Report from TechSpot In Brief – Federal Judge Stephanos Bibas has delivered a significant ruling in a copyright case pitting Thomson Reuters against the now-defunct legal services startup Ross Intelligence that claimed to have developed an AI-enabled legal service....
Meta Further Opening FB Marketplace to Resolve EU Antitrust Complaint
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Meta has announced a further opening of its Facebook Marketplace to classified competitors, allowing classified ad firms in Europe to place their listings on Marketplace through the Facebook Marketplace Partner Program. The cost for...
The GDPR One Stop Shop Mechanism Suffers Big EU Court Setback
Report from Irish Legal News In Brief – The EU’s General Court has sided with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), made up of the EU’s national data protection authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor, ruling that the collective can overrule a...
EU Online Disinformation Code is Being Formally Integrated Into the DSA
Report from EuroNews In Brief – The European Commission has announced that the Code of Conduct on Disinformation will be formally integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA) governance regime in July. The EU effort to promote best practices to limit disinformation...
German FCO Suspects Apple App Ad Tracking Policies are Anticompetitive
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s national competition authority, has announced that it suspects that Apple is not treating third-party app developers as equally as required under the special German antitrust regime established to...
Progressive Global Big Tech Critics Call on Meta Oversight Board to Quit
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Global Coalition for Tech Justice, an international alliance of progressive Big Tech critics, has released an open letter calling on the quasi-independent Meta Oversight Board to resign to protest the company’s changes to...
Korea Competition Authority to Avoid US Trade Conflict Over Digital Regs
Report from Korea JoongAng Daily In Brief – The Chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), South Korea’s antitrust regulator, has said that the government would maintain close dialogue with their US counterparts regarding its proposals to police giant digital...
Apple Pulls Strong iCloud Encryption from the UK Market
Report from the BBC In Brief – Apple has begun blocking users in the UK from using the company’s highest level of encryption to protect the security and privacy of photos, documents, and other content stored on the company’s iCloud backup system. The move is likely in...
Trump Tariff Threats Against Digital Taxes Expanded to All Big Tech Penalties
Report from Reuters In Brief – Following up on two executive orders from the first day of his second term that signaled he will again aggressively challenge foreign governments that institute a digital services tax (DST), President Donald Trump has ordered his top...
DeepSeek Downloads Suspended in South Korea Due to Data Practices
Report from the New York Times In Brief – South Korea’s data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), has suspended downloads of the DeepSeek app after investigating the data policies and practices of the Chinese AI startup and...
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Reddit and Kick Added to Social Media Platforms Facing Aussie Age Limit
Report from BBC In Brief – The Australian eSafety Commissioner has announced that nine digital platforms will be required to comply with the country’s new threshold of 16 years of age for individuals to have an account on social media platforms when the mandate goes...
EU Commission Expected to Propose GDPR Changes to Ease AI Training
Report from Computerworld In Brief – The European Commission is planning to propose revisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) intended to ease the ability to train AI systems with data collected in Europe as part of its “Digital Omnibus”...
Google Pulls Gemma AI Developer Tools Following Conservative Criticism
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – Google has removed Gemma, a family of AI models the company says were intended for developers, not consumers, from its AI Studio after US Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) accused the AI model of defamation by fabricating accusations of...
UK Tech Minister Criticizes Ofcom Delaying Some Online Safety Act Rule
Report from National Technology News In Brief – The UK’s technology minister has expressed deep disappointment to communications regulator Ofcom about its updated roadmap for rules implementing the Online Safety Act (OSA) that extends the rollout of some platform...
Judge Delivers Conclusive Win to Meta in Federal Antitrust Trial
Report from New York Times In Brief – Federal Judge James Boasberg has ruled that Meta did not violate federal antitrust law when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp, delivering a major victory to the social media giant. In an 89-page decision, Judge Boasberg held that...
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