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Progressive Global Big Tech Critics Call on Meta Oversight Board to Quit

Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Global Coalition for Tech Justice, an international alliance of progressive Big Tech critics, has released an open letter calling on the quasi-independent Meta Oversight Board to resign to protest the company’s changes to...

Korea Competition Authority to Avoid US Trade Conflict Over Digital Regs

Report from Korea JoongAng Daily In Brief – The Chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), South Korea’s antitrust regulator, has said that the government would maintain close dialogue with their US counterparts regarding its proposals to police giant digital...

Apple Pulls Strong iCloud Encryption from the UK Market

Report from the BBC In Brief – Apple has begun blocking users in the UK from using the company’s highest level of encryption to protect the security and privacy of photos, documents, and other content stored on the company’s iCloud backup system. The move is likely in...

DeepSeek Downloads Suspended in South Korea Due to Data Practices

Report from the New York Times In Brief – South Korea’s data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), has suspended downloads of the DeepSeek app after investigating the data policies and practices of the Chinese AI startup and...

EU Commission to Announce DMA Decisions for Apple and Meta in March

Report from Reuters In Brief – European Commissioner Teresa Ribera of Spain, the Executive Vice-President leading key economic priorities including competition policy, has said that decisions are expected to be announced in March in the Digital Markets Act (DMA)...

Mexico Threatens to Sue Google Over How Maps Names the Gulf

Report from the Washington Post In Brief – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum continues to call on Google to reverse changes it has made to its Maps service following the executive order from US President Donald Trump changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the...

Amazon Must Face Price-Parity Antitrust Lawsuit from Zulily

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – US District Judge John Chun, who is overseeing a collection of federal antitrust cases targeting Amazon’s marketplace practices, has rejected the company’s bid to have a lawsuit from now-defunct online apparel marketplace Zulily fully...

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