Report from Reuters In Brief – House Select Committee on China Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI) remains concerned that the deal to transfer control of TikTok’s US assets to US buyers could be problematic if the US platform licenses the content algorithm from China-based...
Italian Publishers File a DSA Complaint About Google AI Overviews
Report from The Guardian In Brief – FIEG, the Italian federation of newspaper publishers, has announced that it has submitted a formal complaint to Agcom, Italy’s communications watchdog, calling for an investigation into Google’s AI Overviews, arguing that the search...
Klarna Sues Google to Win Billions Over Shopping Site Discrimination
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A Swedish court has begun hearing arguments in a lawsuit brought by Pricerunner, a shopping comparison site owned by Swedish fintech giant Klarna, against Google. The civil lawsuit is one of many being pursued by European...
Apple and Google Mobile Ecosystems Designated with UK Strategic Market Status
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has designated both the Apple and Google mobile ecosystems as having “strategic market status” (SMS) under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer’s Act (DMCC). The CMA found that...
EU Commission Finds Meta and TikTok in Violation of the DSA
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The European Commission has issued a preliminary decision finding Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and TikTok all in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not allowing independent researchers to easily access data regarding content...
Judge Approves Refined Settlement in AI-Related Copyright Class Action
Report from AP News In Brief – Federal Judge William Alsup has granted preliminary approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement resolving an authors’ copyright class action lawsuit alleging that the company illegally downloaded pirated books. Judge Alsup...
California Enacts Major AI “Safety” Transparency Law
Report from the New York Times In Brief – California has enacted legislation imposing major new transparency requirements on AI developers. The “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act” (TFAIA) requires developers of the largest AI models to meet the most...
Indian State Court Rejects X’s Challenge of Social Media Policing Regime
Report from Reuters In Brief – The Karnataka High Court has rejected X’s legal challenge to block a centralized social media takedown system run by the government. In its ruling, the High Court argued that social media companies operating in India must adhere to the...
Apple Urges the European Commission to Roll Back the DMA
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Apple used the European Commission’s first consultation on the impact and effectiveness of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to reiterate its long-held concerns with the legislation and urge the EU regulators to make changes. Apple wrote...
India May Tweak Retail FDI Rules to Allow Direct Export Sales
Report from Reuters In Brief – India is considering a change in its novel foreign direct investment (FDI) rules for ecommerce companies to allow foreign-owned companies to operate as retail exporters for products made by Indian suppliers. Indian law prohibits foreign...
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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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