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A city skyline in the Philippines beyond low-rise neighbourhoods

ASEAN Tech 4 min The Philippines Blocked Discord for a Day, Without a Court Order The block followed a 24-hour ultimatum over child safety and ended after the platform promised new measures. T... SA Sarah Chew 30 Sep

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ASEAN Tech 6 min Indonesia Sets Child-Safety Fines at 6% of Global Revenue A foreign platform is measured against its worldwide turnover; an Indonesian medium firm against a fixed ceili... SA Sarah Chew 19 Sep

A daytime view over Manila with high-rise towers above dense low-rise blocks

ASEAN Tech 5 min The Philippines Froze Its Own Tech Budget to Summon Zuckerberg Lawmakers deferred their own technology department's 2027 budget to force Meta to answer on child safety. The... SA Sarah Chew 18 Sep

Aerial view of Manila, with high-rise towers lining a brown river and dense low-rise housing spreading behind them.

ASEAN Tech 6 min The Philippines May Make Its National ID the Age Check for Social Media The statistics authority says PhilSys can confirm an age threshold without exposing a name. The privacy commis... SA Sarah Chew 16 Sep

Jakarta's high-rise skyline at dusk, with office and residential towers under a pink and blue sky.

ASEAN Tech 5 min Indonesia Says X Has No Office There, and May Make Platforms Open One X had locked about 250,000 under-16 accounts against an estimated seven million. Indonesia's minister says pla... SA Sarah Chew 15 Sep

Aerial view of the California State Capitol in Sacramento, its white dome framed by palm trees under pink evening clouds.

AI & ML 6 min California Will Make Companion Chatbots Pass Independent Child-Safety Audits Thirteen bills signed on 10 September also ban history-based feeds for under-16s. The audit rule is the new pa... MA Maya Lin 15 Sep

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AI & ML 7 min New York City Halts Student-Facing AI for a Year, Covering 600,000 Students A moratorium from 2-K to grade 8, five high school pilots capped at 50,000, and a companion-chatbot prohibitio... MA Maya Lin 3 Sep

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Privacy & Data 6 min Roblox May Check Filipino Ages Against the National ID System Facial estimation, document checks and national ID verification are being discussed as though they were the sa... PR Priya Nair 31 Aug

A hand holding a phone showing a map with a location pin, representing the location data the HMD Fuse flaw could expose

Consumer Tech 7 min A Phone Sold on Child Safety Was Pulled Over Location Exposure The HMD Fuse pairs on-device nudity detection with continuous location. A researcher found flaws that could ex... AM Amelia Wong 29 Aug

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Privacy & Data 7 min Slovakia's Under-16 Ban Has a Second Half Nobody Is Reporting For 16 to 18-year-olds the bill mandates private profiles, disabled location sharing and contact restrictions... PR Priya Nair 27 Aug

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Privacy & Data 8 min A Third of Meta's $16.7bn Youth Safety Settlement Depends on TikTok Meta has ended the multistate youth safety trial with a settlement worth up to $16.7bn, agreeing to daily time... PR Priya Nair 27 Aug

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Privacy & Data 8 min The Meta Trial in Oakland Has a Jury, but the Judge Decides Twenty-nine states brought it, four are arguing it, and the jury's verdict is advisory — Judge Gonzalez Rogers... PR Priya Nair 26 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min After WWDC 2026, Apple's AI Is Fragmenting by Jurisdiction — Delayed in the EU, Unavailable in China Apple's WWDC 2026 announcements made one thing clear for governance watchers: Siri AI and Apple Intelligence n... PR Priya Nair 9 Jun