Report from Korea JoongAng Daily In Brief – The Chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), South Korea’s antitrust regulator, has said that the government would maintain close dialogue with their US counterparts regarding its proposals to police giant digital...
Apple Pulls Strong iCloud Encryption from the UK Market
Report from the BBC In Brief – Apple has begun blocking users in the UK from using the company’s highest level of encryption to protect the security and privacy of photos, documents, and other content stored on the company’s iCloud backup system. The move is likely in...
Trump Tariff Threats Against Digital Taxes Expanded to All Big Tech Penalties
Report from Reuters In Brief – Following up on two executive orders from the first day of his second term that signaled he will again aggressively challenge foreign governments that institute a digital services tax (DST), President Donald Trump has ordered his top...
DeepSeek Downloads Suspended in South Korea Due to Data Practices
Report from the New York Times In Brief – South Korea’s data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), has suspended downloads of the DeepSeek app after investigating the data policies and practices of the Chinese AI startup and...
EU Commission to Announce DMA Decisions for Apple and Meta in March
Report from Reuters In Brief – European Commissioner Teresa Ribera of Spain, the Executive Vice-President leading key economic priorities including competition policy, has said that decisions are expected to be announced in March in the Digital Markets Act (DMA)...
Mexico Threatens to Sue Google Over How Maps Names the Gulf
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum continues to call on Google to reverse changes it has made to its Maps service following the executive order from US President Donald Trump changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the...
iPhone Dictation Temporarily Displays “Trump” When User Says “Racist”
Report from the New York Times In Brief – Apple has acknowledged a bug with the iPhone’s dictation feature that sometimes surfaces when a user says the word “racist”, with the phone briefly displaying “Trump” before landing on the correct word. The company claimed...
Amazon Must Face Price-Parity Antitrust Lawsuit from Zulily
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – US District Judge John Chun, who is overseeing a collection of federal antitrust cases targeting Amazon’s marketplace practices, has rejected the company’s bid to have a lawsuit from now-defunct online apparel marketplace Zulily fully...
Polish Comparison-Shopping Site Sues Google for Years of Damages
Report from Reuters In Brief – Google has been sued by Ceneo, a Poland-based comparison-shopping unit of European ecommerce platform Allegro, seeking 2.33 billion zlotys (about $568 million) for damages suffered at the hands of the digital giant from 2013 through...
Mexico Enacts Gig Worker Legislation Classifying Top Earners as Employees
Report from Mexico News Daily In Brief – Mexico has enacted “Gig Worker” legislation that aims to provide hundreds of thousands of platform-enabled workers with traditional employment benefits and protections. The new law, which goes into effect in June, establishes...
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Italian Regulator Fines Apple €98 million for App Tracking Data Policy
Report from EuroNews In Brief – Italy’s competition authority has fined Apple 98 million euro for imposing its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework on third-party add developers starting in 2021. The ATT policy requires app developers to gain explicit user...
French Court Rejects Effort to Fully Ban Shein
Report from Wall Street Journal In Brief – Shein scored a win in French court with a ruling that rejected a government effort to fully suspend the ecommerce platform in France for three months. French authorities had sought the shutdown after finding third-party...
Federal Appeals Panel Rejects Effort to Judge Meta Pixel as “Wiretapping”
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the January dismissal of a class-action complaint alleging that Quest Diagnostics violated California’s wiretap law by sharing users’ web browsing information with Meta through...
Trump Administration Planning Executive Order on State AI Regulations
Report from Politico In Brief – The Trump Administration is exploring an executive order that aims to override restrictive state AI laws, although its release before Thanksgiving was abandoned due to pushback that included prominent state-level Republican officials....
Trump Administration Continues Linking Tariff Relief to EU Tech Regulation
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – European digital policies are again being raised by the Trump Administration in US-EU trade talks, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick linking lower tariffs on European steel and aluminum to the EU taking “the foot off” their...
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