Legislation, enforcement and the politics behind Europe's digital rulebook, from the AI Act to platform regulation.
Following a pitch invasion at a Prague derby, Slavia's president initially vowed to activate facial recognition cameras despite EU rules, but reversed course after warnings of criminal liability and a meeting with data protection authorities.
The European Commission claims the Digital Markets Act is working, but weak enforcement and alleged political interference allow tech giants to flout the rules with impunity.
The European Commission's newly unveiled age verification app has already been compromised, while youth organisations across the continent reject bans as a superficial fix for systemic problems in social media design.
Three months into Australia's under-16 social media ban, the country's eSafety Commission reveals widespread compliance failures and little measurable reduction in harm—offering cautionary lessons as other nations pursue similar restrictions.
A technology policy expert draws parallels between Carter G. Woodson's critique of exclusionary education and today's framing of algorithmic systems as neutral tools that obscure deliberate design choices.
Negotiations on the controversial CSA Regulation have reached a critical juncture after EU Member States unexpectedly agreed to drop mandatory message scanning, but mandatory age verification across private communications remains a serious threat to digital rights.
Forty civil society organisations are calling on MEPs to refuse a second prolongation of emergency privacy rules that permit tech giants to scan billions of private communications across the EU.
The Federal Trade Commission convened experts this week to explore age-verification technologies and their legal standing, with agency leadership suggesting amendments to child privacy rules could unlock broader deployment.