Topic: legal enforcement
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FTC Sues Ticketmaster Over Illegal Broker Coordination
The FTC is suing Ticketmaster for allegedly coordinating illegally with ticket brokers to manipulate the market and harm consumers, marking a major push for fairness in the ticketing industry. Ticketmaster is accused of allowing brokers to bypass purchase limits, enabling mass buying and resellin...
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FBI Demands Archive.is Reveal Owner in Legal Showdown
The FBI is using a subpoena to demand that domain registrar Tucows reveal the identity behind Archive.is as part of a federal criminal investigation. Tucows is legally required to comply with the subpoena, which seeks subscriber details for archive.today, and failure to do so could result in cont...
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'Luxury Surveillance' Is Outpacing Privacy Laws
Meta's smart glasses represent a significant advancement in discreet, always-on recording technology that current privacy laws struggle to address due to their subtle design and AI capabilities. Legal frameworks are inadequate for addressing the privacy concerns raised by these devices, as existi...
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Australia Bans Twitch for Teens, Spares Pinterest
Australia will ban social media access for individuals under 16 starting December 10, including platforms like Twitch, Facebook, and TikTok, but exempting Pinterest. Twitch will deactivate existing accounts for underage Australian users by January 9, as it is classified as an "age-restricted soci...
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AI Companies Now Face a New Web Payment System
The Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard is a new framework that allows web publishers to specify and enforce compensation terms when their content is used for training AI systems, with support from major platforms like Reddit and Yahoo. RSL builds on the robots.txt protocol by adding financial...
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Court Caps Google's Default Search Deals at One Year
A federal judge has capped Google's default search and AI app deals at one year, prohibiting the multi-year contracts that solidified its market dominance. The ruling, stemming from a monopoly conviction, also bans Google from using exclusive contracts or revenue-sharing to coerce partners into b...
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