US-EU Data-Privacy Framework
On Oct. 7, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to implement the U.S.-EU data-privacy framework.
On Oct. 7, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to implement the U.S.-EU data-privacy framework.
Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D-Ill.) amendment to 2010’s Dodd-Frank Act capped interchange fees on debit cards issued by large banks and required all debit-card issuers to permit routing of payments over multiple networks.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently filed a state-law antitrust suit against Amazon, alleging that it imposes most-favored-nation clauses (MFNs) on its retailers and wholesalers, and that these dampen competition between Amazon and those firms.
In recent years, a set of politicians, academics, regulators, and activists have called for more stringent antitrust scrutiny of companies perceived to be threats to democracy simply by virtue of their size. Today, the brunt of these criticisms target so-called “big tech” companies.
California’s state Assembly earlier this year passed A.B. 2408, which would impose a duty of care on social-media platforms for “any design, feature, or affordance that causes a child user… to become addicted to the platform.”
After years of fragmented privacy law across the 50 states, a recently introduced bipartisan and bicameral bill proposes to create a federal privacy regime.
Some U.S. lawmakers have pointed the finger at rising concentration and alleged anticompetitive behavior by both suppliers (e.g., meat packers; oil & gas companies) and retailers (e.g., groceries; online retailers) as the cause of recent, sharp increases in consumer prices.
While Congress is considering legislation that would dictate the terms that major app stores can offer to app developers, several states have similarly pursued legislation to regulate app stores.
The U.S. Senate is considering legislation—S. 2710, the Open App Markets Act—that would, among other restrictions, bar app stores from requiring app developers to use the store’s own in-app payment system.