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October 15, 2026
Protecting Vulnerable Consumers Online: Getting the Balance Right for the Digital Fairness Act
Consumers play a central role in the EU’s digital ecosystem. Special attention must be given to vulnerable consumers, who are often more susceptible to certain online practices. However, safeguardin...
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October 2, 2026
D.C. Circuit’s Anthropic Decision Expands the Range of Activities Constituting a “Supply Chain Risk” – and the Uncertainty to Contractors
The D.C. Circuit’s decision in Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War, No. 26-1049 (D.C. Cir. Sept. 25, 2026) (“Anthropic”), establishes a troubling precedent for defense contractors by broadly...
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October 1, 2026
Two Rulings, One Lesson: Innovation Is Accelerating, Making Many Sectors Highly Dynamic
When the Department of Justice sued Google over search distribution in October 2020, ChatGPT did not exist. When the Federal Trade Commission sued Facebook two months later, TikTok had been available ...
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September 28, 2026
There Is No Tech Sector Today, Just the Economy
“[W]hen it comes [to] managing the growing might of the American tech industry, Washington has been ‘asleep at the switch.’” So claimed the former Representative David Cicilline, who introduce...
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September 24, 2026
Record-Breaking Tech Innovation, Investment, Entry and Business Formation in Recent Years
Critics of the technology sector have asserted in 2020 that digital markets are stagnant, closed to entry, and low on competitive investment and that AICOA is “critical to reversing these trends by ...
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September 22, 2026
New Jersey’s Monopsony Case Against Amazon Relies on an Indefensible Market Definition
An antitrust case in a labor market must answer one central question: where can these workers provide their labor? New Jersey’s August 4 complaint against Amazon, billed as the first monopsony condu...
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September 21, 2026
AICOA Would Import the Costs of the EU’s DMA to the U.S.
Washington rarely gets to see the results of a policy before enacting it. On ex-ante digital regulation, it can. The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has been in force against designated â...
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September 18, 2026
Doe v. Github: The Ninth Circuit saves AI Training in DMCA Case
Last year, CCIA and the Chamber of Progress submitted a joint brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. Github, a case centered on training artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. This ...
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September 18, 2026
The FTC’s Personalized Pricing Disclosures Would Cost Consumers Their Discounts
Suppose every diner had to print a disclosure saying “Warning: price adjusted for seniors based on the restaurant’s analysis of how income and shopping behavior evolve with age” next to the seni...
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September 17, 2026
On Algorithms, Expression, and the First Amendment: Why using Algorithms to Edit and Curate Online Content is Constitutionally-protected
Earlier this year, CCIA testified on California’s SB 976, the “Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act,” and urged state officials to maintain their pursuit of protecting kids online...
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September 17, 2026
The Case Against Outdated AICOA Bill Has Only Gotten Stronger
Executive Summary
Six years ago, a House Judiciary Committee report declared America’s largest digital platforms a competitive dead end: entrenched, unassailable, closed to new entry. That report...
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September 2, 2026
Beyond the Digital Markets Act’s (DMA) Teething Phase: Evaluating Compliance Realities and Procedural Fairness
Three years after the Digital Markets Act (DMA) started to apply, its enforcement record is now subject to scrutiny. The debate is no longer confined to the law’s ambitions, but should also focus on...