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Upcoming Digital Fairness Act Risks Duplicating Existing EU Rules, New Explainer Warns

The EU’s upcoming Digital Fairness Act (DFA), due to be published by the European Commission on 11 November 2026, should strengthen enforcement of existing ...
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CCIA Study Finds South Korea Fines U.S. Companies Up to Seven Times More Than Korean Firms Relative to Business Activity

Washington – A new study by the CCIA Research Center finds that South Korea’s competition authority imposes penalties on U.S. companies at rates four to seven times higher than those applied to Korean ...
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Protecting Vulnerable Consumers Online: Getting the Balance Right for the Digital Fairness Act

Consumers play a central role in the EU’s digital ecosystem. Special attention must be given to vulnerable consumers, who are often more susceptible to certain online practices. However, safeguarding ...
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Appeals Court Finds Florida’s Law Restricting Social Media Can Be Enforced

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Florida’s HB3, restricting access to social media for teens, can be enforced ahead of the ...
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Tech Industry Response as Supreme Court Hears Case Involving Privacy, Video Content

The Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether a decades-old law protecting privacy of video cassette rentals should be applied to online ...
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Survey Finds UK Data Regulation Costs Tech Businesses £5.3 Billion a Year

London – UK data protection regulation costs UK technology businesses an estimated £5.3 billion a year in compliance and is holding back innovation and investment, according to a new survey ...
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Tech Industry Concerned by DC Court Ruling in Pentagon Anthropic Dispute

Washington – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the Pentagon had a sufficient basis for identifying Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” and it dismissed ...
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Alessia Loi

Alessia Loi is Junior Policy Associate at the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe) in Brussels, where she focuses on connectivity related files. Prior to joining CCIA Europe, ...
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EU’s First-Ever Data Centre Rating Scheme Overlooks Engineering And Geographic Realities

Brussels, BELGIUM – Today, the European Commission adopted the bloc’s first-ever rating scheme for data centres. While intended to improve transparency and help compare sustainability performance, the ...
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EU Online Age Checks Make Privacy Trade-Offs Unavoidable, CCIA Europe Warns

Brussels, BELGIUM – The European Commission’s new Kids Act, introducing tiered age-based access restrictions for social media, games, AI chatbots, video-sharing platforms, and other online services, ...
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CCIA’s Response to Court Ruling on Google Ad Tech Remedies in DOJ Antitrust Case

Washington – A federal judge at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia rejected the Department of Justice’s request to force a sale of Google’s ad tech business. This ruling ...
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Australia’s Revised News Bargaining Incentive Remains a Discriminatory Tax on U.S. Digital Services

Washington – The Australian government introduced a package of legislation today to establish its News Media Bargaining Incentive, including a measure that would impose a financial penalty on a narrow ...