Child advocates say holding tech companies responsible for verifying the ages of their users is key to creating a safer ...

Meta last year left Chamber of Progress, a liberal-leaning tech group that counts Apple and Google as members. Since then, ...

The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to ...

A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit US Court of Appeals overruled a decision by a federal district judge to block the 2024 law from going into effect.

A subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is headed for another clash with the European Union after a €200 million ($232 million) fine failed to bring Facebook and Instagram into compliance with a tough new digital law.

Per Ofcom's rules, there are various ways that age checks can be done, including checking users' government issued IDs, ...

The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, declined to offer an attributed on-the-record comment about the new age checks to The Verge. In unattributed statements to other outlets, it said it was “now ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.

More control for parents, but no social media ban. Meta supports ideas for an EU-wide "digital age of majority".

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Technology trade group NetChoice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Mississippi from enforcing a law that requires age verification for users of social media.