CJEU rules that a dominant undertaking’s refusal to ensure that its platform is interoperable with a third party app can be abusive

The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued its ruling in Case C-233/23: Alphabet and Others. In 2018, Enel X Italia launched the JuicePass app in Italy, which helps drivers find and reserve charging stations for electric vehicles.  Enel requested Google to make JuicePass compatible with Android Auto, a system that allows smartphone…

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Ofcom issues two consultations under Media Act 2024

Ofcom has issued two consultations under the Media Act. Among other things, the Act seeks to ensure, among other things, that audiences can easily find and discover public service broadcasters’ content on connected TV platforms, and that they are well served by this content. Specifically, the Act requires certain connected TV platforms to ensure that…

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This Week’s Techlaw News Round-Up

UK law Data Protection (Charges and Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 made The Data Protection (Charges and Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 SI 2025/63 have been made. They amend the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018, SI 2018/480, to increase the annual data protection fees payable to the Information Commissioner across all tiers of the charge…

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European Commission publishes draft guidelines on AI system definition under EU AI Act

The European Commission has published guidelines on the AI system definition which explain the practical application of the definition in Article 3(1) of the AI Act: “a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from…

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High Court rules on targeting advertising to “recovering online gambling addict”

The High Court has ruled in the case of RTM v Bonne Terre Ltd and Another EWHC 111 (KB).  The claimant RTM described himself as a recovering online gambling addict. He was a private individual with no national profile. He was anonymised in the litigation because of the risk that the privacy interests he was…

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