses pharma firms of illegal pricing

 CMA, here. 

EssilorLuxottica / Lenstec Merger Inquiry

 CMA, here

Apple accuses CBA of ‘misleading’ digital wallets inquiry

 InnovationAus, here

Commission starts investigation for possible breach of the standstill obligation in Illumina / GRAIL transaction

 EC, here

Pièces détachées automobiles : l’Autorité de la concurrence se félicite de l’ouverture partielle à la concurrence de la vente des pièces détachées automobiles visibles

 Adlc, ici.

Wettbewerbschancen bei Strombörsen, E-Ladesäulen und Wasserstoff nutzen

 Monopolkommission, hier.

Sony’s purchase of AWAL raises competition concerns

 CMA, here

Kreditwirtschaft fordert Wahlfreiheit beim Bezahlen an E-Ladesäulen

 Heise.de, hier

Apple’s grip on App Store loosened by US judge

 FT, here

Competition Policy in Support of Europe’s Green Ambition

 EC, here

Unlawful monopolies only benefit monopolists

 DoJ, here

Google found guilty of restricting Android forks in South Korea, fined $177 million

 The Verge, here

Intelligence artificielle et droit de la concurrence

 Séminaire, ici

FTC v. Facebook

 District Court, here

Amended Complaint, here

Google Is Getting Caught in the Global Antitrust Net

 Wired, here

THE DIGITAL MARKETS ACT BACK TO THE "FORM-BASED" FUTURE?

 CompassLexecon, here (paid by Google).

Public consultation on the draft revised Regulation on vertical agreements and vertical guidelines

 EC, here

Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing a Fair Marketplace

 Open Markets, here

Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

 President Biden, here

Let’s Make Google a Public Good

 NYTimes, here

Public consultation: Proposal for the creation of a sandbox for sustainability and competition in the Greek market (too late?)

 Hellenic Competition Commission, here

Demystifying the Draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act

 M. Veale et al., here

What China Expects From Businesses: Total Surrender

 NYTimes, here

Competition and Innovation in Digital Markets

 BEIS Research Paper, here

Plusieurs marques et fabricants de lunettes sanctionnés pour prix de vente imposés et restriction de vente sur Internet

 Adlc, ici

Unlocking the value of data: Exploring the role of data intermediaries

 UK Gov, here

“Old Chicago” and Freiburg: Why Ordoliberalism Was No “German Oddity”

 ProMarket, here

The Autorité de la concurrence hands out a €220 millions fine to Google for favouring its own services in the online advertising sector

 Adlc, here.

Decision ici and here

Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed acquisition of Kustomer by Facebook

 EC, here

The CMA was already on it, here

Building a comprehensive and competitive electric vehicle charging sector that works for all drivers

 CMA, here

How the EU Can Achieve Legally Trustworthy AI: A Response to the European Commission’s Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act

 K. Yeung et al., here

Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism

 S. Viljoen et al. here

Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture: Concept and Assessment

 V. Kathuria, here

Apple and Google Are Gearing Up to Fight a New App Store Bill

 Wired, here

Algorithms and Economic Justice: A Taxonomy of Harms and a Path Forward for the Federal Trade Commission

R. Slaughter, here.  

Sovereignty 2.0

 A. Chander, H. Sun, here

International coherence in digital platform regulation: an economic perspective on the US and EU proposals

 Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale, here

Facebook’s takeover of Giphy raises competition concerns

 CMA, here

Provisional Findings Report here.

The New Antitrust/Data Privacy Law Interface

 E. Douglas, here

Henry Simons’s Positive Program for Laissez-Faire

 M. Rizzo, here

Taking Control of the Data Pipeline

Podcast, here.  

