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TMT weekly highlights—13 January 2022

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Published on: 13 January 2022

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Reputation management
Service out of the jurisdiction in defamation and GDPR claims (Soriano v Forensic News LLC)
Internet
French CNIL fines Google and Facebook for complicated nature of cookie refusal
An analysis of the draft EU Digital Services Act
Report published on functioning of .eu domain between April 2019 and April 2021
Data protection
EDPS sanctions EU Parliament over EU-US transfers, cookies, data rights and transparency
Telecommunications
DCMS seeks views from specific suppliers on Project Gigabit National OMR

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the TMT weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. These highlights focus on key topics including new technologies, software, cloud computing, internet, outsourcing, music, film & television, publishing, defamation and telecoms.

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