Monday, January 30, 2023

BEREC Report on the Internet Ecosystem

 Here.

Manipulative online practices found on 148 out of 399 online shops screened

 EC, here.

SHIFTING FROM OPEN BANKING TO OPEN FINANCE Results from the 2022 OECD survey on data sharing frameworks

 OECD, here

Should AI Start-Ups Make Us Re-evaluate Our Emphasis on Big Tech?

 E. Ranieris, here

Decoding the Hype About AI

 The MarkUp, here

DATENRAUM GESUNDHEIT: DIE LÖSUNG ETHISCHER FRAGE STELLUNGEN ALS VORAUSSET ZUNG FÜR INNOVATION IM GESUNDHEITSWESEN

 Initiative D21, hier

$6.6 billion fintech Wise accused by rival of harming competition

 CNBC, here

Will the Metaverse Be Entertaining? Ask South Korea.

 NYTimes, here

AI governance and human rights: Resetting the relationship

 Chatman House, here

AI Watch: Artificial Intelligence Standardisation Landscape Update

 JRC Technical Report, here

"More" here

What ChatGPT and the likes tell us about AI

 Euractiv, Tech Brief here

US Department of Justice sues Google, seeks to break up its ad tech business

 Geradin Partners, here

The Public Stakes of Consumer Law: The Environment, the Economy, Health, Disinformation, and Beyond

 R. Van Loo, here

NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) Launch

 Here; Video here

πάντα ῥεῖ, alles stroomt

 ACM, hier

ANTITRUST INTEROPERABILITY REMEDIES

 H. Hovenkamp, here

Spamming the regulator: How Big Tech's 'economic consultants' undermine EU competition policy

 Corporate Europe, here

Merger control in the digital age – Challenges and development perspectives

 Bundeskartellamt, here

Stellungnahme der Bundesregierung: Sektorgutachten Nr. 12 der Monopolkommission „Telekommunikation 2021: Wettbewerb im Umbruch“

 Hier

Data-based business models explained while making toast for breakfast (maybe)

 



marketoonist.com/2023/01/evolut via

Darmstädter Forscher kritisieren Schwächen von ChatGPT

 Heise.de, hier

ICYMI: The first New Brandeisian decision in Europe? Insights from the Utah Statement

 S. Vezzoso (me), here (#3 most read Concurrences article in 2022, #9999999 most liked, I guess). 

Lasting Change in Competition Law and Policy

 S. Waller, here

From the lion's den: Incipient Merger Policy

 DoJ, here

A Pop Culture Guide to Antitrust

 S. Waller, here

Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit

 The Verge, here

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising Technologies

 PR, here.

Complaint, here,

App stores, antitrust and their links to net neutrality: A review of the European policy and academic debate leading to the EU Digital Markets Act

 C. Marsden, I. Brown, here

Google Meet and Zoom achieve bilateral interoperability

 AndroidPolice, here

Bundeskartellamt initiates proceeding against PayPal

 Bundeskartellamt, here

Google to make changes to Android business terms in India after antitrust blow

 TechCrunch, here

On-platform Tying or Another Case of Leveraging- A Discussion on Facebook Marketplace

 D. Mandrescu, here

Can the world’s de facto tech regulator really rein in AI?

 Codastory, here

How to Implement the DMA?

 CERRE, Panel here

CERRE Report, here

The Problem with Easy Technology

 T. Wu, here

Souveräner Datenaustausch als Enabler Künstlicher Intelligenz

 Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), hier.

Google zähmen

 Verfassungsblog, hier

That’s the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment

 US Senate Hearing, here

Sustainability - Exploring the possible

 CMA, here

Data Governance: Value Orders and Jurisdictional Conflicts

A. Obendiek, here

URBAN DATA SHARING FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST

 The New Institute, here.

A Pitched Battle on Corporate Power

 D. Dayen, here

Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Meta’s New Year kicks off with over $410M in fresh EU privacy fines

 The Great Natasha (TechCrunch), here

Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement

 Noyb, here

Understanding Tech Platforms & Cloud Empires

V. Lehdonvirta, here

Remarks by Executive Vice-President Vestager on the decision to make binding commitments offered by Amazon

 Here

Warum Nutzer des Mixed-Reality-Headsets von Apple angeblich am Rad drehen

 Heise.de, hier

Read Microsoft’s response to the FTC’s Activision Blizzard lawsuit

 The Verge, here

Meta acquires Luxexcel, a smart eyewear company

 TechCrunch, here.

