Report from EuroNews In Brief – The European Commission has announced that the Code of Conduct on Disinformation will be formally integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA) governance regime in July. The EU effort to promote best practices to limit disinformation...
German FCO Suspects Apple App Ad Tracking Policies are Anticompetitive
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s national competition authority, has announced that it suspects that Apple is not treating third-party app developers as equally as required under the special German antitrust regime established to...
Progressive Global Big Tech Critics Call on Meta Oversight Board to Quit
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Global Coalition for Tech Justice, an international alliance of progressive Big Tech critics, has released an open letter calling on the quasi-independent Meta Oversight Board to resign to protest the company’s changes to...
Korea Competition Authority to Avoid US Trade Conflict Over Digital Regs
Report from Korea JoongAng Daily In Brief – The Chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), South Korea’s antitrust regulator, has said that the government would maintain close dialogue with their US counterparts regarding its proposals to police giant digital...
Apple Pulls Strong iCloud Encryption from the UK Market
Report from the BBC In Brief – Apple has begun blocking users in the UK from using the company’s highest level of encryption to protect the security and privacy of photos, documents, and other content stored on the company’s iCloud backup system. The move is likely in...
Trump Tariff Threats Against Digital Taxes Expanded to All Big Tech Penalties
Report from Reuters In Brief – Following up on two executive orders from the first day of his second term that signaled he will again aggressively challenge foreign governments that institute a digital services tax (DST), President Donald Trump has ordered his top...
DeepSeek Downloads Suspended in South Korea Due to Data Practices
Report from the New York Times In Brief – South Korea’s data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), has suspended downloads of the DeepSeek app after investigating the data policies and practices of the Chinese AI startup and...
EU Commission to Announce DMA Decisions for Apple and Meta in March
Report from Reuters In Brief – European Commissioner Teresa Ribera of Spain, the Executive Vice-President leading key economic priorities including competition policy, has said that decisions are expected to be announced in March in the Digital Markets Act (DMA)...
Mexico Threatens to Sue Google Over How Maps Names the Gulf
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum continues to call on Google to reverse changes it has made to its Maps service following the executive order from US President Donald Trump changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the...
iPhone Dictation Temporarily Displays “Trump” When User Says “Racist”
Report from the New York Times In Brief – Apple has acknowledged a bug with the iPhone’s dictation feature that sometimes surfaces when a user says the word “racist”, with the phone briefly displaying “Trump” before landing on the correct word. The company claimed...
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The European Commission Issues Temu a Digital Services Act Fine
Report from the New York Times In Brief – The European Union has fined the Chinese e-commerce platform Temu €200 million ($232 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to adequately identify and prevent the sale of illegal products on its...
US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Restores Texas App Age Limit Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has cleared the way for Texas to enforce its App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420) that broadly expands age verification for online apps and requires app stores such as Apple and Google to...
President Trump Issues Pared Back Executive Order on AI Security Reviews
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing a voluntary framework to address potential new cybersecurity risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence systems. The directive reflects the administration’s...
UK CMA Orders Google to Change AI Search to Address Publisher Concerns
Report from Ars Technica In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), under its Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC) authority to regulate the most dominant online platforms, has ordered Google to make changes to its AI-powered search...
French Court Backs Tax on Online Book Shipping to Support Bookstores
Report from Reuters In Brief – France’s highest administrative court, the State Council, has rejected Amazon’s appeal against the country’s minimum shipping fee for books, upholding a €3 delivery charge on book orders under €35 imposed by the French Government in...
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