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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
March 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes and Emma Whitford
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
Artificial Intelligence
March 30, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 27, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
Antitrust View More
March 30, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
Outgoing CADE President Gustavo de Lima said he leaves Brazil’s competition authority with a stronger record on settlements and a marked expansion in unilateral conduct enforcement and digital markets, while k... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Portugal's competition court has upheld a €3.09 million fine against Inetum for engaging in illegal “no-poach” agreements, marking the first judicial confirmation in Portugal of anticompetitive p... (more story)
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Apple failed to convince the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to rehear an appeal regarding an injunction issued in antitrust litigation brought by Epic Games over Apple's App Store. The... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 31, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
India proposes to tighten control over Big Tech by making directives under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules legally binding. The Ministry of Electronics ... (more story)
March 31, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, to tighten ov... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
As artificial intelligence adds cyber risk, human training and getting back to the basics of data security training will be key safeguards for companies, Irish data protection authorities said Monday.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 30, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division wrote to US District Judge P. Casey Pitts asking him to issue a second order mandating reparations for states' dis... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil’s antitrust regulator classified Imerys’ proposed acquisition of SB Mineração as a complex transaction. The decision calls for additional scrutiny to assess potential competitive harm resulting from the... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Jean Comte
Asia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania
Private equity firms Permira and Warburg Pincus have requested clearance from the Turkish competition authority for their intended acquisition of Clearwater Analytics, the regulator told MLex. The deal has alr... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 30, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
The US Federal Trade Commission is considering changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to address age verification, an attorney advisor to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Monday. This comes a... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe, North America
Two complaints have been filed under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and one is still pending, a senior US government official who overseas the framework said Monday. The complaints come as the data transfer ... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Mike Swift
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
The former chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court said Monday that judges of the secretive US court, whose workings have been a concern to EU privacy advocates and judges, frequently pu... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge has remanded Reddit’s lawsuit against Anthropic over alleged illegal data scraping from its platform to California state court, where it was originally filed. US District Judge... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Abbott secured a win as Unified Patent Court judges upheld an injunction against Sinocare and Menarini, confirming jurisdiction over a Chinese manufacturer. The Court of Appeal rejected validity challenges and... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, North America
An Osaka District Court ruling handed Japanese generics maker Sawai Pharmaceutical a win against Viatris’ Japan unit, holding that a later patent extension for a new dose can’t be used to keep blocking an olde... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse, and Rep. Maxine Waters, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raising questions about the extent of Elon Musk’s role in the US Tre... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US 401(k) plan managers who want to expand ordinary investors’ access to private credit and private equity investments, cryptocurrency and real estate would get legal protection under a draft rule by the US De... (more story)
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Italian national Manfred Gruber pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit export control violations after illegally exporting ammunition worth over $540,000 from the US to Kyrgyzstan, and onward to ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Ronald Smith, a Connecticut resident and former representative for a New York-based broker-dealer, was indicted by federal prosecutors and sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission over a... (more story)
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter to SEC Chair Paul Atkins pressing for answers regarding the resignation of Judge Margaret Ryan, the enforcement director at the SEC, following a six-month tenure.
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Preparatory notes on a reform including more centralized supervision of capital markets, obtained by MLex, show the issues that officials from Cyprus aim to tackle with EU countries’ financial ex... (more story)
Trade View More
March 30, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade on Monday partly remanded the Commerce Department’s 2019 review of an antidumping order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells (solar cells) from China, finding the feder... (more story)
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Court of International Trade Judge Claire Kelly mostly remanded the Department of Commerce's 2019 review of an antidumping order on Chinese crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. Kelly ruled ... (more story)
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton said in an order that all finalized entries paid under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act are eligible for refunds. Eaton's o... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A study conducted by E.Ca Economics for the European Commission has evaluated the state aid rules for banks after the 2008 financial crisis. Using data from 2007–2021 and comparative analysis of ... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Italy’s new energy decree challenging EU emissions trading system costs will be an early test for the European Commission, as it weighs whether or not to soften state aid rules in response to a national measur... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Portuguese €250 million state aid program to support investments for the restoration of forests following natural disasters, severe weather or catastrophic events has been cleared by the Europe... (more story)
Energy View More
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The G7’s energy and finance ministers, joined by central bank governors, said they stand ready to take coordinated measures to stabilize energy markets amid Middle East tensions. In a press relea... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Delays in implementing EU electricity market rules require stronger monitoring and enforcement, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators said on Monday. In its latest report, the ag... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU countries have authorized the European Commission to open negotiations with the UK on its participation in the EU’s internal electricity market, based on alignment with EU rules. The goal is t... (more story)
Technology View More
March 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Jonathan Spalletta, a Maryland man, was charged in the US with computer fraud and money laundering in connection with his hacks of the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Uranium Finance. Spall... (more story)
March 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications — BEREC — said in an assessment of the European Commission’s proposed Digital Networks Act that a proposal to introduce more regulato... (more story)
March 30, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Major global social media platforms operating in Indonesia have started to make adjustments to their platforms, with some still in the process of modifying platforms in consultation with the government after n... (more story)