{"id":38181,"date":"2025-03-05T18:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stm-assoc.org\/?p=38181"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:18:52","slug":"turbulence-in-global-digital-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stm-assoc.org\/turbulence-in-global-digital-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbulence in global digital regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The change in the US administration is having very\u00a0<strong>palpable repercussions in the EU<\/strong>, where key\u00a0<strong>digital regulation<\/strong>\u00a0is meant to impose obligations on US tech giants (e.g., Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, AI Act). The ongoing discussions on the\u00a0<strong>EU Code of Practice for AI companies<\/strong>, aimed at specifying concrete obligations to comply with the AI Act, are being directly influenced by the very tense context, which emboldened\u00a0<strong>Google and Meta executives to come out strongly against the current draft\u00a0<\/strong>of the Code. The Code is supposed to be finalised in April, and STM is contributing to the drafting process. The Trump administration, in turn, adopted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/defending-american-companies-and-innovators-from-overseas-extortion-and-unfair-fines-and-penalties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a memo<\/a>\u00a0establishing that they will retaliate, should other countries be found to apply digital regulation\u00a0that the US considers to effectively act as a &#8220;<strong>digital services tax<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change in the US administration is having very\u00a0palpable repercussions in the EU, where key\u00a0digital regulation\u00a0is meant to impose obligations on US tech giants (e.g., Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, AI Act). 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