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Data Privacy and Security

September 14, 2026 | Xu Yuan

North America

Facebook’s Sandberg denies knowledge of Cambridge Analytica details
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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

September 14, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

Paramount, Warner say deal will boost film output, streaming competition

Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, Technology

September 11, 2026 | Alex Wilts and Madeline Hughes

North America

US courts keeping close eye on Big Tech privilege claims, evidence preservation

Antitrust View More

Mexico antitrust agency looking closely at mergers

September 15, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America

Mexico's competition authority will closely monitor transactions and sanction companies that fail to notify reportable deals, according to National Antitrust Commission Chair Andrea Marván Saltiel. She also sa... (more story)

US FTC to no longer bring antitrust cases under Part 3 proceedings, chair says

September 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

The US Federal Trade Commission won't bring any single-firm conduct or consumer protection cases alleging antitrust or consumer protections violation through internal administration proceedings, with Chairman ... (more story)

Google urges UK court to approve record settlement over Play Store

September 15, 2026 | Jon Menon

Europe

Google and a class representative told a UK court on Tuesday that the terms of the £260 million settlement agreed relating to a claim on behalf of app developers are just and reasonable and should be approved.... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

US Congress members say prioritizing AI competition with China brings risk

September 15, 2026 | Emma Whitford

North America

It is time for the US federal government to stop pursuing unbridled artificial intelligence advancement with the goal of outpacing Chinese competition, members of US Congress said. They touted their own legisl... (more story)

Music industry tackles AI-fueled streaming fraud as licensing market grows

September 15, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Europe, North America

AI is creating a new revenue stream for record labels while also making streaming fraud cheaper and easier to scale. The labels are pushing tighter distributor checks, clearer AI labeling and voluntary licensi... (more story)

AI slowdown calls could push EU AI Act toward 'Brussels effect'

September 15, 2026 | Masha Borak

Europe

AI companies' calls to slow frontier-model development could help the EU extend the AI Act's global influence, echoing the "Brussels effect" created by the GDPR. But the European Commission has been reluctant ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

US FDIC to consider rulemaking on merger transactions on Sept. 17

September 15, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced it will hold a meeting on Sept. 17 to consider whether to propose a rule on merger transactions.

Increased transparency a focus for US DOJ's Antitrust Division, official says

September 15, 2026 | Wesley Brown

North America

The US Department of Justice is aiming for more transparency and clarity with its increase in closing statements, according to Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Litigation Stephanie Greco.

US firms can't be foreign antitrust agencies' 'piggy banks,' FTC's Ferguson says

September 15, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

US antitrust cooperation with overseas agencies must be based on reciprocal procedural fairness and cannot allow foreign authorities to treat American companies as "piggy banks," Federal Trade Commission Chair... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Content personalization protected speech, First Amendment scholars tell appeals court

September 15, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: First Amendment scholars told a US appeals court that the amendment does not distinguish between content “moderation” and “personalization,” filing a brief in support of social media companies’ c... (more story)

Online Safety Act's 'safe harbor' hinders enforcement, UK watchdog says

September 15, 2026 | Imogen Howse

Europe

The Online Safety Act’s safe harbor framework can block further enforcement against platforms that follow Ofcom’s codes but leave identified risks unaddressed, the UK’s online safety regulator told lawmakers o... (more story)

Meta services, Roblox, Quora appeal UK Online Safety Act top-tier designation

September 15, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Instagram, Roblox and Quora are appealing UK regulatory decisions to designate them as in the tier of services that carry the broadest extra duties under the country's Online Safet... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

China top court finds unfair competition in Lukfook trade-name dispute

September 15, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China’s top court has held that a business can commit unfair competition by registering and using a corporate name similar to another party’s trademark if it is likely to mislead consumers, even when it uses t... (more story)

US judge denies USPTO more time to defend whistleblower report redactions

September 14, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

North America

The clock is ticking on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s deadline to explain its redactions to an anonymous report alleging an Intel-linked effort to invalidate VLSI Technology patents before the Patent Tr... (more story)

US presses Supreme Court to leave IPR criteria to USPTO discretion

September 14, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

North America

A filing by the federal government in support of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s “settled expectations” policy goes beyond patent age to argue that because Congress never required inter partes review inst... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

UK to recruit 500 more police in dirty money crackdown

September 15, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Hundreds of police officers will be recruited in the UK to track dirty money and seize criminal assets, backed by £500 million of investment over three years, the government said. New officers wi... (more story)

Leasing company directors defrauded UK investors in 'Ponzi scheme,' court told

September 15, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

Two former directors at car leasing company Buy2Let Cars defrauded thousands of UK investors out of £40 million after telling them “lies” about a “Ponzi scheme,” a London court was told on Tuesday.

