Regulators, antitrust, and the politics of tech.
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New York's legal action against Polymarket creates a critical jurisdictional conflict between state gambling enforcement and federal attempts to normalize prediction markets.
The European Commission's newly drafted Kids Act attempts to secure young internet users but risks undermining universal digital privacy through mandatory age gating.
A new legal challenge asserts that the Trump administration's use of Truth Social's pay-to-see-posts-first feature violates Americans' First Amendment right to equal access to government communications, creating a two-tiered system for public information.
A federal court has ruled that the Pentagon may legally blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable specific military-grade Claude features, setting a dangerous precedent for state-mandated AI engineering.
Federal authorities have formally intervened to dispute a 120 million euro penalty levied against X under the Digital Services Act, opening an unprecedented transatlantic clash over platform regulation.
A lawsuit filed by British Columbia against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT's role in a fatal shooting, demands access to the AI's logs and funding for a new school, challenging established notions of product responsibility for generative AI.
The landscape of AI governance is rapidly evolving, marked by a new California executive order, ongoing industry debates on federal oversight, and critical discussions among antitrust experts regarding market concentration and potential exemptions.
As messaging platforms rush to integrate AI features, the industry is increasingly relying on Trusted Execution Environments to protect user privacy. However, these hardware-isolated enclaves introduce critical security vulnerabilities.
California’s landmark net neutrality protections are under threat as federal authorities condition critical broadband infrastructure funding on the state’s repeal of local open-internet mandates.
As major AI labs lobby for stringent federal regulation, the industry is shifting from a competitive landscape of innovation to a regulatory moat designed to solidify incumbent dominance.
The legal challenge against California’s SB 976 highlights a deepening conflict between state-level attempts to regulate algorithmic curation and established First Amendment protections.
The Ninth Circuit has rejected an attempt to expand DMCA Section 1202 copyright liability, preserving the functional integrity of digital linking and attribution.
The European Union has outlined a proposed law that would bar children under 13 from using social media platforms across its 27 member states, signaling a significant regulatory shift aimed at enhancing online child protection and platform accountability.
Amazon's new Throw Away the Key Encryption for Ring cameras aims to limit company access to video, but the method does not deliver the robust end-to-end privacy users expect, leaving data vulnerable to internal access and external requests.
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.