Online-safety is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Malaysia enforces an under-16 ban on social media accounts, mandating age verification with penalties up to RM10 million, as part of a broader global push for online safety.
Meta faces ongoing litigation and a wave of U.S. Congressional bills on children’s online safety, signaling higher regulatory/compliance risk and potential costs for investors.
Lawmakers advance a package of online safety bills requiring age verification at app stores, moving toward a House floor vote.
The Verge reports that X's Grok still enables nonconsensual sexual deepfakes and that policy updates have not effectively curbed the behavior, according to user testing.
Aylo plans to block UK users from Pornhub rather than comply with UK age-verification mandates.
UK formally brings into force criminal penalties for creating nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, tying the offense to the Data Act and Online Safety Act in response to the Grok incident.
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