Report from Medianama In Brief – India’s National Company Law Tribunal (NCLAT), a judicial appeals panel, has set aside part of an antitrust order from the country’s competition authority in ruling that Meta’s WhatsApp service could continue to share the user data...
Chat-GPT Output Similar Enough to Copyright Works for Trial to Proceed
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A federal judge in New York has denied OpenAI’s motion to dismiss a direct copyright infringement claim brought by a group of authors who allege the AI giant violated federal copyright law by using their copyrighted works to...
European Digital Sovereignty Drive Impacted by Germany-France Split
Report from Politico In Brief – Although EU-wide concerns with economic and strategic vulnerabilities caused by overwhelming reliance on non-European technology providers have taken hold on the continent and calls for “digital sovereignty” are increasingly...
Meta Granted More Time to Ease Change to User Feeds in Netherlands
Report from Telecompape In Brief – A Dutch court has extended until the end of 2025 the time that Meta has to modify the Facebook and Instagram services used in the Netherlands to allow users to easily set a chronological feed as the default for their homepage and...
Federal Judge Approves Settlement of Mobile Device Location Data Class Action
Report from MediaPost In Brief – District Judge Lynn Winmill has granted final approval to a class-action settlement requiring data broker Kochava to overhaul its privacy practices following allegations that it sold users’ location data without consent. Kochava agreed...
France Temporarily Suspends Effort to Shut Down Shein
Report from Reuters In Brief – The French Finance Ministry has suspended proceedings aiming to block the website of Chinese retail marketplace Shein in France that it initiated after government officials reported that they found illegal products, including “childlike”...
Google Hit with Follow-On Digital AdTech Antitrust Lawsuit
Report from PPC Land In Brief – Canada-based Index Exchange, a digital AdTech business founded in 2003, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google that aims to build on US District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s April 2025 ruling that Google willfully maintained monopoly...
Nvidia’s CEO Says China “Will Win” the AI Race
Report from Financial Times In Brief – The CEO of Nvidia, the leading AI-optimized chip maker and now the most valuable company in the world, is warning that “China is going to win the AI race” due to lower energy costs and looser regulation. Jensen Huang, in London...
Social Media Companies Sue to Block California Law Banning Personalized Feeds
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Google, Meta, and TikTok have filed federal lawsuits and urged a federal judge to temporarily block enforcement of California’s “Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act” that restricts personalized or “addictive” content...
Apple Loses UK Class Action Arguing Its Fees Were Too High
Report from Financial Times In Brief – The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled that Apple violated competition law by imposing excessive App Store commissions on developers, leading to overcharges being passed on to consumers. The decision requires Apple...
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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...
Government Pressure Forces Grok to Back Down on “Sexualized” Photo Edits
Report from Reuters In Brief – Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has announced that it is preventing Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into X, from editing images of real people to put them in revealing clothing such as bikinis. The move represents a major...
Meta Announces Plans to Use Age Verification Tool Developed in Singapore
Report from Financial Times In Brief – Meta has announced plans to adopt a new age-verification credential, AgeKeys, developed by Singapore-based start-up k-ID, as it responds to intensifying global online safety regulation. The reusable, passkey-based credential is...
Apple is Appealing Big UK Court Loss on App Store Pricing
Report from Guardian In Brief – Apple has appealed the 2025 decision of the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) that the iPhone giant violated competition law by imposing excessive App Store commissions on developers, leading to overcharges being passed on to...
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