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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The New York Times: Apple Inc. has recently asked a federal appeals court to legally reconsider a legal decision that would require the tech giant to ease its strict App Store rules and force Apple to allow app developers to inform customers of ways to pay for subscriptions and services outside the App Store. The verdict in question followed a yearlong dispute between Apple and […]

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Reuters: A South Korean internet service provider named SK Broadband has filed a lawsuit against Netflix claiming that Netflix has to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work due to the considerable increase of viewers of the U.S. content provider’s newly published content named Squid Game. According to the court documents, SK Broadband estimated the network usage fee Netflix needed to

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The European Parliament: The risk of algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence’s applications was pointed out by the members of the European Parliament that led to adopting a resolution in this regard with 377 votes in favor, 248 against, and 62 abstentions. Further, They’ve outlined that human supervision and strong legal powers are needed to prevent discrimination by artificial intelligence, particularly in enforcement laws or

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Financial Times: Tether, a company that is known to be the world’s largest issuer of stablecoins, has agreed to pay a 41 million dollar penalty to resolve a US regulator’s claim that it had falsely represented that its digital tokens were fully backed by dollars. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) claimed that from at least June 2016 to February 2019, misleading statements

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Jurist: A representation has been made by Indian digital liberties organization Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) to Google India’s public policy head, declaring that recent content takedowns and blocking of YouTube channels belonging to independent news outlets, citizen journalists, and satirists resulted from misuse of copyright laws. IFF has further outlined that some of the copyright strikes — most notably, the freeze on Newslaundry’s

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The U.S. Department of the treasury: The United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria, and Spain have declared in a joint statement that there would be a repeal of their ‘Digital Services Taxes’. The joint statement is based on an agreement between the five countries and the U.S Department of the Treasury in accordance with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development “OECD” provisions and in

Karimi & Associates Law Firmpresents according to The Japan Times: Nippon Steel Corp, a Japanese steel company, stated that it has sued one of its major customers, Toyota Motor Corp., and Chinese steel-maker Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. claiming infringement of a patent related to an important steel product for electric vehicles. The Japanese steel-maker has further said it is seeking compensation totaling ¥20 billion ($176 million) from each company. Moreover,

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Guardian: The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined Facebook £50.5m due to breaching an order issued by the CMA during its investigation into Facebook’s purchase of the gif creation website, Giphy. Earlier this year, an investigation was started by the CMA into Facebook’s $400m (£290m) takeover. The investigation was launched after the regulator recognized several concerns regarding Facebook’s takeover of Giphy,

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Jurist: A new online privacy bill has been proposed by the Australian government which mainly concerns online privacy and regulates social media companies. The act purportedly “enables the introduction of a binding online privacy code for social media and certain other online platforms, and increases penalties and enforcement measures.” According to the bill, social media services, data brokerage services, and large online platforms