Report from Reuters In Brief – The EU Commission has announced proposals dubbed the “Digital Omnibus” aimed at simplifying AI and privacy regulations to promote European digital innovation and boost efforts to claw back ground against tech dominance by the US and...
Teen Social Media Class Action Suits Advancing in CA State Court
Report from Deadline In Brief – Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl has rejected the motion for summary judgement filed by Google, Meta, ByteDance and Snap asking the judge to rule that they are not responsible for mental health problems experienced by teen...
EU Commission Opening DMA Investigations of Largest Cloud Services Providers
Report from Reuters In Brief – The European Commission has announced three Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations into cloud services and its market leaders. Two of the probes will assess if the cloud services business of either or both Amazon and Microsoft...
TikTok to Face Class Action Suit Alleging Underage Privacy Violations
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Federal District Judge George Wu has rejected TikTok’s bid to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by young people alleging that the company violated various laws and privacy standards in their home states. The plaintiffs, all under...
Nvidia’s Massive Investment in OpenAI Raises Antitrust Concerns
Report from Reuters In Brief – Nvidia’s giant business deal with OpenAI, with the market-leading AI chipmaker investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI, allowing the market-leading AI chatbot developer to buy millions of chips from Nvidia that will be housed in new...
EU Talking Google AdTech Breakup with US Remedies Trial Underway
Report from Euractiv In Brief – When the European Commission hit Google with a $3.45 billion fine for a range of anti-competitive practices in its vast AdTech business, the regulator ordered Google to end self-preferencing practices and implement measures to cease its...
US Second Circuit Asks NY State Court to Interpret Social Media Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – New York’s highest court has agreed to review the state’s “Hateful Conduct Act” at the request of the US Second Circuit of Appeals which is considering a challenge to the law that requires social platforms to accept complaints about...
Australia’s 16-Year-Old Social Media Ban May Apply to More Platforms
Report from ABC News In Brief – With Australia’s 16-year-old age limit for social media going into effect on December 10, the country’s eSafety Commissioner has indicated that the ban could apply to more platforms beyond Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and...
Meta Bringing Ad-Free Facebook and Instagram Subscriptions of the UK
Report from The Times In Brief – Meta has announced that it will offer ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram by subscription in Great Britain. The move follows settlement of a privacy lawsuit brought by digital accountability advocate Tanya O’Connell and...
EU May Block Digital Gatekeepers from New Consumer Finance Data Regime
Report from the Financial Times In Brief – The European Union appears set to prevent the largest US tech giants from participating in a new system of consumer financial data sharing. The EU’s Financial Data Access (FiDA) regulation is intended to give consumers the...
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Korean FTC Directs eCommerce Platforms to Revise Unfair User Terms
Report from The Korea Times In Brief – The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC), the country’s antitrust regulator, has directed seven major ecommerce platforms to make changes to their customer terms of service to better protect consumer rights and securely handle user...
European Commission Says Meta Failed to Keep Kids Off Its Platforms
Report from the New York Times In Brief – European Commission has announced its preliminary finding that Meta is failing to adequately prevent children under 13 from accessing Instagram and Facebook, potentially violating the Digital Services Act. The EU regulators...
French Prosecutors Escalate Probe of X and Musk to a Criminal Investigation
Report from CNBC In Brief – The Paris prosecutor’s office has announced that they have intensified their scrutiny of the social media platform X, as well as principal owner Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino, converting an earlier inquiry into a formal criminal...
EU Omnibus Package Agreement Addresses Some AI Regulation Concerns
Report from EU Today In Brief – The European Council and leading EU Parliament lawmakers have reached a provision deal on a so-called Digital Omnibus package that delays implementation of some regulatory deadlines in the landmark EU AI Act. The timeline of rules for...
Appeals Court Rejects Apple Effort to Pause District Court Setting App Fees
Report from 9to5Mac In Brief – Epic Games has persuaded a panel of the federal 9th Circuit Court Appeals to reverse an earlier decision that had temporarily paused action in the district court that will determine the maximum level of fees Apple can charge app...
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