Report from MediaPost In Brief – With the US Supreme Court considering Google’s final appeal of its loss in the antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games, a trade group that represents small and mid-sized app developers urged the court to back Google’s appeal to...
Danish Government to Propose 15-Year-Old Age Limit for Social Media
Report from Politico In Brief – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that her government wants to ban children from under the age of 15 from several social media platforms. “Mobile phones and social media are stealing our children’s childhood,” she said in...
Google Search Designated with Strategic Market Status in the UK
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has that Google holds “strategic market status” (SMS) in the markets for general internet search and search-based advertising. SMS is a regulatory status under the UK’s Digital Markets,...
Dutch Court Uses DSA to Order Meta to Alter Facebook and Instagram Feeds
Report from Reuters In Brief – A Dutch court has ruled that users of Facebook and Instagram are not “sufficiently able to make free and autonomous choices about the use of profiled recommendation systems,” and ordered Meta to change the platforms to allow users to...
Deloitte Delivered Report to Australian Government Filled with AI Errors
Report from ABC News In Brief – Consulting firm Deloitte Australia will refund part of the AU$440,000 ($290,000) it was paid by the Australian Government’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for a report assessing the agency’s use of automated welfare...
UK Ofcom Fines US 4chan Raising Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Concerns
Report from ArsTechnica In Brief – UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has imposed a £20,000 fine on 4chan, an online platform where users post texts and images anonymously and face minimal content moderation, for failing to respond to “legally binding information requests”...
Federal Judge Strikes Prohibition on Bill Line-Items for Maryland Digital Tax
Report from Maryland Matters In Brief – A federal district judge in Maryland has permanently blocked a provision in the state’s landmark 2021 digital advertising services tax that barred companies from using a line-item on customer bills to inform them of the tax and...
Federal Judge Allows Video Privacy Lawsuit Targeting LinkedIn to Proceed
Report from MediaPost In Brief – District Court Judge Casey Pitts has rejected LinkedIn’s motion to dismiss a class-action complaint that the company violated the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by allegedly sharing a user’s video-viewing history with Meta...
Apple in European Court Because the DMA Outlaws Apple’s Business Model
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – In a hearing before the EU General Court in Luxembourg, Apple launched a sweeping legal attack against the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), arguing that the bloc’s landmark Big Tech regulation imposes “hugely onerous and intrusive”...
California Enacts Law Regulating AI Chatbot Companion Services
Report from The Verge In Brief – California has enacted legislation requiring companion chatbot developers to implement safeguards so that users are not misled into believing that they are interacting with a human. The measure requires a clear and conspicuous...
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Meta Names Highly-Connected Republican Banker as Company President
Report from The Hill In Brief – Meta has announced the appointment of Dina Powell McCormick as its new president and vice chair as it accelerates investment in artificial intelligence and its “superintelligence” initiative. In the role, Powell McCormick will oversee...
TikTok Will Roll Out Age Estimation Technology in Europe
Report from Reuters In Brief – TikTok will start rolling out a new technology-based age-estimation regime across Europe in the coming weeks with the goal of more effectively identifying and removing accounts belonging to children under 13. The new system follows a...
US TikTok Spinoff Deal Backed by President Trump Finally Completed
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The business deal to spin off the US operations of TikTok from Chinese parent company ByteDance has been finalized, likely securing the app’s ability to operate in the American market. The new US-based entity includes Oracle, Silver...
EU Commission Opens DSA Investigation of Grok’s Sexualized Images on X
Report from CNBC In Brief – The European Commission has announced a new Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of X and its integration of AI chatbot Grok with functionality that allowed users to create and post realistic manipulated images that could include...
South Korea Faces US Blowback After Enacting Online Disinformation Law
Report from Korea JoongAng Daily In Brief – South Korea’s recent amendment to the Network Act aimed at suppressing online misinformation quickly sparked sharp criticism from the United States who argued that it risks chilling lawful speech and creates barriers for US...
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