Regulators, antitrust, and the politics of tech.
A recent EU Court of Justice decision broadens intermediary liability for online platforms, potentially chilling freedom of expression and reshaping content moderation across Europe.
AliExpress has been fined approximately $629 million by the European Union for failing to prevent the sale of illegal and unsafe products, marking the largest penalty under the Digital Services Act to date.
The European Court has reaffirmed that Apple must comply with interoperability mandates, reinforcing user choice over device ecosystems and challenging monopolistic control.
Flock Safety has ended its pilot program using acoustic sensors to detect human distress, reversing plans amid privacy and surveillance concerns.
A data breach reveals that Suno AI’s music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, raising questions about data use and copyright in AI training.
Google and Epic Games have jointly withdrawn their legal challenge, paving the way for third-party app stores on Android devices in the US, fundamentally altering the app distribution landscape.
New York's new moratorium halts construction of hyperscale data centers for up to a year, reflecting growing regulatory scrutiny over AI infrastructure and environmental impact.
The European Union is advancing proposals to restrict children and teenagers’ access to social media, mandating platforms to prove safety before allowing youth usage.
The Bureau of Land Management is rewriting grazing regulations for the first time since 1995, proposing changes that significantly reduce public involvement in land-use decisions.
Google’s latest remote attestation initiative, reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification, intensifies control over user environments by blocking independent software, undermining open web principles.
The European Commission has found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for addictive design elements in Facebook and Instagram, mandating redesigns and threatening fines up to $12 billion.
A lawsuit alleges X's Grok AI failed to detect and prevent creation of thousands of child sexual abuse images, raising urgent questions on AI moderation efficacy and platform liability.
A recent Supreme Court decision allowing presidents to remove independent regulators without cause introduces new instability in federal agency enforcement, impacting technology companies reliant on consistent regulatory frameworks.
X Corp., formerly Twitter, seeks to terminate a 2022 FTC order mandating ongoing privacy compliance reporting amid concerns over user data protection and AI risks.
A European politician serving on an EU committee investigating spyware abuses was hacked using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware by a government customer, exposing critical risks in spyware oversight.
The Supreme Court recognized Fourth Amendment protections for location data, restricting geofence warrants but stopping short of declaring them unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Slaughter v. Trump permits the president to fire FTC commissioners at will, fundamentally altering the agency’s independence and regulatory autonomy.
President Trump’s nomination of Adam Candeub, a noted tech critic and telecommunications lawyer, to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division signals a potential recalibration of tech policy enforcement.
EFF, TEDIC, and CEJIL have challenged Paraguay’s opaque deployment of facial recognition technology, seeking transparency and accountability through a formal complaint to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
The New York Times has updated its lawsuit to explicitly accuse Microsoft of encouraging OpenAI to train AI models using its copyrighted articles, intensifying legal scrutiny of AI training practices.
Google announces a global rollout of alternative payment options on its Play Store, a major shift prompted by ongoing antitrust scrutiny from Epic Games’ lawsuit.
The FTC alleges a network of shell companies used complex payment routing to bypass app store bans, highlighting gaps in digital marketplace enforcement.
The Trump administration's sudden imposition of export controls on Anthropic’s newly released Fable 5 and its underlying Mythos architecture marks a sharp escalation in federal intervention over frontier artificial intelligence.
Florida has filed a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the platform violates the state's child safety law by allowing underage users and deceiving parents about its age verification practices.
A coalition of state prosecutors is quietly investigating OpenAI over its advertising practices and handling of personal health data, signaling a shift toward state-level consumer protection enforcement.
Congress failed to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allowing the controversial warrantless wiretapping authority to lapse. Despite the legislative setback, US surveillance networks are not rendered inoperable, maintaining continuity through ot
As federal regulators prepare a structured framework to police prediction markets under the Commodity Exchange Act, platform operator Kalshi is tightening compliance to curb insider trading on sensitive corporate and geopolitical data.
The European Commission has ordered Meta to restore free WhatsApp access for rival AI chatbots, deploying a rare interim measure to prevent irreparable market harm during an ongoing antitrust probe.
With the June 12th deadline looming, Congress remains unable to agree on reforms for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, leaving a critical surveillance authority in legislative limbo.
Nintendo's confirmation that its upcoming console will feature user-replaceable batteries in Europe highlights how the EU's strict circular economy regulations are actively reshaping hardware design pipelines for global tech giants.
To comply with state law, Apple is requiring new App Store users in Texas to verify their age with government IDs or credit cards, signaling a broader shift toward regional platform fragmentation.
A new executive order establishes a voluntary framework for developers to share frontier artificial intelligence models with the federal government before public release, balancing national security concerns with an explicit rejection of heavy-handed regulation.
The European Commission has hit e-commerce giant Temu with a 200 million euro fine under the Digital Services Act, marking a major escalation in Brussels' campaign against unsafe goods on foreign marketplaces.
The Federal Trade Commission has initiated a formal antitrust investigation into Microsoft, issuing civil investigative demands to competitors, signaling an end to the tech giant's relative immunity from recent Big Tech regulatory challenges.
EU competition chief Teresa Ribera has signalled the bloc will examine how Big Tech 'entrenches corporate power' across the entire AI value chain, not only at the application layer. The U.S. FTC, separately, has opened an Arm Holdings probe.