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  17/04/2024

  England and Wales

  AI-driven enforcement comes of age in UK with AI systems reshaping advertising and regulation and enforcement – ASA’s 2023 Annual Report

  The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has published its 2023 annual report, describing 2023 as a watershed year for its digital strategy.Together, the ASA and the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) secured the amendment or withdrawal of 27,378 ads in 2023, a remarkable 92% of which resulting from proactive work largely powered by the ASA’s Active Ad Monitoring System. In December 2022, the ASA ran 20,000 ads through the system, which rose to over 600,000 ads per month by the end of 2023. This system forms a key part of the ASA’s 2024 to 2028 strategy on AI-assisted...

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  17/04/2024

  Ungarn

  Hungary proposes widening scope of financial entities under DORA Regulation

  On 10 April 2024, the Hungarian Parliament adopted a new law on the detailed rules implementing the DORA Regulation – Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector (Digital Operational Resilience Act – DORA). The following article summarises the main differences between the scope of DORA and the Implementing Law.Scope of DORA in generalDORA lays down uniform requirements concerning the security of network and information systems supporting the business processes of financial entities...

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  11/04/2024

  China

  China expands foreign investment in value-added te­le­com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons services through pilot programme

  On 8 April, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the Circular on Launching the Pilot Programme for Expanding the Opening-up of Value-Added Telecommunications Services.Prior to this announcement, China had long regulated foreign investment in the telecommunications sector with varying degrees of restrictions across different services. In the value-added telecommunications services (VATS) sector, certain areas such as e-commerce, domestic multi-party communications, store-and-forward services and call centres have seen a relaxation of foreign investment restrictions,...

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  10/04/2024

  Singapur

  Singapore financial regulator introduces expansion of regulated payment services

  On 2 April 2024, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”) introduced amendments to the Payment Services Act (“PSA”) and its subsidiary legislation to expand the scope of regulated payment services in Singapore.Starting 4 April 2024, the following activities will fall within the scope of the PSA:The provision of custodial services for Digital Payment Tokens (“DPTs”);Facilitation of transmission of DPTs between accounts and facilitation of the exchange of DPTs, even where the service provider does not come into possession of the moneys or DPTs; andFacilitation...

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  09/04/2024

  Europe

  The sum of parts: Registered design for segments of towers found valid by General Court

  BackgroundTA Towers ApS (“TA Towers”), a company based in Denmark, is the holder of the below registered Community design relating to goods for building materials, specifically, ‘building materials for a windmill tower’ (the “RCD”): On 3 September 2019, the intervener, Wobben Properties GmbH (Wobben) filed an application for a declaration of invalidity of the RCD. Wobben claimed that:the contested design lacked novelty,it did not have individual character, andthe features of its appearance were solely dictated...

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  09/04/2024

  United Kingdom

  Three not-so-ran­do­mi­sed rulings from the ASA

  On 20 March 2024, the Advertising Standards Authority (“ASA”) upheld complaints against three separate social media ads for online games that failed to disclose the inclusion of loot boxes.All three complaints were made by Leon Y. Xiao, a PHD Fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen, after he published a report in January 2024 which highlighted that 93% of games that contained loot boxes did not disclose these in their social media ads, therefore failing to comply with CAP Guidance on loot boxes.The ASA examined all three ads and upheld that each ad had breached rules 3.1 and 3.3 of...

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