Businessman pleads guilty in US to illicit exports of aviation parts to Russia

September 14, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Andrei Samuilovski, who has citizenship in Estonia, Switzerland and Russia, pleaded guilty over his role in a scheme to illegally export US-origin aviation and aerospace parts to Russia in violat... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Digital euro talks advance as EU lawmakers, govts weigh compensation models

September 15, 2026 | Helena Freitas

Europe

Negotiations on the digital euro regulation are progressing, but EU lawmakers and governments remain divided over how banks and payment providers should be compensated for providing digital euro services, rece... (more story)

Tweak capital rules to back emerging market private capital, industry group says

September 15, 2026

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America

MLex Summary: G20 policymakers and regulators should review the prudential treatment of investments supported by multilateral development banks and development finance institutions to support private capital f... (more story)

US House Republican 'bullish' on crypto bill due for Senate vote Tuesday

September 14, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

A senior US House Republican is "bullish" that a cryptocurrency procedural bill due to come up for a US Senate vote Tuesday will pass and eventually be adopted by that chamber before going to the House to face... (more story)

Trade View More

US trade court upholds ITC freight rail couplers decision

September 15, 2026 | Bradley Dress

North America

The US Court of International Trade has upheld the International Trade Commission’s 2023 injury finding in an antidumping and antisubsidy investigation into freight rail couplers from China and Mexico.

EU lawmakers back broader carbon border levy, bigger buffer for carbon market

September 15, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

EU lawmakers backed a broader carbon border levy Tuesday, extending it further down industrial supply chains while rejecting temporary exemptions during exceptional price shocks. Parliament also backed earlier... (more story)

US CIT partially sustains review results for dumping order on Indian glycine

September 15, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade sustained in part and remanded in part the 2022-2023 review results for the antidumping order on glycine from India.

State Aid View More

Vindenergi challenging Danish aid for wind farms project at EU court

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Energy company Dansk Vindenergi is challenging the Danish government's €5 billion plan to back the construction and operation of the Hesselø and North Sea I Mid offshore wind farms at an EU court... (more story)

Czech TV operators ask EU judges to re-allow cancelled state aid

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, three Czech digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, have asked the EU General Court to overturn a decision by the ... (more story)

China seeks information from French companies over EU subsidies

September 10, 2026

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce has sought information from several French companies operating in China about subsidies received from the EU and its member states. Ministry spokesperson Huang Ling s... (more story)

Energy View More

EU carbon-market reserve, price protections backed by European Parliament

September 15, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU lawmakers backed changes Tuesday that would keep more carbon allowances — permits companies use to cover their emissions — available to stabilize the EU carbon market, while retaining a limit ... (more story)

EU countries challenge European Commission plan to tax electricity less than gas

September 15, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Nine EU countries have told the European Commission they do not agree with its plans to tax electricity less than gas in planned legislation to boost the bloc's use of electricity and cut imports of fossil fue... (more story)

Wider EU carbon tax, export fund backed by EU lawmakers

September 15, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU carbon border adjustment mechanism, or CBAM, would be extended to downstream steel and aluminum goods under a European Parliament negotiating position that also tightens anti-circumvention... (more story)

Technology View More

School districts file witness lists in US case against Snap, TikTok, Google

September 15, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: School districts filed their witness lists in a US case against Snap, Google and TikTok over the platforms' alleged addictive design.

Facebook, TikTok, YouTube face Portugal addictive-design actions

September 15, 2026

Europe

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Alphabet's YouTube face Portuguese collective actions alleging that addictive design features induce compulsive use and infringe users’ rights, digital-rights association D3 sai... (more story)

EU’s planned Kids Act set to look beyond Australia-style social-media ban

September 15, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

A broad range of online services — including social-media and video-sharing platforms, games, app stores and certain AI systems — are set to face new child-safety obligations under the EU’s planned Kids Act. U... (more story)