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Age verification providers see new UK certification trademark from data watchdog
Age verification providers in the UK can now display a new certification trademark to signal compliance with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office standards. The... (more story)
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Ruling on Texas age-gating law doesn’t worry tech trade group NetChoice
The US Supreme Court’s decision that a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify users’ age is constitutional is narrow enough not to impact challenges to ... (more story)
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WhatsApp’s ads plan will pose questions for EU’s tech and privacy rulebooks
WhatsApp’s announcement this week that it will start offering targeted advertising, while unlikely to happen in the EU for some time, poses questions over complianc... (more story)
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Media Matters has filed a motion seeking an injunction to block an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission into its activities, arguing that the probe is an attempt to punish its First Amendment-prote... (more story)
A California law that would require Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor and other online marketplaces to scrutinize transactions on their platforms was halted by a federal judge on the grounds that it is preempted by federal laws.
Generative AI platforms should face the same safety legislation as other online services to prevent the spread of illegal and harmful content, a committee of UK lawmakers said today.
UK online platforms should face stronger duties to tackle misinformation and deepfakes, a parliamentary committee said today, calling out gaps in the Online Safety Act. In a new report, lawmakers are urging th... (more story)
Japan's industry ministry is intensifying its supervision of the relationship of large platform operators with smaller Japanese businesses to ensure fairness and transparency. The move comes four years after t... (more story)
A US federal judge admonished Amazon for abusing attorney-client privilege to withhold nearly 70,000 documents from the Federal Trade Commission in a lawsuit over its Prime subscription practices, calling the ... (more story)
Chinese social-media platform TikTok is facing a new probe by the Irish privacy watchdog into its storage of EU users’ personal data on China-based servers after an initial inquiry into data transfers from the... (more story)
Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister has urged the European Commission to investigate whether Grok — the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI and deployed on platform X — is breaching the EU’s Digital Services Ac... (more story)
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Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo, the first in Brazil to hold the three most notable positions in the country's competition authority — councilor, superintendent and president — is departing as president of the Admin... (more story)
The EU’s push for simplification of its laws has come up against a range of underlying tensions in the digital arena, including political ambition, bureaucratic inertia and industry pressure to roll back years... (more story)
Social media and search services could face new UK duties to share data with researchers, under proposals published by regulator Ofcom as part of its Online Safety Act implementation. But industry resistance, ... (more story)
The Financial Stability Board’s appointment of Randal Quarles to review the status of post-2008 reforms has raised the hackles of a senior US Senate Democrat who said it could be “putting the international fin... (more story)
A broad swath of businesses’ data-processing activities could be subject to scrutiny under US rules targeting access to American data by foreign countries considered as adversaries, as a grace period ends and ... (more story)
A surge in ship fires, including several high-profile incidents this year, is driving concern across the global trade industry as ports and shipping companies work to increase safety on board and consider more regulations.
A deal to spin off TikTok’s US social media platform to American investors could come soon after a trade deal with China is finalized. The company and the Trump administration have had a deal in place with pri... (more story)
The increase in Brazil's age rating for users of Instagram is just one of the steps the country is taking to protect children and adolescents.