Report from the New York Times In Brief – Texas is the second state to require app store operators to verify all users’ ages and then block minors from downloading apps without the permission of a parent or legal guardian. SB 2420, the App Store Accountability Act,...
European Hotels to Sue Booking for Retail Price Fixing Damages
Report from Reuters In Brief – Hotel associations from 26 European markets plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Booking .com in the Netherlands over the platform’s long-time use of price parity contract clauses that prohibited hotels using the site from...
German Government Eying Huge Tax on US Digital Giants
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – The Culture Minister of Friedrich Merz’s German Government has revealed that they are drafting legislation for a national digital services tax (DST) targeting the biggest internet companies operating in country, in particular US giants...
Senate Budget Bill Includes Modified “Revenge Tax” to Counter DSTs
Report from the New York Times In Brief – The Senate version of the massive budget reconciliation bill includes a modified version of a tax provision included by the House of Representatives that penalizes foreign countries that impose “unfair” taxes on US companies....
Senate Version of State AI Regulation Moratorium Header to the Floor
Report from Politico In Brief – The budget reconciliation bill that will be considered by the full Senate will likely include a modified version of the 10-year moratorium on state laws regulating AI following a key decision by the Senate Parliamentarian. The...
Federal Judge Delivers Ruling That AI Training is Copyright Fair Use
Report from The Verge In Brief – Federal Judge William Alsup has ruled on summary judgement that artificial intelligence company Anthropic did not break the law when it used copyrighted books to train its AI chatbot without the consent of the authors or publishers,...
Judge Sides with Meta on AI Training Saying Plaintiffs Made Wrong Argument
Report from Reuters In Brief – In an order granting Meta summary judgement in an AI-training copyright infringement case brought by 13 authors, Federal Judge Vince Chhabria delivered an impassioned dissent to fellow judge William Alsup’s order released only a few days...
Apple’s Latest DMA Compliance Bid with New App Store Rules and Fees
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – Apple has announced more changes to its European app developer policies to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and avoid more fines from the European Commission. They expand the ability of developers to communicate with...
FTC’s Ad Company Merger Agreement Prohibits Viewpoint Boycotts
Report from the New York Times In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission has announced a consent decree with advertising companies Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group to allow their $13.5 billion merger after the companies agreed that they would not boycott media...
US Supreme Court Goes Easy on Age Checks for Online Porn Sites
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The US Supreme Court has ruled that requiring online porn websites to use age verification tools to confirm that users are adults does not violate the First Amendment. Advocates for the porn industry argued that Texas’s...
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Appeals Panel Oks Florida Enforcing Law Regulating Teens on Social Media
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A three-judge panel of US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court decision that had sided with NetChoice, a digital company trade group, and imposed a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of a Florida law...
Another Call for an AI Pause, This Time Against “Superintelligence”
Report from Financial Times In Brief – A group of over 1000 individuals, led Nobel laureates, policymakers, and celebrities, have signed a public statement calling for the development of AI “superintelligence” to be halted until there is “broad scientific consensus...
Germany Puts a Spike in Latest EU Chat Control Effort to Break Encryption
Report from Euronews In Brief – German opposition to the latest version of the EU child sexual abuse material (CSAM) message scanning bill, dubbed the Chat Control regulation, has led to it being pulled from the agenda of a meeting of EU justice ministers. The draft...
Austrian Privacy Advocates File Criminal Complaint Against Clearview AI
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – Austrian data privacy advocacy group Nyob (None of Your Business) announced that it filed a criminal complaint with Austrian authorities aiming to have executives of US-based facial recognition firm Clearview AI held personally...
UK Court Largely Rejects Getty Images Copyright Claims Against Stability AI
Report from Reuters In Brief – A London High Court ruling has handed a victory to artificial intelligence firm Stability AI in a closely watched case testing whether copyrighted material can legally be used to train AI models without the authorization of the copyright...
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