Opinion 11/2021 on the Proposal for a Directive on consumer credits

 EDPS, here

Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table

 C. Caffarra, J. Ryan, here

Participatory data stewardship

 Ada Lovelace Institute, here

The Data Economy: Market Size and Global Trade

 D. Coyle, W. Li, here

Google, Apple Forced to Open App Store Pay Systems in South Korea

 Bloomberg, here

Private enforcement and the Digital Markets Act

 R. Podszun, here

Unscrambling the eggs: breaking up consummated mergers and dominant firms

 J. Kwoka, T. Valletti, here

Japan Fair Trade Commission closes App Store investigation

 Reuters, here

Google appeals France's 'disproportionate' $591 million fine in copyright row

 Reuters, here. Decision ici; press release here.

WhatsApp fined a record 225 mln euro by Ireland over privacy

 Reuters, here

Decision here

The Google Choice Screen

 FairSearch, here

Les organismes professionnels

 Adlc, Etude ici

Rules-based versus principles-based regulation – is there a clear front-runner?

 Ofcom, here

What are we regulating for?

 C. Caffarra, here

TALKING TO THE COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY ABOUT APPLE

 S. Langridge, here

B. Lawson, here

Global Comprehensive Privacy Law Mapping Chart

 Iapp, here

Décision n° 21-D-21 du 9 septembre 2021 relative à des pratiques mises en œuvre dans le secteur du transport routier de marchandises

 Adlc, ici

The future of the App Store depends on the difference between a ‘button’ and an ‘external link’

 The Verge, here

The judgment, here


Beijing to break up Ant’s Alipay and force creation of separate loans app

 FT, here.

On Google’s Sandbox/FLoC Proposal: Comments Submitted to UK-CMA

 DLI, here

Know all about Account Aggregator Network- a financial data-sharing system

 India Ministry of Finance, here

DPC launches two inquiries into TikTok concerning compliance with GDPR requirements relating to the processing of childrens’ personal data and transfers of data to China

 DPC, here

China’s new regulation of platforms: a message for American policymakers

 T. Wheeler, here

Resuming blog posting today - after the update avalanche

Monday, June 21, 2021

Online advertising: the impact of targeted advertising on advertisers, market access and consumer choice

Publication for the committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, European Parliament, here

Privacy, data and competition

 T. Valletti, Presentation here

Verfahren gegen Apple nach neuen Digitalvorschriften (§ 19a Abs. 1 GWB) – Bundeskartellamt prüft Apples marktübergreifende Bedeutung für den Wettbewerb

 Bundeskartellamt, hier

Big Tech: how can we promote competition in digital platform markets?

 A. Fletcher, here

Android Auto, our connected car service, lets consumers choose between rival services

 Google, here

Possible futures for the smart home

 Sonos, here

Algorithms: how they can reduce competition and harm consumers - Summary of responses to the consultation

 CMA, here

Feedback received, here

Soziale Marktwirtschaft in der digitalen Zukunft

 Foresight-Bericht (BMWi), hier

In Defence of Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Age of “Artificial Intelligence”

 Transatlantic Reflection Group on Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Age of “Artificial Intelligence, here

Wir fordern 17 Maßnahmen, um die Macht der Tech-Konzerne hier und jetzt zu brechen

 Handelsblatt, hier

The role of the arts and humanities in thinking about artificial intelligence (AI)

 J. Tasioulas, here

The Internet moment

 J. Zittrain, here

The European Commission’s Artificial Intelligence Act

 M. Schaake, here

Why the DMA is much more than competition law (and should not be treated as such)

 A. Reyna, here

An Algorithmic Bon Marché? Platform Governance In Urban Spaces

 J. Jackson, here

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

CMA to scrutinise Apple and Google mobile ecosystems

 Here.

Mobile ecosystems market study, Statement of scope here

UK’s CMA opens market study into Apple, Google’s mobile “duopoly”

 TechCrunch, here

The Cornwall Consensus Suggests a More “Market-Shaping” Approach to Fostering Resilience

 UCL, here

Courtesy translation of Decision KVR 69/19 rendered by the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) on 23/06/2020 provided by the Bundeskartellamt.

 Here.

Europe needs to back browser-level controls to fix cookie consent nightmares, says privacy group

 TechCrunch, here

U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data

 Reuters, here

Notes on Google's Commitments to the CMA

 R. Berjon, here

Dems are going after Big Tech. It’ll affect almost everything you do online.

