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Last updated 14 Apr 2025

The rise of the digital economy presents substantial challenges to the conventional international taxation structure. In response, governments propose and enact legislation specifically targeting the digital economy, such as Digital Services Taxes (DSTs). These taxes are designed to address the uniq...

Last updated 22 Jan 2025

The digital economy challenges international taxation rules as businesses provide services to consumers around the globe while residing in only one state. The OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting aims to create a harmonised framework for the taxation of international comp...

Last updated 14 Apr 2025

In addition to restrictions on cross-border data transfers, several governments impose data localisation requirements. In the digital economy, the obligation for companies to store the personal data they collect within a territory represents a market access barrier hindering international expansion....

Last updated 25 Apr 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a popular regulatory object. Governments issue laws, orders, standards and guidelines regulating the development and use of AI systems. Regulators prohibit certain AI, require transparency reports and risk assessments from developers and enhance the rights of affected...

Last updated 24 Apr 2025

The rapid emergence of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has drawn scrutiny from governments worldwide. Its cost-effective chatbot spread rapidly, causing a dip in global stock markets and prompting government action across continents. Concerns range from data protection to natio...

Last updated 25 Apr 2025

Digital platforms are crucial to the functioning of the digital economy. Platforms enable the dissemination of user-generated content, which may be deemed harmful or even illegal. Governments have introduced rules to hold platforms accountable for the content they display, obliging companies to mode...

Last updated 13 Mar 2025

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulates core digital platform services such as online search engines, web browsers, advertising services, social network services, and video-sharing platforms that meet the gatekeeper thresholds. The DMA aims to ensure and maintain contestability in core digital platf...

Last updated 23 Apr 2025

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) entered into force with a grace period on 1 November 2022. The majority of its measures became effective in May 2023, while the gatekeepers were officially appointed on 6 September 2023. The gatekeepers are required to comply with the DMA 6 months following their design...

Last updated 25 Apr 2025

Governments worldwide have introduced a range of policies to regulate different aspects of the digital economy. These policies address areas such as data privacy, competition, and online safety. This thread tracks and highlights the most important policies across these diverse areas, providing a com...

Last updated 10 Apr 2025

The Digital Services Act (DSA) regulates online intermediary services, including marketplaces, social networks, content-sharing platforms, app stores, and online travel and accommodation platforms. It aims to combat illegal and harmful online activities, including the dissemination of disinformation...

Last updated 24 Apr 2025

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has raised data protection concerns around the globe. Governments are addressing a range of privacy issues that stretch from the use of personal data in training datasets, to the storage of personal data to run models, to the inference of personal data when u...

Last updated 24 Apr 2025

Cross-border data transfers is one of the most salient topics in digital policy. Data flows lie at the heart of the global digital economy, but rules differ across jurisdictions. This thread collects all recent policy changes concerning cross-border data transfers.