Report from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation In Brief – Judge Jonathan Beach of the Federal Court of Australia has found the Apple and Google app stores to be uncompetitive, delivering a win to giant app developer Epic Games in its effort to force the two...
Match Group Settles FTC Complaint on Cancellation Processes
Report from the MediaPost In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that online dating service Match Group has agreed to pay $14 million to settle a complaint that was initially filed by the regulator in 2019. The FTC accused Match of violating the...
Google and Apple Designated as having Strategic Market Status in UK
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed designating the mobile ecosystems run by Apple and Google as having “strategic market status” (SMS) under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer’s...
No Tech Changes in US-EU Trade Deal but Issues Are Still on the Table
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The framework US–EU trade deal reached by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen does not include a pledge to end EU digital services taxes (DST) or moderate European regulation of digital...
EU AI Act Enforcement Regime Begins for Big Foundation Models (Sort of)
Report from EuroNews In Brief – The latest phase of the multi-year implementation timeline for the EU AI Act took effect on August 2, including rules regulating new General Purpose AI (GPAI) models and the requirement that EU member states appoint their compliance...
Top Irish Court Rejects X’s Attempt to Avoid National Online Safety Regime
Report from Euractiv In Brief – The Irish High Court has rejected X’s legal challenge arguing that the Irish Online Safety Code should not apply to it because it conflicted with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) that regulates how digital platforms address illegal...
European Hotels File Class Action Lawsuit Against Booking for Price Fixing
Report from the Luxembourg Times In Brief – More than 10,000 European hotel owners are joining together in a class action suit against the online platform Booking. com, claiming that they were financially harmed by the platform’s long-time use of price parity contract...
Robby Starbuck Settles with Meta on AI Defamation and Will Advise on Bias
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist who has pressured companies to change their DEI practices, has settled a defamation lawsuit he brought against Meta that alleged the company’s AI tool smeared him by falsely...
Federal Judge Withdraws Opinion Riddled with Likely AI Hallucinations
Report from the Bloomberg In Brief – A New Jersey US district court judge withdrew his decision in a biopharma securities case after lawyers pointed out that his opinion contained numerous errors, including made-up quotes and misstated case outcomes. Judge Julien...
Wikipedia Loses Initial Court Challenge to Online Safety Act Classification
Report from the The Guardian In Brief – Justice Jeremy Johnson of the High Court in London has rejected the Wikimedia Foundation’s effort to have the court rule that Wikipedia should not be categorized as a Category 1 platform under the UK Online Safety Act (OSA),...
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Booking Faces European Commission DSA Investigation of Fraud Policies
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The European Commission has begun a formal investigation into whether Booking breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to adequately address online fraud and provide users with proper transparency into...
FTC Demands Nine Companies Give Data on Pricing and Gig Pay Practices
Report from Reuters In Brief – The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is demanding information from Delta, United, JetBlue, Lyft, Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Target and Walmart about how they use personal data, including location, browsing history and income, to set...
Germany’s Top Civil Court Asks for More EU Views on Host Provider Liability
Report from Der Spiegel In Brief – Germany’s Federal Court of Justice has again suspended Green Party politician Renate Künast’s lawsuit against Meta and referred what it believes are unresolved legal questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for...
EU Commission Has Plan to Tax Tech Giants by Taxing Giant Companies
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The European Commission is examining a plan to impose a big annual lump-sum levy on the largest, most profitable companies operating in Europe as a way to tax the US-based tech giants without imposing a direct tax on just...
Clearview AI’s Privacy Law Battle with the UK ICO Continues
Report from PPC Land In Brief – Clearview AI, the small US company that built a facial recognition database using images collected online, argued to the Court of Appeal in London that the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) lacks authority to enforce data...
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