 Politico.com, here

OECD FRAMEWORK FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF AI SYSTEMS – PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON PRELIMINARY FINDINGS

 OECD, here

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): the Court specifies the conditions for the exercise of the national supervisory authorities’ powers with respect to the cross-border processing of data

 CJEU, here

Competition policy: staying the course in times of change

 M. Vestager, here

Wednesday, June 09, 2021

PRELIMINARY REPORT - SECTOR INQUIRY INTO CONSUMER INTERNET OF THINGS


EC Staff Working Document, here.  

Some arbitrary highlights here

Ohio’s attorney general wants Google to be declared a public utility.

 NYTimes, here (anything to do with recent Google Antitrust developments in the EU and its MS?). 

PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

 J. Tirole in Trento, here

Governing health innovation for the common good

 The WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, here

Leistungsschutzrecht: Facebook holt Erlaubnis zur Gratisnutzung von Verlagen

 Heise.de, hier

BUILDING RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAINS, REVITALIZING AMERICAN MANUFACTURING, AND FOSTERING BROAD-BASED GROWTH

 The White House, here

Google and France agree on ad-tech interop

 C. Doctorow, here (and here). 

Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Dow/Dupont: Another Step Towards a Proper Assessment Concept of Innovation Effects of Mergers

 W. Kerber and Simonetta, the 2019 draft paper that never made it to a final version (drawers full of them), here.

Google ditches pay-to-play Android search choice auction for free version after EU pressure

 TechCrunch, here.

Changes to the Android Choice Screen in Europe

 


Google, here

DATA SOVEREIGNTY AND DATA ECONOMY - TWO REPULSIVE FORCES?

 Fraunhofer, here

Device Neutrality

 CERRE Report, here

Google fined € 220 million by French Autorité de la concurrence for breaching competition law in ad tech; offers commitments

 D. Katsifis, here

Meituan and Didi Chuxing warned by China’s pricing watchdog to protect ‘market price order’

 SCMP, here

Privacy by Default, Abuse by Design: EU Competition Concerns About Apple's New App Tracking Policy

T. Hoppner, P. Westerhoff, here.  

Monday, June 07, 2021

Antitrust Enforcement and Big Tech: After the Remedy Is Ordered

 J. Himes, J. Nieh, R. Schnell, here

Avis relatif à une demande d’avis de la commission des Affaires culturelles et de l’Éducation de l’Assemblée nationale dans le secteur des musiques actuelles

 Adcl, ici.

Dans le cadre d’une instruction ouverte devant l’Autorité dans le secteur de la publicité en ligne, Facebook propose des engagements.

 Adlc, ici

Austrian Federal Competition Authority files application to fine Facebook for failing to notify GIPHY acquisition

 AFCA, here

Data portability, interoperability and digital platform competition

 OECD Background Paper, here

L’Autorité de la concurrence sanctionne Google à hauteur de 220 millions d’euros pour avoir favorisé ses propres services dans le secteur de la publicité en ligne

 Adlc, ici

Should gatekeepers be allowed to combine data? Ideas for Art. 5(a) of the draft Digital Markets Act

 R. Podszun, here

Abuse without dominance and monopolisation without monopoly

O. Brook, M. Eben, here.  

Simonetta Vezzoso ‘Competition Policy in Transition: Exploring Data Portability’s Roles’ (2021)

 


Antitrust Digest, here (remember that Ascola 2020 presentation?).

Bundeskartellamt examines Google News Showcase

 Here.

Wertschöpfung durch Software in Deutschland

 Fraunhofer, hier.