Who Should Guard the Gatekeepers: Does the DMA Replicate the Unworkable Test of Regulation 1/2003 to Settle Conflicts Between EU and National Laws?

 O. Brook, M. Eben, here

On-platform Tying or Another Case of Leveraging- A Discussion on Facebook Marketplace

 D. Mandrescu, here

Monday, January 02, 2023

The Economics of Amazon

 F. Etro, here


10 Punkte für nachhaltigen Wettbewerb als Grundpfeiler der sozialökologischen Marktwirtschaft

 BMWK, hier

Interoperability in digital markets

 I. Brown, Video here (from 2:21:19).

Apple's App Store and Competition: Opinion of a lobbying group

 Coalition for App fairness, here

Short-term accommodation rental services: data protection

 EDPS, here

Das sprachgewaltige Plappermaul

 E. Wolfangel, here

Dark Data: Produced by Students enrolled in David Carroll's course

 Here

AI Act: general Approach by the Council

 Here

"Artificial Intelligence co-regulation"

 C. Marsden, Video here

DMA & Self-Preferencing: Vanessa Turner (BEUC), Denis Sparas (DMA TaskForce), Gonçalo Machado Borges

Chez Oles Andriychuk,  Video, here

Amazon settles EU allegations regarding third-party sellers on Amazon Marketplace: some progress made but much remains to be done

 T. Smith, here

Unpacking 'commercial surveillance': The state of tracking

 EP Briefing, here

The European Commission buys into Amazon’s flawed commitments

 Balanced Economy, here

The GAFAM Empire: AN EXPLORATION OF ACQUISITIONS

 The Glassroom, here

The Half-a-Billion Fortnite Fine Kicks Off a New Era of Regulating User Interfaces

 Gizmodo, here

Courtroom updates in the matter of FTC v Meta/Within

 L. Hepner, here

Greek Final Report on the Sector Inquiry into Financial Technologies under article 40 of L. 3959/2011 - Executive Summary

 Here

An Indian DMA?

 ANTI-COMPETITIVE PRACTICES BY BIG TECH COMPANIES, here

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Study for developing criteria for assessing reasonable compensation in the case of statutory data access right

 Study for the European Commission Directorate-General Justice and Consumers, here

Oral Argument Before the FTC: Illumina, Inc. and Grail, Inc.– December 13, 2022

 Video here

RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

 OECD, here

HOW WILL THE AI ACT DEAL WITH OPEN SOURCE AI SYSTEMS?

 Open Future, here

AI as Systemic Risk in a Polycrisis

 A. Küsters, here

DATA SHAPING FIRMS AND MARKETS

 OECD, here

DATA IN AN EVOLVING TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE - THE CASE OF CONNECTED AND AUTOMATED VEHICLES

OECD, here.  

Opinion piece: The DSA also works “in the metaverse” – if it is enforced well

 J. Jaursch, here

The whole European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade on one page

 Here.

Advocate General Rantos: The FIFA-UEFA rules under which any new competition is subject to prior approval are compatible with EU competition law

 CJEU, here

Friday, December 09, 2022

Der Weg zu einem Dateninstitut für Deutschland

 Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), hier

Ab ins Metaversum! Virtuelle Realitäten als Internet der Zukunft?

 Onlinekas, Video hier

IPEN Webinar on central bank digital currency

 Video, here

PRIVATE MESSAGING INTEROPERABILITY IN THE EU DIGITAL MARKETS ACT

 I. Brown, here

Menschenrechte im Digitalen

 FES, hier

Anhörung zum Web 3.0 und Metaverse

 Bundestag, hier

Sustainability and Competition Policy Enforcement

 Adlc, here

AG DSK „Microsoft-Onlinedienste“

Hier.  

FTC Seeks to Block Microsoft Corp.’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Inc.

