A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

The data watchdog also says it delayed or killed nine AI launches in Europe in recent years after the services failed to meet privacy standards

The same technology used by Western police was allegedly being developed in Russia and sold to Russian security services.

Meta disabled the Facebook page of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday. It also restricted the ad account linked to his campaign. The

The Microsoft co-founder called for mandatory monitoring of powerful artificial intelligence systems in an NBC interview that aired Sunday.

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Meta ​Platforms misled the state's residents in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 pr...

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UK watchdog fined video app in 2023 for failing to enforce minimum age limit and remove underage users

Tech giant Google has been fined €403m by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) over the processing of location data.

The European Commission has proposed a ban on social media access for under 13s, with "safe design" obligations for platforms for users between the ages of 15 and 18.

Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to capture younger viewers.

New “EU KIDS Act” would require TikTok and Instagram to create safer accounts for younger users.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney wants closer links with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become an "associate member" of the ​bloc, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Presidency push aligns with incoming EU online child safety proposal

Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, the first law of its kind in the nation.

The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the European Commission to back an EU-wide ban on social media for children under 15

Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

It’s the first formal investigation that has been launched under Ireland’s Online Safety Code.

Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthrough

In a long-awaited decision, a federal judge said Google must change its ad tech business to address antitrust issues, but did not disclose the measures.

Commission also designates Roblox and Reddit as Digital Services Act VLOPs

Polish authorities have notified Meta multiple times, but the company still hasn’t offered “an effective and adequate response” to the issue, the country’s deputy prime mini…

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.

More screen time during infancy and around the start of school was linked to poorer academic performance and weaker working memory years later. The findings suggest that early childhood may contain pa...

TikTok faces maximum claims totaling $11.45 billion in three Dutch collective actions over its handling of user data and allegedly harmful content, according to financial disclosures by TikTok Informa...

Ireland has limits on outside funding for court challenges, stopping Europeans from seeking compensation from Big Tech for harms.

The tool lets members flag posts they believe were generated with AI or appear to be low-effort automated content, and it's available through the three-dot menu on...

Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

New filings highlight iPhone maker’s global tax liabilities

Potentially seismic lawsuit draws comparisons to 1990s pursuit of tobacco industry

OpenAI is expanding its advertising reach by introducing ChatGPT Ads in 31 European countries. This follows a six-month trial period that began in the United States and was extended to eight other reg...

Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI

MLex Summary: 52 percent of children surveyed by the Information Commissioner's Office said they would try to bypass age checks to access online services, the UK's privacy regulator said in a study pu...

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Wednesday that social-media platforms are likely to face enforcement action over non-compliance with the country’s under-16 social-media ban. Sh...

A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.

Constitutional council says curbs infringe freedom of expression and privacy as president vows to rework legislation

X Corp. has won its challenge to an Australian online-safety standard aimed at curbing harmful content, with the court ruling that X is a social-media service and cannot also be regulated as a messagi...

A new study shows how pickup artist influencers use smart glasses to create content, and the connection between covert recording and harm.

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