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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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US FTC's Holyoak steps down as she begins US Attorney job in Utah
Melissa Holyoak stepped down Monday from her role as a Federal Trade Commissioner and has already begun her new job as interim US Attorney for the District of Utah.... (more story)
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Online platforms now have a clear timeline for paying fees to the UK online safety regulator and guidance on qualifications and exemptions, although one final consultation on details of the regime was opened o... (more story)
X has taken legal action in the Irish High Court against Appeals Centre Europe, an out-of-court dispute settlement body certified under the EU's Digital Services Act. The social-media platform is challenging i... (more story)
The Tokyo District Court held Cloudflare liable for aiding large-scale manga piracy, marking one of the world’s first damages rulings against a content delivery network.
Livestreaming platform Twitch will join Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat on the growing list of digital platforms covered by Australia’s under-16 social-media ban, with the online-safety regulator also... (more story)
Five more companies that between them operate 20 pornography websites are newly under investigation for non-compliance with UK online safety rules, the watchdog responsible said. Changes in UK traffic to the s... (more story)
The European Commission said its 2023 anti-piracy guidelines failed to curb livestream piracy and it will consider new EU-wide measures and stronger cross-border cooperation to improve enforcement consistency.
The UK data protection authority’s outlook for enforcing against companies is changing as the “relatively new” data protection case laws filters through, one of its senior officials has said, while the regulat... (more story)
The use of children’s data for online advertising should be prohibited under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the German data protection watchdogs said in a statement published on Thursday. This ru... (more story)
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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)
The UK’s privacy regulator has been raising internal concerns about the legal resources needed to deliver broader cybersecurity enforcement, documents obtained by MLex show. The records, which cover 2021-2024,... (more story)
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 effect by the subsequent rules released last Frida... (more story)
Google says it’s ready to roll out age-verification technology already adopted by its YouTube video-streaming service in global markets, amid media speculation the search giant is preparing to launch a legal c... (more story)
A cluster of antitrust lawsuits against Google represents a new front for publishers seeking to hold artificial intelligence companies to account for allegedly competing with them unfairly for audience attenti... (more story)
Meta Platforms’ bid to shield documents about its lawyers’ alleged efforts to cover up research into social media’s harm to young users may force the company to provide tens of thousands of more documents as U... (more story)