 FTC, here

Complaint here

Reminder: Case M.10001 - MICROSOFT / ZENIMAX

Inquiry into international digital platforms operated by Big Tech companies

 Senate Economics References Committee, Issues Paper, here

Enforcing the Digital Markets Act: Institutional Choices, Compliance, and Antitrust

 J. Crémer et al., here

Monday, November 28, 2022

Sarah Cardell: Ensuring digital market outcomes that benefit people, businesses and the wider UK economy

 CMA, here

CONSUMER CREDIT DIRECTIVE: BEUC recommendations for trilogues

 Here

Andreas Schwab interviewed by Damien Geradin

 Video here

Apple's VR/AR plans

 Here

AI Act: Council Position

 Here

What's the future of data privacy? Engineering and invention in the world of data protection

 Video here

Online safety and data protection: A joint statement by Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office

 DRCF, here

The platformisation of digital payments: The fabrication of consumer interest in the EU FinTech agenda

V. Ferrari, here.  

Online Consumer Data Collection and Data Privacy

 CRS, here

Competition in the metaverse

 Euractiv, Audio here

Mind The (Institutional) Gap: Digital Economy, Competition Law and The Toolkit Approach

 I. Lianos, here

Microsoft erfüllt und übertrifft europäische Datenschutzgesetze

 Microsoft, hier

Eliciting Values for Technology Design with Moral Philosophy: An Empirical Exploration of Effects and Shortcomings

K. Bednar, S. Spiekermann, here.  

Using Terms and Conditions to Apply Fundamental Rights to Content Moderation

 J. Quintais et al., here

The regulation of cloud computing: Getting it right

 D. Geradin et al., here

Réformer le droit européen de la concurrence : le retour du politique

 R. Repasi, here

The Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi): Evolving Digital Principles

 Here

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into Real Estate Tech Company Accused of Collusion with Landlords

 ProPublica, here

The AI Act: help or hindrance for SMEs?

 Intellera Consulting, here

Move responsibly and amend things: VR headsets can now be used without a Facebook account

 Bundeskartellamt, here.  Case summary here

Meta and Art. 19 a GWB, here (in German).

Overconfident Regulators Caused the Ticketmaster Mess

 NYTimes, here

Responses to uncertainty

 DRCF, here.

Disrupting Data Abuse: Protecting Consumers from Commercial Surveillance in the Online Ecosystem

 EPIC, here

The technologies underpinning the metaverse

techUK miniseries, here

Overlaps - Services and Harms in Scope

 CERRE, Video here. Report here. (Metaverse at 42:18 and again at 57:30 ff.)

Monday, November 21, 2022

EDPS Comments on the Federal Trade Commission Trade Regulation Rule on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security

 EDPS, here

Digital Deep Dive -Data Act

DigitalEurope, video here

Euractiv, video here

BEUC Conference, video here

Can Big Tech Get Bigger? Microsoft Presses Governments to Say Yes.

 NYTimes, here

Protecting Consumers in Digital Environments

 


ACM, here

Fundamentals and Novelty

 Adlc, here.


"expect the new frontier of antitrust enforcement to be about data collection, hoarding and usage in traditional industries such as the healthcare or automobile sectors and in the internet of things (IoT). To address this new challenge, we will have to cooperate closely with industry regulators and data protection authorities"

Digital Markets Acts (DMA): Was geht uns das an?

 Piltz Legal, hier

Unfair & Deceitful Commercial Surveillance

 TACD, OM, ICCL, here

Justice Dept. Is Said to Investigate Ticketmaster’s Parent Company

 NYTimes, here

Digital Markets Act Workshop: Fabiana Di Porto, Henry Mostyn, Marco Botta, Oles Andriychuk

 Video here

Mapping the post-ATT future of mobile free-to-play gaming

 Mobile Dev Memo, here

Monday, November 14, 2022

EU Commission’s Executive Vice-President, on the Digital Services Act

 Reddit Talk, here (from roughly 8:00), here

GDPR AND THE AI ACT INTERPLAY: LESSONS FROM FPF’S ADM CASE-LAW REPORT

 FPF, here

Position on the European Health Data Space

 CPME, here

The Autorité hands out fines to Essilor International SAS and its parent company EssilorLuxottica SA for discriminatory trade practices

 Adlc, Press Release here. Decision in French ici; DeepL translation for my course, here

La CNMC multa al laboratorio Leadiant con 10,25 millones por vender a un precio excesivo su medicamento huérfano para el tratamiento de una enfermedad rara.

