Bad actors trying to post content that violates Meta’s guidelines are similar to computer viruses: they are always evolving and finding new methods for sharing, Tomas Kabbabe, director of data science at Insta... (more story)

Brazil’s privacy regulator has fined TikTok 153.7 million reais ($30 million), alleging failures to protect minors’ data under the General Data Protection Law.  The agency investigated allegations that TikTok ... (more story)

UK essential-services providers could be banned from using or installing tech products considered a national security risk under amendments proposed by the government to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.... (more story)

TikTok faces two hearings later this year relating to Portuguese collective actions claiming up to €1.12 billion for allegedly allowing children to sign up for an account without parental consent and failing t... (more story)

Thailand is preparing to give as many as 5 million citizens government-funded access to more than 30 generative-AI models, including OpenAI's GPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, through it... (more story)

China is proposing a dedicated road-safety framework for autonomous vehicles that would help remove legal barriers to the commercial deployment of Level 3 and more advanced self-driving systems. A draft revisi... (more story)

Meta Platforms, TikTok and Snap could face fines of up to 10 percent of their global revenue under New Zealand legislation that would ban under-16s from social media. The bill would require high-risk platforms... (more story)

As a US addictive design trial against Meta Platforms in California entered its second week, former Instagram employee George Volichenko told jurors he quit Meta after concluding its teen-wellbeing team partly... (more story)