The UK's planned ban on social media platforms offering services to under-16s is the headline outcome of the government's recent child safety consultation. But accompanying documents tease a wider package of m... (more story)

Regulating child influencers in Brazil has sparked concern after the government identified cases of non-compliance with the country’s online child protection framework, including the promotion of betting platf... (more story)

A $27 million settlement between four of the world’s largest social media companies and a small Kentucky school district didn’t answer the central legal question hanging over the sprawling litigation around so... (more story)

South Korea's privacy regulator is about to wield what may be the most punishing penalty powers of any data-protection authority in the world, the product not just of a new 10 percent fine ceiling but of a pen... (more story)

Claiming that 15 years of "onerous regulatory oversight is enough," X has asked the US Federal Trade Commission to terminate by the end of this year the 20-year privacy consent order it agreed to in 2022, befo... (more story)

Canada pulled back on tougher streaming service regulations amid high tensions with the Trump administration over trade and the future of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a potential implication of O... (more story)

In September 2021, as a storm of controversy raged outside his company, Mark Zuckerberg sent his senior management team a momentous question, according to newly released US documents: should Meta Platforms sto... (more story)

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner faces rising workloads and major upcoming reforms, even as its budget is being cut by 8 percent. Privacy experts and advocates warn that longstanding under... (more story)