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Law bans social media platforms from providing minors features such as autoplay that lead to compulsive useGoogle, Meta and TikTok have sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended to limit the risk of addicting children under 16 to social media platforms.The law, known as Assembly Bill 1709, prohibits such platforms from
Australian adults again able to access the world’s most popular porn site after parent company introduces age checking via Apple devicesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian adults will be able to access Pornhub once again after the site brought in age-checking on Apple devices in response to legal requirements that
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Time magazine list includes Australian communications minister after her efforts to take on big techGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal communications minister, Anika Wells, has been named as one of Time magazine’s “world’s most influential rising stars” in recognition of her work on Australia’s under-16 social media ban and
Exclusive: Culture secretary says UK will crack down further and be ‘pioneer of tech as a force for good’Lisa Nandy has warned technology firms that the government’s online safety crackdown is not finished, saying that banning under-16s from social media platforms is only a “staging post”.Earlier this year the government announced that teenagers under the
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As Anthony Albanese heads to the US to discuss social media reform, he has shown a level of leadership not always expected from a smaller countryGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastStatesmen, shysters, dictators. Over the years, the United Nations has seen all kinds of world leaders.But when he arrives in
Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I attempt to travel back to 2012, before everything on the internet was an adGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastI have a confession. I love my social media algorithm. It is a perfectly curated window into my insane and inquiring mind. It knows
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White House warns trading partners against ‘imposing digital services taxes, fines, and other forms of extortion’ on US tech sectorFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe Trump administration will confront Australia over its plan to force digital platforms to take down harmful content
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The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme, which will affect social media, search engines and AI chatbotsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia will force digital platforms to let their users opt out of algorithms and offer a “safe online environment”.The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme,
As AI advances minute by minute and governments grapple with new developments they don’t know how to manage, holding big tech accountable becomes even more urgentA digital duty of care is about a lot more than opting out of “the algorithm”. And after the simplistic and at best patchy exercise of the under-16s social media
Minister calls for Instagram owner to extend sweeping new safeguards for young users to BritainUK politics live – latest updatesBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK government expects the Instagram owner Meta to roll out the same protections for children in Britain as those it agreed in the US on Wednesday, as part of a court
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