Report from the Washington Post In Brief – Following an announcement from US President Donald Trump that new “reciprocal” tariffs would be paused for 90 days for all countries other than China, the EU announced a similar delay in the 25% tariffs it had announced in...
Trial Finally Begins in Meta Antitrust Lawsuit Filed by Trump FTC in 2020
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The bench trial pitting the FTC against Meta before US District Judge James Boasberg is finally underway in a lawsuit initiated in 2020 by the first Trump Administration. The regulator’s antitrust complaint alleges that...
Apple and Google Face Regulation Under Japan’s New Digital Regime
Report from the Japan Times In Brief – The Japanese Fair Trade Commission has formally designated three companies as being subject to the new law regulating major information technology companies in the smartphone application market, the American mobile ecosystem...
Google Settles Android Auto Dispute with German Antitrust Regulator
Report from Reuters In Brief – The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has announced the end of its antitrust probe of Google’s automotive services and maps platform with the company agreeing to changes addressing the regulator’s concerns. “I am delighted that we have...
Google Loses Another Federal Antitrust Case – This Time AdTech Services
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – In the latest in a string of major antitrust setbacks, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema largely sided with the Department of Justice (DoJ) and ruled that Google violated federal monopoly law in the operation of their...
Minnesota Democrats Explore a State Tax on Social Media Companies
Report from CBS News In Brief – Leading Democrats in the Minnesota state legislature are proposing to tax large social media platforms as part of an effort to close a state budget deficit estimated to reach $6 billion. Legislation approved by the Minnesota House and...
EU Commission Continues Ramping Up Staffing for DSA Enforcement
Report from EuroNews In Brief – The European Commission is hoping to hire 60 additional staff members for its Digital Services Act (DSA) enforcement unit, including legal and policy officers, data scientists, and researchers. In its latest report on DSA enforcement...
EU Commission Announces DMA Penalties for Apple and Meta
Report from Politico In Brief – After more than a year of investigations, the European Commission has announced that it has fined Apple €500 million and Meta €200 million for failing to comply with EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple, Google, and Meta were the first...
TikTok Announces Its Own Version of X-Style Community Notes
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – TikTok has announced that it is testing a new feature dubbed “Footnotes” to allow users to add additional context and relevant information to videos to help others better understand certain content. It is clearly modeled on X’s...
Another Call for the EU to Regulate Google Search – Spam Filter Edition
Report from Reuters In Brief – ActMeraki, a German media company, has complained to EU antitrust regulators that a Google anti-spam policy that penalizes websites that sell part of their websites to other companies to improve the search results for the third-party...
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Another Federal Appeals Court Upholds a Social Media Age Limit Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A panel of the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Ohio may enforce its 2023 social media parental-consent law, reversing a lower court decision that had blocked the measure as unconstitutional. The law requires teens under...
EU Commission Believes DMA Covers Amazon and Microsoft Cloud Services
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The European Commission has announced that the Amazon and Microsoft cloud services should be designated as core platform services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) gatekeeper law. The regulator believes that Amazon’s...
Teen Online Safety Bill Clears US House Setting Up Negotiation with Senate
Report from NBC News In Brief – The US House has passed the KIDS Act, a bipartisan package of 14 digital regulation measures that include requiring online platforms to introduce new safety features and parental controls, restricting targeted advertising, and...
Italy’s Competition Authority Opens DMA Probe of Apple Cloud Policies
Report from EU Today In Brief – Italy’s competition authority has announced an investigation into whether Apple is complying with interoperability requirements of Article 6 the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), marking the national regulator’s first probe under the...
Coupang Issued Record $410 Million Data Breach Fine in South Korea
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), the country’s data protection authority, has imposed a record 624.7 billion won ($410 million) fine on ecommerce giant Coupang, often referred to as Korea’s...
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