Report from Euronews In Brief – As expected, the European Commission has announced the expansion of its ongoing investigation of X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to include reviewing the operations of its recommender systems, including the algorithms that...
European Commission Reviewing Ongoing Big Tech Investigations (or Not)
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The European Commission is reported to be undertaking an internal review of all the investigations of major US tech companies begun during the past year, including under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulating the largest...
Digital Giants Agree to Updated EU Hate Speech Code of Conduct
Report from The Verge In Brief – The European Commission announced that the Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online + has been formally integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA). The updated code builds upon the initial EU Code of Conduct created...
President Trump Fully Revokes President Biden’s Executive Order on AI
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – President Donald Trump revoked President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence as one of the 78 Biden Administration executive orders and memorandums included in his Inauguration Day Executive Order fully rescinding...
UK Government Replaces Antitrust Chief with Former Amazon Executive
Report from the BBC In Brief – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Government has forced out Marcus Bokkerink as the chair of its antitrust regulator for failing to prioritize the government’s economic growth agenda. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said she...
Billionaires and Others Eyeing Potential TikTok Purchase Overseen by Trump
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Following President Trump’s issuance of an executive order extending by 75 days the deadline for ByteDance to divest ownership of TikTok’s US operations or see the service shut down, a growing array of business leaders, investors, and...
Singapore Imposes App User Age Verification Duties on Large App Stores
Report from Channel News Asia In Brief – Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the country’s digital and media regulator, has announced that app stores will soon be required to protect children from inappropriate apps through age verification...
EU and German Regulators Testing How Platforms Will Handle Elections
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The European Commission and German Government are planning to perform a “stress test” on the major digital platforms on January 31 to determine their processes regarding the upcoming German elections. Meta, Microsoft, Google, Snap,...
Meta Wins Temporary Relief in India from WhatsApp Data Sharing Ban
Report from Reuters In Brief – A two-judge panel of the Indian National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has temporarily halted the Competition Commission of India (CCI) order prohibiting WhatsApp from sharing user data with other services of its parent company,...
DST Act 3 – The Return of Trump and Threats of Tariff and Tax Retaliation
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – President Donald Trump has effectively pulled the United States out of the global corporate tax reform agreement at the OECD negotiated by the Biden Administration in 2021 and backed by 140 countries. That deal tried to...
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Federal Court Rejects Appeal to Block Minnesota Political Deepfake Law
Report from MPR News In Brief – A three-judge panel of the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to block a Minnesota law enacted in 2023 that bans the use of deepfake technology to influence elections, siding with the lower court that the two plaintiffs lacked...
Google and Apple Make App Store Competition Commitments in the UK
Report from The Guardian In Brief – Apple and Google have made commitments to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to implement practices to prevent discrimination against third-party apps that compete with their own services. Last year, the CMA found that...
Dutch Regulator Opens Digital Services Act Investigation of Roblox
Report from NL Times In Brief – The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has launched a formal Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of Roblox over concerns that the online gaming platform may not be doing enough to protect children. The DSA...
EU Commission Moves to Stop Meta from Banning Chatbots on WhatsApp
Report from Wall Street Journal In Brief – The European Commission has informed Meta that it plans to block the company’s ban on third-party AI chatbots from operating over WhatsApp. The antitrust regulator has reached a preliminary finding that Meta’s policy could...
Department of Justice and State AGs Appeal Google Search Remedies Order
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The US Department of Justice has announced that it notified the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that it will appeal US District Judge Amit Mehta’s remedies order in the federal antitrust lawsuit that found Google...
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