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US Supreme Court considers FTC’s executive power, ‘for cause’ removal protections
The US Supreme Court seemed poised Monday to give the president the power to remove members of independent agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission for any rea... (more story)
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Meta’s Section 230 defense questioned by Mass. high court
Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court were deeply skeptical Friday of Meta Platforms’ argument that Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act ... (more story)
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Media Matters win against US FTC paves way for GDI success on investigative demand
The Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, has joined Media Matters in asking a US court to curb the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into an alleged advertiser boyco... (more story)
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Findings of demographic bias in the facial-recognition system used by UK police forces triggered questions by lawmakers on Tuesday, after a government-commissioned testing published last week showed higher fal... (more story)
China’s newly revised Anti-Unfair Competition Law is expected to bring greater clarity to how data-related misconduct is assessed, as a senior competition-law scholar calls for a more structured, behavior-focu... (more story)
LG Uplus has come under criminal scrutiny after South Korea's science ministry referred the telecom giant to police for allegedly destroying servers tied to a suspected data breach, potentially amounting to ev... (more story)
Australia began enforcing its under-16 social media ban on Wednesday, but the online safety regulator says it won’t comment on individual investigations, leaving the scope and pace of early probes largely opaq... (more story)
A former Meta Platforms employee who accused the company of wrongdoing in protecting children online must turn over communications with former or current Meta employees regarding the subject, a US federal judge ruled.
As the US Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony about creating harsher criminal penalties for those exploiting children sexually online, many pointed to holding tech platforms, which host the abuse, respo... (more story)
The Brazilian data protection agency has identified the age-verification mechanism as a key priority to address before the implementation of the law aimed at protecting minors online, known as ECA Digital, whi... (more story)
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has submitted to Congress a sweeping proposal to regulate artificial intelligence in Brazil. The bill, No. 6237/2025, would create the National System for the Promotion and ... (more story)
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Government social media age restrictions, such as the one coming into force this week in Australia, or broad content-moderation laws such as those in the EU and the UK, are impossible in the US because they ar... (more story)
Regulators worldwide have woken up to a need to police online safety for minors. Australia has arguably gone the furthest, banning social media for under-16s from this week. In Europe, America, Asia and beyond... (more story)
Reddit has a complicated relationship with AI. While the 20-year-old social platform recently sued Anthropic and Perplexity alleging the AI companies illegally scraped its content to train their large language... (more story)
Brazil's National Data Protection Agency, or ANPD, has been restructured to facilitate implementation in March 2026 of a law aimed at protecting children and adolescents in digital environments.
Is ClaimsHero the next generation of law firm, a tech law disruptor built on social media technology that will serve consumers better than existing class-action Big Tech settlements that typically provide cons... (more story)
The Indian government has scrapped its directive mandating the "Sanchar Saathi" cybersecurity app on new smartphones after just five days. Despite claiming "increasing acceptance," the swift U-turn — forced by... (more story)
Investment funds engaging in for-profit support of court cases aren't likely to see any EU-wide regulatory action in the short term. The European Commission appears to see no reason to intervene, and for now i... (more story)
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is set to be the first state appellate court to hear arguments of whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields Meta Platforms from a lawsuit alleging i... (more story)