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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

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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

A&O Shearman

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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EU introduces comprehensive digital-era Product Liability Directive

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On 18 November 2024, Directive (EU) 2024/2853 was published in the EU Official Journal, with the aim of ensuring product liability rules are fit to address digital-era challenges. Coming into force in December 2024, the...more

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Zooming in on AI #11: EU AI Act – What are the obligations for the limited-risk AI systems

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The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) exemplifies a highly advanced risk-based approach to European regulation. One of its distinguishing features is the detailed classification of various risk levels associated with...more

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Adapting to Change: Winnik panelists discuss regulatory changes in a shifting geopolitical landscape

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In September 2024, the Hogan Lovells Communication, Internet, and Media practice presented its annual Winnik International Tech and Telecoms Forum, highlighting common themes throughout the technology and telecommunications...more

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Controlled Digital Lending after Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive

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The future of controlled digital lending (“CDL”), the digital equivalent of traditional library lending, is uncertain after the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s judgment in Hachette Book Group, Inc. v....more

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Digital Transformation: eSignature and ePayment News and Trends - September/October 2024

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Today’s ever-shifting business environment means that consumers, businesses, employers, and employees all expect to transact digitally. To remain efficient and competitive, companies must digitally transform their businesses....more

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The NIS 2 Era Is Here: Are You Compliance-Ready?

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With the deadline for Member States to transpose the European Union’s updated Network and Information Systems Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) (NIS 2 or Directive) into national law, with the Directive having passed on 18...more

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EU Commission Regulations on Digital Operational Resilience: A Reminder That DORA is Less Than Three Months Away and Will Apply to...

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The European Commission’s adoption on 23 October 2024 of the two regulations (Regulations) supplementing the [the Regulation on digital operational resilience for the financial sector Publications Office (europa.eu)] (DORA)...more

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European Digital Compliance: Key Digital Regulation & Compliance Developments - October 2024

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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 Evolving Landscape of Digital Goods Ownership: California’s Digital Marketplace Law AB 2426

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The distinction between owning and licensing digital goods has become blurred in an era increasingly dominated by digital transactions. While traditionally consumers purchasing physical items such as books and video games...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Timeline Set for UK Cybersecurity and Resilience Reforms

On 30 September 2024, the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology announced that the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (Bill) will be introduced to Parliament in 2025. The Bill was first announced in the King’s...more

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The UK Online Safety Act: Categorically Challenging

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As the deadline approaches for the UK to categorise online services under its new Online Safety Act (OSA), where might the lines be drawn, and what do you do if you disagree?...more

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EU Agencies to Develop Guidance on the Interplay Between the DMA and GDPR

On September 10, 2024, the European Commission (EC) offices in charge of the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)—the European body composed of all EU data protection...more

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