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Goodwin Antitrust & Regulatory Shorts: Three Laws, One challenge; Complying With the DSA, AI Act, and GDPR

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The Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) are key components of the EU’s constantly evolving, digital regulatory landscape. Once forming policy proposals, both regulations have now evolved...more

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Brand Protection and Enforcement Under the DSA: Opportunities and Challenges

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The Digital Services Act ("DSA"), which entered into force for all intermediary services and online platforms in February 2024, aims to modernize and harmonize the regulation of third-party content across the EU. It notably...more

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The EU Accessibility Act – Impact on Those Doing Business in the EU

The European Accessibility Act (“EAA”) (Directive (EU) 2019/882) introduces new accessibility requirements that will apply to a wide range of products and services when they are accessible in the EU, aiming to enhance access...more

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The Digital Decade and Its Transformative Impact on Cloud

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The EU is advancing toward its Digital Decade goal of digital transformation by 2030, which includes at least 75% of EU business using cloud-edge technologies for their activities. Meanwhile, one of the cornerstone...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

European Accessibility Act Goes Live

As of June 28, 2025, enforcement of the European Accessibility Act (EAA or the Act) can officially begin, marking a significant milestone for digital accessibility in the European Union (EU). The EAA establishes comprehensive...more

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Who gets to see inside? The EU’s Operational Rules on Data Access under Article 40 of the DSA

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The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Act under Article 40 of the DSA, creating a new framework for vetted researchers to access non-public data from Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Search Engines. This...more

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The Global Content Regulation Landscape – Developments in the EU, UK, U.S., and Beyond

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Global digital platforms face an increasingly complex and fragmented content regulation landscape. Governments worldwide are imposing overlapping and sometimes conflicting rules for monitoring, managing, or restricting online...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

NIS 2: Strengthening Europe’s Cyber Defenses

European cybersecurity risk management and reporting obligations have received a substantial facelift. The Directive (EU) 2022/2555 on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the EU (“NIS 2”) became effective...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

German Accessibility Act Comes into Force

Individuals with disabilities face numerous challenges when accessing digital services and products, encountering significant barriers in their daily lives. The German Accessibility Act (Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz,...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Retaliatory Taxes: Pending Legislation in U.S. Congress May Adversely Impact Returns on Inbound Investment

As the U.S. tax reform process continues, the comprehensive tax bill that passed the House of Representatives in May is now under active consideration in the Senate. Earlier this week, the Senate Finance Committee released...more

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U.S. Visa Restrictions Signal New Era of Cross-Border Data Governance Challenges for Legal and Compliance Professionals

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The intersection of international diplomacy and digital governance has reached a critical inflection point with the U.S. State Department’s groundbreaking visa restriction policy announced May 28, 2025. Under Secretary of...more

Venable LLP

Smoothing Privacy Contracting: Six Ways to Reduce Friction in Data Processing Agreements

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Negotiating a data processing agreement (DPA) is typically a necessary step when engaging vendors that handle personal data. However, these negotiations have become time consuming and complex, given the evolving privacy...more

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Luxembourg Takes Legislative Step to Implement the Digital Services Act

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Luxembourg has adopted the law of 4 April 2025, marking a significant step toward the national implementation of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 on a Single Market for Digital Services (the Digital Services Act, or DSA)....more

K2 Integrity

Why Traditional Banks Keep Failing At Fintech

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Yet another bank-led fintech venture has shut down within a year of its launch. HSBC’s Zing, a payments app, failed to gain traction beyond its initial market and was discontinued. Despite ambitious plans to expand across two...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: Milestones, Paywalls, and ‘Behavioral Cocaine’

Looks like WhatsApp just leveled up—whether it wanted to or not. Meta’s messaging giant has officially been crowned a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which basically...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

European Digital Compliance: Key Digital Regulation & Compliance Developments - February 2025

To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more

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The 2025 E-Invoicing Rollout in the UAE

The UAE government has taken steps to move towards a fully digitized tax system by adopting E-Invoices. The E-invoicing process will be mandatory for all business to business (B2B) and business to government (B2G)...more

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Video Games: UK Government confirms it will not amend consumer law to require video game publishers to support old versions of...

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On 3 February 2025, the UK Government responded to a petition (filed by video games users) for the UK government to update existing consumer law to prohibit video games publishers from retiring/disabling video games (and...more

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Italy - VAT: Italy Broadens Digital Services Tax Scope - Monthly Indirect Tax Alert – January 2025

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Company belonging to Euro 750 Mio Group, will pay DST regardless of their digital service turnover in Italy. ...more

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German Parliament Passes Financial Market Digitisation Act

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The FinmadiG introduces material implementation measures for the European Digital Finance Package....more

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EDPB calls for alignment between GDPR and EU digital legislation; adopts draft Guidelines on data transfers to third country...

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On December 2 – 3 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) met for its 99th plenary session. It subsequently issued several documents, one of which calls for the need for greater alignment between the GDPR and EU...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Final Rule Expands Oversight to Larger Digital Payment App Providers

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Section 1024 of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 authorizes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to define markets for consumer financial products and services and supervise the larger participants within those markets...more

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Our Top 10 Predicted Business and Human Rights Issues for 2025

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Even for the unpredictable world of business and human rights, 2024 was particularly volatile, including for sustainability more generally. The European Union’s (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)...more

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Data and Cybersecurity: European Union Legislation and Proposals - Updated December 2024

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The pace of new EU law continues unabated, with IoT, cyber security and digital services being key areas of activity....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

CPSC Calls for an Investigation into Shein and Temu

In an open letter published on September 3, 2024, Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Commissioners Peter Feldman and Douglas Dziak called for an investigation into foreign-owned e-commerce platforms Shein and Temu to...more

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