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Meta denies using AI in risk decisions after UK groups raise concern with regulator June 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Meta has denied using artificial intelligence to make decisions about risk after a group of UK charities and experts urged the country’s communications watchdog to investigate following a report the US technol... (more story)

Social media ban, age checks spark controversy between EU states and commission June 06, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Whether social media platforms should implement strict age verification mechanisms was discussed at today’s ministers' meeting in Luxembourg. While some EU governments, including France and Denmark, want the E... (more story)

EU data protection rules should be simplified, Danish minister says June 06, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman

The EU’s data protection rules should be simplified, Caroline Stage, Denmark’s digital minister, said during a meeting of telecom ministers in Luxembourg today. The politician told her colleagues that the Gene... (more story)

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica asked about EU Digital Network Act options June 06, 2025 | Matthew Newman

Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica were today asked to comment on how European regulators may regulate the telecom sector, after the European Commission published a consultation document for the proposed ... (more story)

More platforms to adopt UK regulator’s media literacy principles this autumn June 06, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

More online platforms are expected to adopt a set of media literacy "best practice" principles this autumn, UK regulator Ofcom has told MLex, expanding signatories beyond the current four of Google, Pinterest,... (more story)

Apple warns Australia against 'sideloading,' third-party payments June 06, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Allowing the practice of “sideloading” would pose significant risks to user security, privacy and safety, and allowing third-party payments on Apple’s iOS operating systems is unlikely to bring any proven proc... (more story)

Apple fights class certification in US suit over cellular data misuse June 05, 2025 | Xu Yuan

A proposed class that alleges Apple’s iPhone design led to the misuse of cellular data shouldn't be certified because the alleged defects were individual and caused no economic injury, the company told a US fe... (more story)

US FTC eager to find ‘solutions’ to M&A antitrust concerns, Holyoak says June 05, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

Merging parties that come to the US Federal Trade Commission with “robust divestiture proposals” will be met halfway by officials who “look forward to engaging and identifying solutions when possible,” FTC Com... (more story)

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US authorities take keen interest in Brazil social media dispute June 06, 2025 | Henrique Santiago, Madeline Hughes

Political figures in Brazil and the United States have been paying close attention to actions taken against Big Tech in Brazil. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, known for his combative stance toward ... (more story)

US state bills targeting rent-setting algorithms seeing mixed results June 05, 2025 | Emma Whitford

A cluster of US state bills aimed at blocking the use of algorithmic rent-setting tools is seeing mixed outcomes this year — from a breakthrough in Connecticut to a dead end in Colorado — even as a proposed ba... (more story)

With Amazon 'dark patterns' trial looming, US FTC wins right to depose UX employees May 28, 2025 | Mike Swift

With Amazon's trial against the US Federal Trade Commission over whether it used "dark patterns" deceptive design to manipulate consumers to subscribe to its Prime service just four months away, the FTC has wo... (more story)

New EU e-commerce roadmap adds tools, but no fix for ‘parcel tsunami’ May 23, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello

The new EU proposal for a 2-euro handling fee on low-value parcels, alongside plans to remove the current duty-free threshold for small shipments, aims to ease pressure on national customs and boost oversight ... (more story)

Why Australia's online-safety watchdog must win X, Telegram lawsuits May 23, 2025 | James Panichi

Telegram Messenger and X have both launched lawsuits targeting Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant over her attempts to hold Big Tech responsible for illegal material their users may send. Both l... (more story)

Why opposition to New Zealand’s under-16 social-media ban is brewing May 23, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

New Zealand appears set to follow Australia down the path of legislating a social-media ban for children under 16 years of age. While there appears to be broad — but not unanimous — popular and political suppo... (more story)

EU Digital Fairness Act lobbying asks questions over enforcement of current rules May 19, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Tech platforms including gaming, e-commerce and social media platforms are in lobbying mode over the planned EU Digital Fairness Act. While they don't see a new law as needed at all, consumer organizations sup... (more story)

A hundred days into US FTC under new chairman, don't call leadership regulators May 09, 2025 | Mike Swift and Ilana Kowarski

Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)