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Digital Economy,Digital Economy

Singapore: A private right to sue platforms over online safety

The OSRA Bill would provide victims of online abuse the right to sue platforms for monetary damages, creating risks for fragmentation and increased compliance costs

Understanding the GDPR’s interplay with the DSA and DMA

The EC and EDPB are seeking to provide regulatory certainty for platforms navigating the overlaps in the EU’s digital regulation through proposed interplay guidelines

EU: Jutland Declaration on protecting children online

The ministerial statement reflects a growing appetite for an EU-wide limit on the ability of children access social media but stops short of proposing a specific age

Brazil’s proposed regime for digital competition

The draft framework lands at a critical juncture both in establishing Brazil’s global influence in platform regulation and in the country’s relationship with the US Government

The Brazilian approach to child protection

As one of the largest markets in the world, Brazil’s approach to protecting children online, and perhaps other elements of platform regulation, is likely to garner influence abroad

US: Remedies in the Google Search case

Google’s avoidance of the most interventionist, structural remedies in the DOJ’s case against it herald an era of blunted ambition for global tech antitrust

Coughing up ‘regulatory hairballs’ in Australia

As the Australian Government pushes for economic growth, the tech and telecoms sectors have called for reduced red tape and warned against new ex-ante regulation

South Korea takes on the ‘fairness agenda’

The KFTC joins the CMA in the UK in attempting to enforce prohibitions on dark patterns that often require a close inspection of the context

The FTC’s warning on global platform regulation

The regulator’s strongly-worded letter suggests tech platforms may run afoul of US law if they change privacy or content moderation policies to comply with foreign legislation

US: Vendor restrictions in subsea cables

The FCC’s proposed reforms to cable licensing procedures would formalise the US Government's recent yet unofficial efforts to exclude Chinese firms from subsea projects