Major tech platforms will be required to build in device-level protections for children under planned new UK legislation, culture minister Lisa Nandy told lawmakers Tuesday, three months after companies were t... (more story)

X is under a formal Irish regulatory probe — the first under the country's Online Safety Code — over over whether its age assurance measures and parental controls adequately protect children from adult-only vi... (more story)

Social media platforms should be banned for under-15s and face stricter EU rules on addictive features and safety by default, French President Emmanuel Macron has told European Commission President Ursula von ... (more story)

Australia’s proposed digital duty-of-care law would allow social-media users to choose whether algorithmically recommended content appears in their feeds, while requiring online services to assess and mitigate... (more story)

Healing Paper, the operator of Gangnam Unni, reported a data breach affecting nearly 220,000 users to South Korea’s privacy regulator on Monday, putting the incident under preliminary review as the watchdog co... (more story)

Thailand has brought into force a new framework requiring state agencies to connect their information systems to a central digital-data sharing platform and respond to data requests from other agencies within ... (more story)

EU governments would revise proposed General Data Protection Regulation rules to clarify when pseudonymized data can fall outside the law, reinstate an AI provision on legitimate interest, revise cookie rules ... (more story)

Snap is facing a new Dutch collective action over the allegedly addictive design of Snapchat, illegal content and unlawful data processing, with claims relying on the Digital Services Act and other EU laws. Th... (more story)