Report from the New York Times In Brief – California has enacted legislation imposing major new transparency requirements on AI developers. The “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act” (TFAIA) requires developers of the largest AI models to meet the most...
Indian State Court Rejects X’s Challenge of Social Media Policing Regime
Report from Reuters In Brief – The Karnataka High Court has rejected X’s legal challenge to block a centralized social media takedown system run by the government. In its ruling, the High Court argued that social media companies operating in India must adhere to the...
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,...
Dutch Court Uses DSA to Order Meta to Alter Facebook and Instagram Feeds
Report from Reuters In Brief – A Dutch court has ruled that users of Facebook and Instagram are not “sufficiently able to make free and autonomous choices about the use of profiled recommendation systems,” and ordered Meta to change the platforms to allow users to...
Deloitte Delivered Report to Australian Government Filled with AI Errors
Report from ABC News In Brief – Consulting firm Deloitte Australia will refund part of the AU$440,000 ($290,000) it was paid by the Australian Government’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for a report assessing the agency’s use of automated welfare...
UK Ofcom Fines US 4chan Raising Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Concerns
Report from ArsTechnica In Brief – UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has imposed a £20,000 fine on 4chan, an online platform where users post texts and images anonymously and face minimal content moderation, for failing to respond to “legally binding information requests”...
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Norwegian Government Announces Their Plan for a Social Media Age Limit
Report from Reuters In Brief – The Government of Norway has announced that it will a submit a bill in parliament by year-end to ban teens from using social media until January 1 of the year they turn 16. Access to social media won’t be based strictly on birthdays, but...
FTC Settles Ad Agencies to End Group Online “Brand Safety” Standards
Report from MediaPost In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission announced antitrust settlement agreements with major advertising holding companies Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to end what the regulator alleges was unlawful collusion in setting industry-wide “brand safety”...
US Department of Justice Won’t Help French Prosecutors Probe Musk’s X
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The US Justice Department is declining to assist French authorities investigating X, describing the effort as a politically motivated misuse of the criminal justice system to regulate online speech in a way that conflicts...
Another Arkansas Social Media Law Blocked by Federal Judge
Report from the Arkansas Advocate In Brief – US District Judge Timothy Brooks has issued a temporary injunction blocking Arkansas Act 900 that was set to restrict minors from accessing social media with certain features. The 2025 law, challenged by the tech industry...
EU President Releases an EU-Wide Online Age Verification App
Report from Bloomberg In Brief – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has introduced a new age-verification app developed by the commission to confirm users’ ages online in a way that also protects their personal data. The app is intended to be a...
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