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California kids code injunction decision triggers digital industry-wide concern
The recent lifting of an injunction blocking enforcement of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act by a federal appeals court could send regulatory ripples ... (more story)
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Differing versions of US online child safety bills will pose issues for full passage
While the latest child online safety package from the US House of Representatives includes bills of the same name that have already been passed by the Senate, the c... (more story)
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Jury in Calif. social media trial to grapple with adolescent thinking, expression
The jury in the ongoing trial in Los Angeles over social media addiction must answer a key question: If Kaley, the 20-year-old plaintiff who sued Meta Platforms and... (more story)
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A Deloitte report commissioned after Medibank Private’s 2022 data breach was primarily intended to enable the health insurer’s lawyers to provide legal advice, an Australian court hearing an appeal was told. A... (more story)
Hong Kong’s Law Reform Commission is examining whether existing laws adequately address crimes involving the use of artificial intelligence, amid growing global scrutiny over deepfake pornography and misinform... (more story)
A US federal judge has signaled she will deny most efforts by a Kentucky school district and major social media companies to limit what evidence a jury can hear in a closely watched trial over whether platform... (more story)
Bryce Bartlett, a Meta Platforms vice president for analytics and research, disputed any causal connection between social media use and mental health problems for teenagers, as New Mexico's child-safety trial ... (more story)
OpenAI saw an Italian court Wednesday overturn a €15 million fine by Italy's privacy watchdog for failures in managing its ChatGPT service in the country. In 2024, the fine against OpenAI was the first against... (more story)
Members of the US Senate Commerce Committee used a majority of a hearing on Wednesday questioning how Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has impacted lawsuits alleging addictive harms brought agains... (more story)
The jury in the trial over the role of Instagram and YouTube in the deterioration of the mental health of a 20-year-old plaintiff have asked a series of questions concerning Instagram’s features, YouTube’s dat... (more story)
Meta Platforms, TikTok, YouTube, Snap and the Breathitt County, Kentucky, school district have disclosed their witness lists for the next generation of social media addictive-design trials, which will begin in... (more story)
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Online platforms face growing legal uncertainty after EU lawmakers and member states failed to agree on extending temporary rules allowing the voluntary detection of CSAM. Meanwhile, institutions are blaming e... (more story)
A US lawsuit against xAI over Grok being used to generate non-consensual, sexual images of children could test the boundaries of a federal law that immunizes online platforms from liability for hosting user co... (more story)
Meta Platforms was largely successful in getting thrown out most of the information about New Mexico’s civil investigation into the prevalence of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) on its platforms. It will b... (more story)
The recent lifting of an injunction blocking enforcement of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act by a federal appeals court could send regulatory ripples across many sectors of the tech industry, inc... (more story)
Brazil begins enforcing a new law Tuesday aimed at protecting minors in digital environments. The Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents grants the country’s data watchdog additional powers to safeguard ... (more story)
If children under 13 are not allowed on Instagram, why do so many appear to be using it? Testimony in two social media addiction trials has repeatedly returned to this question. Meta Platforms says the answer is complicated.
UK regulators Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office are shifting online safety enforcement from fringe pornography and suicide forums to the largest social media platforms, placing Meta, YouTube, Tik... (more story)
A New Mexico jury is asking if they will see what Meta Platforms whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked to US Congress and the press in 2021. That disclosure of internal documents has been defined as a watershed ... (more story)