EU regulation, U.S. antitrust, and the procedural infrastructure within which the largest tech companies actually operate.
Policy · Surveillance
With $59 billion in trades last quarter, prediction markets operate as public data auctions where real-money bids evade privacy laws because regulators haven't defined the asset.
Global Tech Policy · UK Regulation
From Online Safety Act fines to stablecoin frameworks, Britain's regulatory model diverges from EU and US approaches, creating a template that global regulators now closely monitor.
Policy · Antitrust
With the FTC's HSR form overhaul vacated and the appeal frozen until 2026, dealmakers must now navigate a new public inquiry as the pre-February 2025 form remains in place.
Policy · Surveillance
While the FTC seeks to ban Kochava from selling precise location data on millions, the ad industry races to deploy agentic real-time bidding auctions that value personal data faster than regulators can intervene.
Policy · Biometric Surveillance
Biometric surveillance architecture is being rapidly embedded from Croydon high streets to World Cup stadiums, while legal accountability lags far behind.
As Google appeals its search monopoly verdict to the DC Circuit, the Mozilla amicus push and the unfolding remedies order test whether antitrust enforcement can survive appellate review.
While the FTC's Kochava settlement bans sensitive location data sales, real-time bidding exchanges and enterprise data pipelines still operate beyond regulatory reach, leaving hundreds of data brokers unaddressed.
Privacy & Surveillance · Biometrics
A six-month Met Police live facial recognition pilot in Croydon produced 173 arrests and a legal victory, yet the data flow that enabled it poses questions the High Court ruling left unanswered.
As Brussels prepares its largest DMA penalty and a California anti-self-preferencing bill collapses under lobbying pressure, the debate over choice-screen remedies for platform favoritism grows more urgent.
Privacy · Surveillance
The FTC's settlement with Kochava highlights a vast programmatic advertising system that auctions off your location data billions of times a day, operating beyond the reach of privacy laws.
Policy · Antitrust & Competition
From an antitrust data settlement in the meatpacking industry to police reform battles in Cleveland and Baltimore, the consent decree remains a powerful yet fragile enforcement tool.
Policy · Surveillance
As the Trump administration dismantles Biden-era phone-hacking tool restrictions, ICE confirms a Paragon spyware purchase and privacy advocates warn the industry's stigma is fading fast.
A provisional deal pushes high-risk AI obligations to December 2027 but the formal legal text remains unchanged, leaving deployers and compliance teams navigating the gap between political agreement and statute book where the real calendar lives.
Policy · Biometric Surveillance
A Met Police pilot in Croydon achieved 173 arrests and a 10.5 percent crime drop, yet despite a High Court blessing, the UK's live facial recognition expansion still hinges on force-by-force policy, not law.
Policy · Antitrust & Competition
After two years of the Digital Markets Act and U.S. antitrust remedies, choice screens have become the go-to regulatory tool for platform self-preferencing, but it remains to be seen if they truly boost competition.
Policy · Antitrust & Competition
From Nexstar's Ninth Circuit challenge to Live Nation's verdict appeal and Google's stay denial, upcoming appellate review will determine whether these antitrust trial victories stand.
Policy · Antitrust
DOJ and FTC consent decrees targeting poultry benchmarking, micromarket kiosks, and auto-dealer pricing are advancing bold theories on information sharing, algorithmic coordination, and niche market consolidation that may outlast any administration.
Policy · Border Tech
The D.C. Circuit struck down Trump's asylum ban, but the biometric and algorithmic surveillance architecture built over two administrations continues to expand with little oversight.
Policy · Antitrust
With the FTC's 2024 Hart-Scott-Rodino rule overhaul vacated and the premerger filing clock reset, agencies are now seeking public input on a new notification regime, leaving dealmakers in a state of cost relief mixed with regulatory uncertainty.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
Apple's App Tracking Transparency and Google's cookie deprecation were meant to end cross-site tracking, but the ad-tech industry simply rebuilt it deeper, with less oversight and fewer ways to opt out.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
The most aggressive federal action against a data broker yet still leaves vast real-time bidding systems unscathed, underscoring how the surveillance economy remains largely intact.
Policy · Surveillance
A woman wanted for two decades was arrested after London's permanent cameras scanned her face, just days after the UK High Court dismissed a challenge to the Met's live facial recognition programme and the government announced national expansion.
Global Tech Policy · Brussels
The EU's AI Act Omnibus deal and California's adoption of transparency rules show that the global spread of European tech regulation is far from automatic, with enforcement gaps and political pushback shaping its real reach.
Global Tech Policy · U.K. and Non-EU Regulatory Responses
As the EU's Digital Omnibus tries to streamline its acquis, the UK, South Korea, and multiple U.S. states are building distinct sovereign AI and data centre regulatory frameworks, testing which model will set global standards.
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