Meta plans to offer an ad-free option for Instagram and Facebook in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland, charging €9.99/month on the web or €12.99/month on mobile
who are, by definition, comfortable with having their data processed for the purposes of ads personalization — will choose to subscribe to avoid it. Sam Schechner / @samschech : Meta's going with the ...
Commissioner Thierry Breton says the EU plans to subject Twitter and other companies to a voluntary stress test in June to measure their compliance with the DSA
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EU lawmakers push forward an AI Act draft, which includes requiring companies deploying generative AI tools to disclose copyrighted material used for training
Learn about the 5 errors to avoid … Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet : Generative AI might soon face some major copyright limitations from the EU Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : Europe to ChatGPT: Disclose...
The EU says Twitter's first voluntary report on how the company was tackling disinformation lacked data and didn't include commitments to empower fact-checkers
As Musk's Platform Antagonizes Regulators Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : EU Warns Twitter Over Incomplete Content-Moderation Report Tweets: Jillian Deutsch / @deutschjill : “I am disappointed t...
France says it has resumed collecting its digital services tax, as the UK and Italy prepare to collect their own; France's 3% levy brought in €400M in 2019
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @seamuscoffey , @linuxbsdpirate , @seamuscoffey , @conoraon , @wellisz , @neilretail , and @samschech Tweets: Seamus Coffey / @seamuscoffey : Here's the 2019 outcomes fo...
France says it has resumed collecting its digital services tax, as the UK and Italy prepare to collect their own; France's 3% levy brought in €400M in 2019
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @samschech Tweets: Sam Schechner / @samschech : Detente is ending for tech taxes. France is collecting its DST. India and Austria, too. Italy, Spain and the U.K. plan to...
How the new US tax code encourages tech firms to move assets back to the US by cutting taxes on foreign-derived intangible income, like IP, to 13.125% from ~35%
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @gopsenfinance , @davidclowery , @samschech , and @paulhannon29 Tweets: GOP Senate Finance / @gopsenfinance : American companies rich in #IP are looking ...
Sources: Iran's attempts to block Telegram drive millions to censorship circumvention tools for PC and mobile like Lantern and Psiphon
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