The leaked KIDS Act Regulation goes far beyond the leaked Communication that announced it. Its most consequential move sits beneath the proposed social media age limit: services would apply child-safe...

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover Simple Minds performing “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”. Where the earlier posts in our series “So, what…

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover The Police performing "Every Breath You Take". The previous post in this series, Sweet Dreams Are Made…

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover the Eurythmics performing “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”. The previous post in this series, You Spin…

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover Dead or Alive performing "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". The opening post in this series,…

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover Michel Polnareff’s “La poupée qui fait non”. France adopted its under-15 social media ban on 21 July…

If you have been following the tech headlines over the last weeks, you might believe that Generative AI in Europe just hit a brick wall. The Regional Court of Munich…

The case for age-based social media restrictions is routinely made in the name of parents. Families are anxious, the argument runs, and a ban answers that anxiety.

The “privacy-preserving age verification” label should be understood at two separate levels: on the one hand, it accurately describes a mechanism, yet on the other, it misleadingly describes a system....

The social media ban debate has produced a well-worn sequence. A harm is named.

The EU copyright review is being argued by two blocs of private interests. The party that will live with the result, the public, was never really in the room. That…

A video gamer, a librarian, and a random mum walk into a bar. That could be the start of a great joke. Sadly, it is not. It reflects a convergence…

This is the third and final installment in a series analysing the European Commission's current call for evidence on EU copyright rules. Part 1 examined live content piracy and the…

The case for social media bans is typically framed as a child protection argument. Governments have a duty to keep children safe.

This is the second installment in a three-part series analysing the European Commission's current call for evidence on EU copyright rules. Part 1 examined live content piracy and the fundamental…

This is the first installment in a three-part series analyzing the European Commission’s current call for evidence on EU copyright rules. This post focuses on live content piracy; subsequent pieces…

The IMCO draft opinion on the Digital Networks Act (DNA), reported by Euractiv and circulated after a Politico leak, takes the Commission’s already-imperfect proposal and systematically worsens it on ...