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Major tech companies and prominent tech figures have publicly engaged with or financially supported Donald Trump’s 2025 presidency through inauguration donations, meetings at Mar‑a‑Lago, and participa...
Courts and prosecutors have brought several notable cases involving AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AIG‑CSAM), but outcomes differ: federal prosecutors charged a defendant after AI images we...
The public record in the supplied reporting shows European authorities — specifically the European Commission — issued a formal retention order requiring X (Elon Musk’s platform) to preserve all inter...
The directive widely reported as an “order to keep all Grok data” was issued by the European Commission under the EU’s Digital Services Act and directed at X, instructing the platform to preserve inte...
U.S. federal law requires “interactive service” providers to report apparent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) under 18 U.S.C. §2258A...
The EU’s inquiries into X (formerly Twitter) are primarily aimed at the platform — its design choices, transparency, ad practices, verification systems and AI tools — under obligations set by the Digi...
Federal appeals courts have not produced a uniform, definitive rule that streaming child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without saving a file always constitutes “possession”; lower courts and commentato...
Several federal courts of appeals have held that private internet companies that scan user content for CSAM are not government actors subject to the Fourth Amendment when they voluntarily search their...
U.S. federal agencies are expanding use of facial-recognition cameras at ports of entry and in field operations: a DHS final rule allows photographing “all aliens” entering or exiting the country and ...
There is no single new federal statute passed in 2025 that broadly outlawed speech; instead, federal action in early 2025 mainly took the form of an executive order limiting how federal agencies and o...
Digital ID systems can create powerful new tools for identification that many governments and vendors say improve convenience, security and fraud prevention (Trinsic tracking 48 schemes covering ~177M...
Platforms publicly promise short retention for certain Grok/Grok-on‑X artifacts — for example, xAI says Private Chat data is deleted from its systems within 30 days — but multiple technical and legal ...
The U.S. state-by-state approach to deepfakes is fragmented: some states and bills require proof that a creator or distributor intended to harm for criminal liability, while a smaller set of statutes ...
U.S. federal law requires interactive electronic service providers to report apparent CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) CyberTipline once they have actual knowledg...
Yes — government bodies and legislative committees have probed major platforms over alleged political bias or suppression, with at least one formal U.S. congressional probe into Spotify and high‑profi...
Backlogs and rising report volumes are stretching investigators and prosecutors: NCMEC’s CyberTipline saw nearly 30 million reports in 2021 and massive year‑over‑year growth that created a global scal...
Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, sought to create a regulatory framework and a new Digital Safety Commission to address seven categories of harmful online content — from child sexual exploitation to c...