Regulators, antitrust, and the politics of tech.
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Recent audits reveal law enforcement agencies are treating massive automated license plate reader networks with alarming casualness, using them for trivial searches and evading public scrutiny.
As the FCC fights ABC's pre-emptive lawsuit, the regulator's refusal to rule out license revocation raises profound questions about the politicization of administrative law and the future of media independence.
California’s new social media ban for minors highlights a dangerous trend in legislative policy that prioritizes restrictive age-gating over meaningful systemic reform of digital platforms.
A federal court has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against LinkedIn, ruling that scanning users' browser extensions to prevent scraping does not violate wiretap laws.
A coalition of European founders and venture capitalists is urging Brussels to establish a standardized corporate framework to eliminate cross-border friction and rival Delaware's dominance.
The Justice Department's deepened scrutiny of the $22 billion Fox-Roku merger suggests regulators are prioritizing the vertical integration of streaming distribution and content ownership.
As location data surveillance becomes a central policy battleground, the shift from federal inaction to fragmented state-level regulation creates a complex landscape for tech firms.
Federal regulators have launched an immediate investigation into Tesla's newly deployed Cybercab robotaxi fleet in Austin, challenging the company's vision-only autonomous technology and its lack of physical safety controls.
The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft escalates, with recent court filings highlighting fundamental challenges to copyright law posed by AI model training and content generation.
A Massachusetts federal court has ruled that subjective, even objectively unreasonable, beliefs shield copyright holders from liability for bad-faith DMCA takedowns, raising concerns over online censorship.
A federal judge has ruled that Google must alter its dominant advertising technology operations to resolve antitrust violations, stopping short of ordering a forced divestiture of the business.
As antitrust regulators secure landmark victories against Google and Meta, judges increasingly hesitate to order structural breakups due to the rapid pace of technological change.
A federal court has blocked the Department of Defense from using supply chain risk designations to punish AI developer Anthropic for asserting ethical limits on its technology.
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of systematically overcharging businesses for advertising through a hidden surcharge mechanism.
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT and Reddit as Very Large Online Platforms, forcing both companies to redesign core algorithmic systems and submit to unprecedented independent audits.
A federal lawsuit alleging Elon Musk’s xAI trained its Grok models on child sexual abuse material exposes the severe legal and technical vulnerabilities of uncurated web-scraping pipelines.
A federal appeals court has ruled that prediction markets cannot classify event contracts as financial swaps, effectively subjecting platforms like Kalshi to strict gambling oversight.
Meta's settlement with state attorneys general mandates pervasive age verification, shifting the burden of online safety from parental oversight to platform-level identity architecture.
France's top court has struck down a proposed ban on social media for minors, marking a pivotal moment in the global debate over state-mandated digital age verification.
The Federal Trade Commission's investigation into individualized 'surveillance pricing' faces pushback from critics who warn that sweeping restrictions on algorithmic pricing could eliminate consumer discounts.
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with Zillow and Redfin, unwinding a restrictive syndication agreement that regulators argue illegally suppressed competition in the digital rental advertising market.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has issued a landmark €825 million penalty against Uber, targeting the ride-hailing giant's use of automated algorithms to suspend drivers without sufficient human intervention.
The Department of Justice's investigation into Andreessen Horowitz over potential interlocking directorates marks an aggressive expansion of antitrust enforcement into the structural foundations of Silicon Valley governance.
The record-breaking settlement resolves a 2024 federal lawsuit accusing the platform of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting data on minors without parental consent.