 CNMC, aquì.

Extension of ongoing proceedings against Amazon to also include an examination pursuant to Section 19a of the German Competition Act (GWB)

 Bundeskartellamt, here

25 State AGs supporting FTC’s opposition to Meta/Within acquisition

Here

Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Teaching Art. 102 TFEU: Judges


Looking forward to this new experience. I hope we will all have fun working on the self-preferencing case study (here the pdf of the presentation).

Post scriptum: great questions and very constructive atmosphere - I confessed at the beginning that I was very anxious about this class and they were very kind and understanding ❤. 

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Google enjoys paramount significance for competition across markets


The 173-page decision by the Bundeskartellamt determining Google's status of addressee of Section 19 (a) GWB has been published and even translated into English. The company's "paramount significance for competition across markets" has been confirmed (and accepted by Google itself). Much to read and ponder on (already not clear - at least to me -  how much Google in the end had to pay for the proceedings). 

Antitrust Olympus


Cristina Caffarra of CRA has single-handedly (as far as I "know" her) organized an impressive Conference with the Gods of our field  You can also join it virtually (as I'll be doing, thanks). 

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Habemus the Digital Markets Act

 


On 24 March 2004 the European Commission fined Microsoft for abuse of dominant position (H/T Lewis Crofts). 18 years (age of maturity) later  on the same day, the Digital Markets Act was conclusively negotiated within the Trialogue. Papers and books will be written. 

In parallel to the final negotiations, a DMA panel was taking place at the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI). With Inge Graef (Tilburg), Silke Hoffenfelder (Bundeskartellamt) and myself (Trento), moderated by Jens-Uwe Franck (Mannheim). The ones on the panel truly enjoyed it, unsure about the audience. A recording will be available soon.

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

On the eve of the DMA’s 4th Trialogue: A Twitter 🧵(not for the faint-hearted)


 Here.

« Wouldn’t it be nice to solve all such problems in one go? »

 


famously said the former Competition  Commissioner Neelie Kroes in the long aftermath of the EU Microsoft case referring to interoperability issues caused by Big Tech. More than a decade after Kroes expressed that wish, the DMA moves exactly in this direction, with mandated interoperability for ancillary services *and* for so called horizontal interoperability of instant messaging (albeit limited to one-to-one communications with late openings with regard to group chats and calls), as it has been reported by the FT and Politico today.  More could be done, and the devil will likely be in the technical details of the obligations, of course, but it’d be a promising beginning. 

Monday, March 21, 2022

Competition law in war times


 Perhaps due to miopia, this is something we wouldn’t have expected to see in our so far rather peaceful European Union. The European Competition Network has just published a “ Joint statement by the European Competition Network (ECN) on the application of competition law in the context of the war in Ukraine”. 

Friday, March 18, 2022

A patron of digital competition


At the end of January, Google launched a "new dedicated Digital Assets Team". Today, Politico reported that "a group of progressive advocates are pushing Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the head of the House Financial Services Committee, to hold a hearing on Google’s" new blockchain plans. As reported by Politico, differently from Facebook's grand plan with Libra/Diem, Google "is...looking to create a broader blockchain infrastructure that could be used by a wide variety of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, and stressed that Google doesn’t “want to take sides in backing any specific currency.” Should we worry? Will the DMA protect us? Antitrust and financial minds in particular will likely need to come together to discuss this. If St. Isidore of Seville (painting: as imagined by Murillo) is the unofficial 
patron saint of the Internet, we could use a patron of digital competition too. Any candidate? 

One step ahead? The Italian Competition Authority sends detailed requests for information to major oil companies

 

After Germany and other countries, the Italian Autorità aims "to investigate the reasons for these increases and, if so, to assess whether there is scope for possible intervention limited only to the hypothesis of a possible infringement of the rules on abuse of a dominant position or agreements restricting competition"

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Quo vadis, DMA?

