Introduction On 9 September 2025, the National Cybersecurity Notification Centre (Guojia wangluo anquan tongbao zhongxin 国家网络安全通报中心) announced that public security cyber departments had sanctioned Dior (Shanghai) for three distinct violations of the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) in connection with the cross-border transfer of Chinese consumers’ personal data. The penalty followed a data breach disclosed…
Platform work and its precarious forms have become the focus of a contested debate, spanning remote and location-based on-demand labour (Hoose et al., 2025). Scholars, trade unions, employer associations, and policymakers at both EU and national levels advance divergent views on how platform labour should be classified, regulated, and governed. Yet, the adoption of the…
Last September, US Judge Amit Mehta issued his judgement in United States v. Google and backpedalled on the much-awaited remedies sought by the Department of Justice involving Google’s divestiture of its Chrome browser. Despite the backlash on that front, that same decision imposed several new limits on the exclusive contracts that Google held with its…
DICOPO, MediaLaws and DigiCon research groups are delighted to invite you to participate to a new DICOPO Online Roundtable, which will take place online on Thursday, 26 February 2026, from 5:00 to 6:15 PM CET. The selected topic for this session is “Rethinking connectivity in Europe: the Digital Networks Act”. Connectivity is recognised at European…
MediaLaws is pleased to share a Call for Papers for a special issue entitled “The use of administrative databases in Italy to inform policymaking“, launched by SINAPPSI. Issue 2/2026 will feature contributions that explore the potential of administrative databases for analysing how public policies operate and how effective they are, including the use of administrative…
