EU digital law's national enforcers face test with policing of small porn sites
June 03, 2026
| Sara Brandstätter
Smaller pornography platforms are an increasing focus of enforcement under the EU's Digital Services Act as national regulators prepare action against services not large enough for the European Commission’s di... (more story)
Brazil reshaping minors’ online safety with new age-rating framework
June 02, 2026
| Henrique Santiago
The Brazilian government argues that its age-rating policy, which involves a series of recommendations that can be supported by parental supervision in digital environments, has been successful because familie... (more story)
Meta, others could face expensive resolution of US school suits after settlement
June 02, 2026
| Xu Yuan, Mike Swift and Maria Dinzeo
The $27 million paid by Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok and YouTube to resolve the first US school district lawsuit over alleged social media addiction may seem minimal, but the settlement could be just the begin... (more story)
AI chatbots: California Invasion of Privacy Act's next frontier
May 29, 2026
| Maria Dinzeo
AI companies are finding themselves in the crosshairs of California's decades-old anti-wiretapping law, illustrated by two class actions against OpenAI for allegedly embedding tracking technology in the ChatGP... (more story)
US legislative efforts to ban social media forge ahead as legal challenges loom
May 29, 2026
| Xu Yuan
Following recent court victories against social media giants like Meta Platforms over online harms for children, efforts by state lawmakers to ban social media use by young people are making progress in Califo... (more story)
South Carolina’s broad Age-Appropriate Design Code to affect array of companies
May 29, 2026
| Madeline Hughes
Companies that never had to comply with children’s online regulations are prepping to submit audits to South Carolina’s attorney general under the state’s new Age-Appropriate Design Code that took effect earlier this year.
Roblox faces investigative demand from Conn., hinting at regulatory problems
May 28, 2026
| Mike Swift
Roblox has joined social media companies such as Meta Platforms and TikTok in facing regulatory scrutiny over whether its platform design is addictive, as Connecticut's attorney general hit the company last mo... (more story)
Singapore AI sandbox highlights shift toward deployment-level governance
May 27, 2026
| James Konstantin Galvez
Enterprise AI governance is increasingly shifting away from abstract model risks toward operational oversight of how autonomous AI systems behave once deployed in the real world. That shift was evident in the ... (more story)