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Meta, YouTube must pay $6m in Calif. damages over youth's mental health (*update)
A state court jury in California found Meta Platforms and YouTube are liable for causing the mental health problems suffered by the 20-year-old plaintiff in a lawsu... (more story)
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Snap fails to halt Utah enforcement over online children safety
Snap failed to stop an enforcement action brought by Utah over the company's alleged failure to protect children online, as a US federal judge dismissed its lawsuit... (more story)
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White House AI czar says parental control ‘north star’ for kids' online safety
Online safety for children is the “most salient” part of President Donald Trump’s new policy framework for artificial intelligence, White House AI Czar David Sacks ... (more story)
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A proposed 36-month EU timeline to phase out high-risk vendors from 5G networks is based on the experience of member states and years of preparatory work under the bloc’s 5G security framework, the European Co... (more story)
Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos have breached the EU's online child protection rules, while Snapchat is being investigated over alleged shortcomings in child safety, the European Commission has said. The ... (more story)
An extension of temporary rules allowing platforms to voluntarily detect online child sexual abuse material was rejected in a vote by EU lawmakers on Thursday, leaving a legal gap as the current rules are set ... (more story)
EU countries have a range of differing positions on changes to data-protection rules in the European Commission’s proposed digital simplification package, according to four documents seen by MLex. They show di... (more story)
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the trial over social media addiction was not convincing to the jury, one of the jurors said after finding that Meta and YouTube must pay $6 million in damages... (more story)
While US federal cybersecurity regulators were a no-show at this week's RSA conference in San Francisco, a key EU regulator who attended the conference said she's hopeful that the many common cybersecurity iss... (more story)
Children’s data is facing stricter regulation as more transparency requirements by the US Federal Trade Commission and the state of Maryland take effect in April, regulators said Wednesday.
A state court jury in California found Meta Platforms and YouTube are liable for causing the mental health problems suffered by the 20-year-old plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging social media’s role in the deteri... (more story)
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The world's privacy and AI professionals are set to converge on Washington DC for the International Association of Privacy Professional's annual Global Summit. For the first time, “privacy” isn't the summit’s ... (more story)
Social-media company X is due to see a high-profile Dutch court ruling on Thursday in litigation over its chatbot Grok's use of AI to generate and distribute sexually explicit imagery, including non-consensual... (more story)
While the $375 million penalty a New Mexico jury handed to Meta Platforms was less than 20 percent of had been sought by the New Mexico attorney general, the jury's quick and decisive verdict — the first of wh... (more story)
Meta Platforms violated a New Mexico consumer protection law and should pay a $375 million fine, a jury said Tuesday in handing down the first of what is likely to be many verdicts in courts across the US abou... (more story)
A ruling from the EU's top court that companies can refuse a request for access to personal data only in limited cases of abuse could make it easier for individuals to claim damages under the GDPR data privacy... (more story)
Australia’s under-16 social media restrictions are being hailed as a “stunning success” by the country's online safety regulator, backed by a headline figure of 4.7 million accounts removed, but questions cont... (more story)
The EU's ability to police the use of cookies could be at risk if the European Commission's legislative plans to make Ireland's data protection authority responsible for the job across the whole bloc go ahead,... (more story)
In China's latest five-year economic and social blueprint, Beijing has set ambitious targets that pull in opposite directions: tech supremacy versus social stability, export-led growth versus reduced trade fri... (more story)