Report from Nippon.com In Brief – Japan's House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, has approved two bills by a majority vote that are intended to address the misuse of social media during election campaigns. The bills, which must next be considered by...
New Jersey Joins Blue States Regulating Grocery Store Pricing Practices
Report from the Shelby Report In Brief – The New Jersey legislature has approved the Fair Price Protection Act and sent it to Governor Mikie Sherrill (D), who has indicated she will sign the measure into law. Once enacted, New Jersey will become the third state to...
UK CMA Joins the Apple and Google App Store Global Regulation Parade
Report from Reuters In Brief – Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced its proposed new regulations to require Apple’s and Google’s app stores to allow app developers to direct users to third-party payment options to increase competition and...
Supreme Court Rejects Appeals to Block Texas App Age Limit Law
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – The US Supreme Court has rejected the emergency appeals filed by a youth advocacy organization and tech company trade group asking the justices to block Texas's App Store Accountability Act as litigation challenging its...
European Opponents of Cross-Border Data Flows Continues to Oppose Them
Report from Computing UK In Brief – EU privacy campaigners are pressing the European Union to dismantle its 2023 data transfer agreement with the United States following the recent decision by the US Supreme Court that granted the President the authority to remove...
YouTube Reaches Settlement in Second Social Media “Addiction” Lawsuit
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – YouTube has reached a confidential settlement with R.K.C., a Florida teenager who was scheduled to be the plaintiff in the second bellwether trial in a massive lawsuit over the impact of social media on minors. As a result, the...
Swedish Court Orders Google to Pay Klarna Nearly $2 Billion in Damages
Report from EuroNews In Brief – Sweden’s Patent and Market Court has ruled in the antitrust damages case between comparison shopping site PriceRunner, which is owned by Sweden-based fintech company Klarna, and Google, ordering the US giant to pay 14.3 billion Swedish...
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Apple Contempt Order in Epic Fight
Report from Reuters In Brief – The US Supreme Court has stepped into the long-running antitrust battle between Apple and Epic Games by choosing to accept Apple’s challenge to Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Roger’s contempt order against the iPhone giant. The High...
Trump Administration Lifts Export Ban on Top Anthropic Models
Report from the New York Times In Brief – The Trump administration lifted export restrictions that it had imposed on June 12th prohibiting Anthropic from allowing any foreign nationals from accessing it’s top AI models, allowing the company to restore access to Claude...
Another Federal Appeals Court Upholds a Social Media Age Limit Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A panel of the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Ohio may enforce its 2023 social media parental-consent law, reversing a lower court decision that had blocked the measure as unconstitutional. The law requires teens under...
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Federal Judge Rejects Google Plan to Comply with Epic Antitrust Remedy
Report from ArsTechnica In Brief – Soon after Google began allowing the first third-party app store to be downloaded through its Play Store, US District Judge James Donato said the company had not done enough to comply with his antitrust injunction and ordered the...
Meta and State AGs Settle Lawsuit for $18 Billion and Design Changes
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Meta has agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 48 state attorneys general, ending a major federal trial over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harmed teenagers and signaling how the top social media platforms may...
Gig Delivery Driver Regulation Battle Revving Up in New York City
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing legislation to require Amazon, FedEx and other warehouse operators in the city to directly employ delivery workers rather than use subcontractors and other non-employees. Backers...
Maryland Tax Court Strikes Down Digital Ads Tax for Violating Federal Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – In a major ruling in a tax law battle stretching more than five years, the Maryland Tax Court has struck down the state’s 2021 law imposing taxes on the digital advertising revenue of large online platforms and ordered the state to...
UK Continues Legal Efforts to Break Apple Encryption
Report from The Guardian In Brief – Apple has again launched a legal challenge to a UK government order calling for access to customers’ encrypted iCloud data. The move comes a year after the Home Office withdrew a broader request that led to a dispute with...
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