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Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security

March 26, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

North America

Child online safety subject of partisan debate in House hearing
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa pictured during the round table photo opportunity at the start of the meeting at the European Council Summit on March 20, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.

Data Privacy and Security

March 26, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Tech companies to see impact assessment on data retention, EU official says
General Cargo Ship GALA passing the Kiel Canal in Germany.

Trade

March 26, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska

Europe, North America

Add certain US products to the retaliatory list, EU producers urge

Antitrust View More

Concerns over platforms' data-collection practices cited by Philippine officials

March 27, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: Philippine antitrust and privacy officials have identified a lack of consumer choice in data collection as a key concern during a recent dialogue on social media and search platforms, noting that... (more story)

Ex-Epic Games employee seeks to quash trial subpoena in US FTC-Meta fight

March 27, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Kimberly Baumgarten, a former employee of Epic Games, has argued to a federal judge in Washington, DC, that her trial subpoena for the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta shoul... (more story)

Slaughter worried about fate of antitrust lawsuit against PBMs after her firing

March 27, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who was recently fired as Federal Trade Commissioner, told US lawmakers today that she is worried about the fate of a lawsuit the FTC brought against pharmacy benefit managers as no si... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

North Korean leader says AI, unmanned devices top priority for armed forces

March 27, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo

Asia

North Korea’s leader has ordered its military to make artificial intelligence and the development of unmanned devices the top priority in modernizing the country's armed forces, in a rare direct reference to t... (more story)

OpenAI, Microsoft will face bulk of news outlets’ copyright claims

March 26, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti

North America

Tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft will continue to face copyright infringement claims, US District Judge Sidney H. Stein ordered today, in three lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot trained il... (more story)

Anthropic beats US injunction, infringement claims in music copyright case

March 26, 2025 | Amy Miller and Emma Whitford

North America

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic can continue using music lyrics to train its large language model, and it has escaped, for now, allegations that its customers facilitated copyright infringement. But ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

SAMR merger-penalty rules strike balance between strictness, leniency, cabinet advisor says

March 27, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

Newly unveiled penalty scales for merger-control violations by China’s top competition regulator strike a balance between strictness and leniency, an advisor to China’s cabinet said. The guidelines introduce e... (more story)

Merger-process guidelines will help dealmakers with new laws, Australian watchdog says

March 27, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: Australia’s competition watchdog has issued draft merger-process guidelines designed to assist dealmakers in understanding how to interact with the regulator over the notification of deals under ... (more story)

New Zealand's Altano-Matamata Veterinary Services deal may limit consumer choice

March 27, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: The Altano International GmbH subsidiary Altano New Zealand’s acquisition of the specialist horse-veterinary practice Matamata Veterinary Services may limit consumer choice in the Waikato region,... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Pingxiang organization in China warned for data-security violations

March 27, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: An unidentified organization in Pingxiang, located in China's Jiangxi province, received a warning and correction order from the local public security authority for failing to meet data security ... (more story)

South Korea overhauls mandatory cyber liability insurance policy

March 27, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea’s mandatory cyber liability insurance policy will get a major overhaul because of low participation among companies and complaints about expensive premiums. The Personal Information P... (more story)

South Korea's Woori Card fined $9.2 million for unauthorized personal data use

March 27, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Asia

Woori Card, a major South Korean credit card company, has been fined 13.5 billion won (about $9.2 million) by the country's privacy regulator for illegally using the personal data of merchant owners without pr... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

US Senate bill hopes to improve USPTO, FDA coordination on drug patents

March 26, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

A bipartisan group of Senators reintroduced the Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act today, a bill that would establish a task force between the US Patent and Trademark Office and Food and Drug ... (more story)

USPTO announces new PTAB institution process amid workload crunch

March 26, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board will bifurcate its decision-making process over whether to institute patent challenges, US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart announ... (more story)

Microsoft, OpenAI fail to get out of news outlets' copyright case over AI model

March 26, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Microsoft and OpenAI must face US copyright infringement claims filed by The New York Times and other news outlets over AI models, a federal judge ruled. US District Judge Sidney H. Stein denied ... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Frank founder, executive lied to sell firm, US argues at close of fraud trial

