IP/IT News – January 2025

Read more about the January's top news about intellectual property, new technologies, cybercrime, disinformation and data protection.
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Whois : ICANN announces that as of 28 January 2025, the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) will be the definitive source for delivering generic top-level domain name (gTLD) registration information in place of sunsetted WHOIS services (Press release of January 27 2025).

Ticket fraud: A new bill for the “Mitigating Automated Internet Networks for (MAIN) Event Ticketing Act” is under discussion in the US Senate (Press release of 23 January 2025).

Economic interference: The DGSI publishes an edition dedicated to the reputational damage that French companies and laboratories may face in the context of their international development on foreign markets (Press release of 28 January 2025).

Disinformation: The Commission and the European Board for Digital Services endorsed the official integration of the Code of Practice on Disinformation into the framework of the DSA (Press release of 13 January 2025).

Cybercrime: Europol and Eurojust publish their latest report entitled “Common Challenges in Cybercrime” which explores the persistent and emerging problems that hinder cybercrime investigations (Press release of 31 January 2025).

Financial crime: Europol publishes a practical EFIPPP guide for operational cooperation between investigative authorities and financial institutions (Press release of 30 January 2025).

AI: The European Commission launches a call for tenders for a feasibility study on the development of a central registry of text and data mining opt-out expressed by rights holders (Press release of 23 January 2025).

DSA: The European Commission announces three new technical measures in the investigation into the X platform regarding its recommendation system (Press release of 17 January 2025). 

Disinformation: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta group, has announced major changes to moderation on his platforms, including the end of his fact-checking program (Press release of 7 January 2025).

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