The European Legislation on AI: a Brief Analysis of its Philosophical Approach

 L. Floridi, here

Competition Law as Collective Bargaining Law

 N. Tankus, L. Herrine, here

CMA investigates Facebook’s use of ad data

 CMA, here

EC opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct of Facebook

 EC, here

REGULATORY SCRUTINY BOARD OPINION on the EDI

 Here

Towards a New Legal Framework for AI in Europe: Assessing the European Commission’s proposed AI Regulation

Jon Bing Memorial Seminar 2021, Video here

IIA of the DGA ;-)

 Here

Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue

 The Guardian, here

Governance of Ad Requests by a Union of Diverse Actors (GARUDA)

 R. Berjon, here

Maintaining a Level Playing Field When Big Tech Disrupts the Financial Services Sector

 T. Smith, D. Geradin, here

Computational Competition Law and Economics

 HCC, BRICS et al., here

Initial Appraisal of the DMA's IA ;-)

 EPRS, here

PUISSANCE DES PLATEFORMES NUMERIQUES, TERRITOIRES ET SOUVERAINETES

 D. Boullier, ici

Making the Digital Markets Act more resilient and effective

 CERRE, here

Amazon Prime Is an Economy-Distorting Lie

 M. Stoller, here

Monday, May 31, 2021

Increasing DMA's flexibility: A leak

😶 (in the service of science), here

CMA welcomes Tribunal judgment in Sabre case

 CMA, here

Europe’s Digital Future

 A. Bradford and M. Vestager, here (and here).

The Art to Make Gatekeeper Positions Contestable and the Challenge to Know What is Fair: A Discussion of the Digital Markets Act Proposal

 H. Schweitzer, here

Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris callling re DMA

 



The Big Deal in Amazon’s Antitrust Case

 NYTimes, here

'Apple is eating our lunch': Google employees admit in lawsuit that the company made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private

 Business Insider, here

Google’s plans to bring AI to education make its dominance in classrooms more alarming

 FastCompany, here

The Proposed DMA: What Kind of (Regulatory) Animal Is It?

 


Me, presentation here


A disturbing, viral Twitter thread reveals how AI-powered insurance can go wrong

 Recode, here

Nine things we learned from the Epic v. Apple trial

The Verge, here.  

How Not to Launch a Digital Currency

 K. Pistor, here

Data fairness: A new social contract for the 21st century economy

 Omidyar Network, here

In battle for privacy, antitrust watchdogs throw their hat in the ring

 Politico.eu, here

In Apple’s War On Developers, Users Are the Biggest Losers

 Wired, here

Once Tech’s Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side

 NYTimes, here

Why China cracked down on Bitcoin

 Fortune, here

More Competitive Search Through Regulation

 Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale, here

China’s Influence in Global Data Governance Explained: The Beijing Effect

 T. Streinz, M. Erie, here. 

Data Minimization

 Access Now, here

Algorithmic Search and Recommendation Systems: The Brightside, the Darkside, and Regulatory Answers

 My dear Friend Oliver (Budzinski), here

Die deutsche Blockchain-Strategie:Stand der Umsetzung und Ausblick

 Hier

Council on DMA

 Here

The Commission’s SO to Apple and anticompetitive effects: A Rejoinder

 D. Geradin (read disclosure), here

A New Antitrust Case Cuts to the Core of Amazon’s Identity

 Wired, here

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Today's Google infringement decision: AGCM

 Decisione, qui (DeepL translation here  - Kevin's (Coates) courtesy

A very biased first reading in the form of a Twitter thread, here.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Education data: what’s the problem?

 Digital Futures Commision, here

DeFi, Disintermediation, and the Regulatory Path Ahead

 Diem & Co., here

Order of the HmbBfDI: Ban of further processing of WhatsApp user data by Facebook

 Hamburg Privacy Cop, here

“Anti-Subsidy” Regulation – A New Big Stick in the EU Regulatory Arsenal

 NRF, here

Adtech and Real-Time Bidding under European Data Protection Law

 M. Veale, F. Borgesius, here

Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps

 The Guardian, here

Evaluation support study on the EU competition rules applicable to horizontal cooperation agreements in the HBERs and the Guidelines

 Prepared for the EC, here

The Proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA): A Legal and Policy Review

 N. Petit, here

Aadhaar: How did we throw the baby out with the bath water?

