Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The UK Government has reportedly issued secret orders to Apple demanding that the company provide a backdoor for security authorities to access users’ encrypted iCloud data. The unprecedented demand, made in January, was...
Judge Tersely Rejects Apple Efforts to Join the Google Search Antitrust Case
Report from The Verge In Brief – US District Court Judge Amit Mehta has summarily denied Apple’s emergency request to stay his recent decision rejecting their effort to halt the Google Search monopoly trial and join the litigation directly to protect their interests,...
Ending De Minimis for China Paused While US Works on Compliance Plan
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Trump Administration has amended its executive order that imposed new tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, and ended the “de minimis” exemption for packages from those countries, by delaying the de minimis change until...
Microsoft Continues Trying to Settle EU Antitrust Concerns with Teams
Report from Reuters In Brief – Microsoft has reportedly offered to widen the price differential between its Office 365 product sold with its chat and video app Teams and its version of the software sold without the Teams as part of its ongoing negotiation to avoid an...
Paris Prosecutors are Investigating X for Politically Biased Algorithms
Report from CNBC In Brief – The Paris prosecutor’s office is investigating social media platform X for using allegedly biased algorithms. The probe by the public prosecutor follows a complaint filed by a lawmaker in Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble pour la République...
Antitrust Activists Push Back on UK Naming Amazon Exec to Head CMA
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – A coalition of voices in the vanguard of antitrust activism against Big Tech have signed an open letter expressing concern with the UK Government’s recent decision to appoint a former Amazon executive as chair of the Competition and...
Macron Uses Paris AI Summit to Call for EU AI Regulatory Pullback
Report from Reuters In Brief – French President Emmanuel Macron’s address to a global AI Summit in Paris called for Europe to recalibrate AI regulation to support innovation and made the case that France, with its AI talent and nuclear-powered electricity generating...
European Commission Adds to their DSA Investigation of Shein
Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The European Commission has formally requested a wide range of information from fast-growing Chinese ecommerce platform Shein as part of its investigation of the business under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The law was enacted in...
Judge Rejects Fair Use Defense of an AI Company (not Generative AI)
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...
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Apple Urges the European Commission to Roll Back the DMA
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Apple used the European Commission’s first consultation on the impact and effectiveness of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to reiterate its long-held concerns with the legislation and urge the EU regulators to make changes. Apple wrote...
India May Tweak Retail FDI Rules to Allow Direct Export Sales
Report from Reuters In Brief – India is considering a change in its novel foreign direct investment (FDI) rules for ecommerce companies to allow foreign-owned companies to operate as retail exporters for products made by Indian suppliers. Indian law prohibits foreign...
Google Appeal of Epic Antitrust Loss Backed by App Developer Group
Report from MediaPost In Brief – With the US Supreme Court considering Google’s final appeal of its loss in the antitrust lawsuit brought by Epic Games, a trade group that represents small and mid-sized app developers urged the court to back Google’s appeal to...
Danish Government to Propose 15-Year-Old Age Limit for Social Media
Report from Politico In Brief – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that her government wants to ban children from under the age of 15 from several social media platforms. “Mobile phones and social media are stealing our children’s childhood,” she said in...
Google Search Designated with Strategic Market Status in the UK
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has that Google holds “strategic market status” (SMS) in the markets for general internet search and search-based advertising. SMS is a regulatory status under the UK’s Digital Markets,...
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