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Legislative and judicial efforts to impose safety-by-design duties on platforms used by minors, including KOSA and app-store accountability proposals.
Lisa Nandy told MPs that the two firms' proposals do not meet the scale of the crisis. The draft law would also reach providers of apps used by children, turning on-device image classification into a compliance job for them too.
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California's under-16 feed ban starts on January 1, 2027, and the cheapest way to comply is an age signal built from a birth date the user typed at device setup. The EFF expects platforms to verify every adult instead.
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The longest section of the deal is about telling adults from children, and both available techniques collect more from everyone: behavioural inference on accounts already being logged, or a face scan before you can send a message.
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New Mexico won about $942 million and a ban on romantic AI chatbot contact with minors in court. The 51-state deal pays up to $18 billion and, its own attorney general says, leaves that term out.
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The Online Safety Bill names Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook, permits facial age estimation and digital ID, and caps fines at 10 percent of global revenue. Nobody has said who keeps the face scans.
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France's under-15 ban starts on 1 September with the clause naming a regulator removed, and New Zealand's 16-plus bill carries a 10 percent global revenue penalty it cannot pass. Product teams get both.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal want answers by September 1 on a control group of about 10% of users, including minors, that did not get an anti-rabbit-hole algorithm change.
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Raul Torrez is drafting bills that would remove penalty caps and extend liability to AI chatbots, one day before 29 attorneys general opened against Meta in Oakland. States are setting the floor.
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