Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The European Commission has announced that the Amazon and Microsoft cloud services should be designated as core platform services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) gatekeeper law. The regulator believes that Amazon’s...
Teen Online Safety Bill Clears US House Setting Up Negotiation with Senate
Report from NBC News In Brief – The US House has passed the KIDS Act, a bipartisan package of 14 digital regulation measures that include requiring online platforms to introduce new safety features and parental controls, restricting targeted advertising, and...
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Utah Promises Not to Enforce Law Against VPN Usage for Now
Report from Engadget In Brief – The Utah Department of Commerce has agreed to temporarily suspend enforcement of the state’s new law targeting VPN use to avoid its age limit for online pornography while a federal court considers a legal challenge brough by Aylo, the...
EU places ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox Under Strictest Digital Safety Rules
Report from EuroNews In Brief – The European Commission has announced that ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox are Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), subjecting all three to the EU's strictest online safety rules. ChatGPT is the first...
FTC and State AGs Sue Amazon for Deception Costing Advertisers Billions
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general have sued Amazon alleging that the e-commerce giant secretly manipulated advertising auctions on its platform to inflate the prices businesses paid for ads by...
California Judge Won’t Stop Amazon Pricing Practices Before Trial
Report from Law.com In Brief – A California judge has denied the state attorney general’s request for a preliminary injunction against Amazon blocking some of its pricing practices related to its wholesale vendors. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman...
Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Tennessee Social Media Law
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – A divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ordered a federal judge to reconsider his initial ruling not to preliminarily block a Tennessee law requiring parental consent for minors to use social media. Judge Alice Batchelder,...
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