The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has expanded its fast-moving legal campaign against state regulators, filing a lawsuit against Wisconsin in the latest effort to assert federal control over prediction markets.
The European Commission has preliminarily concluded that Meta is failing to adequately prevent children under 13 from accessing Instagram and Facebook, raising fresh concerns about how one of the world’s largest platforms is enforcing its own age restrictions under the Digital Services Act.
In a notice circulated to trade associations, the Italian Data Protection Authority has said that hotels, bed and breakfasts, and guesthouses must not retain photocopies or digital images of guests’ identity documents beyond the time needed to transmit required information to public security authorities. The clarification comes as the regulator reports a rise in complaints and personal data breaches in recent months.
The question has been circling European policy circles for years, but at BRIDGE 2026, it was brought into sharper focus. Are the very regulations designed to safeguard rights and build trust also making it harder for Europe to innovate?
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is cautioning financial institutions about growing sanctions exposure linked to China’s independent “teapot” oil refineries, underscoring their continued role in importing and refining Iranian crude.
The European Commission and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently confirmed that they will begin joint work to develop guidance on how competition laws and data protection interact. The effort is aimed at clarifying how each body of law applies in situations where their boundaries blur, an increasingly common reality in a data-driven economy.
Italy’s antitrust regulator has handed down more than €23 million in fines to three of the country’s leading snack manufacturers, concluding that they coordinated their behavior in a market-sharing arrangement that limited competition in the private label sector.