Tech
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UK opposition calls for better online protections for children
Britain’s opposition Labour Party has called on the government to enact its long-delayed Online Safety Bill, after Reuters revealed how few underage children Snapchat was removing from its platform. …
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WhatsApp pledges transparency on policy changes following EU complaints
Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021, the European Commission said on Monday, following complaints from consumer bodies ac…
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Snapchat blocking lesser children accounts from it’s platform in Britain
Snapchat is kicking dozens of children in Britain off its platform each month compared with tens of thousands blocked by rival TikTok, according to internal data the companies shared with Britain’s m…
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Turkish competition board fines Elon Musk over Twitter takeover
The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it had decided to fine billionaire Elon Musk 0.1% of Twitter’s gross income in Turkey in 2022, as his takeover of the company occurred without the board’s…
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Meta says high-profile accounts to be exempted from content-related rules
Meta Platforms said on Friday it would implement most of the recommendations made by its independent oversight board to its policy of exempting high-profile users from some of its content-related rul…
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Brazil central bank greenlights Meta’s WhatsApp merchant payment system
Brazil’s central bank on Thursday approved Meta Platforms’ payments launch for small and medium-sized business in Brazil via its messaging application WhatsApp, building on the app’s existing local p…
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Apple blocks update to email app with ChatGPT tech – WSJ
Apple Inc has delayed the approval of an update to an email app with AI-powered tools due to worries that it may generate inappropriate content for children, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thurs…
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U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday along party lines to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, in what would be the most far-reaching U.S. restrictio…
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MultiChoice and Comcast enter deal to grow Africa-wide streaming service
Africa’s biggest pay TV company, MultiChoice Group, said on Thursday it had entered into an agreement with U.S.-based media conglomerate Comcast to create a pan-Africa video streaming platform. The n…
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YouTube child data gathering faces UK scrutiny after complaint
Britain’s information regulator said on Wednesday it would look into an official complaint accusing Alphabet Inc’s YouTube of illegally collecting data from millions of children. The complaint lodged…