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)