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Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The Jurist: The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) has ratified its recommendations on the Digital Services Act. This act mostly concerns user privacy and free online speeches. By this act, stricter regulations for online internet intermediaries and digital platforms will get imposed. The rules are intended to organize better protection for European digital services consumers and to establish transparency for online platforms. […]

Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to The European Parliament: Members of the European Parliament demand an EU-wide action plan with ambitious and achievable purposes and timelines to end the use of animals in research and testing. The plan that members of the parliament deem appropriate includes reducing, refining, and replacing procedures on live animals for scientific objectives, as soon as it is scientifically possible and without lowering the level of

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,