The UK's planned social media ban for under-16s puts online safety regulator Ofcom at the center of both a complex enforcement effort and growing trans-Atlantic tensions. It is focused on technical challenges ... (more story)

Canada's proposed Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, also known as Bill C-26, would transform the country's privacy enforcement landscape, replacing key parts of its current private-sector privacy law w... (more story)

Momentum behind social media restrictions for children is building in Europe after the UK announced plans this week to join Australia in imposing an under-16 ban. The move adds pressure on the European Commiss... (more story)

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)