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Live Nation settles with US DOJ mid-trial, state buy-in remains unclear
Live Nation and the US Department of Justice cut a mid-trial deal Monday resolving the agency’s claims of monopolization and anticompetitive conduct across the live... (more story)
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India's social-media bans tangled in different definitions of 'child'
India’s proposed social media bans in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh face operational turmoil as states define what a “child” is differently from federa... (more story)
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Indonesia to phase in under-16 account ban for high-risk platforms from March 28
Indonesia has issued a ministerial regulation barring children under 16 from creating accounts on designated high-risk digital platforms, with phased implementation... (more story)
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A wide range of internet services could face unspecified new restrictions in the UK in the name of child safety. Lawmakers on Monday rejected plans for an Australia-style under-16 social media ban, instead vot... (more story)
The Google-owned navigation service, Waze, could be designated a “Very Large Online Platform” under the EU’s Digital Services Act after reporting user numbers above the legal threshold, a move confirmed to be ... (more story)
Indonesia's detailed implementing rules under its child online protection regime automatically classifies social media services as high risk and requires the deactivation of accounts held by users under 16. Th... (more story)
Google’s YouTube is facing a complaint alleging that it is breaching the EU's digital services law by making it difficult for users to access an alternative to its own algorithm system which determines and pro... (more story)
Depression, anxiety and other mental health problems suffered by the plaintiff suing Meta Platforms and Google over alleged social media addiction were caused not by one single factor but a combination of them... (more story)
Germany is supporting a proposed overhaul of the definition of personal data as the EU seeks to simplify its landmark data protection law, MLex has learned. Berlin is one of the European Commission’s strongest... (more story)
Live Nation and the US Department of Justice cut a mid-trial deal Monday resolving the agency’s claims of monopolization and anticompetitive conduct across the live entertainment and ticketing industries.
India’s proposed social media bans in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh face operational turmoil as states define what a “child” is differently from federal law, creating compliance confusion, privacy... (more story)
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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)
US states suing Live Nation and Ticketmaster over alleged monopolization of the entertainment ticketing industry have quick and critical decisions to make this week on the timing and means of how to pursue cla... (more story)
Companies that provide what the UK government is calling “internet services” could get a clearer indication by late evening as to what sweeping new powers for online safety might mean — and how likely it is th... (more story)
Google’s Gemini will be under scrutiny at the EU’s top court next week, in a case brought by a Hungarian publisher that promises to help define how the bloc’s copyright law applies to AI training and chatbot s... (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.
After veteran lawmaker Jun Azumi was defeated in Japan’s Feb. 8 general election and lost the seat he had held for three decades, he renewed calls for Tokyo to tighten rules governing online content. Days befo... (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)