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Meta hit with New Mexico summary judgment motion over kids' safety
Meta Platforms faces a half-dozen motions for summary judgment filed by New Mexico’s attorney general presenting the state’s evidence that Meta knowingly put childr... (more story)
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Meta to remove under-16 users from Dec. 4 ahead of Australia's social media ban
Meta Platforms is moving ahead of Australia’s upcoming social-media restrictions for children under 16, announcing it will begin removing affected users from Dec. 4... (more story)
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India forces Big Tech to treat under-18s as minors in privacy rules
India has significantly changed data-protection rules, defining anyone under 18 as a child. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which was put into effec... (more story)
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School districts cannot pin a youth mental-health crisis, or their multimillion-dollar plan for fixing it, on any design feature of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Snapchat, the social media giants argue in a fl... (more story)
X will have to pay the €120 million ($135 million) fine it received last week for breaching the EU’s digital services law, the European Commission has said. Billionaire owner Elon Musk was also wrong to claim ... (more story)
Australia’s online safety regulator has admitted she initially had reservations about the country’s upcoming social media ban for children under 16. At a conference in Belgium, Australian eSafety Commissioner ... (more story)
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, has called for the abolition of the EU and action against the "individuals" behind a €120 million fine for the social-media platform. In a series of posts drawing paralle... (more story)
Google’s proposed fixes for its monopolistic conduct in the search and search advertising markets included a “semantic head fake” that improperly sought greater flexibility for distributing its generative AI p... (more story)
The US strategy on protecting supply chains would benefit from a more precise management of economic sectors that are truly a national security priority, analysts said at a Friday event following the release o... (more story)
Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court were deeply skeptical Friday of Meta Platforms’ argument that Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act protects it from a state lawsuit alleging har... (more story)
European governments debated on Friday whether the EU should change its liability regime for e-commerce platforms based outside of the bloc, following uproar over Chinese online retailer Shein’s sale of child-... (more story)
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The Indian government has scrapped its directive mandating the "Sanchar Saathi" cybersecurity app on new smartphones after just five days. Despite claiming "increasing acceptance," the swift U-turn — forced by... (more story)
The Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, has joined Media Matters in asking a US court to curb the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into an alleged advertiser boycott — a challenge that is expected to see simi... (more story)
Investment funds engaging in for-profit support of court cases aren't likely to see any EU-wide regulatory action in the short term. The European Commission appears to see no reason to intervene, and for now i... (more story)
Underscoring the World Intellectual Property Organization Advisory Board of Judges’ mission to bridge the gap between highly advanced IP jurisdictions and those that need support, the board is finalizing a two... (more story)
Online platforms offering services in scope of the UK’s Online Safety Act will face accountability efforts by the regulator in the hope they will adhere to new voluntary guidance on protecting women and girls ... (more story)
Immediate questions about the European Commission's plans to revise its digital laws to make them simpler and cut red tape dominated a key annual Brussels gathering of data protection professionals. But while ... (more story)
EU regulators’ proposal to change the definition of personal data in the bloc’s landmark privacy law isn’t just raising hackles with privacy activists for undermining privacy protection; it’s also underscoring... (more story)
A recent ruling in a case by Getty Images against Stability AI has provided some clarification on how the UK copyright regime handles AI training, the models and their output. But it also highlighted problems ... (more story)