Simonetta Vezzoso
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"The commission said it was investigating under the Digital Markets Act...The commission added that it was also evaluating whether Apple’s actions might have breached other EU laws"
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"No one foresaw the power that tech platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon would amass, said the former commissioner, who asked not to be identified because of potential conflicts with clients of his firm" and this conflict of interest is so obviously part of the problem...
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@vestager
@nicholashirst_
Sorry: as MEPs yesterday made clear, It's not about being a non-European.
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“if Facebook was forced to be interoperable, then rival services that didn’t spy on you could enter the market, and you could use those services to talk to your friends who were still on Facebook..This done poorly could be worse for privacy, but done well, it does not have to be”
Google has announced a step to kill the third-party cookie, a source of enormous and pernicious privacy violations. This would be great news, except for the fact that Google is replacing it with
#FLoC
, a way for Google (and Google alone) to track you around the web.
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Recordings of the DMA workshops now available
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“the DoJ is expected to call behavioural experts to show that few smartphone users ever think of changing the default settings on their handsets, in effect excluding Google’s search competitors”
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In case you REALLY want to [try to] explain to your Students how the different initiatives announced in the EU Data Strategy relate to each other
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“consumers are supposed to be able to vote with their feet. But if you will lose contact with your friends and family if you leave a terrible service, you can't really choose the better option”
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@leah_nylen
Why "prejudgment"? It was the result of her in-depth, independent academic research argued from a theoretical perspective and based on known facts 🤦♀️
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🆕 Draft Paper 👉 "The Dawn of Pro-Competition Data Regulation for Gatekeepers in the EU" [gratefully and patiently waiting for your comments 🙏]
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Let's make it clear: nobody on
#ASCOLA2020
needs to apologize for a wobbly Internet connection - it's not your fault 👉 unless it depends on the market non performing well and you happen to have worked for your local telecom regulator and it is clearly still your heritage.
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🥁The ICN 2020 Virtual Annual Conference is open to all...No registration is required.
The link to attend the ICN 2020 Virtual Annual Conference will be provided on the first day of the conference on the ICN conference website 🥁
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And
@IoannisLianos
is already on a different panel! But will he have as much "fun" as we had in Berlin
#EUdataSummit
?
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The upcoming OECD agenda of competition discussions includes (almost) everything you dream of
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New draft paper out: "A pro-competition data sandbox for the digital world" - short 20 pp. - comments more than welcome!
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In France right now: nobody has ever heard of the DMA but everybody knows that Fiona Scott Morton consulted for Big Tech - trying to explain that most economists in this field do. Ours is a strange bubble.
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BTW, if you need great, thought-provoking female antitrust scholars for your panels, I can compile a list for you ;-)
#nowomannopanel
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@JustinElliott
@Intuit
My Students were right, apparently [from they last year's presentation] 👇
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Thank you so much to
@MichalGal2
@ruppe_p
and the other dedicated organisers for this truly exceptional
@ASCOLAcomp
#ASCOLA2020
- These are difficult times - you did it for our Community and we ❤️ you for that.
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"Ahead of his time: the ideas and legacy of Giovanni Buttarelli" - Guest Lecture (online) by Christian D'Cunha
@BeterOpDeFiets
@UniTrento
3 December, 9 AM CET 🙏(DM for an invite)
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“There are virtually no human rights, consumer protection, or data protection experts present in ITU standards meetings so many of the technologies that threaten privacy and freedom of expression remain unchallenged in these spaces”
@arcapde
Exclusive: Leaked documents obtained by the Financial Times reveal that Chinese technology companies such as ZTE, Dahua and China Telecom are shaping new facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN
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Where are the ladies?!?
The last webinar of the 11th New Frontiers of Antitrust on sustainability has now ended. Video recording and other webinar materials will soon be posted on for Concurrences+ subscribers
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My 5 cents: "Competition Policy in Transition: Exploring Data Portability’s Roles" veeery first draft and now I can start enjoying the other
@ASCOLAcomp
#ASCOLA2020
Papers!
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Progressive academics, lobbyists for Big Tech (think tanks, etc.), competition law enforcers, consumers
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"Fintech and the Data Driven Economy: Competition and consumer issues"- Workshop 21 Oct 2019
@UniTrento
organized by Rob Nicholls (
@Rob2037
) and me (
@wavesblog
): call for abstracts 👉 Come to Trento, also for a mountain hike!
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1/ This is a how it all starts (also
#teachingmaterial
)
This thread is about the Final Report of the
@acccgovau
Digital Platforms Inquiry. It develops au fur et à mesure that I read it and find something IMHO worth tweeting about : It can takes days - if not weeks - to end (also depending on the weather).
