Report from Financial Times In Brief – A group of over 1000 individuals, led Nobel laureates, policymakers, and celebrities, have signed a public statement calling for the development of AI “superintelligence” to be halted until there is “broad scientific consensus...
Germany Puts a Spike in Latest EU Chat Control Effort to Break Encryption
Report from Euronews In Brief – German opposition to the latest version of the EU child sexual abuse material (CSAM) message scanning bill, dubbed the Chat Control regulation, has led to it being pulled from the agenda of a meeting of EU justice ministers. The draft...
Austrian Privacy Advocates File Criminal Complaint Against Clearview AI
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – Austrian data privacy advocacy group Nyob (None of Your Business) announced that it filed a criminal complaint with Austrian authorities aiming to have executives of US-based facial recognition firm Clearview AI held personally...
UK Court Largely Rejects Getty Images Copyright Claims Against Stability AI
Report from Reuters In Brief – A London High Court ruling has handed a victory to artificial intelligence firm Stability AI in a closely watched case testing whether copyrighted material can legally be used to train AI models without the authorization of the copyright...
Indian Court Overturns Regulator Ban on WhatsApp Data-Sharing for Ads
Report from Medianama In Brief – India’s National Company Law Tribunal (NCLAT), a judicial appeals panel, has set aside part of an antitrust order from the country’s competition authority in ruling that Meta’s WhatsApp service could continue to share the user data...
Chat-GPT Output Similar Enough to Copyright Works for Trial to Proceed
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A federal judge in New York has denied OpenAI’s motion to dismiss a direct copyright infringement claim brought by a group of authors who allege the AI giant violated federal copyright law by using their copyrighted works to...
European Digital Sovereignty Drive Impacted by Germany-France Split
Report from Politico In Brief – Although EU-wide concerns with economic and strategic vulnerabilities caused by overwhelming reliance on non-European technology providers have taken hold on the continent and calls for “digital sovereignty” are increasingly...
Meta Granted More Time to Ease Change to User Feeds in Netherlands
Report from Telecompape In Brief – A Dutch court has extended until the end of 2025 the time that Meta has to modify the Facebook and Instagram services used in the Netherlands to allow users to easily set a chronological feed as the default for their homepage and...
Federal Judge Approves Settlement of Mobile Device Location Data Class Action
Report from MediaPost In Brief – District Judge Lynn Winmill has granted final approval to a class-action settlement requiring data broker Kochava to overhaul its privacy practices following allegations that it sold users’ location data without consent. Kochava agreed...
France Temporarily Suspends Effort to Shut Down Shein
Report from Reuters In Brief – The French Finance Ministry has suspended proceedings aiming to block the website of Chinese retail marketplace Shein in France that it initiated after government officials reported that they found illegal products, including “childlike”...
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South Korea’s Take on AI Training and Copyright Fair Use
Report from Korea JoongAng Daily In Brief – South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has released an English version of its guide on the application of the fair use exception in South Korea’s Copyright Act to the training of generative AI models....
Sizeable Fine Expected in the Google Vertical Search DMA Case
Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Union is reportedly preparing to impose a high triple-digit million euro antitrust fine on Google this summer for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by unfairly prioritizing its own “vertical” search services in general...
Meta Offers a Month of WhatsApp Free to Chatbots to Negotiate
w/Commission Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Meta has offered to allow rival AI chatbots to use WhatsApp to interact with their users in the EU free of charge for one month as it seeks to work out an agreement with the European Commission on how AI...
EU Court Says Italy Can Force Meta to Pay Media for Snippets
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – The Court of Justice of the European Union has upheld Italy’s forced media payments regime for the largest digital platforms, rejecting Meta’s challenge to national rules requiring tech platforms to negotiate compensation with...
State AGs Rally Around Colorado Social Media Warning Label Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A coalition of 42 State Attorneys General are backing Colorado's appeal to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow the state to enforce its new law requiring social media platforms to display cigarette-style health warnings to young...
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