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UK online safety legislative plans overshadowed by questions of pace, coherence May 13, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

The latest UK push to tackle online harms and violent content — through new criminal offenses — was questioned by critics within hours of being unveiled on Wednesday over its capacity to significantly reduce h... (more story)

EU moves toward AI-copyright overhaul as creators, tech groups clash over licensing rules May 13, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Brussels has taken a new step toward “targeted” legislation on AI and copyright, seeking feedback on whether existing EU rules are sufficient to support licensing, transparency and enforcement in the generativ... (more story)

Platforms on notice for new UK offenses to counter violent content online May 13, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Online platforms are on notice for new UK criminal offenses to be created to tackle harmful and violent content under proposed legislation announced by the government on Wednesday. A proposed National Security... (more story)

Amazon EU loses appeal against France’s minimum book shipping fee at French court May 13, 2026 | Matthew Newman

Amazon EU has lost its appeal against France’s minimum shipping fee for books at the country’s highest administrative court, which ruled the measure was justified by its goal of protecting cultural diversity a... (more story)

UK businesses to get sandboxes, growth duty expands under regulatory reform bill May 13, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK businesses can expect regulators to be given stronger duties to support economic growth and new powers to temporarily relax rules for testing AI under legislation announced Wednesday. The proposed Regulatin... (more story)

US semiconductors bill risks harming ASML, Dutch trade minister says May 13, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

The Netherlands is worried about the extra territorial scope of a US bill aimed to impose export controls on semiconductors and the impact on its chip giant ASML, the country’s foreign trade minister Sjoerd Sj... (more story)

Snapchat's EU ad repository may breach DSA transparency rules, researchers say May 13, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Snapchat’s EU advertising repository may breach Digital Services Act transparency rules because of limited search functions, frequent outages and missing labels for commercial communications, researchers at AI... (more story)

New Mexico faces dire teen mental health situation, expert says in Meta trial May 12, 2026 | Xu Yuan

A child and adolescent psychiatrist told a New Mexico judge that the state is facing a serious deficiency of resources in responding to mounting cases of mental health problems suffered by its young population... (more story)

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EU cookie rules need a 'new start,' not tweaks, Bavaria’s privacy watchdog says May 13, 2026 | Matthew Newman

European regulators debating cookie rules should talk frankly about how they can be reformed to improve EU web users' lives rather than opting for technical tweaks that won’t help them, the chief privacy watch... (more story)

EU’s online content ‘trusted flaggers’ looking to new guidance to quell concerns May 13, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Online platforms are waiting for imminent EU guidance on the Digital Services Act's mechanism for expert notifications of illegal content; it's expected to include clarification on what organizations can be ce... (more story)

X’s Grok deepfakes scandal has seen limber lawmaking eclipse regulatory response May 11, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

The scandal of X's Grok producing millions of sexualized deepfakes led to multiple probes early this year. None has concluded yet, though Brazil’s privacy regulator expects preliminary findings by June, while ... (more story)

New Mexico AG Torrez brings prosecutor's aggressiveness to Meta litigation May 08, 2026 | Mike Swift

Not so long ago, Raúl Torrez was a New Mexico county prosecutor, focused on putting murderers and members of drug cartels behind bars. Now the state's attorney general, Torrez is arguably one of the most promi... (more story)

Deal over EU's AI omnibus package represents political victory for business May 07, 2026 | Matthew Newman

The EU’s flagship AI Act was meant to be an example of the "Brussels effect," pioneering law that would inspire the word, but it ended up a target of the bloc’s simplification agenda to realize the goal of gre... (more story)

Tech firms adapting before Brazil's new child safety rules start, official says May 05, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Tech platforms and retailers have started adjusting to Brazil’s new online child safety law months before enforcement of age checks across a wide range of online services is due to kick in, the director of dig... (more story)

Chegg, Penske lean on Yelp case in bid to keep Google antitrust lawsuits alive May 04, 2026 | Alex Wilts

Online learning company Chegg and news publisher Penske Media are seeking to ensure their antitrust lawsuits don’t suffer the same fate as other publishers’ claims against Google, pointing to Yelp’s case in Ca... (more story)

Ticket buyers resist Live Nation arbitration push amid US DOJ settlement fallout April 29, 2026 | Alex Wilts and Samuel Rubenfeld

Consumers who bought event tickets on secondary platforms are fighting to keep their antitrust claims against Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster in New York federal court, resisting the company’s push ... (more story)