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Jury in Calif. social media trial to grapple with adolescent thinking, expression
The jury in the ongoing trial in Los Angeles over social media addiction must answer a key question: If Kaley, the 20-year-old plaintiff who sued Meta Platforms and... (more story)
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Philippine digital platform study urges privacy integration into competition law
A market study by the Philippine Competition Commission recommends integrating data privacy considerations into the Philippine Competition Act and strengthening coo... (more story)
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US DOJ's Assefi vows to reject 'half-measures,' wants more civil antitrust cases
Omeed Assefi, who took over as the acting chief at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division for a second time, and in an address to staff on Tuesday sought to d... (more story)
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EU governments have kept up pressure on proposed changes to the General Data Protection Regulation in two March 11 documents seen by MLex. A broad group of member states is continuing to question reforms to th... (more story)
Meta Platforms will not immediately launch its new WhatsApp accounts for under-13 users in the UK or European Union, as British regulators intensify pressure on tech firms to strengthen age checks. The WhatsAp... (more story)
Social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube have been told by UK regulators Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office to strengthen age checks and child safety prot... (more story)
Meta Platforms Japan said it will roll out Instagram’s self-harm alert feature to users aged 13 to 17 later this year, integrating it into Teen Accounts. The tool notifies parents or guardians if teens repeate... (more story)
Lotte Card was slapped with a 9.6 billion won ($6.5 million) fine by South Korea’s privacy watchdog after a probe into a major data breach found violations involving the handling of resident registration numbers.
A New Mexico jury deciding whether Meta Platforms built its apps in ways that harmed children queried Instagram chief Adam Mosseri on Wednesday about the company’s recommendation algorithms and internal messag... (more story)
A 12-person jury has heard evidence from all parties in the trial over social media addiction in a lawsuit brought by a 20-year-old woman against Meta Platforms and YouTube. Closing arguments are expected to b... (more story)
Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s has been “very successful,” the country’s online safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant told UK lawmakers, as Britain considers similar restrictions under a governm... (more story)
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The jury in the ongoing trial in Los Angeles over social media addiction must answer a key question: If Kaley, the 20-year-old plaintiff who sued Meta Platforms and YouTube, exaggerated mistreatment by her fam... (more story)
Testimony from New Mexico educators about the disruptive effects of social media in schools is offering an early look at the evidence a Kentucky school district hopes to present in a closely watched federal tr... (more story)
Halfway through the first bellwether trial over whether Meta and YouTube deliberately designed their services to hook children, Meta appears particularly vulnerable to a jury finding that Instagram contributed... (more story)
A new executive order from the White House says the US will take a hard line with “transnational criminal organizations” that launch ransomware and other cyberattacks. The order from President Donald Trump ins... (more story)
A New Mexico jury has heard only from current Meta Platform executives through taped depositions, as the state is expected to rest its case after hearing from its final live witness on Wednesday.
US House Republicans in the Energy and Commerce Committee have unveiled the largest package of child online safety bills after parents and activists have pressured members relentlessly in the midst of an awake... (more story)
Another porn-hosting platform received a fine from the UK online safety regulator this week for inadequate age assurance. But as the number of fines grows, there is scant information about whether they are pai... (more story)
Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico will have to parse two very different views of Meta Platforms that they have heard during the first three weeks of parallel social media trials. Is the culture of “move fas... (more story)