 

Are we fiddling while competition processes in the digital economy are "burning"? Not quite, according to the excellent Speakers at a conference which took place today (also online and for free, many thanks), organized by Concurrences. (BTW, this is not a conference debriefing à la  D'Kart, so don't expect to be informed while being entertained). The urgency we are in, however, was clearly expressed by Andreas Mundt by saying that "we don't have the time to wait for Court decisions". He also expanded on the many ways in which "his" 19a GWB was way better than the DMA. My conference-tweeting as stream of consciousness starts here

Among the many enriching statements and discussions, voilà some points that were particularly dear to me.  

1) The DMA is already part of a broader picture: this was directly recalled by Thibault Schrepel in the first panel and indirectly in the third panel while discussing the competition issues related to the Internet of Things (see the Data Act in particular).
 
2) In order to properly enforce the DMA, we need a lot of data scientists. A figure, you ask? Out of the 220 staff suggested by Andreas Schwab, at least 50, proposes Yann Guthmann of the French competition authority (#moretechnologicalapproach as advocated since a famous Munich Conference - not that one). 

3) Almost everybody still wondered what contestability and fairness actually meant. I would have preferred openness instead of contestability, which economically has a very precise and perhaps not very helpful meaning in this context. But, c'est la vie! At any rate, contestability/openness and fairness point to a process rather than to an outcome (e.g., low prices), which is excellent. 

4) Le diable se cache dans les détails of the DMA. Indeed, big date for final negotiations 24th March - lightning speed according to Margrethe Vestager, we'll see...

5) Avis cloud computing of the Adlc: beginning 2023. Competition enforcement only after that date, if necessary? (And: see again Data Act).

6) Lawyers (especially those in private practice) expect aspire to DMA litigations from Day One. This is new stuff, vehemently opposed by some the most powerful  companies in the world.  Along similar lines, Andreas Mundt is already quite concerned about the Court's (only *one* and not too unresponsive, generally) expectations regarding how Sec. 19a should be applied. Google settled, but what about the other gatekeepers potentially in scope? 

7) We need (also) to discuss public interest in the DMA, beyond contestability and fairness. 

8) There might even be court-sponsored spillovers from the DMA to competition law (see the Google Shopping ruling for inspiration). 

We will again be discussing the DMA next week in Mannheim, I am afraid (exactly on the 24th).




Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Teuer, expensive, chère, cara...


Robert Habeck, the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate, asked the German Competition Authority (per Tweet?) to assess weather mineral oil companies were behaving abusively ("Could be"). The Bundeskartellamt replied by press release (only in German at the time of writing). The Authority is not concerned with oil price swings per se, but "[I]f crude oil prices now fall again and petrol station prices do not follow suit or even rise further, we have to take a close look. This includes several market levels: from the crude oil market to the refineries and wholesalers to the petrol station operators." How national are these markets (still) today, actually? 

MGM's Bauchschmerzen

 

The European Commission approved Amazon's acquisition of MGM Holdings Inc. Personally, I felt some Bauchschmerzen

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Monday, March 14, 2022

Net Zero-relevant markets


The CMA has launched a Sustainability Taskforce, namely "a cross-organisational taskforce dedicated to sustainability issues". Among other things, it commits to "launching at least 1 new market study in a Net Zero-relevant market in the next financial year".

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Libra's Post-Mortem - Novi Resuscitati?




The CFPB's Director, Rohit Chopra, gave a TV interview yesterday. While Libra might be no more, he made clear that "cryptocurrencies + Big Tech" might still pose issues and that the Biden administration is getting ready to anticipate them. 

Friday, March 11, 2022

One of Biden Executive Order's Many Sprouts


President Biden's Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy never stops giving. The US Department of Agriculture has just announced that "[a]s part of its efforts to enhance fair and competitive markets, USDA is requesting comments and information from the public about the impacts of concentration and market power in fertilizer, seeds and other agricultural inputs, and retail" 

Byzantine splits


One of the strangest things about US antitrust policy to my European eyeballs has always been the byzantine split between the FTC and the DOJ on merger enforcement. Interagency collaboration as well as the very hot discussions on modernizing merger guidelines are on the agenda of an upcoming Spring Enforcers Summit (4 April). 

I need that source.


