The European Commission preliminarily found Instagram and Facebook's addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act. It is the first time the DSA targets design itself, not content. Here is what that means for any platform that optimises for engagement.
Apple sued OpenAI on 10 July 2026 over unreleased hardware secrets. The channels it names are ordinary hiring, and the fix is offboarding discipline.
On 8 July 2026 the EU General Court dismissed Apple's challenge to its gatekeeper status and killed the abstract legal challenge as a delay tactic. For any business building on Apple or Google, the DMA rights you were waiting on just got far harder to stall - and Alphabet's own reckoning lands on 27 July.
The EDPB and the EU's new anti-money-laundering supervisor will co-author Joint Guidelines reconciling financial-crime information sharing with GDPR. Compliance deadline: 10 July 2027.
The UK CMA has opened consultations to force Apple and Google to allow off-platform payment steering and third-party NFC access. What owners and operators need to weigh now.
The largest take-private in history has cleared EA shareholders and US antitrust. The last real gate is the EU - and not classic merger review, but the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, facing its first blockbuster test.
The EU's top court has upheld Google's 4.1 billion euro Android fine with no further appeal. Here is what the final ruling means for platform owners.
Since 19 June 2026 the UK's Data (Use and Access) Act requires every controller to run a formal data complaints procedure with a 30 day acknowledgment. Quietly, PECR marketing fines also rose to 17.5 million pounds or 4 percent of turnover.
In Case C-526/24 the CJEU ruled that even a first GDPR access request may be refused as abusive when it is made only to manufacture a compensation claim. What controllers may now do, and what they still may not.
On 9 June 2026 the Commission ordered Meta to restore WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI assistants within five working days. Why the channel, not the model, is now the battleground.
Robinhood put tokenized US shares in front of EU users this month, issued as debt from a Jersey entity. Europe's regulators are now deciding what these tokens legally are.
On 2 July 2026 the EU top court sealed Google's 4.125 billion euro Android fine for good. The bigger signal is what it means for anyone who depends on Google to be found.
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