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Roblox, Discord, Snap, Meta face sprawling US litigation claiming child sexual assault
Roblox, Discord, Snap and Meta Platforms are facing new multidistrict litigation alleging they facilitated sexual predators' assaults against children on their plat... (more story)
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US FTC’s Ferguson defends case-by-case noncompete enforcement
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson Tuesday defended his agency’s departure from noncompete rulemaking efforts during the Biden administration in f... (more story)
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US FTC will appeal Meta antitrust trial loss, agency says
The US Federal Trade Commission plans to appeal its trial loss in landmark antitrust litigation over Meta’s alleged dominance of personal social networking and anti... (more story)
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UK cybersecurity rules for digital infrastructure and essential services are being scrutinized this week by lawmakers examining how an expanded regulatory regime would affect companies under the Cyber Security... (more story)
Lifestyle platforms in China are bracing for heightened oversight of the algorithms they deploy, as authorities move to strengthen protections for gig workers and the broader public. At a recent meeting attend... (more story)
The EU’s Digital Services Act application to X was a primary example of how the bloc is censoring Americans, Republican representatives said in a hearing held by the US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit heard oral argument Wednesday in parallel cases in which the states of Ohio and Tennessee are seeking to assert laws that limit social media access to minors, trig... (more story)
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act turns 30 this week, and US lawmakers used the anniversary to press for new legislation that would sunset the Big Tech liability shield within two years.
The Trump administration Wednesday announced a preferential trade zone around critical minerals as the US accelerates efforts to diversify supply chains and shore up domestic production of resources key to pro... (more story)
A cross-party group of lawmakers have written to technology minister Liz Kendall calling on her to introduce AI legislation to prevent another situation similar to Grok producing sexualized images on the X pla... (more story)
UK lawmakers are set to consider whether to introduce a ban on smartphones in English schools after the upper house of parliament voted to include the measure in draft legislation to protect children's wellbei... (more story)
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Addictive-design claims are spreading beyond social media, with plaintiffs now pressing the theory against video game makers in federal court.
A legal challenge over UK regulator Ofcom's refusal to disclose information about engagement with tech companies adds pressure as it implements the Online Safety Act. Brought by campaign group Clean Up The Int... (more story)
Roblox, Discord, Snap and Meta Platforms are facing new multidistrict litigation alleging they facilitated sexual predators' assaults against children on their platforms. That litigation, the In Re: Roblox Cor... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcers across the Biden and Trump administrations agree that employers’ pervasive use of unlawful restrictions on labor mobility are causing harm to workers, competitio... (more story)
Pornhub operator Aylo this week made perhaps the loudest cry yet for a shift in the UK to age checks for adult content to be handled at the device level, not by online platforms themselves. It won't have falle... (more story)
The text of the EU decision that saw Elon Musk’s X platform fined €120 million under the Digital Services Act sheds rare light on the European Commission’s data room and evidence-access rules, which X argues u... (more story)
The online safety debate in the UK is shifting from regulating platforms to proposals for banning under-16s from social media after lawmakers backed an amendment proposing a ban. But new data on harms linked t... (more story)
One year into US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the “Trump-Vance FTC," the Bureau of Consumer Protection’s regulatory philosophy on data privacy and artificial intelligence i... (more story)