 At a panel organized during the Industrial Organization Meeting, Spring 2022, Carl Shapiro famously called himself a Modernist and others New Brandeisians (see here, fn. 7). While the recordings of the other panels are still available (one click away on the meeting's website), this is not (while it has been for a while: I caught up a few hours after the panel took place). This is a real pity for us interested in following the recent developments in antitrust policy thinking. Please NBER, put it up again. 

Stellar Wars in the Antitrust Sky?


The antitrust news of the day so far (10. 52 AM CET) is the parallel opening of investigations in the UK and the EU into the Jedi Blue allegation. Interestingly, the CMA is signalling again that the DMU politicians' time is up, this time by starting "scrutinising Google’s conduct in relation to header bidding services more widely to see if the firm abused a dominant position and gained an unfair advantage over competitors trying to provide a similar service".

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Message to my Students & Others

 Dear all,

This blog/feed has always been for us to be well informed. Sadly, I'm no longer able to update it - simply too much going on. I might be transitioning it to a real blog. 

Thursday, February 03, 2022

DMA Trialogue -3 February 2022

 Here

Satya Nadella: Microsoft has “permission to build the next Internet”

 ArsTechnica, here

Guidelines 01/2022on data subject rights - Right of access

 EDPB, here

Unlocking Your Phone to Digital Competition

 P. Marsden, here

Beyond the dongle: Apple won’t take down Square that easily

 Protocol, here

Are data trusts a suitable stewardship model for the developing world?

 FT, here

Streit um die Autodaten

 Tagesschau, hier

DIGITAL PROFILING IN THE ONLINE GAMBLING INDUSTRY

 W. Christi, here

Amazon pays $2.25 million to settle a price-fixing investigation.

 NYTimes, here.

How Apple Locks Out the Competition with Its Digital Key

 Protocol, here

Commission must take urgent action to protect consumers’ data in the automotive sector.

 BEUC, here

The Legal Complexities of Processing and Protecting Personal Data in the Electricity Sector

 S. Lavrijssen et al., here

Data altruism: how the EU is screwing up a good idea

 Algorithm Watch, here

Who owns your address in AR? Probably not you.

 Protocol, here

Web3 ist das Internet, das es zu verhindern gilt

 Spiegel, hier

New approach to enable global leadership of EU standards promoting values and a resilient, green and digital Single Market

 EC, here

Google Vanquished a Rival in Prague. Payback Could Hurt.

 NYTimes, here

A double edged string: APD holds TCF violates GDPR and IAB is responsible

 O. Kagan, here

Book Review: Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet by Matthew Crain

LSE, here.  

Behavioral ad industry gets hard reform deadline after IAB’s TCF found to breach Europe’s GDPR

 TechCrunch, here

The French Competition Authority recognized for the first time the existence of a market for organic products

 Competition Forum, here

The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You

 Wired, here

DATENTREUHANDSCHAFT DURCH INTERMEDIÄRE - Chancen, Herausforderungen und Implikationen

 I. Schneider, hier

Why Decentralised Finance (DeFi) Matters and the Policy Implications

 OECD, here

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

What Studying Consciousness Can Reveal about AI and the Metaverse

 Exponential View Podcast, here

Privacy And Competition Concerns with Google’s Privacy Sandbox

 Brave, here

Hin zu einer Sozial-ökologischen Marktwirtschaft

 

Jahreswirtschaftsbericht 2022, hier. Video hier. And here.

Establishing a European Declaration on Digital rights and principles for the Digital Decade

 Communication, here. Declaration here. Report on the stakeholder consultation and engagement activities here

Data collaboratives, competition law and the governance of EU data spaces

 N. Zingales, here

The General Court annuls in part the Commission decision imposing a fine of € 1.06 billion on Intel

 Curia, here

Senate committee votes to advance major tech antitrust bill

 CNBC, here

The End of Data Monopolies

 Pool Data, here

FAS, YANDEX AND THE COMPLAINANTS CONCLUDED A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT

 Here

Métavers : ce jeu dont qui sera le héros ?

 LINC, ici

Apple fails to satisfy requirements set by ACM

 ACM, here

Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan

 Ars Technica, here

Japan to flag underpriced IPOs as antitrust law violation

 Kyodo, here.

