Monday, November 13, 2017

Missourians deserve to know what Google does with their information

KansasCity.com, here.

SCOPING STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT ON COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION ADOPTED BETWEEN 2006 AND 2016

G. Rostama for WIPO, here.

Web companies should make it easier to make your data portable: FTC's McSweeny

USA Today, here.

From Bayer to Qualcomm, M&A Gets Costlier in the EU

Bloomberg, here.

Public consultation on fake news and online disinformation

EC, here.

Why people ruin others’ lives by exposing all their data online

New Scientist, here.

Dear Wavesblog Reader,

I'm currently revising and updating my "Competition by Design" ASCOLA conference paper to make it fit for publication. Your suggestions, comments, etc. would be much appreciated! Thank you.

New Draft Action Plans On Copyright Limitations And Exceptions At WIPO

IP-Watch, here.

Missouri AG Josh Hawley launches investigation of Google

Kansascity.com, here.

Use of algorithms must respect competition rules, says EU competition official

Out-law.com, here.

Who’s responsible for what happens on Facebook? Analysis of a new ECJ opinion

L. Woods, here.

Report on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society

Japan's Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society, here.

UK competition regulator builds new tech team

UK, here.

Leyes estatales de notarios ganadoras del Premio para identificar el obstáculo regulatorio más absurdo para competir y emprender

Cofece, aquí.

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Conference: Antitrust in Developing Countries

M. Delrahim, keynote speech (from 06:21), video  here.; text here. Q&A from 41:42.
Work at the DoJ:
- review of live consent decrees (1400!);
- draft whistleblower legislation: comments provided, good improvement

The feasibility of measuring the sharing economy: November 2017 progress update

UK ONS, here.

Kara Swisher interviews Margarethe Vestager

Web Summit, video here.
"Some of these algorithms will have to go to law school before they are let out. You have to teach your algorithm what it can do and what it cannot do, because otherwise there is the risk that the algorithm will learn the tricks...we don't want the algorithms to learn the tricks of the old cartelists...we want them to play by the book also when they start playing by themselves"

Watch also the press conference, here.
"One of the  discussions I'm trying to enable is the discussion about compliance. Just as much as we hope to see privacy by design I also hope to see compliance by design when we talk about self learning machines... they shouldn't learn the tricks of the old cartelists... they should learn the compliance of the best in the market...we don't propose any rule of that at the moment  but we want the debate to take place  because  it would be sort of paradox when we end up in a situation saying well what happens in the black box remains in the black box...because whatever machine...there is still a business or person who are responsible for what happens..."


Why Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Might Be Right


T. Wu, here.

AT&T-Time Warner redraws faultlines on antitrust enforcement

FT, here.

Algorithms and Competition at the Websummit

Video, here.

DIGITAL ASSISTANTS: HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPETITION IS UNDERMINING “HIPSTER ANTITRUST”

G. Manishin, part 1 and 2.

Competencia se pronunciará sobre el conflicto FIBA-Euroliga

As.com,  Aquí

Panel: Pharmaceutical Drugs Prices

H. First summarizes, Video here.
"The invisible hand got stuck in the pocket"

Ist die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung doch schon anwendbar? Zwei Gerichte sagen: ja.

De Lege Data, hier.

Equifax faces hundreds of class-action lawsuits and an SEC subpoena over the way it handled its data breach

Washington Post, here.

ICAP wins fight against EU yen Libor cartel ruling, fine annulled

Reuters, here.
Ruling here.

Facebook, show us your secret recipe

WashingtonPost, here.

Google: Our hunt for hackers reveals phishing is far deadlier than data breaches

ZDNet, hier.

