Dear Readers,   This edition of the Chronicle surveys a fast-shifting landscape in global standard-setting and technology governance. To open, Richard S. Taffet urges regulators to finally move beyond the...

For more than two decades government regulators and self-interested private interests have challenged innovation-enhancing standards development by speculating that licensing of standard essential patents (“SEPs”) allows SEP licensors to leverage...

With the demise of the European Commission’s proposed rate-setting regulation for standards-essential patents (“SEPs”), others, including the UK Intellectual Property Office (“UKIPO”), have been testing the waters with respect to...

The EU has long relied on technical standardization as part of its strategy to regulate the circulation of goods and services in its Single Market. However, some of the latest...

Licensing negotiation groups (“LNGs”) are associations of prospective licensees interested in procuring the license to standard essential patents (“SEPs”). Such licensees unite to collectively negotiate a bilateral license to SEPs...

This article analyses the European Union’s reliance on harmonized technical standards to implement the Artificial Intelligence Act within the framework of the New Legislative Framework for product regulation. It argues...

Dear Readers,   This Chronicle takes a direct look at tracking-based advertising (“TBA”) — a model that has for some time powered the digital economy but is now straining under...

We discuss the impact of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency's (“ATT”) on targeted, online advertising. We overview the empirical results of Aridor, Che, Hollenbeck, Kaiser & McCarthy (2025) that measured the...

This short paper argues that tracking-based advertising (“TBA”) is becoming structurally unlawful under the GDPR. While consent is formally recognized as the primary legal basis for processing personal data, recent...

This paper analyzes how AI agents serve as force multipliers for the existing harms of surveillance-based advertising, transforming an already problematic ecosystem into something far more invasive and discriminatory. Building...

Dear Readers,   This Chronicle turns its attention to the shifting boundaries between technology, wellbeing, and responsibility. Our contributors probe how design choices and governance frameworks shape not only markets...

Children and teens are increasingly interacting with social AI products that have been rapidly introduced over the past 2 years. This commentary proposes a framework for youth-centered design and harm...