France sets 15 as minimum age for social media nationwide
Ever the libertine, France has set its social media minimum age at 15 years, adding an extra year of scrolling…
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LAPD’s withdrawal from Flock exposes deeper failures in camera oversight
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) allowed its three-year agreement with Flock Safety to expire July 11 and suspended its…
AI glasses reveal widening gap between Meta’s privacy safeguards and AI ambitions
Meta is expanding the anti-tampering safeguard built into its AI glasses after users found ways to conceal or destroy the…
Pressure grows for AI regulation focused on children’s safety
As regulators around the world struggle to put the genie of social media back in its bottle and curb some…
Meta-sponsored India roundtable urges literacy, design changes over age checks
India is both the world’s largest market for digital identity, and among the most complex. The Aadhaar mandatory national digital…
Australia doubles fines for social media companies not following age check law
Privacy-preserving biometric age assurance technologies work; what doesn’t is insignificant consequences for massive, multibillion dollar companies. Australia is taking this…
US police facial recognition pioneer blames user error for wrongful arrest
Shout it from the mountaintops: Probable cause cannot come from facial recognition alone. That’s what one of the defendants in…
UK aims to lead the world with new age restrictions for social media, AI chatbots
After months of promises, the UK government has pulled the trigger on regulations to restrict social media sites for children…
Wrongful arrest based on false FRT match sparks lawsuit from Florida man
Another case of wrongful arrest after a false match by facial recognition software has given more ammo to those fighting…
FOSI reports suggest support growing for Australia’s social media age minimum
The Australian experiment in establishing a minimum age for using social media presents two large problems for those who frame…
