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Regulators work to remove ‘cliff edge’ from UK stablecoin regime May 12, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

Officials at the UK financial services watchdogs are working at pace to remove the regulatory “cliff edge” for stablecoins that are likely to become systemic, or widely used for payments. Matthew Long, a direc... (more story)

Telecom operators told of guiding principles for upcoming EU telecom law May 12, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

Telecom companies received an outline of the guiding principles for an upcoming EU proposal for a Digital Networks Act today: simplification, competitiveness, modernization and resilience. The telecom sector i... (more story)

US DOJ's Slater says antitrust enforcers have role to play in deregulating economy May 10, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Gail Slater, antitrust chief at the US Department of Justice, today said competition authorities ought to explore steps they can take and the role they have to play in stimulating economic growth and deregulat... (more story)

Google could skirt remedies despite ‘high degree’ of AI competition, US DOJ expert says May 10, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

A high degree of competition among generative AI firms will not resolve concerns that Google could circumvent any remedies imposed by a US federal court to address its illegal monopoly in the Internet search m... (more story)

EU governments seek new strategy to boost chip production May 09, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi

EU governments plan to call on the bloc’s executive arm to develop a new strategy to meet the EU’s goal of reaching its target of 20 percent of global chip share, MLex has learned. A report last year by former... (more story)

Deepfake app and porn site probed by UK watchdog over age verification May 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Itai Tech, operator of the nudification app Undress.cc, and Score Internet Group, owner of porn website Scoreland.com, are under investigation for potential breaches of age verification rules under the UK's On... (more story)

Google expert says US DOJ remedy proposal tantamount to 'regulatory action' May 09, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Google's expert witness today cautioned a US federal court against designing a remedy that resembles a regulatory action to address the tech giant's illegal monopoly in the Internet search markets, calling ins... (more story)

Bezos was called 'chief dark arts officer,' US FTC 'dark patterns' case shows May 08, 2025 | Xu Yuan

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was referred to by employees as the “chief dark arts officer” in an internal discussion on whether to improve the clarity of the Prime service subscription process, documents obtained by ... (more story)

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A hundred days into US FTC under new chairman, don't call leadership regulators May 09, 2025 | Mike Swift and Ilana Kowarski

Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)

Age-verification regulation at EU level is needed, Danish minister Stage says May 09, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Social media platforms’ age verification — intended to keep children out — needs to be regulated at the EU level, Denmark's digital minister told MLex in an interview. Caroline Stage Olsen said that platforms ... (more story)

US faces crunch to secure critical minerals May 01, 2025 | Bradley Dress

The US is accelerating efforts to secure more critical minerals as a bitter trade war and other constraints are sparking concerns about supply chain security in Washington. 

Relief for UK crypto industry as legislation lands and US collaboration promised April 30, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

The UK cryptoasset industry breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday afternoon with sight of long-promised legislation laying the path toward a regulated sector. It broadly met industry expectations and ... (more story)

Privacy, AI leaders use IAPP global summit to grasp scale of regulatory change April 29, 2025 | MLex Staff

Among the world's leading privacy and artificial intelligence lawyers, regulators, tech leaders and academics at the 2025 IAPP Global Privacy Summit last week, talk was frequently about how jarringly different... (more story)

How do UK plans to upgrade cybersecurity rules measure up to EU's NIS2? (update*) April 24, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK companies this week finally received an outline of proposed cybersecurity reforms expected later this year. The UK aims to align its cybersecurity framework with the EU's NIS2 directive through the forthcom... (more story)

US FTC privacy regime to focus on tech competition, protecting children, Holyoak says April 23, 2025 | Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes

In a policy speech that signaled the US Federal Trade Commission’s return to “not stretching our legal authorities,” Commissioner Melissa Holyoak unveiled the Republican majority’s data privacy vision to bolst... (more story)

States may argue for issue preclusion in US adtech case against Google in Texas April 18, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Mike Swift

The US Department of Justice’s triumph against Google in a case challenging the tech giant’s practices in digital advertising markets opens up a question over whether states suing the company in Texas will nee... (more story)