Report from the Reuters In Brief – The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned Google that the regulator has received complaints that its Gmail spam filters are treating email from Republicans and Democrats differently, allegedly blocking Republican...
Zalando Loses Challenge to Being Designated a DSA VLOP
Report from the Courthouse News Service In Brief – The arguments of Germany-based Zalando, Europe’s biggest online fashion retailer, that the platform should not be designated a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act (DSA), were rejected by...
Comcast Sues to Block Washington State Digital Ad Services Tax
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Digital services and network giant Comcast has sued to block a Washington state law that imposes sales taxes, which vary by county and range from 7.5% to 10.6%, to advertising services, alleging that the measure violates the...
Tech Trade Group Sues to Block Colorado Social Media Warning Label Law
Report from Colorado Public Radio In Brief – Digital company trade association NetChoice, representing social media companies including Google, Meta, Snap, Pinterest, Reddit, and X, has filed suit in federal court to stop a Colorado law that will require pop-up...
Google Loses Privacy Class Action but Face Limited Damage Award
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A federal jury in a consumer class-action lawsuit ruled that Google violated users’ privacy by continuing to collect data from apps even after they believed that they had opted out of tracking, but awarded the class, estimated at...
Germany Opposes CSAM Chat Control Plan Undermining Encryption
Report from Tech Radar In Brief – Germany and Luxembourg joined the list of EU member states that are opposing the latest version of the child sexual abuse material (CSAM) message scanning bill, dubbed the Chat Control regulation, on the eve of the September 12...
Meta Exploring More Media Company Payments, Now for AI Uses
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Meta has been in discussions with several prominent media companies, including Axel Springer, Fox Corp. and News Corp, about licensing their articles for use in its AI-powered products, including a variety of chatbots....
UK National Security Service Drops Demand for Apple Encryption Backdoor
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has announced that the UK Government has dropped its demand of Apple to give its national security services the ability to access data uploaded to Apple’s iCloud...
US May Sanction European Officials Who Implement Online Safety Law
Report from the Reuters In Brief – The Trump Administration is considering imposing direct sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible for implementing the Digital Services Act (DSA) that regulates how digital platforms address objectionable...
Judge Backs Humility and Restraint in Google Search Monopoly Remedy
Report from the New York Times In Brief – Federal District Judge Amit Mehta has set out remedies to address Google’s monopoly in general online search, placing limits for six years on the kinds of business deals the company can make with device makers and other...
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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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