Report from CNBC In Brief – The Paris prosecutor’s office is investigating social media platform X for using allegedly biased algorithms. The probe by the public prosecutor follows a complaint filed by a lawmaker in Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble pour la République...
Antitrust Activists Push Back on UK Naming Amazon Exec to Head CMA
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – A coalition of voices in the vanguard of antitrust activism against Big Tech have signed an open letter expressing concern with the UK Government’s recent decision to appoint a former Amazon executive as chair of the Competition and...
Macron Uses Paris AI Summit to Call for EU AI Regulatory Pullback
Report from Reuters In Brief – French President Emmanuel Macron’s address to a global AI Summit in Paris called for Europe to recalibrate AI regulation to support innovation and made the case that France, with its AI talent and nuclear-powered electricity generating...
European Commission Adds to their DSA Investigation of Shein
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The European Commission has formally requested a wide range of information from fast-growing Chinese ecommerce platform Shein as part of its investigation of the business under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The law was enacted in...
Judge Rejects Fair Use Defense of an AI Company (not Generative AI)
Report from TechSpot In Brief – Federal Judge Stephanos Bibas has delivered a significant ruling in a copyright case pitting Thomson Reuters against the now-defunct legal services startup Ross Intelligence that claimed to have developed an AI-enabled legal service....
Meta Further Opening FB Marketplace to Resolve EU Antitrust Complaint
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Meta has announced a further opening of its Facebook Marketplace to classified competitors, allowing classified ad firms in Europe to place their listings on Marketplace through the Facebook Marketplace Partner Program. The cost for...
The GDPR One Stop Shop Mechanism Suffers Big EU Court Setback
Report from Irish Legal News In Brief – The EU’s General Court has sided with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), made up of the EU’s national data protection authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor, ruling that the collective can overrule a...
EU Online Disinformation Code is Being Formally Integrated Into the DSA
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...
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California AG Requests Temporary Injunction Blocking Amazon Price Policy
Report from Reuters In Brief – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has asked a state judge to issue a preliminary injunction against Amazon blocking the company from penalizing third-party sellers who offer items on other platforms such as eBay and Walmart for lower...
AI Policy Friction Between Anthropic and the Trump Admin Spills Out at DoD
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – AI policy friction between the Trump Administration and AI giant Anthropic is emerging in a reported disagreement between the creator of the Claude chatbot and the Department of Defense. Claude is the leading AI chatbot...
Irish Data Protection Regulator Using GDPR to Probe Grok-Generated Images
Report from Politico In Brief – Ireland’s data watchdog has opened an investigation into allegations that X’s Grok generative AI tool created potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate images of European individuals, including of children, improperly using their...
Virginia AG Says State Will Enforce Social Media Teen Time Limit Law
Report from Axios In Brief – Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones announced that he will “fully enforce” the state’s new law limiting minors under 16 to one hour per day on any single social media platform, even as a legal challenge brought by tech industry trade group...
German Court Orders X to Share Platform Data on Hungarian Election Activity
Report from Euractiv In Brief – The Berlin Court of Appeals has ordered social media platform X to give two Germany-based elections researchers access to data related to the reach and engagement with posts related to Hungary's April 12 election. Hungary's Prime...
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