 S. Kochhar, here

CAT upholds infringement decision for pay for delay pharma deals

 CMA, here

Monday, May 10, 2021

FTC calls out Apple in report on ‘anti-competitive repair restrictions’

 9to5mac.com, here

PayPal’s digital payments boom could invite antitrust probes, say experts

 Verdict, here

Bank of Italy and BIS Innovation Hub invite global innovators to take up G20 green finance challenge

 Banca d'Italia, here

Treasury to open up Consumer Data Right

 InnovationAus, here

A STUDY ON COMMUNITY-LED PLATFORMS

 EP Greens/EFA group, here

The Global Battle Over Data

 With Margrethe, at the EUI, Video here

Neither interoperability nor data sharing will solve transnational monopoly

 J. Bryson, here

Pro - competitive sharing of financial data and the spectre of surveillance capitalism - (On regulatory responses to the “ Surveillance Paradox”)

 Sharing my presentation, here (share your comments, please!).

Why We Need a Data Exchange Board to Improve the EU Data Governance Act

 Support Centre for Data Sharing, here

Data co-op whitewashing

 T. Scholz, I. Calzada, here

A New Order: The Digital Services Act and Consumer Protection

 C. Cauffman, C. Goanta, here

Missbrauchsbeschwerde der Medien- und Werbewirtschaft gegen Apple beim Bundeskartellamt

 ZAW, hier

What’s behind the Apple-Facebook feud?

 NYTimes, here

GAIA-X: Europäischer Cloud-Standard

 B. Otto, hier

The UK’s plan to tackle big tech won’t be one-size fits all

 TechCrunch, here

Essays on the Economics of the Pharmaceutical Industry

 M. Newham, here

ECJ to issue preliminary ruling on German FCO-Facebook case

 CMS, here

Time for a New Antitrust Era: Refocusing Antitrust Law to Invigorate Competition in the 21st Century

 R. Zev Mahari et al., here

Select Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre

 AU Senate, here

Marine insurers full steam ahead for data & analytics

 Insurance Business Mag, here

Apple vs The Paradox of Choice!

 CuriosityStream, here

BEREC Workshop on Market Entry in the context of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)

 Video here

The French Apple competition & privacy case

 V. Giovannini, here

Microsoft supports new rules for gatekeepers

 Microsoft, here

Myth vs Fact on Big Tech Monopolies

 AELP, here

Leitlinien für die Vereinbarkeit des Genossenschaftswesens mit dem Kartellrecht: Entwurf

 Bundeskartellamt, hier

10 MISUNDERSTANDINGS RELATED TO ANONYMISATION

 AEPD, here

How to know you are a 'data intermediary' under the Data Governance Act

 Iapp, here

Experimental Regulations for AI: Sandboxes for Morals and Mores

 S. Ranchordas, here

What is Ours is Only Ours to Give

 Crooked Timber, here

Das uneingelöste Versprechen? - Daten, die Lockdowns hätten verhindern können

 KAS, hier

The conflict between CBDC goals and design choices

 VoxEU, here

Dark Patterns Workshop

 FTC, Video here

Die Planification der EU

 FAZ, hier

How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook

 The Markup, here

Apple Discussed 'Punitive Measures' Against Netflix for Dropping In-App Purchases

 MacRumors, here

Foreign subsidies regulation

Clifford Chance, here.  

Design Principles for Data Spaces

 OpenDei, here

Uber/Autocap: the decision

 CMA, here

REGULATION OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS AS INFRASTRUCTURES FOR SERVICES OF GENERAL INTEREST

 C. Busch, here

Economic Power and New Business Models in Competition Law and Economics: Ontology and New Metrics

 I. Lianos, B. Carballa Smichowski, here

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

App Marketplaces

 ACCC, Digital platform services inquiry Interim report No. 2, here

Friday, April 23, 2021

Joint statement on merger control enforcement

 CMA, ACCC, Bundeskartellamt, here

After Google and Facebook: The Future of Journalism and Democracy

 Open Markets Institute, here

Antitrust Applied: Examining Competition in App Stores

 Klobuchar Hearing, here

Apple to boost ads business as iPhone changes hurt Facebook

 FT, here

China’s central bank fights Jack Ma’s Ant Group over control of data

 FT, here

Some Khan Art

 



