tech-regulation

Kaviya R, LLM (CBCS), School of Excellence in Law, The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai ABSTRACT The rise of cryptocurrency and the dark web has changed the methods of terrorist financing and creating new challenges to the regulatory and legislative framework that prevails. Cryptocurrency allows quick, seamless, and anonymous transactions, whereas dark web ensures safe and anonymou…

Ankit Kohli & Amber Srivastava, Assistant Prof. ABSTRACT Social media has been a game-changer for communication, democratic participation and dissemination of information. Platforms like Meta Platforms, previously known as Facebook, X Corp. (formerly Twitter), and Google LLC have become the custodians of online visibility, with algorithmic governance. Issues surrounding moderation that are se…

Priyanka Kumari & Dr. Mansi Jain Garg ABSTRACT The emergence of digital platform economies has fundamentally disrupted the conceptual foundations of competition law. Dominant technology corporations including Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft have leveraged network effects, data accumulation, and multi-sided market architectures to entrench market power in ways that defy traditional …

Giving news websites the power to block their content from being used in AI summaries will have global ramifications The UK’s competition watchdog has ordered Google to change how it uses publishers’ content in its AI-powered search results , in a move that will have global ramifications. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is using powers that allow it to set bespoke rules for major tech…

Paxton is banking on his recent lawsuits against tech and social media companies like Meta, WhatsApp and Discord to win a Senate seat, building on notable victories in years past.

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Raja Lakshmi R, Amity University, Bengaluru ABSTRACT The classical structures of data sovereignty based on the identifiable nature of those who exercise authority, as well as the accountability hierarchical framework, are essentially incompatible with the borderless blockchain design that decentrally spreads authority algorithmically across permissionless networks. This paper exposes structural d…

Anant Agarwal, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University Ashutosh Mishra, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University ABSTRACT The right to repair - the argument that consumers should have the opportunity to repair, improve and maintain their purchased products without having to resort to the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) - is now in a new and much more complex stage with the rise of …

In 2021, Volkswagen AG approached the global law firm Freshfields with a problem.

Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the protocol involved in getting the lock icon to appear in your browser next to the URL. Under the hood it uses a bunch of really cool numbers for encryption. Some numbers are considered private and need securing; some are considered public and are fine for sharing. You can mix your numbers with other people’s nu…

Request follows claims actors linked to Moscow accessed Reform UK leader’s data and leaked information over £5m donation UK politics live – latest updates Labour has reported the alleged hacking of Nigel Farage’s phone to police and government cybersecurity officials after the Reform UK leader failed to do so himself. The Labour chair, Anna Turley, has asked the Metropolitan police and the Nation…

The European Union’s AI Act was originally framed as the world’s first comprehensive attempt to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of fundamental rights, human oversight, and trustworthy AI. Increasingly, however, the law is evolving into something else: a form of industrial policy. Increasingly, however, the law is being forced to confront the institutional and economic reali…

In April, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) intervened in a high-profile legal challenge to Colorado’s landmark AI law by Elon Musk through his frontier AI firm, xAI. The case is now shaping up to be an early test of whether states will retain meaningful authority to regulate advanced AI systems—or whether federal officials and courts will increasingly view such efforts as unconstitutional bar…

Increasingly, our lives are being dominated by algorithms. From social media feeds to credit scoring, algorithms play a major role in our day-to-day lives, whether we recognize it or not. An emerging issue in the modern technology landscape is the potential for algorithms to cause anticompetitive harm to free markets. As pricing algorithms become more advanced and more widespread, they could faci…

Kanishka Narayan says Australia’s pioneering law has contributed to national conversation under way in Britain The UK’s online safety minister says he has spent a week in Australia learning the “practical lessons” of the country’s under-16s social media ban amid concern that many teenagers are bypassing the law. The British government is expected to announce a social media crackdown within weeks …

On March 12, 2025, a major European bank had to pull its AI‑driven credit‑scoring service from production after a regulator cited a missing conformity‑assessment report, costing the firm €3.2 million in penalties and lost revenue. Why 2026 Is a Hard Deadline, Not a Soft Target Legal timeline vs. product roadmap The EU AI Act defines “high‑risk” systems as those placed on the market after January …

The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.

Pooja Singh, BA LLB, Amity University Gwalior ABSTRACT The rapid digitization of society has transformed the nature of crime and criminal investigation in India. Electronic evidence such as mobile phone records, CCTV footage, emails, cloud data, and social media communications now plays a decisive role in criminal trials. The enactment of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA) marks a signif…

Topics of note for clients include what the participants referred to as “surveillance pricing,” developments in state pre-merger notification laws, … The post NAAG 2026 Annual Conference: State AGs Focus on Surveillance Pricing, Pre-Merger Notification Laws, and Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Gibson Dunn .

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.