March 27, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

The founder of tech startup Frank and the firm’s chief growth officer lied to banks about the size of its userbase, the very thing that had made the company valuable, prosecutors said today in their closing ar... (more story)

US seeks seizure of $47 million in proceeds from Iranian oil sales

March 26, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A civil forfeiture complaint was filed in US federal court alleging that $47 million in proceeds from the sale of nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian petroleum is forfeitable as property of, or a... (more story)

Hayes' personal profit considerations ‘polluted’ Libor, SFO tells UK Supreme Court

March 26, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle

Europe

Former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes’ argument that Libor permitted traders to take a personal profit into account when submitting borrowing rates is “anathema to the fundamental concept of an independent... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US SEC nominee Atkins, OCC pick Gould say they want to restore innovation to economy

March 26, 2025 | Neil Roland

North America

Paul Atkins, President Donald Trump’s nominee for US Securities and Exchange Commission chair, and Jonathan Gould, the pick for Office of the Comptroller of the Currency chief, say in prepared remarks to the S... (more story)

UK set to reform savings accounts to spur stock-market investment

March 26, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

The UK government is set to reform Individual Savings Accounts — ISAs — as it seeks to channel retail investment away from cash and into stock-market investments. The finance ministry said in a statement that ... (more story)

EU sustainability reporting, due-diligence rules’ postponement approved

March 26, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Representatives of EU member states today approved the postponement of the application of certain corporate sustainability reporting and due-diligence requirements, as well as the transposition d... (more story)

Trade View More

US tariff hikes have 'limited impact' on Hong Kong trade, official says

March 27, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: The US decision to impose 20 percent additional tariffs on Hong Kong products is expected to have a "limited impact" on the city's trade, Acting Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Be... (more story)

China vows to protect its entities' rights against US export restrictions

March 27, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China has urged the US to stop what it described as its wrongful practices and pledged to take necessary actions to protect the legitimate rights of its companies, following the inclusion of doze... (more story)

Paper products from India dumped in US market, Commerce says

March 26, 2025 | Zack Budryk

Asia, North America

The US Commerce Department has determined that certain Indian lined paper products were sold at less than normal value in the US.

State Aid View More

Finnish aid to bus operator now open for comments

March 26, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Parties interested in Finnish support to Helsinki bus operator, Koiviston Auto, formerly Helsingin Bussiliikenne, have until April 28, 2025 to file comments to the European Commission. In 2019, t... (more story)

Power company DEI fighting Greek support to aluminum maker at EU court today

March 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Greek power company Dimosia Epicheirisi Ilektrisimou is at the bloc's first-tier court today to challenge a European Commission decision which found that a preferential tariff, set by an arbitrat... (more story)

German aid to DB Regio is in line with EU state aid rules, watchdog says

March 24, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Compensation granted by the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg to Deutsche Bahn's unit DB Regio — for the provision of regional passenger train services between 2002 and 2012 — is in line wi... (more story)

Energy View More

EU gas purchases’ tender matched almost 20 billion cubic meters

March 26, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The second mid-term matching round to coordinate EU gas purchases aggregated 29 billion cubic meters of demand for gas from European companies, and almost 20 bcm were matched, the commission has ... (more story)

Dutch power supply must be reliable when renewables aren't enough, authority says

March 26, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The power supply of the Netherlands must be reliable and sufficient when renewables are not sufficiently available, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets says in a paper about resource ad... (more story)

EU Commission presents preparedness strategy to respond to crisis

March 26, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission presented today a strategy to bolster the EU’s preparedness to handle human-made and natural threats, notably in terms of ensuring the continuity of essential services, st... (more story)

Technology View More

US Senator Klobuchar enters bills banning pay-for-delays, sham litigation in drug markets

March 26, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US Senator Amy Klobuchar has introduced two bills to sanction conduct in drug markets, one that would prohibit so-called "pay-for-delay" schemes, in which a brand name drug or biological company ... (more story)

Trusted flagger guidance under EU Digital Services Act to be ready by year-end

March 26, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Online platforms should see the guidelines on trusted flaggers adopted by the end of the year, a European Commission official told MLex today. The public consultation for the draft guidance is set for the seco... (more story)

Slaughter says her removal from US FTC helps billionaires at public's expense

March 26, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter spoke before a House subcommittee on commerce over how President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her and Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya undermines... (more story)