Report from Reuters In Brief – TikTok faces fresh allegations from the European Commission that its platform design violates the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to adequately protect minors. The preliminary findings mark the fourth DSA case opened against...
New Jersey Bans So-Called “Surveillance Pricing” for Groceries
Report from NJ.Com In Brief – New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) has signed the Fair Price Protection Act, banning grocery stores and third-party grocery delivery platforms from using consumers' personal data to set or vary food prices. Sherrill said the measure will...
France Officially Sets 15-Year-Old Age Threshold for Social Media
Report from the New York Times In Brief – France has become the first European country to fully approve a nationwide ban on social media for children under 15, with the law expected to take effect as early as Sept. 1. Passed by large majorities in both houses of the...
EU Commission Issues Fines to Google in Two DMA Compliance Cases
Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Commission has fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for unfairly treating “vertical search” competitors and not appropriately allowing app developers to steer users to cheaper payment...
Federal Judge Approves Anthropic and Authors Copyright Settlement
Report from Engadet In Brief – Federal District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin has approved Anthropic’s record $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the company of violating their copyrights to train its Claude AI models. The...
EU Directs Google How to Open Android AI and Search Data to Competitors
Report from CNBC In Brief – The European Commission has directed Google on how to open its Android system to AI rivals and share its search data with online search competitors. The orders are part of two Digital Markets Act (DMA) “specification proceedings” in which...
Economist-Led Expert Group Wants Expert Guardrails to Avoid Jobs Calamity
Report from the New York Times In Brief – In a short public statement titled "We Must Act Now", nearly 200 signatories, led by economists, including 15 Nobel laureates, numerous officials from top universities, business and technology leaders, warned that AI could...
EU Panel Wants Regime to Regulate How Platforms Identify and Serve Minors
Report from Biometric Update In Brief – The European Commission’s special panel on child safety online delivered its report calling for age-based tiers of access and regulation for social media and other digital platforms to protect young people while preserving their...
EU Commission Believes Meta’s Platforms Violate Law by Encouraging Use
Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram breach the EU’s Digital Services Act by using design features that encourage excessive engagement. The findings follow a two-year investigation...
South Korea’s Fake News Law Raises Free Speech Concerns
Report from EuroNews In Brief – South Korea has begun enforcing a “fake news” law aimed at curbing online misinformation. It imposes tougher penalties for users who deliberately spread false information and requires major digital platforms to strengthen content...
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TikTok Settles US Government COPPA Lawsuit with $400 Million Payment
Report from MediaPost In Brief – TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it violated the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from users under 13. The settlement...
Court Overturns Ban on Perplexity Shopping Agent Accessing Amazon
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A federal district court injunction barring Perplexity's AI shopping agent, Comet, from accessing Amazon has been overturned by an appeals panel of the US Ninth District that found it was unlikely that the AI company would be found to...
Australia Enacts New Tax to Force Platforms to Pay Aussie Media Companies
Report from Reuters In Brief – Australia has passed legislation enacting the News Bargaining Incentive, a 2.5% tax on the advertising revenues of large social media and search businesses that do not pay Australian media companies sufficient funds for content showing...
Google Modifies Search Anti-Spam Settings to Address EU Antitrust Concerns
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Google has agreed to change its search ranking policies in Europe regarding websites that contain third-party content. The change involves Google's “Site Reputation Abuse” policy, an anti-spam initiative the company...
Anthropic Scores a Win in Ongoing Legal Battle with Trump Administration
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – US District Judge Rita Lin has ruled that the Trump administration violated Anthropic’s First Amendment rights by blacklisting the AI company from federal procurement as a supply-chain risk in retaliation for its public...
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