Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The European Commission and German Government are planning to perform a “stress test” on the major digital platforms on January 31 to determine their processes regarding the upcoming German elections. Meta, Microsoft, Google, Snap,...
Meta Wins Temporary Relief in India from WhatsApp Data Sharing Ban
Report from Reuters In Brief – A two-judge panel of the Indian National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has temporarily halted the Competition Commission of India (CCI) order prohibiting WhatsApp from sharing user data with other services of its parent company,...
DST Act 3 – The Return of Trump and Threats of Tariff and Tax Retaliation
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – President Donald Trump has effectively pulled the United States out of the global corporate tax reform agreement at the OECD negotiated by the Biden Administration in 2021 and backed by 140 countries. That deal tried to...
European Consumer Group Argues Meta Ad-Free Plan Still Violates EU Laws
Report from Reuters In Brief – BEUC, a non-profit organization that represents European consumers, has expressed to EU data protection and competition enforcement authorities that it believes Meta’s latest subscription policy violates consumer and data protection laws...
Trump Blasts EU at Davos on Big Tech Fines
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – US President Donald Trump blasted European Union regulators in his address to attendees of the World Economic Forum annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, which he delivered by video just four days after his inauguration to start his...
CPSC Issues Final Order on Amazon Recall Duties for Marketplace Products in FBA
Report from AboutLawsuits In Brief – The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced its final Decision and Order concluding its administrative litigation with Amazon and outlining the steps the company must take regarding some hazardous products sold...
DeepSeek Chatbot Upends AI Investor and Policy Ecosystem
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – DeepSeek’s AI assistant app and paper describing its technical infrastructure, which claims to have used far fewer and less advanced computer chips than the largest AI developers, undermined the core assumption of top AI...
Italian Regulator Blocks Meta’s Plan to Block Chatbots from WhatsApp
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – Italy’s competition authority announced that it has ordered Meta to immediately freeze a policy change that would ban rival generative AI chatbots from operating on WhatsApp. The order applies to WhatsApp in Italy pending the outcome...
Judge Blocks Texas Law Requiring Apple and Google to Verify User Age
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Federal District Judge Robert Pitman has blocked Texas from enforcing a new state law that requires companies that run app stores, like Apple and Google, to verify the age of users and obtain parental consent for users under 18 to...
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Retailers Try to Revive Challenge to NY Algorithmic Pricing Labeling Mandate
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – The National Retail Federation is urging the Federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals to revive its lawsuit challenging a New York law requiring retailers using customers’ personal data to set individual prices to display an...
Norway’s 16-Year-Old Digital Age Limit Will Extend Beyond Social Media
Report from The Local Norway In Brief – Norway’s Minister of Children and Families says that the country’s planned social media ban for children under 16 will target “harmful platforms” beyond social media, including messaging platforms like Snapchat and gaming...
Australian Government Introduces Its Digital Duty of Care Legislation
Report from the Digital Watch In Brief – Australia’s Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026 has been introduced in the House of Representatives by the Albanese Government. The bill proposes requiring digital services to maintain a safe environment,...
UK to Designate Microsoft Business Software with Strategic Market Status
Report from Reuters In Brief – Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed designating Microsoft’s business software operations with “strategic market status" (SMS) to allow the regulator to apply new digital competition rules to products such as...
Georgia Can Begin Enforcing Law Limiting Social Media for Teens
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is allowing Georgia to enforce its law restricting the ability of minors under age 16 to create social media accounts, ruling that tech group NetChoice failed to...
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