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EU Commission opens formal proceedings against AliExpress
March 18, 2024
The Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether AliExpress may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to the management and mitigation of risks, to content moderation and the internal complaint handling mechanism, to the transparency of advertising and recommender systems, to the traceability of traders and to data access for researchers.
FTC and DOJ ask U.S. Copyright Office to expand right to repair
March 15, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) have submitted a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office to advocate for regulations that would facilitate consumers’ and businesses’ right to repair their own products.