Google’s Topics API: Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues

 Brave, here

Apple’s cloud gaming restrictions may be biggest news in CMA interim report

 S. Huijts, here

European Parliament approves rights-respecting DSA & proposes ban on use of sensitive personal data for online ads

 EDRi, here

Facebook owner Meta dives into NFT digital collectibles craze

 FT, here

Google's Alleged Scheme to Corner the Online Ad Market

 Wired, here

EU must resist attempts to dilute Digital Markets Act

 Euraciv, here. 

What's the biggest effect the metaverse will have on IoT, or vice versa?

 Protocol, here

Too little competition hurts real people, every day.

 J. Kanter, here

Meta patents suggest biometric data capture for personalized advertising

 BiometricUpdate, here

WHAT DO ALORITHMS DO WITH PERSONAL DATA? AN EU APPROACH.

 Podcast, here

All digital creations are NFTs. We just don’t know it yet.

FT, here.  

Preisaufschläge ohne mehr Nachhaltigkeit in der Milchwirtschaft: Bundeskartellamt zeigt kartellrechtliche Grenzen auf

 Bundeskartellamt, hier

Google’s FLoC 2.0, Topics, Trade Effectiveness for Privacy Compliance

 ADWEEK, here

Digital Identity

 ENISA, here

Friday, January 14, 2022

Google Misled Publishers and Advertisers, Unredacted Lawsuit Alleges

 WSJ, here

Apple to allow alternative payment system for 1st time in S. Korea

 The Korea Herald, here

Second time lucky? FTC v. Facebook

 Order here

Votre attention, s’il vous plaît !

 CNN, ici

Google News Showcase – Bundeskartellamt holds consultations on Google’s proposals for dispelling competition concerns

 Bundeskartellamt, here

Policymakers, web3, and the metaverse

 S. Gilbert, here

India’s Aadhaar System: Bringing E-Government to Life

 Chandler Institute, here

Commission prohibits proposed acquisition of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering by Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings

 EC, here

China’s New AI Governance Initiatives Shouldn’t Be Ignored

 M. Sheehan, here

The true cost of Amazon’s low prices

 Recode, here

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Interim Report on the Sectoral Survey on Financial Technologies

 HCC, here (DeepL translation).

Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3

The Crypto Syllabus, here

ACM obliges Apple to adjust unreasonable conditions for its App Store

 ACM, here

Justice Department and Agriculture Department Issue Shared Principles and Commitments to Protect Against Unfair and Anticompetitive Practices

 Here

Alphabet/Google subject to new abuse control applicable to large digital companies – Bundeskartellamt determines “paramount significance across markets”

 Bundeskartellamt, here

Conversation with Ioannis Lianos on His Work at the HCC, DMA Digital Markets Act

 Video here

Cookies : la CNIL sanctionne GOOGLE à hauteur de 150 millions d’euros et FACEBOOK à hauteur de 60 millions d’euros pour non-respect de la loi

 CNIL, ici

Three Amazon Marketplace Sellers Plead Guilty to Price Fixing DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs in Ongoing Investigation

 DoJ, here

Andrés Arauz on CDBCs and Sovereignty

 The Crypto Syllabus, here

Auch Indien geht gegen Apples App Store vor

 Heise.de, hier

In welcher Ordnung wollen wir leben?

Ausstellung, hier.  

Money in the Metaverse

 A. Wiener, here

The Sherman Act and Abuse of Dominance in the Age of Networks

 H. Hovenkamp, here

The Rise of NFTs: These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For

B. Bodó et al., here.  

Digital Platforms and the New 19a Tool in the German Competition Act

 J.-U. Franck, M. Peitz, here

Duckduckgo: Google benachteiligt andere Suchmaschinen

 Heise.de, hier

My first impressions of web3

 Moxie.org, here

Platform-based business models and financial inclusion

 K. Croxson et al., here

No pain, no gain? The Digital Markets Act

 Z. Meyers, here

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Biometric identity systems in law enforcement and the politics of (voice) recognition: The case of SiiP

F. Jansen et al., here.  

FTC initiates probe into Meta's $400 mln VR deal for Supernatural - The Information

 Reuters, here

Regulate, but build too: for a European digital sphere

 Social Europe, here

The EU’s digital strategy and what it means for privacy

 iapp, here

Commission approves the acquisition of Suez by Veolia, subject to conditions

 EC, here

We need to talk about consent

 Mydex, here.

