Thousands of UK businesses are in scope, and the CMA will test Meta's current terms too, not only the paused rewrite. Evidence gathering runs to January 2027.

Thousands of UK businesses are in scope, and the CMA will test Meta's current terms too, not only the paused rewrite. Evidence gathering runs to January 2027.

🔥 European Commission seeks to prevent fragmented national rules on child safety online On 29 October, the European Commission announced that it would postpone decisions on notified national draft la...

Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.

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Bavaria should pursue artificial intelligence while setting safeguards against its risks, Digital Minister Fabian Mehring said at a summit in Munich, BR reports. He rejected a pause in AI development in Europe, arguing it would not make the technology safer. Mehring said stopping development only…

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The future of the internet: Netopia takes its departure point in human rights and a broad perspective on society’s digital evolution.

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The future of the internet: Netopia takes its departure point in human rights and a broad perspective on society’s digital evolution.

The US government has raised serious concerns about Australia's proposed digital duty-of-care policy, arguing that the Albanese government's attempt to tackle social media harm is likely to result in censorship and will disproportionately impact American companies. The US embassy in Canberra issued a formal response to the bill's exposure draft, highlighting potential mandates that could require regulators to impose rigid, one-size-fits-all platform design requirements, such as forced chronological feeds or opt-in recommendation systems. The US administration has requested the Albanese government to withdraw any plans to mandate platforms to algorithmically suppress content based on ambiguous government-defined safety criteria. They warned that vague definitions of online harm risk becoming a mechanism for 'viewpoint-based censorship' and that platforms may over-moderate speech to avoid penalties of up to $109 million, leading to censorship of controversial views. The US noted that the majority of online platforms affected are American-owned and global, and that mandatory design features would likely impact content seen by users outside Australia. They also expressed concern that if other countries adopted similar duty-of-care mandates, platforms could face incompatible design requirements that are not technically or commercially scalable, with the most restrictive policy likely winning. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is in New York to speak at the United Nations, had previously acknowledged resistance from the US but emphasized Australia's sovereignty and its right to make policy in its own interests. The US statement, issued by its embassy in Canberra, came just days after President Donald Trump's new envoy to Australia, David Brat, arrived to take up the post. The feedback on the exposure draft closed on Tuesday, with the US government's response marking the first substantive US government reaction to the proposed digital duty-of-care regime.

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