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New
@IntCompNetwork
project on competition law enforcement at the intersection of competition, consumer protection and privacy 🎉
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How many
#GoogleShopping
papers will be presented? 1,2,5,10 😎?
Call for Papers for the 17th Annual Conference of ASCOLA - Academic Society for Competition Law in Católica - Porto
30 June to 2 July 2022
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@TomValletti
@imperialcollege
Only
@EU_Competition
announcing effective remedies against Big Tech can beat this!
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DMA Schwab's Compromise Amendments
Important Report on the interplay between competition policy and data protection
Decision by the
@antitrust_it
on Amazon/Apple
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Sanzione di oltre 1 miliardo e 128 milioni di euro ad Amazon per abuso di posizione dominante
@antitrust_it
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🥁 First
#AntitrustTeaBreak
We'll be discussing Thibault's (Schrepel
@LeConcurrential
) brand new paper⏩Libra: A Concentrate of "Blockchain Antitrust" - Thursday, 23 April 5 PM CET (NO presentation - join&drink&discuss)
🙏Thibault
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From inside the Temple of Hadrian - I’ll be tweeting, You are warned
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"programs to train data scientists..more focused on trying to get a piece of the big data pie...than..on asking how the pie should be made"
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“I have spent decades looking for examples of Google putting its enormous thumb on the scale to censor or amplify certain results, and it hadn’t even occurred to me that Google just flat out deletes queries and replaces them with ones that monetize better” 🫣
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We also have a name for it: toxic innovation
“Technical innovation that leads to the erosion of rights and democracy is not progress.”
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« A good economist makes it their job to understand the market, but not to force a market solution on to every problem »
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A relief: only 156 pp...
🇮🇹 The Italian competition authority has fined Google €100m refusing Enel's electric vehicle app access to key Android OS functionalities. Google ordered to allow for Enel's app, and others, to be interoperable with Android Auto. (in Italian for now)
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What a Morning! Looking forward to discussing with Students and
@BostoenFriso
two Google cases (🇪🇺 and 🇫🇷) and to listening to
@BeterOpDeFiets
Guest Lecture…
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Tomorrow 09:30: Data Governance and Competition
#IGF2019
with Heike Schweitzer
@drphilipmarsden
@IoannisLianos
Martin Schallbruch 🎦
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"Competition Economics Fit for the Digital Age"
@TomValletti
generously talking to us (online) 9 December, 11.30 CET (DM me for an invite) -🙏 Tommaso
@UniTrento
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...Our Students defending their master dissertations on Zoom. I honestly think it went all very well, no worries.
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‘FinTech, TechFin, Competitive Markets: What Could Possibly Go Wrong’ my presentation
#ASCOLA2018NYU
- - please let me know if you have any comment - draft paper “soon”
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A meme with a paper, upcoming: “Interoperability between competition law and the proposed Digital Markets Act”
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„We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting“
for today’s newsletter i interviewed
@mer__edith
, who sees the political economy of tech with more clarity than pretty much anyone i’ve spoken to on this beat:
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After Mario Monti imported the so-called more economic approach into the EU, it was soon clear that it wouldn’t have directly benefited our economy but the economists.
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Draft paper: ‘Compliance by design’ with the messenger interoperability obligation under the Digital Markets Act - comments much appreciated
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Accidentally, it also hampered the organization of lavish conferences and workshops around the world
#lobbyinginthetimesofcorona
Anyone who has worked in and around Congress knows the nonstop events and lobbying makes it impossible to think and constrains the sphere of the possible to DC chatterboxes. But now Zoom and COVID has accidentally created something new.
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Reading Schwab's compromise amendments (Amazon/Apple later,
@SebastianLouven
) - an hidden pearl is that "The Commission may also ask one or more competent national authorities to support its market investigation" - also a DPA, of course 🙂
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There's a recording, so I'm told. And I need to catch up with the Qs and conversations in the chat. First time ever moderating: Such a treat with spectacular Panelists such as
@szymielewicz
@LizaGormsen
@vittoriobertola
@arcapde
@1Br0wn
and
@TomValletti
🙏🙏🙏🙏💐💐
'We often take it for granted that the internet works' -
@1Br0wn
reminds us that interoperability is crucial for a good experience online. Our event on this topic is on now👉
@TomValletti
@wavesblog
@szymielewicz
@LizaGormsen
@vittoriobertola
@arcapde
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"The impression that one gets from this list of agency review teams is that progressives will be sometimes heartened and sometimes disappointed in the Biden administration, perhaps simultaneously"
The agency review team for OMB includes representatives from Lyft, Airbnb, and Amazon Web Services, and worse, has one member who works for a Koch-funded anti-regulatory outfit at GW that's part of "the brains of the conservative regulatory fight"
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As usual, Italian Academy doesn’t think that I should continue doing my job. Judged by five men without a clue in competition policy and myself not belonging to any academic mafia-like family protecting me, what else?