Facebook: Fragen

 Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf, Beschluss, hier

The Bank of England and fintech: public support for private innovation

 Bank of England, here

The antitrust orthodoxy is blind to real data harms

C. Caffarra, G. Crawford, J. Ryan, here

Europe's Proposed Limits on AI Would Have Global Consequences

 Wired, here

RBI moves to bring more parity between fintechs and banks

 ORF, here

‘A State in the disguise of a Merchant’: Tech Leviathans and the rule of law

 OfTheWedge, here

Rethinking Data in the Platform World: Alternative Data Governance

Automated Decision-Making and Society, Data Governance here; Market and Platforms  here.

New rules for Artificial Intelligence – Questions and Answers

EC, here.  

EU’s AI proposal must go further to prevent surveillance and discrimination

 EDRI, here

MailOnline sues Google for allegedly hiding links to its articles

 The Guardian, here

Humanizing Automation

 B. Schneiderman, here

Illumina’s $7.1 billion play for cancer startup Grail faces global headwinds

 MLex Podcast, here

When your journal reads you

 Elephant in the lab, here

DATENSCHUTZ UND DATENSICHERHEIT IN DATENÖKOSYSTEMEN

 IIP-Ecosphere Whitepaper, hier

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Turkey: Google abused its dominant position

 Decision here (very succinct version, motivations to come - Google Translate).

Scoping paper – Competition law enforcement at the intersection between competition, consumer protection, and privacy

 ICN, here (old but fresh).

Eurosystem report on the public consultation on a digital euro

 ECB, here

China Warns 34 Tech Firms to Curb Excess in Antitrust Review

 Bloomberg, here (and here Google Translation)

Italy vetoes takeover of semiconductor firm by Chinese company Shenzhen - sources

 Reuters, here

Productivity Versus Power: The Role of Law and Technology, (Mis)perceptions and Ideology

 O. Bar-Gill, Y. Benkler, here

Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures

 M. Jacobides, I. Lianos, here

Big Tech doublespeak on AI ethics

 K. Hao, here

Leaked 2-month old draft EU AI Regulation

 Here

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Upholds FTC’s Opinion against Generic Pharmaceutical Company Impax Laboratories, LLC

 FTC, here

Monday, April 12, 2021

What do consumer associations really think of the DMA and the DSA?

 DSA, here; DMA, here

Why it’s easier to move country than switch social media

 C. Doctorow, here

The new US antitrust administration

 Concurrences, here

Jack Ma’s Ant called to end anti-competition in payments

 TechCrunch, here (and here).

Three Surprises in the Supreme Court’s Google v. Oracle Decision

 P. Samuelson, here

Digital Cluster Markets

 H. Hovenkamp, here

Can Computational Antitrust Succeed?

Stanford Computational Antitrust podcast, here

Data Trusts: Next Steps And Link To Financial Institutions

 IFC, here

FTC urges courts not to dismiss Facebook antitrust case

 ArsTechnica, here

Thursday, April 08, 2021

THREE QUESTIONS THAT WILL DECIDE EPIC V. APPLE

 The Verge, here

Indikatorik und Governance-Ansätze zur Analyse und regulatorischen Gestaltung datenbasierter Märkte in Deutschland

 Tilburg University, hier

What Critics Don’t Understand About NFTs

 J. Zittrain, W. Marks, here

UK software reseller sues Microsoft for £270m

 FT, here

How the Supreme Court saved the software industry from API copyrights

 ArsTechnica, here

GUTACHTEN ZUR PSD2-UMSETZUNG IN DEUTSCHLAND

 VZBV, hier.

PRIVATSPHÄRE BEI DIGITALEN FINANZDIENSTLEISTUNGEN SCHÜTZEN

 VZBV, hier.

Amazon BuyBox und die Monopolkommission

 Das Erste, hier

Bafin schafft unabhängiges Vergleichsportal für Girokonten

 Handelsblatt, hier.

