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Latest US News & Views
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Congress Tackles Tech and Minors. But Are Their Solutions the Right Ones?
Read moreApril 2023 US Policy Update Not Every Social Problem has a Tech Solution Across the world – in the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere – Read More
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More Deliberation Needed Before Senate Considers CSAM Bills
Read moreDevs work hard to make the internet a safer place. They have long operated under the premise that consumer trust is paramount, since users won’t pay for services they distrust. Read More
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Content Moderation Takes Center Stage in Washington
Read moreMarch 2023 US Policy Update The Shield and Sword of Online Speech: Debating the future of Section 230 On March 23, the Developers Alliance, along with allies from Tripadvisor and Read More
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FAQs: A Primer for Section 230
Read moreWhat is Section 230? In 1996, Congress passed the Communications Decency Act. The Communications Decency Act’s Section 230 included the “26 words that created the internet”: “No provider or user Read More
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Senate Panel Holds Content Moderation Hearing, Alliance Weighs In
Read moreYou could argue that some of the most important words in society today are found in a relatively obscure law crafted in 1996. That was the year Congress passed the Read More
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Tech on Front Burner As Congress and Courts Tackle Multiple Issues
Read moreFebruary 2023 US Policy Update The U.S. Supreme Court has a decision to make. Will they override We the People? The legal plumbing at the heart of all this is Read More
Latest Europe/UK News & Views
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Europe continues to rewrite internet law, from AI algorithms to encryption
Read moreThe April 2023 European Policy Update Data protection and privacy The Italian Data Protection Authority has announced that Open AI’s Chat GPT has been reinstated in Italy after implementing a Read More
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Italy Bans ChatGPT While the UK Takes a Pro-innovation Approach to AI Regulation
Read moreThe March 2023 European Policy Update Artificial Intelligence The Italian Data Protection Authority (il Garante) has imposed a temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ data through ChatGPT. The Read More
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Digital Markets Act – The fair and contestable solutions for app ecosystems
Read moreor Who’s going to pay more for what? The Developers Alliance participated in the 3rd technical workshop organized by the European Commission for the implementation of the Digital markets Act (DMA). Read More
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The DSA marks its first deadline, while the DMA gets into technical discussions
Read moreThe European February 2023 Policy Update Competition in Digital Markets The European Commission has sent an updated Statement of objections to Apple on concerns over App Store rules for music Read More
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Federal Court Ruling a Win for Developers and Acquisitions
Read moreThe following quote can be attributed to Bruce Gustafson, CEO of the Alliance: “Entrepreneurs and VCs rely on predictable and rational markets when they invest in innovation. For many small Read More
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While U.S. Dithers, EU Pushes Ahead on Privacy and Data Protection
Read moreThe EU & UK December 2022 & January 2023 Policy Update Data protection and privacy The European Commission has launched the adoption process of an adequacy decision for the EU-US Read More
