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Meta, YouTube must pay $6m in Calif. damages over youth's mental health (*update)
A state court jury in California found Meta Platforms and YouTube are liable for causing the mental health problems suffered by the 20-year-old plaintiff in a lawsu... (more story)
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Snap fails to halt Utah enforcement over online children safety
Snap failed to stop an enforcement action brought by Utah over the company's alleged failure to protect children online, as a US federal judge dismissed its lawsuit... (more story)
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White House AI czar says parental control ‘north star’ for kids' online safety
Online safety for children is the “most salient” part of President Donald Trump’s new policy framework for artificial intelligence, White House AI Czar David Sacks ... (more story)
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South Korea is moving to introduce a sweeping general class action regime, putting the Ministry of Justice at the center of an overhaul that could recalibrate both corporate risk and how consumers are compensa... (more story)
Former US Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Thursday extolled the virtues of the agency’s bipartisan tradition and declined to discuss a “post-apocalyptic world” that could occur if s... (more story)
Social-media company X has lost a Dutch court case over its chatbot Grok’s ability to generate and distribute sexually explicit imagery, including non-consensual “nudified” images of Dutch residents. Judges ci... (more story)
A proposed 36-month EU timeline to phase out high-risk vendors from 5G networks is based on the experience of member states and years of preparatory work under the bloc’s 5G security framework, the European Co... (more story)
Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos have breached the EU's online child protection rules, while Snapchat is being investigated over alleged shortcomings in child safety, the European Commission has said. The ... (more story)
An extension of temporary rules allowing platforms to voluntarily detect online child sexual abuse material was rejected in a vote by EU lawmakers on Thursday, leaving a legal gap as the current rules are set ... (more story)
EU countries have a range of differing positions on changes to data-protection rules in the European Commission’s proposed digital simplification package, according to four documents seen by MLex. They show di... (more story)
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the trial over social media addiction was not convincing to the jury, one of the jurors said after finding that Meta and YouTube must pay $6 million in damages... (more story)
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Major online platforms saw UK lawmakers leave a growing standoff over child safety unresolved as they began their Easter break. The House of Lords this week renewed a push for an under-16 ban on social media, ... (more story)
A New Mexico jury’s quick, decisive verdict in the state’s lawsuit against Meta Platforms, alleging the company harmed children, shows the strength of laws barring unfair and deceptive practices.
A California jury found Meta Platforms and YouTube liable for harms tied to the design of their platforms, a ruling that, despite modest damages, is adding momentum to a growing wave of litigation and renewed ... (more story)
With social media addiction in the headlines after juries in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico, found Meta Platforms and Google liable for harming users, members of Congress are continuing their calls for r... (more story)
The world's privacy and AI professionals are set to converge on Washington DC for the International Association of Privacy Professional's annual Global Summit. For the first time, “privacy” isn't the summit’s ... (more story)
Social-media company X is due to see a high-profile Dutch court ruling on Thursday in litigation over its chatbot Grok's use of AI to generate and distribute sexually explicit imagery, including non-consensual... (more story)
While the $375 million penalty a New Mexico jury handed to Meta Platforms was less than 20 percent of had been sought by the New Mexico attorney general, the jury's quick and decisive verdict — the first of wh... (more story)
Meta Platforms violated a New Mexico consumer protection law and should pay a $375 million fine, a jury said Tuesday in handing down the first of what is likely to be many verdicts in courts across the US abou... (more story)