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Tech & Telco
Tech & Telco sectors are highly regulated and have many intersections with various laws, including data privacy, antitrust and intellectual property. MLex has for many years closely watched this evolving space and the trends in regulation, enforcement and litigation. From new areas such as IoT, mobile, social media and ecommerce, MLex has been on the forefront of monitoring and reporting on potential risks and opportunities for related businesses. The selected stories below represent some of the latest technology, media and telecommunications regulatory news reporting from our journalists across the globe.
Recent Tech & Telco articles
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Microsoft is to be asked by German watchdogs to improve its data-protection standards for its Office 365 program. -
Virtual currencies and other innovative payment methods could ultimately get a boost from EU regulators. -
Google is facing a multistate investigation into whether its privacy practices violate state consumer protection law. -
Huawei must accept a single global license for mobile-phone patents held by Unwired Planet. -
Google, Facebook & other social media giants may face new restrictions as European Parliament members have called for a clampdown on behavioral advertising. -
Like many online services, Twitter has seen traffic surge during the Covid-19 pandemic, even as its physical infrastructure, advertising revenue and policy rules have come under unprecedented pressure. -
Netflix, Google’s YouTube and Disney have raced to keep Europe’s broadband networks from seizing up by voluntarily degrading the quality of their streaming services as Covid-19 related stay-at-home orders have prompted a surge in demand for video conferencing, gaming and distance learning. -
Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms will find it tough to escape increasing regulatory scrutiny in the UK to ensure they curb harmful and illegal content as much as possible, as the country’s various watchdogs are starting to present a united front to plug the gaps in regulating Big Tech. -
Facebook and the wider Internet industry are at risk of having to defend the first challenge before the US Supreme Court to a law that in the view of many created the legal foundation for the modern interactive Internet — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. -
Officials at the US Federal Trade Commission today touted the tough signal they said their $170 million settlement with YouTube over alleged violations of children’s privacy law will send to the online video industry, even as activists and lawmakers panned the agency for being soft on Silicon Valley. -
Google’s speech-assistance system's compliance with the EU’s data-protection rules is the subject of an investigation initiated today by Hamburg's data protection authority. -
Facebook agreed to pay out $5 billion to settle a privacy investigation with the US Federal Trade Commission, multiple press outlets reported this afternoon, an outcome dividing commissioners yet again along party lines.
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The US Department of Justice is looking into whether a group of companies at a key standards organization attempted to exclude technologies from certain firms in creating a new Wifi connectivity standard, MLex has learned.