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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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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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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)
EU lawmakers are due to vote Thursday on extending temporary rules that allow platforms to voluntarily detect online child sexual abuse material, despite opposition from some members of the European Parliament... (more story)
The UK government remains “genuinely open” to introducing a social media ban for users under-16s, tech minister Liz Kendall has said following the announcement of a pilot trial of the measure alongside curfews... (more story)
Shanghai police have detailed administrative penalties against French luxury house Dior over a data breach last year, with relatively mild sanctions and the omission of penalties for some violations raising qu... (more story)
South Korea’s top court has narrowly defined who qualifies as a data controller subject to criminal liability under the country’s privacy law, ruling that employees of public institutions fall outside its dual... (more story)
As Meta Platforms and Google move to dismiss federal and state wiretapping claims in a suit filed in a federal court in California, a federal judge on Tuesday questioned whether Meta’s alleged Android modifica... (more story)
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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)
Indonesia’s new child-safety rules for digital platforms draw on elements of Australia’s under-16 social media ban but adopt a more complex, risk-based approach. While platforms are beginning to comply ahead o... (more story)