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Digital Economy

Regulating for safe AI

We assess international regulatory approaches to AI and directly assess safety provisions after various frontier firms have called for policymakers to do more.

Online safety: Back to school

We assess the recent shift from blanket bans of social media to regulating for safety by design.

The Cloud and AI Development Act

We assess the proposal's key provisions and discuss how these may impact the digital economy.

Meta's challenge to online safety enforcement

In light of Meta’s challenge to Ofcom over online safety enforcement, we examine how punitive it really is.

Cloudy with a chance of remedies: The UK's cloud market

We contrast the CMA’s approach to the cloud market in the context of international approaches and remedies.

Protecting children online

We assess new measures to strengthen the protection of children online.

Regulation and policy in 2026

We explore three areas likely to feature highly on the policy agenda in 2026: digital wellbeing, simplification versus deregulation, and further disintermediation of the industry.

The EU's digital simplification package

Intended to simplify, and clarify the GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, Data Act and AI Act, it has come under criticism for going too far, blurring the line between simplification and deregulation.

The 'Digital Fairness' agenda

We delve into the EU’s proposed Digital Fairness Act and explore the prohibited conducts under the UK’s DMCC Act.

Tech and telecoms priorities of the Danish Presidency

We assess Denmark’s thinking on key pieces of legislation due during their 6 month tenure.