The UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCC) was introduced earlier this year in an effort to regulate digital markets and safeguard consumers. The bill, currently under review by the UK House of Commons, mainly targets large corporations deemed to be ‘big tech’ with a strategic market status (SMS) [...]
ACT | The App Association has been calling for “The Year of Privacy” since at least 2017, with the hopes that lawmakers in the United States would pass a national privacy law to protect people of all ages who use technology. Despite the fact that we have yet to see [...]
In an attempt to crack down on illegal content and minimise the likelihood that users will encounter harmful or age-inappropriate online posts, the UK Parliament drafted a piece of legislation called the Online Safety Bill (OSB). Unfortunately, what once started as a bill to protect people from violent or dangerous [...]
Earlier this summer, the European Parliament (EP) voted to roll back some concerning amendments that had been included in the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (AKA the New EcodesignRegulation). On 12 July, the European Parliament voted on its final position of the regulation, and while the removal of the amendments [...]
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission implemented an adequacy decision regarding the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which is a self-certification program that seeks to ease the transfers of personal data from the EU to the United States and allow companies to streamline their compliance with EU data flow [...]