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Body of laws and regulatory regimes governing large online platforms, covering content moderation, antitrust, app store practices, and data use.
Musical.ly paid $5.7mn in 2019 over the same statute. The DOJ's complaint treats registration-flow design as the violation, which makes age-gating a documented enforcement target.
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The designation attaches to a capability. Any assistant that answers prompts from the open web can be read as a search engine, and the four-month clock starts at notification, a date fixed by that filing.
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Techdirt reports that the deal embeds age gating across Meta's products and puts under-18 accounts on a daily clock with default content filters, and says TikTok and YouTube will be pressed to match it.
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The 2TB iPhone 18 Pro Max lists at 3.99 million won in Seoul against 3.19 million a year ago, a 25 per cent increase on a phone whose Apple Intelligence features run only in English until a later update.
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Meta's second action against Ofcom this year disputes the categorisation that attaches extra transparency, user-control and fraud-advertising duties to two of its services. Ofcom's online safety director told peers the regulator is operating in a highly litigious environment.
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The judicial review turns on qualifying worldwide revenue, the figure behind Ofcom's annual fee and a fine cap of 10 percent of global turnover. The substantive hearing is set for October 2026, after the first invoices are expected.
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The under-16 ban Australia passed in December 2025 now has company in Brazil, Canada and the EU, and each version picks its own age and its own list of covered surfaces. Two of the nine are actually in force.
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The Europe-only rollout puts a highlighted search-engine unit above a demoted travel carousel and takes real-time price details out of the result. Google says the quality loss is the largest in the product's 29 years.
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Australia moved minor protection off parents and self-regulation and onto the platforms themselves. The early evidence on whether children actually lost access points in two directions.
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A Seoul Economic Daily column lists four Korean digital rules the U.S. has asked Seoul to change, among them the CSAP cloud certification and the requirements for moving personal and location data overseas.
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August's consumer protection deal with 47 states is one of the largest in US history, and the law professor who read the terms argues that what it left out will shape youth safety more than the penalty.
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Australia's draft Digital Duty of Care Bill threatens fines up to A$109 million if platforms fail to offer the choice, and it defines the alternative as friends and follows, so whether the opt-out holds depends on how good that feed turns out to be.
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Uber ended Nigeria and Uganda with no notice to riders or drivers, and the FCCPC is now asking what it still owed customers when the app stopped. EU platform rules would have set a 30-day notice period; Nigeria's law does not.
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The headline number is up to $17.1 billion, of which about $5.13 billion is payable only if rival platforms settle too. The part Meta cannot buy out is a combined two-hour cap, a midnight lockout and silent school hours.
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Impression guarantees signed months ago were priced against platform defaults. The state settlement has now changed those defaults, and the contracts carrying the guarantees contain no clean mechanism for the gap that opens.
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Meta is paying over ten years, at a scale its own revenue barely registers, and buying its way out with features. The overnight cutoff and the parental console are what every other app will now be asked to match.
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The two-hour cap and overnight notification blocks were written to end a US trial, and the UK's work and pensions secretary now expects them in Britain as a matter of course. That is how a settlement becomes a spec.
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The News Bargaining Incentive taxes advertising revenue whether or not a platform carries news. LinkedIn's late addition shows the scope is set by the ad line, not by self-image.
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