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Body of EU laws and proposals-covering data, platforms, AI chatbots, and digital markets-that set security, privacy, and market rules for tech firms.
European Commission's KIDS Act proposal expects services minors can reach to build in age-banded access and safe defaults, with comments due 26 November 2026. Nothing is binding yet. The design it points to ties each default to an age check that keeps no ID documents.
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The cease-and-desist gave roughly 21 hours and named the repository, not just the running instances. Account-free reading of X is now a paid API key or a DSA application.
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Von der Leyen announced a ban on social media for under-13s and one-hour parent-run accounts for 13- to 15-year-olds. WIRED and a draft seen by the Financial Times describe the youngest tier differently, and the text is years from force.
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The Commission adopted the proposal on September 18. Under-13s would be kept off social media, and 13- to 15-year-olds would only get parent-linked accounts carrying a 60-minute daily cap that platforms have to enforce.
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A Forbes Tech Council column argues that an institution's control over what its agents may do decides sovereignty, and the European rules it cites were written for cloud vendors.
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The Special Panel on Child Safety Online filed its final report in July and no requirement is adopted yet. The work that transfers today is checking whether the account record can hold an age band at all.
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The Commission's proposal bars under-13s, holds 13-to-15-year-olds to an hour a day through accounts created from a parent's, and threatens fines of up to 6% of global sales. Council and Parliament have not voted.
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Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 defines a product with digital elements to include the remote data processing its functions depend on, and it makes vulnerability handling an essential requirement for as long as the product is expected to be in use.
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A Pulumi panel recorded on 3 September collects ten questions about US legal reach, EU regions and self-held keys, and the two answers it publishes are about migration economics and the price of staying portable.
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Apple has proposed paying publishers when Siri AI uses their content rather than a guaranteed annual fee, inverting the structure of every large news licensing deal signed so far.
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Two or three of the 95 were genuine, and reviewers had to read all of them to find out. The EU's 24-hour ENISA clock starts on September 11, 2026, and only evidence of active exploitation starts it.
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