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“being pro-privacy is being pro-tech, because there is no future in tech that is privacy unsafe”
My article for the Guardian: Countries with poor data protection laws typically fall into two categories: underdeveloped or authoritarian. But there is a third unpalatable possibility: the UK could develop into a data haven.
#privacy
#dataprotection
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Perhaps new title for this all-male panel: “Do we have a Gender Problem in Competition Policy After All”?
#CRA2018
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“It’s amazing what a little evidence and a set of politicians committed to their job can do”
@ddayen
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So happy to we'll be welcoming (online) the amazing
@Elibietti
to
@UniTrento
this morning for a Guest Lecture! Grazie ❤️Elettra
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What a time to be an antitrust scholar.
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“trying to outpace government regulation is the tech industry’s deliberate strategy to circumvent oversight”
In my new piece in
@ForeignAffairs
I discuss how agile, effective AI governance will require anchoring in fundamental values and rights; expansively leveraging existing standards, regulations, and policies; and leaning into *policy* innovation.
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Fascinating topic (and excellent presentation) ‘EU Competition Law Enforcement vis-à-vis Exploitative Conducts in the Data Economy: Exploring the Terra Incognita’ Marco Botta and Klaus Wiedemann
#ASCOLA2018NYU
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The most trending hashtag in competition policy circles in the coming days (and, possibly, weeks)? 👉
#ASCOLA2020
🙏🙏🙏to
@MichalGal2
@ruppe_p
and Peter Picht for the stupendous efforts and engagement!
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An Economic Framework for Understanding Artificial Intelligence
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Americans expect the government to “set the rules of the road for market capitalism to work effectively”, Donenberg continued. “The president has been very clear that competition promotion is critical across every sector of the economy.”
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"Innovation competition and abuse of dominance in the AI age" Valencia Presentation (European "Valencia School" in the making 😉 ? - this town has quite a tradition in Spain...)
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I don’t know where this meme originally comes from (not written by a lawyer, likely) but it’s interesting that this is circulating (widely?) among young people
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Innovation Misunderstood - by
@ArielEzrachi
and
@MauriceStucke
deserves more downloads and, generally, we still need more discussions on this topic (can you believe it?) such as at the
@OECD_BizFin
coming December
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Highly recommended to those interested in comparative competition law 😊: Keynote speech: China's experience with regulating big tech, Yi Gang (Governor, People's Bank of China),
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We need to talk about all-male conference scientific committees…
📣The deadline for submissions for The 13th Paris Conference on Digital Economics is getting closer!📣
We welcome theoretical, empirical as well as policy-oriented submissions.
Please, submit your best works before January 14, 2022!
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8 years later: not *totally* ashamed - worried, rather, as it might point to unsustainable levels of policy stagnation 😳
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The Antitrust Enforcement Symposium 2019 great programme BUT 25/3 - as
@TomValletti
would say “try harder”
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Consumer data rights and competition – Note by the United Kingdom - in favour of collaboration and discussion between competition and data protection authorities - 👏
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Saturday...Do you feel like (Google) shopping ? Alexandre de Streel on Big Tech Acquisitions
#ASCOLA2020
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This is hardly a German case based on some obscure local jurisprudence any more...As an Italian consumer I ask myself why I should enjoy less choice and self-determination than a German consumer 🤔
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“We can’t predict the future; but we can anticipate what conditions will push us to the positive rather than the negative outcomes’
@CMAgovUK
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Voilà
Sources: Chinese regulators told Tencent, Ant Group, and others not to offer public ChatGPT services, after state media criticized chatbots over misinformation (
@cissy_chow
/ Nikkei Asia)
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😍 👉2 July "Economic expert Panel: Innovation Economics
Richard Gilbert (Berkeley), Monika Schnitzer (Ludwig Maximilian University), Moderator:
@TomValletti
(Imperial College, London)"
@ASCOLAcomp
!
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Amazingly moderated by
@fred_marty
and
@laura_zoboli
- online, hybrid and friendly blended 🙏🙏
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Doing my bit for
#SuperMario
and the Italian recovery ;-) - showing surprising hidden gems to my Twitter Followers who decide to come to Rome in the next months. Get in touch and wear comfortable shoes!
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