Adtech and Real-Time Bidding under European Data Protection Law

 M. Veale, F. Borgesius, here

Tuesday, April 06, 2021

EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion on the Digital Green Certificate

 Here

Anticipated acquisition by Crowdcube Limited of Seedrs Limited: Provisional findings report

 CMA, here. And FT, here

Facebook’s Kustomer buy could face EU probe after merger referral

 TechCrunch, here

Facebook acquisition of Kustomer, and concerns about data protection

 J. Ryan, here

The Case for Waiving Intellectual Property Protection for Covid-19 Vaccines

 P. Ranjan, here

Online platforms: Economic and societal effects

 EPRS Study, here

Lessons for industrial policy from development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

 Industrial Strategy Council, here

Food Data Trust

 Food Standards Agency, here

Not Just Personal Data Stores

 MyDex, here

Comfort letter: cooperation at a Matchmaking Event – Towards COVID19 vaccines upscale production

 EC, here

Annabelle Gawer : « La régulation des plateformes digitales est une question géopolitique »

 Influencia, here

Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside a16z and Alphabet

 TechCrunch, here

Adaptive Antitrust

 M. Meagher, here

Workshop on Governing online platforms: policy options for shaping a principled digital future

 EP, Video here

Justice Thomas argues for making Facebook, Twitter and Google utilities

 Protocol, here

The Supreme Court sided with Google in its epic copyright fight against Oracle

 TechCrunch, here

“Power Is Evil in Itself”: The Ordoliberal Quest for a Privilege-Free Order

 ProMarket, here

Victory for Fair Use: The Supreme Court Reverses the Federal Circuit in Oracle v. Google

 EFF, here

Google v. Oracle: The End

 Mark Lemley explains (from 05:30), here; the Court here

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Facebook’s purchase of Giphy raises competition concerns

 CMA, here

Artificial intelligence and intellectual property: Consultation Results

UK Gov, here

Commission clears acquisition of GrandVision by EssilorLuxottica, subject to conditions

 EC, here

European competitiveness in the digital future

 M. Vestager, here

The Case for Data Portability as a Privacy Protection in the Digital Age

IWGDPT, here

Lego-Bausteine sind für das Europäische Gericht schützenswert

 Heise.de, hier

FACEBOOK: NEXT STOP EUROPE

 R. Podszun, here

A Proposal for an International Agreement: The International Instrument on Permitted Uses in Copyright Law

 R. Hilty, V. Moscon, here

French data protection watchdog casts doubt on Apple’s privacy compliance

 Politico.eu, here

The Justice Department is worried about an anime monopoly after the Sony deal

 The Verge, here

And now for something totally different: Friedrich von Hayek and Robert Bork

 Part I, Part II, Part III.

Islands in the Stream: Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.

 D. Dayen, here

The EU, Competition Law and Workers’ Rights

 N. Countouris, V. De Stefano, I. Lianos, here

On the governance of privacy-preserving systems

 L. Olejnik, here

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Italian Section 19a GWB on AGCM's wishlist

SEGNALAZIONE ai sensi degli artt. 21 e 22 della legge 10 ottobre 1990, n. 287
in merito a: Proposte di riforma concorrenziale, ai fini della Legge Annuale per il Mercato e la Concorrenza anno 2021, qui.

Decent DeepL translation of the proposed provision here

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

FTC Announces Multilateral Working Group to Build a New Approach to Pharmaceutical Mergers

FTC, here

Google Play drops commissions to 15% from 30%, following Apple’s move last year Manish Singh

 TechCrunch, here

Amended AGs Google Complaint

 Here

BEREC on the DMA and Ex-Ante

 Here

Google wanted to ‘own’ the mobile search market. The U.S. let it.

 Politico.com, here

How Washington fumbled the future: The Google Files

 Politico.com, here

Big techs in finance: regulatory approaches and policy options

 BIS, here.

News Corp Australia, Nine strike Facebook content deals

 SMH, here

China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules

 FT, here

EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 03/2021 on the Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European data governance (Data Governance Act)

 Here.