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Uber Eats, Airbnb face UK online safety duties, Wikipedia avoids top tier July 10, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Uber Eats, Airbnb, Quora and ChatGPT Search are among the less expected services to face additional UK online safety duties, sector regulator Ofcom's long-awaited first categorization register shows. Facebook,... (more story)

Meta faces EU warning over addictive design of Facebook, Instagram (update*) July 10, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Meta Platforms is breaching the EU’s Digital Services Act through the addictive design of Facebook and Instagram, the European Commission found on Friday. The probe focuses on features including infinite scrol... (more story)

China pushes e-commerce platforms to share algorithm data with regulators July 10, 2026 | Yonnex Li

China is moving to tighten oversight on how online retail platforms use algorithms to shape product visibility and sales, requiring platforms to share key data with regulators. This initiative is part of Beiji... (more story)

China AI chat apps pull agent features ahead of emotional-companion rules July 10, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's leading artificial-intelligence chatbot providers are removing intelligent agent functions from their flagship consumer apps ahead of sweeping new rules governing AI virtual companions and emotional-su... (more story)

New Zealand lawmakers reject proposed privacy safeguards over new police powers July 10, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

A parliamentary committee has recommended the Policing Amendment Bill be passed after declining the New Zealand privacy regulator’s request for regulation-making powers to impose safeguards on the law enforcem... (more story)

US FTC fields ideologically charged comments for X privacy petition July 09, 2026 | Mike Swift

As the US Federal Trade Commission prepares to decide a rare request by X Corp. to terminate the social media company's 20-year privacy consent order, the FTC has received comments that span a wide ideological... (more story)

Zuckerberg, Mosseri, Spiegel ordered to appear at US social media trial July 09, 2026 | Xu Yuan

Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel must testify at a second bellwether US trial in litigation over social media’s alleged harm to youth mental... (more story)

UK privacy watchdog says review will be commissioned with tech ministry (update*) July 09, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

The UK privacy regulator has said it will jointly commission an independent review with the government’s technology department after minister Liz Kendall told lawmakers on Wednesday that she would launch a rev... (more story)

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Direction of EU social media curbs debate to be clarified with experts’ report July 10, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Political debate in the EU over social media bans is unlikely to be answered with a simple yes or no when an expert panel report drops on Monday. Wider discussions around child safety online — and a recent Ger... (more story)

Meta faces major liabilities sought by US states in upcoming social media trial July 08, 2026 | Xu Yuan

Claims by US state attorneys general that Meta Platforms should pay more than $1 trillion for alleged harm its social media apps caused to children and teenagers present significantly higher stakes for an upco... (more story)

China maps policy-reality gaps in decade-long unified market push July 08, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's top legislature heard candid testimony recently on why the country still lacks a unified national market despite years of effort. Officials cited inconsistent enforcement, outdated laws, entrenched loc... (more story)

Malaysia, Singapore recast sovereign AI around policy choices July 08, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez

Malaysia’s and Singapore's national strategies suggest that, for smaller economies, sovereign AI is becoming less about technological self-sufficiency than about combining targeted domestic capabilities with g... (more story)

India's WhatsApp intervention tests the boundaries of platform regulation July 08, 2026 | Freny Patel

India's proposed suspension of WhatsApp's usernames feature tests whether existing law permits government intervention in product design before deployment. This raises broader questions about executive authori... (more story)

Connecticut links minors' privacy, addictive design bans as new state laws kick in July 07, 2026 | Mike Swift

Long a leader among US state privacy enforcers, Connecticut as of July 1 added significant new amendments to its existing Data Privacy Act, including bans on the use of minors' data to target advertising and o... (more story)

US privacy enforcement remains conventional under increasingly politicized FTC July 06, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has taken a conventional approach to enforcement of privacy matters, even as his commission has taken a more disruptive approach to other issues.

Streaming platforms seek EU court guidance on Belgian copyright rules July 03, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Matthew Newman

Belgian streaming platform Streamz, Spotify, Google and other companies will ask the EU's highest court on July 6 and July 7 to determine whether Belgium can require streaming platforms to make additional paym... (more story)