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Regulation and platform obligations covering minors' data, default settings, parental supervision and age assurance.
Florida's attorney general asked a Pasco County court to pull under-14 users off Facebook and Instagram and cap teens at two hours a day. Having passed on its share of the multistate settlement, Florida now needs a judge to grant terms stricter than those Meta accepted elsewhere.
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Meta, TikTok and X are fighting Ofcom in a London court over moderation data demands under a law that allows fines of up to 10% of global turnover. The ruling sets how much the platforms must count and hand over, a week before Meta separately contests how Ofcom calculates fees and penalties.
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California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey say features built to extend teen sessions are the defect. A court has already dismissed Meta's Section 230 appeal in the case.
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Default 2-hour caps, a midnight-to-6am block and age assurance are now written down, with a contingent payment attached to Snap, TikTok and YouTube adopting the same defaults.
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Fifty-one attorneys general did not just extract a payment; they wrote a testable product specification and hired someone outside the company to check it. The open question is what the age checks may look at.
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Meta AI asked a mother to name the child in her own video, then, she says, pulled her daughters' ages and location out of years of family posts. Meta says the answer used only data she could already reach.
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The R$153.7m penalty covers guest browsing, so the breach is the collection rather than the age check. Every remedy the agency ordered except the deletion applies only to accounts.
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