Seven online services hosting harmful content have blocked UK access after Ofcom launched an enforcement program examining their compliance with the Online Safety Act's child-protection duties, the regulator s... (more story)

South Korea’s state childcare and adoption agency stored sensitive children’s data on poorly secured devices and lacked basic controls to track their movement, a privacy official told MLex. The privacy regulat... (more story)

Apple told a federal judge in East St. Louis, Illinois, that because data that can be used to group similar faces is fully encrypted after it leaves a user's device, its iPhone Photos app couldn't have violate... (more story)

Meta Platforms’ $17.1 billion settlement with more than 50 attorneys general across the US will mostly go to states’ consumer protection funds, with some states directing funds specifically to programs associa... (more story)

Meta Platforms’ settlement Wednesday with US attorneys general addressing its child safety features is a great jumping-off point for how the US regulates social media, said Frances Haugen, the whistleblower wh... (more story)

Meta Platforms should offer the same online protections for children in the UK as those it has committed to introducing in the US following its landmark settlement, a UK minister has said. The tech giant's $17... (more story)

EU governments reviewing the Digital Omnibus look in line to disagree over its narrowing of when information is considered personal data. Germany and Sweden want the digital simplification package to exclude i... (more story)

Meta Platforms is being asked by South Korea’s communications regulator whether safeguards for teenage Facebook and Instagram users agreed with US state attorneys general will also be extended to South Korean ... (more story)