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California Judge Won’t Stop Amazon Pricing Practices Before Trial

Report from Law.com In Brief – A California judge has denied the state attorney general’s request for a preliminary injunction against Amazon blocking some of its pricing practices related to its wholesale vendors. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman...

Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Tennessee Social Media Law

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – A divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has ordered a federal judge to reconsider his initial ruling not to preliminarily block a Tennessee law requiring parental consent for minors to use social media. Judge Alice Batchelder,...

EU Regulators Ask Publishers About Google’s AI Opt-Out Policy

Report from Reuters In Brief – EU antitrust regulators have circulated a questionnaire to online publishers seeking feedback on ‌Google's policy to let them opt out of AI results without affecting their rankings in Google search. The feedback will influence the EU’s...

Federal Judge Chooses Not to Break Up Google AdTech Business

Report from the New York Times In Brief – Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema, who ruled in 2025 that Google unlawfully monopolized technology tools used to connect online publishers with advertisers, has announced that her remedies ruling does not order Google to break up...

Federal Trade Commission Proposes Policy on Personalized Pricing

Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission has proposed exposing companies to federal charges if they secretly use personal data to vary prices based on what individual consumers are believed to be willing to pay. FTC Chairman Andrew...

Apple Will Change App Data Use Prompts to Settle German Probe

Report from Euractiv In Brief – Apple has settled an antitrust investigation by Germany’s competition authority by agreeing to redesign privacy prompts that third-party app developers show mobile users when seeking consent to use their data for targeted advertising....

TikTok Settles US Government COPPA Lawsuit with $400 Million Payment

Report from MediaPost In Brief – TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it violated the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from users under 13. The settlement...

Court Overturns Ban on Perplexity Shopping Agent Accessing Amazon

Report from MediaPost In Brief – A federal district court injunction barring Perplexity's AI shopping agent, Comet, from accessing Amazon has been overturned by an appeals panel of the US Ninth District that found it was unlikely that the AI company would be found to...

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