Regulators, antitrust, and the politics of tech.
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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.