The president of Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (OCCP) has recently imposed a fine on a parking management company operating in the country and requested explanations from two other companies from this sector. There have also been signals from the OCCP concerning the submission of complaints that chatbots...

Attracting customers can require a lot of effort, but, unfortunately, some practices to bring in business can negatively affect consumers. Complicated rules, disproportionate benefits and limited accessibility of the regulations are examples of practices that have recently been questioned by the president of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection...

The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 , which comes into force on 20 September 2023, allows the possession of electronic trade documents and establishes an important new principle that an electronic trade document has the same legal effect as an equivalent paper form if the circumstances under the legislation are...

The Singapore parliament passed the Online Criminal Harms Act (OCHA) on 5 July 2023, after it was put forward for a second reading and debated. The act will commence on a later date to be notified. The OCHA received bi-partisan support and gives the Singapore government a suite of powers...

The Spanish competition regulator, the CNMC, has imposed fines of €194 million for contractual provisions in an agreement between Apple and Amazon. Apple claimed the contractual provisions were aimed at protecting its brand from counterfeiting but the CNMC ruled these were unfair and anti-competitive. The 18 July decision follows a...

The long-awaited Online Safety Act (OSA) finally became law last month. This mammoth legislation represents one of the world's most ambitious attempts yet to regulate online service providers and make the online world a safer place. (Read our overview of the OSA.) Ofcom has now published its first consultation under...

The Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered its judgment in Case C-604/22 IAB Europe v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit , involving questions around the processing of personal data by IAB Europe, the digital marketing and advertising association, through the use of its Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF). The framework is...

India’s ongoing transformation into a digital-first economy has left the government grappling with a rise in cybercrime . Traditional businesses, striving to adopt digital strategies to stay competitive, and new technology businesses, of which India has a large number including some unicorns, are racing to comply with new legislation and...

2020 was a game-changing year for Technology, Media and Communications . As a result of the global pandemic and mass home-working, we have seen a massive acceleration of digital transformation across all sectors. As a result, our TMC clients at Osborne Clarke are changing rapidly themselves but have also been...

Osborne Clarke has comprehensively advised the smart home company devolo AG and its Trustee Rüdiger Weiß of the law firm WallnerWeiß on the protective shielding procedure ending on 31 October 2022. As a result, the German market leader in PowerLAN home networking was able to successfully complete the six-month restructuring...