Thursday, November 09, 2017

Sippel: ePrivacy reg should 'abolish surveillance-driven advertising'

iapp, here

Diagnosing the Treatments: Issues in Post-Patent Pharmaceutical Markets

M. Ohlhausen, here.

The fight over antitrust’s soul

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here

Berlin court rules Facebook data transfers to third parties violate data protection law

TelecomPaper, here

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

Gizmodo, here

Recent Data Protection Developments in Brazil and Latin America

Linked In, here

Datenschützer kritisieren jahrelange Speicherung von Fluggastdaten

Heise.de, hier

The Pulse of Fintech Q3 2017

KPMG, here

This stupid patent was going to be used to sue hundreds of small businesses

ArsTechnica, here

Blocked: Why Some Companies Restrict Data Access to Reduce Competition and How Open APIs Can Help

Center for Data Innovation, here

AL FRANKEN JUST GAVE THE SPEECH BIG TECH HAS BEEN DREADING

Wired, here

Supreme Court to Decide First Antitrust Case in Two Years

Antitrust Advocate, here

Margrethe Vestager, Wise Digital Hygienist

Politico, here

US: Sen. Klobuchar urges probe for online travel agencies

competitionpolicyinternational, here.

Innovationen – Herausforderungen für die Kartellrechtspraxis

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Understanding Competition in Prescription Drug Markets: Entry and Supply Chain Dynamics

FTC, Workshop here. Live webcast here. Presentation slides here

Fairness in platform-to-business relations

EC, Inception impact assessment here

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS PUTTING ULTRASOUND ON YOUR PHONE

Wired, here

Big Data Poses Special Risks for Children, Says UNICEF

TechnologyReview, here

Google-Manager Eric Schmidt warnt vor China

FAZ. hier

The Economics of Attention Markets

D. Evans, here

TÜV kritisiert Autohersteller für den Umgang mit Daten

FAZ, hier

Eigentumsordnung‘ für Mobilitätsdaten

Telemedicus, Stellungnahme hier

#gruesseausmoskau

Süddeutsche Zeitung, hier

Datenschutzbeauftragter schlägt Gütesiegel für Gesundheits-Apps vor

Heise.de, hier

Technology-led innovation and emerging services in the Canadian financial services sector

Competition Bureau, here (my own pdf here).

Artificial Intelligence Has Officially Infiltrated the Fintech Industry

Inc, here

May Your Drug Price Be Ever Green

R. Feldman, C. Wang, here

Amazon found an ingenious new way to undercut its competitors ahead of the holidays

Quartz, here

Google and Salesforce sign massive strategic partnership

VentureBeat, here

Datenmärkte in der digitalisierten Wirtschaft: Funktionsdefizite und Regelungsbedarf?

H. Schweitzer, M. Peitz, hier

Foundem on Google's Auction-Based Proposal

Here

Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M

ArsTechnica, here

Computer says no: why making AIs fair, accountable and transparent is crucial

TheGuardian, here

Clearing the path for innovation

M. Vestager, here

The EU’s competition chief explains why punishing Big Tech is good for innovation

Quartz, here

TESLA’S DANGEROUS SPRINT INTO THE FUTURE

NYT Magazine, here

7th Circuit confronts antitrust in the age of Big Data

Reuters, here

UK Data Protection Bill vs EU General Data Protection Regulation

ComputerWeekly, here

IP Europe’s Disingenuous Case for Giving its Members a License to Discriminate

Actonline, here

Why we need to regulate the tech platforms and how

FT, here

SPOTIFY, DEEZER AND SOUNDCLOUD LAUNCH EUROPEAN LOBBYING COALITION

Musically, here

Vergleichsportale in Deutschland

WIK-Consult, hier

Paying for Privacy and the Personal Data Economy

S.-A. Elvy, here

FIFA and FIFPro sign landmark agreement and announce measures to enhance professional football

FIFA, here

Unobserved collusion: warning signs and concerns

R. Marshall, here

Monday, November 06, 2017

Fintech, Access to Data, and the Role of Competition Policy

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), Presentation here.
(Paper in the pipeline - if you have any comment so far, please let me know).