On May 13, 2024, the European Commission announced that it has designated Booking.com as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for its online intermediation service. However, the Commission decided not to designate X Ads and TikTok Ads as gatekeepers.
Based on Booking.com’s self-assessment submitted on March 1, 2024, the Commission determined that Booking.com is an important gateway between ...
U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The Act was bundled within the package of laws on military aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel, Fentanyl trafficking sanctions, and sanctions against Hamas and Iranian leaders.
As of January 2025, the law bans “foreign adversary-controlled applications”, a term defined in the statute to ...
A federal court in California dismissed the lawsuit filed by X (formerly Twitter) against Israeli company Bright Data, after finding that X failed to prove its claims of breach of contract. The lawsuit, in the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California, alleged that Bright Data scraped and sold X’s data, used complex tools to circumvent X’s ...
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) issued its first-ever enforcement advisory, discussing the principle of data minimization as applied to consumer requests. The advisory explains that data minimization is a “foundational principle in the CCPA”, and that it applies also to the processing of consumers’ CCPA requests.
The advisory begins with an overview of the data minimization principle and the ...
On April 12, 2024, the Nebraska legislature passed the Data Privacy Act (NEDPA), scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2025. NEDPA defines consumer rights, sets obligations for data controllers and processors, and assigns enforcement authority to the Nebraska Attorney General.
NEDPA targets businesses operating in Nebraska or serving Nebraskans, which process or sell personal data. NEDPA excludes those classified ...
On May 7, 2024, the National Ethics Committee of the Israeli Bar Association published guidelines on lawyers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI). The opinion outlines the risks and provides recommendations for ethical AI use in legal practice, considering the growing interest in AI tools like ChatGPT by OpenAI, Copilot by Microsoft, and Gemini by Google. The opinion highlights that despite ...
Microsoft released its first annual Responsible AI Transparency Report, offering insights into the company’s ethical AI efforts. The report explains how Microsoft builds generative AI applications, determines their release, supports customers in responsible AI use, and evolves its AI practices.
Here are some highlights from the report:
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has issued a comprehensive opinion addressing the challenges of “consent or pay” models used by large online platforms. The opinion explains that valid consent is often unattainable when users are only given a binary choice between consenting to data processing for behavioral advertising or paying a fee to access the service. According to the ...
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