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...
Italy’s Competition Authority Opens DMA Probe of Apple Cloud Policies
Report from EU Today In Brief – Italy’s competition authority has announced an investigation into whether Apple is complying with interoperability requirements of Article 6 the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), marking the national regulator’s first probe under the...
Coupang Issued Record $410 Million Data Breach Fine in South Korea
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), the country’s data protection authority, has imposed a record 624.7 billion won ($410 million) fine on ecommerce giant Coupang, often referred to as Korea’s...
Florida Sues TikTok Under Law Regulating Social Media for Young Teens
Report from Politico In Brief – Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier (R), who has staked out a reputation as an aggressive conservative critic of digital platforms, has sued TikTok alleging that the platform deceived parents, exposed minors to harmful content,...
Ohio Court Rejects Argument that Google Search is a Common Carrier
Report from MediaPost In Brief – An Ohio appeals court has thoroughly rejected former Ohio Attorney General David Yost’s effort to revive a lawsuit seeking to classify Google as a common carrier and subject its search engine to state regulation. The case, initiated in...
UK Announces Plan for Social Media Age Limit and Restrictions
Report from Reuters In Brief – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans to ban social media use for children under 16 and impose new restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms, which could include overnight curfews and restrictions on infinite...
Illinois Legislature Includes a Social Media Tax in Its FY 2027 Budget
Report from the New York Times In Brief – European Union regulators forcefully rejected Apple’s claim that Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules are responsible for the company delaying the launch of its upgraded Siri AI assistant in Europe. Apple claimed that Commission...
Canadian Government Proposes Regulating Social Media and Chatbots
Report from Reuters In Brief – Canada has introduced a sweeping Safe Social Media Act that aims to protect children under 16 from online harms by setting an age limit for social media and creating a digital regulator to establish and enforce safety standings for...
Apple and EU Commission Argue Over Why Siri AI Won’t Roll Out in Europe
Report from the New York Times In Brief – European Union regulators forcefully rejected Apple’s claim that Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules are responsible for the company delaying the launch of its upgraded Siri AI assistant in Europe. Apple claimed that Commission...
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EU General Court Rejects Apple’s Argument that DMA Does Not Apply
Report from Courthouse News Service In Brief – The EU General Court dismissed Apple’s challenge to its designation as a “gatekeeper” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The ruling leaves intact the European Commission’s 2023 decision that Apple is a gatekeeper, and...
President Trump Still Opposes European Digital Taxes and Threatens Tariffs
Report from Politico In Brief – President Donald Trump used a social media post to threaten to impose a 100% tariff on any country that adopts a digital services tax (DST) targeting U.S. technology companies, warning in a social media post that the new tariff would...
Final Big 6 Ads Firm Settles with FTC on Ideological Content Moderation
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that Havas Media Group has agreed to a proposed order that it will not participate in unlawful collusion related to digital advertising “brand safety” standards that the regulator says...
Yelp Wins Legal Ruling in Antitrust Battle with Google
Report from Courthouse News Service In Brief – Federal Magistrate Judge Susan Van Keulen has ruled that Yelp, a leading internet company critic of Google’s search practices, can rely on District Judge Amit Mehta’s 2024 decision in the Justice Department’s landmark...
Illinois Governor Signs Robust AI “Safety” Law
Report from CBS News In Brief – Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) has signed the AI Safety Measures Act into law pushing the state to the forefront of AI regulation. The law imposes “safety” requirements on companies developing so-called frontier AI models, including...
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