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The Digital Services Act (DSA) imposes wide-ranging and transformative obligations on online intermediaries and platforms. As has been well-publicised over the last few months, the most onerous obligations, and tighter deadlines for compliance, fall on services designated by the Commission as very large online platforms (VLOPs) or very large online search engines (VLOSEs). However, all online platforms and online search engines were required to publish information on their user figures earlier this year, and all…

In a recent judgment, the UK Supreme Court unanimously refused to give permission for a litigant to serve a claim form outside of the jurisdiction in respect of a representative action brought against Google. This case, Lloyd v Google, is the latest, and most significant, in a line of recent decisions (see our other updates here and here) which show a general trend of the courts interrogating the type of losses that have been claimed and rejecting claims for…