Industry Keyword: Legal
Gaming Platforms
China state media says gaming time limit loopholes should be closed
Chinese state media said loopholes allowing minors to bypass new rules aimed at curbing gaming play time to three hours per week should be removed to "prevent addiction."
China introduced new rules in August limiting...
Media & Content Platforms
Commission starts legal action against 23 EU countries over copyright rules
France, Spain, Italy and 20 other EU countries may be taken to court for their tardiness in enacting landmark EU copyright rules into national law, the European Commission has said as it asked the...
Social Networks
Judge grants FTC more time to file amended complaint against Facebook
A judge in the United States has given the Federal Trade Commission until August the 19th to file an amended complaint in its antitrust lawsuit against Facebook Inc, an extension of three weeks from...
FinTech Platforms
The regulatory and legal headwinds facing Robinhood
Robinhood Markets, the online brokerage at the centre of this year's retail trading frenzy, has disclosed previously unreported regulatory risks in its long-awaited initial public offering filing.
Amid an increasingly hostile climate in Democrat-led Washington,...
Social Networks
Twitter’s India woes worsen as police summon chief over viral video
Police in India have summoned Twitter's top official in the country to answer allegations that the struggling US platform failed to stop the spread of a video that allegedly incited "hate and enmity" between...
Social Networks
Supreme Court brings end to Trump Twitter fight
The US Supreme Court brought an end to a legal fight over former President Trump's effort to block critics from following his now-frozen Twitter account, deciding the dispute was moot and throwing out a...
Media & Content Platforms
Indian Supreme Court says favours controls on video streaming services
India's top court has said it favoured a screening mechanism for online video streaming services, dominated in the country by Amazon and Netflix and which currently are aired freely.
The US streaming platforms have faced...
Mobile & Infrastructure
Huawei CFO’s lawyer disputes what HSBC knew as extradition case resumes
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's US extradition hearing resumed in a Canadian court with defence countering prosecutors' claims that Meng misled HSBC about the Chinese telecom giants relationship with its affiliate while doing business in...
Search Engines
Judge sets November deadline for Google’s initial response to US antitrust case
Google must tell a district court the way it will react to a national antitrust lawsuit by mid-November, together with the two sides making first disclosures after in the month, US Judge Amit Mehta...
Communication & Collaboration
Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook and Twitter over content
Thailand has started legal action against platform giants Facebook and Twitter for ignoring orders to take down content, in its first such move against the tech giants.
The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society filed...
Sharing Economy
Uber attempts to win back London licence in latest court battle
Ride-hailing app Uber will battle in court Tuesday to win back its licence to operate in London after the city's transportation regulator eliminated it over safety issues.
Transport for London (TfL) denied in 2019 to...
Social Networks
Facebook wins preliminary approval to settle facial recognition lawsuit
Facebook has won preliminary approval from a national court for settlement of a lawsuit that claimed it collected and stored biometric data of millions of customers without their approval.
The social networking business had previously...