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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to Reuters: China’s legislative body, the National People’s Congress, passed a law aimed to protect online user data privacy, state media Xinhua reports. The law’s passage is to be considered as another step forward in the country’s endeavor to regulate cyberspace and is expected to add more compliance requirements for companies in the country. Tech giants in China have been instructed to ensure better secure […]

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to Wall Street Journal: South Korea’s National Assembly on Tuesday passed the world’s first bill that ends Apple and Google’s dominance over how apps hosted on their app stores sell digital goods. As soon as the bill gets signed by President Moon Jae-in, it will become law. The president’s party strongly supported the legislation. This bill challenges Apple and Google’s lucrative commissions on digital sales

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The US Department of the Treasury: The US Department of the Treasury by a statement has authorized the exportation of certain graduate-level educational services and software exportation regarding Iranian transactions and sanctions regulations that will be implemented from September 1, 2022. According to this statement, the US academic institutions are now permitted to offer online educational services related to graduate educational courses, on condition that the

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Guardian: Google has appealed against a €500m fine imposed by France’s antitrust authority following a dispute with local media concerning payment for news content. Google has been fined due to its failure to comply with France’s antitrust organization on how to conduct the talks with publishers. The case was regarding that whether Google breached temporary orders issued by the French Competition Authority, which

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to New York Times: Apple will have to allow app developers to send their users to other payment systems as a federal court ordered in a legal case between Apple and the creator of “Fortnite” video game, Epic Games. A year ago, Epic Games offered Fortnite players discounts if they used Epic’s payment system instead of those from Apple and Google. Both of the companies

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Jurist: A non-profit Dutch foundation, Stichting Massaschade & Consument, sued TikTok, a famous social media app, alleging that TikTok has violated European privacy laws by “harvesting and auctioning sensitive user data.” The foundation claims a fixed amount of damage per user, varying from €1.250 – €1.750 depending on the user’s age group. It has been argued by the foundation that TikTok profits off

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The UK Information Commissioner’s Office: The UK Information Commissioner Office, ICO, has announced that three well-known companies will have to pay £495,000 as fines, due to sending millions of ‘frustrating and intrusive’ nuisance messages. Andy Curry, Information Commissioner’s Office’s head of investigations, stated: “getting a ping on your phone or constant unwanted messages on our laptop from a company you don’t want to hear

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Reuters: Google Inc, the U.S. tech giant, has stated that it has filed a lawsuit against the Competition Commission of India (CCI) following the leak of a confidential CCI report into an antitrust investigation of Google. It has been reported that in a CCI investigation, it was had found that Google had abused the dominant position of its Android operating system in India,

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Euronews: Italy’s data protection authority has stated that it seeks clarifications from Facebook regarding the social media giant’s recently launched smart glasses. The compliance of this product with privacy laws has been questioned by Italy’s administrative authority and it has some concerns regarding personal data protection. Facebook has made its smart glasses in co-operation with EssilorLuxottica, the company that produces Ray-Ban glasses.