The European Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into whether Meta is unfairly limiting third-party artificial intelligence providers’ access to WhatsApp, potentially shutting out competitors to its own “Meta AI” service.
Southern Phone is facing tough scrutiny after paying US $1,607,600 (AUD 2,500,560) in penalties, the highest fine the Australian Communications and Media Authority has ever issued for this type of failure, for giving scammers an easy path to take over customers’ mobile numbers.
Dutch financial institutions are beginning to show how they plan to align their business with a climate-safe future, and regulators say the early progress is encouraging, even if the road ahead is long. In a new review, the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets finds that eight of the country’s largest banks and insurers are reporting on their climate transition plans and financed-emissions data in a more structured and transparent way than ever before.
The UK’s corporate governance watchdog is taking a closer look at how the country’s largest private companies explain their governance decisions and sees both progress and room to grow. In its first reporting insights since taking over oversight of the Wates Corporate Governance Principles earlier this year, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) says many companies are using the framework effectively to articulate how boards oversee risk and engage with stakeholders. But when it comes to explaining corporate purpose, how boards are structured, and how directors are paid, disclosures are still often falling flat.
South Korea’s competition regulator has fined Webzen for misleading players about the chances of winning rare items in its hit mobile game MU Archangel. The Commission, chaired by Biung-ghi Ju, announced that Webzen will face a corrective order and administrative surcharges totaling KRW 1.58 billion (about USD $1.2 million) for using what officials described as deceptive practices tied to in-game “loot boxes.”
American Express has landed in the crosshairs of France’s data protection regulator, which says the company repeatedly ignored rules that give internet users control over how they’re tracked online.
America’s largest apartment manager is being forced to clean up how it markets rent to prospective tenants. Greystar has agreed to pay $24 million and end what regulators call a pattern of hiding unavoidable monthly fees behind deceptively low rent ads. The resolution follows a joint lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Colorado, which accused the real estate giant of luring renters in with prices that didn’t reflect what they would actually pay to live in its properties.