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CCIA Submits List of Digital Trade Barriers for USTR’s Annual Report

Washington — The Computer & Communications Industry Association offered comments as part of the U.S. Trade Representative’s annual request for stakeholders to report trade barriers for the age...
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CCIA Files Lawsuit Arguing Alabama’s App Store Law Likely Violates First Amendment

Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s App Store law, alleging it violates First Amendment protections to speak and access in...
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CCIA Urges Australia to Protect Encryption and Ensure Online Safety Rules Are Clear and Effective

Washington — The Computer & Communications Industry Association urged Australian lawmakers to protect strong encryption and ensure that proposed online safety regulations are clear, proportionat...
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CCIA Report Tracks State Competition Policy Trends in New York, California, Maryland, Washington, and Colorado

Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association today released its 2026 State Competition Landscape report, examining major competition policy developments across state legislatu...
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Lithuania Encouraged to Resist Tech Protectionism and Deliver on EU Simplification During Council Presidency

Vilnius, LITHUANIA – While Brussels keeps promising to cut red tape, Lithuania’s upcoming EU Presidency offers a chance to deliver. Yet proposals to exclude foreign technology and overhaul digital...
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Short-Term Rentals: CCIA Europe Responds to EU Court Ruling on Brussels’ Restrictions

Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its ruling in Smartflats SA v Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (Case C-813/24), a case examining whether local restrictions on short-term r...
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Upcoming Digital Fairness Act Risks Duplicating Existing EU Rules, New Explainer Warns

The EU’s upcoming Digital Fairness Act (DFA), due to be published by the European Commission on 11 November 2026, should strengthen enforcement of existing rules and avoid undermining the benefits t...
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CCIA Study Finds South Korea Fines U.S. Companies Up to Seven Times More Than Korean Firms Relative to Business Activity

Washington – A new study by the CCIA Research Center finds that South Korea’s competition authority imposes penalties on U.S. companies at rates four to seven times higher than those applied to Ko...
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CCIA UK Responds to CMA Investigation of Microsoft’s Business Software Ecosystem

London – The UK Competition and Markets Authority today announced the next stage in its Strategic Market Status (SMS) investigation regarding Microsoft's business software ecosystem. This includes a...
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Appeals Court Finds Florida’s Law Restricting Social Media Can Be Enforced

Washington – The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Florida’s HB3, restricting access to social media for teens, can be enforced ahead of the First Amendment issues being fully heard...
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Tech Industry Response as Supreme Court Hears Case Involving Privacy, Video Content

Washington – The Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether a decades-old law protecting privacy of video cassette rentals should be applied to online multimedia content and advertising. The Vid...
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CCIA Files Amicus Brief Asking Supreme Court to Take Up the Apple v. ITC Patent Case

Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association and several partner trade organizations filed an amicus brief, asking the Supreme Court to intervene in a patent case that could s...
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