Podcast: Digital Taxation—Implications for EU Technology Companies
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 39, Disclosure of Ransomware Attacks
The Online Safety Act (the OSA) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 and is now in force. The OSA establishes an extensive regulatory framework for providers of online user-to-user services and search services with...more
When the UK Online Safety Act (the "Act") became law on 26 October 2023, it had established one of the most comprehensive online safety regulatory frameworks in the world. The Act's intention is to make the use of online...more
The EU’s DSA, which regulates online intermediaries and platforms in digital space, came into effect in February 2024. The purpose of the DSA is to make the online environment safer, fairer, and more transparent by imposing...more
Earlier this week, Canada introduced Bill C-63, also referred to as the Online Harms Act (the “Act”), which would require online content providers to act responsibly with regard to the platforms they operate and to remove...more
The European Union Digital Services Act (DSA) now applies to all digital “intermediary services” that provide users with access to online goods, services, and content. The DSA took effect on November 16, 2022, and regulates a...more
The European Commission’s Digital Services Act (DSA) came into effect for very large online platforms and very large online search engines last year and became fully applicable on Saturday 17 February 2024. As online service...more
It has been some time already since the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation 2022/2065, DSA) was published, and since then, the discussions about Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines...more
On 25 August 2023, the EU’s Digital Services Act (“DSA”) came into effect for very large online platforms and very large online search engines. The DSA becomes fully applicable to other entities within its scope on 17...more
Midnight on July 3, 2023, heralded the deadline for potential gatekeepers to notify the European Commission (EC) as to whether they meet the thresholds for gatekeepers set out in Article 3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)....more
Following a public consultation period, the European Commission has published the Regulation implementing its Digital Markets Act, with two major text changes from the original act....more
Following publication in the EU Official Journal, the Digital Markets Act (DMA, Regulation (EU) 2022/1925) officially entered into force on 1 November 2022. The DMA introduces new rules for the digital economy. In...more
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a key part of the European Union’s (EU) digital regulation strategy, which seeks to modernise legal frameworks and create a safer and more open digital environment. The DSA entered into...more
La Ley de Servicios Digitales de la Unión Europea es un reglamento europeo (aprobado hace pocos meses) que regula el ecosistema de las plataformas de intermediación de internet. Será de aplicación de manera escalonada en el...more
On 16 November 2022, EU Regulation 2022/2065, better known as the Digital Services Act (“DSA”), came into force. The DSA is a key development in the use of online services in the European Union (“EU”), with an impact on...more
The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force on November 16, 2022. The DSA creates comprehensive new obligations for online platforms, introduces protections for users' rights online, and places digital...more
The Digital Markets Act aims to complement the enforcement of competition law to ensure that markets where “Gatekeepers” are present—including online search engines, online social networking, video sharing platform services,...more
One of the European Union’s major pieces of legislation in the digital era, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), entered into force on 1 November 2022. It introduces ex-ante regulation—setting the ground rules for what is and is...more
On 27 October 2022, the Digital Services Act was published in the EU Official Journal as Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, with the aim to fully harmonize the rules on the safety of online services and the dissemination of illegal...more
The EU Digital Services Act with its wide-sweeping regulatory regime for all types of online intermediaries active in the EU was published on 27 October, resulting in its upcoming entry into force on 16 November 2022. What...more
On October 27, 2022, the Digital Services Act (DSA) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, sweeping in a new era in the regulation of digital services....more
The Digital Services Act (“DSA”) was published in the Official Journal Thursday. It becomes effective on November 16, 2022 and will start being enforced on February 17, 2024....more
This is an update to our previous coverage of the Digital Services Act (“DSA”). The final text of Europe’s (EU) Digital Services Act (“DSA”) was recently approved by the Council of the EU Member States. That means that the...more
To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
“Digital regulation” is a legislative concept and trend which has grown exponentially in recent years and looks set to develop for many more years to come....more
The bill has been introduced into the UK’s Parliament with various amendments to the initial draft published in May 2021, reflecting the extensive feedback received and the challenges in reaching a consensus. In March...more