China, the world’s biggest online community with an estimated 989 million users in 2020, will soon have one of the strictest data privacy laws following the passage of new regulations by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), state media Xinhua and other...
Here’s the latest news from the technology industry, which is coming under increasing global scrutiny from governments around the world. France Wants Member States To Have Greater Power In Upcoming EU Tech Legislation France is seeking to have future European Union Big Tech rules let...
Big Tech firms – Google and Amazon among them – are increasingly in the taxman’s crosshairs. In the United Kingdom, for instance, lawmakers are reportedly introducing a digital services tax of as much as 2 percent of revenues tied to business activities in the country....
The march toward state-by-state regulation of Big Tech continues. To that end, lawmakers in New Jersey last week proposed legislation that would toughen data privacy guidelines and limit the information that tech companies can gather (and use) from consumers in that state. With the proposal,...
For game makers operating in China, new licensing requirements are on the horizon, especially for those that rely on iOS. To that end, Apple said last week that it set a deadline of June 30 for app developers to comply with Chinese laws surrounding mobile...
As 2020 dawns, regulators are continuing to focus on taxes and possible anti-competitive behavior on the part of tech’s marquee names. Russian regulators are seemingly taking aim at larger U.S. tech firms, placing laws on the books that would restrict content offered by those companies....
Big Tech has faced a number of inquiries growing in scope and scrutiny as lawmakers have been focused on competitive practices and efforts to ensure data privacy and protection. To that end, Congress is reportedly not likely to pass legislation that will focus on data...
In regulatory land, spring has sprung, to borrow a seasonal phrase. Tax season lurches to its end, and thoughts turn to who spends what and where and how. Awaiting consideration by the House of Representatives is banking regulation — or rather, deregulation. As was widely...
And now begin the lawsuits. The regulators have been looking at cryptocurrency operators – and in the United States, at least, are firing shots across the regulatory bow. In the latest sign of regulatory action in the virtual currency realm, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