Digital Markets Acts update

 I. Brown, here

Six months with Lina Khan's FTC

 Axios, here

Airbnb hosts at the mercy of algorithms

Noyb, here.  

Help! My recruiter is an algorithm!

 Noyb, here

The history of the data economy: Part IV: The future

 T. Harkness, here

Before and after GDPR: tracking in mobile apps

 K. Kollnig et al., here

CFPB Shutters Lending by VC-Backed Fintech LendUp for Violating Agency Order

CFPB, here.  

EU clears Microsoft-Nuance without conditions

 TechCrunch, here

EC Press Release here

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Facial recognition: the CNIL orders CLEARVIEW AI to stop reusing photographs available on the Internet

 CNIL, here

'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed?'

 Video here

DRAFT POLICY STATEMENT ON LICENSING NEGOTIATIONS AND REMEDIES FOR STANDARDS-ESSENTIAL PATENTS SUBJECT TO VOLUNTARY F/RAND COMMITMENTS

 Here

Deutsche digitale B2B-Plattformen

 BDI, hier

UK antitrust regulator looks into Microsoft's $16 bln Nuance deal

 Reuters, here

Sanzione di oltre 1 miliardo e 128 milioni di euro ad Amazon per abuso di posizione dominante

 AGCM, qui. Provvedimento qui

Bundeskartellamt sieht Anmeldepflicht der Fusion Meta / Kustomer

 Hier

Commission invites comments on draft Guidelines about collective agreements regarding the working conditions of solo self-employed people

 EC, here

Parliament's negotiating position on the digital markets act

 EPRS, here

In South Korea, Big Tech’s power struggle with regulators is way ahead of the U.S.

 RestofWorld, here

Apple and Google duopoly limits competition and choice

 CMA, Interim Report here; Appendices here

CFPB Calls Tech Workers to Action

 Here

Telekommunikation 2021: Wettbewerb im Umbruch

 


Monopolkommission, hier

Protecting competition and innovation in the Internet of Things : Towards an Integrated Approach ?

Some slides, here.  

When ‘the’ market loses its relevance: an empirical analysis of demand-side linkages in platform ecosystems

 JRC Technical Report, here

Business Data Sharing through Data Marketplaces: A Systematic Literature Review

 A. Abbas et al., here

Feminist data protection

 IPR, here

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN EUROPE: AN ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE APPROACH

 Greens, here

EU-US launch Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue to foster cooperation in competition policy and enforcement in technology sector

 EC, here

Interoperabilität zwischen Messengerdiensten: Überblick der Potenziale und Herausforderungen

 Bundesnetzagentur, hier

The Profit Paradox — why high profits are bad for the economy

 J. Eeckhout, TedTalk here

15 Visionen für eine gerechte, soziale und nachhaltige Digitalisierung

 Digitalezivilgesellschaft.org, hier

Digital regulation: joined-up and accountable

 House of Lords, here

Crouching tiger, hidden dragons

IIPP report, here

Three proposals to strengthen the EU Artificial Intelligence Act

ALI, here.  

How to Fix the Courts’ Misuse of Economics

 M. Katz, here

Competition & Privacy: It's Both Or Nothing

 R. Berjon, here

What if the single most important idea in economics no longer works?

 J. Plunkett, here

From an Hayekian perspective, here

Germany’s data strategy for growth and innovation

 World Bank, here

DSA milestone: EU lawmakers have responded to our calls for meaningful transparency for big tech

 Algorithm Watch, here

Dans le cadre de l’instruction au fond du dossier sur les droits voisins, Google propose des engagements. L’Autorité les soumet à consultation publique

 Adlc, ici

Ökonomie als Wissenschaft der Präferenzentstehung und Charakterbildung

 Hayek-Vorlesung mit Ernst Fehr, hier.

FTC may consider rule curbing algorithmic discrimination and ‘commercial surveillance’

 TechCrunch, here

Grindr hit with € 6.2 million fine in response to complaint from the Norwegian Consumer Council

Forbrukerradet, here