European Opponents of Cross-Border Data Flows Continues to Oppose Them
Report from Computing UK In Brief – EU privacy campaigners are pressing the European Union to dismantle its 2023 data transfer agreement with the United States following the recent decision by the US Supreme Court that granted the President the authority to remove...
YouTube Reaches Settlement in Second Social Media “Addiction” Lawsuit
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – YouTube has reached a confidential settlement with R.K.C., a Florida teenager who was scheduled to be the plaintiff in the second bellwether trial in a massive lawsuit over the impact of social media on minors. As a result, the...
Swedish Court Orders Google to Pay Klarna Nearly $2 Billion in Damages
Report from EuroNews In Brief – Sweden’s Patent and Market Court has ruled in the antitrust damages case between comparison shopping site PriceRunner, which is owned by Sweden-based fintech company Klarna, and Google, ordering the US giant to pay 14.3 billion Swedish...
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Apple Contempt Order in Epic Fight
Report from Reuters In Brief – The US Supreme Court has stepped into the long-running antitrust battle between Apple and Epic Games by choosing to accept Apple’s challenge to Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Roger’s contempt order against the iPhone giant. The High...
Trump Administration Lifts Export Ban on Top Anthropic Models
Report from the New York Times In Brief – The Trump administration lifted export restrictions that it had imposed on June 12th prohibiting Anthropic from allowing any foreign nationals from accessing it’s top AI models, allowing the company to restore access to Claude...
Another Federal Appeals Court Upholds a Social Media Age Limit Law
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A panel of the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Ohio may enforce its 2023 social media parental-consent law, reversing a lower court decision that had blocked the measure as unconstitutional. The law requires teens under...
EU Commission Believes DMA Covers Amazon and Microsoft Cloud Services
Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – The European Commission has announced that the Amazon and Microsoft cloud services should be designated as core platform services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) gatekeeper law. The regulator believes that Amazon’s...
Teen Online Safety Bill Clears US House Setting Up Negotiation with Senate
Report from NBC News In Brief – The US House has passed the KIDS Act, a bipartisan package of 14 digital regulation measures that include requiring online platforms to introduce new safety features and parental controls, restricting targeted advertising, and...
Italy’s Competition Authority Opens DMA Probe of Apple Cloud Policies
Report from EU Today In Brief – Italy’s competition authority has announced an investigation into whether Apple is complying with interoperability requirements of Article 6 the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), marking the national regulator’s first probe under the...
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