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42 Attorneys General Unite To Sue Meta Platforms Over Addictive Features Targeting Young Users

Meta faces legal challenges as attorneys general allege intentional design to retain young users

Zenger

Meta 'intentionally manipulates' children to become addicted to social media, lawsuit claims

33 US states are suing the company that owns Facebook and Instagram

Evening Standard

Smirking paedophile police officer jailed after grooming 200 girls on Snapchat

Lewis Edwards posed as a teenager to abuse young girls while working for South Wales Police

The Independent UK

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Illinois among 33 states suing Meta, alleging its platforms have harmed kids

The Menlo Park, California-based company formerly known as Facebook is accused of ensnaring youths “while misleading the public about the risks of social media.”

Chicago Sun-Times

States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children's mental health

Dozens of US states, including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms

The Independent UK

States sue Meta for harming young people's mental health, collecting data on children

A group of 33 states including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms

The Independent UK

[UPDATED] New York AG Tells Platforms to Disclose What They Are Doing About "Calls for Violence and Other Materials That May Incite Violence"

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression responds.

Reason

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Can Copying Data Be a Fourth Amendment Seizure If Accessing It Is Not a Search?

An important new case on reverse keyword search warrants raises a Fourth Amendment puzzle.

Reason

Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson

Colorado’s highest court has upheld the search of Google users’ keyword history to identify suspects in a fatal arson fire

The Independent UK

Social media platforms must ‘act swiftly to combat antisemitism’

Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan has told leaders of social media platforms they must show actions being taken to slow spread of harmful content.

The Independent UK

Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive, destructive social media habits

Utah has become the latest state to sue TikTok, alleging the social media company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits

The Independent UK

CMA probes Microsoft’s grip on cloud market

The UK’s £7.5 billion cloud services market is to be the subject of a full investigation over concerns that Amazon and Microsoft are too dominant.

Evening Standard

Cyber squad takes down illegal loan apps from Google Play store

Kerala Police Cyber wing takes down 70+ illegal money lending apps used to steal personal data & blackmail borrowers. Hundreds of people cheated using quick loans & job opportunities. 300+ people in Kozhikode district alone have sought help to recover lost money.

The Hindu

TechScape: How police use location and search data to find suspects – and not always the right ones

In this week’s newsletter: ‘Geofence warrants’ tied a man in the wrong place at the wrong time to a crime he didn’t commit – is he the only one?

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Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?

The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades

The Independent UK

Tim Cook interview: Apple boss talks trillion-dollar transformation and ushering in new era of computing

Exclusive: Apple boss on the latest iPhone, next-generation apps, and why he ‘really believes one plus one equals three’

The Independent UK

Woman finds wedding website of man she’s been dating: ‘Was audacity on his registry?’

‘The horrors persist’

The Hindu

Meta’s India team delayed action against Army-led misinformation operation in Kashmir: Washington Post

Meta delayed action against Indian Army's Chinar Corps' misinformation operation for a year. Meta’s Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior team flagged it but Indian staff warned against antagonizing government. CIB employees quit after Indian staff stymied pushback.

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The Independent UK

Musk's X is the biggest purveyor of disinformation, EU official says

A top European Union official says the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc’s laws aimed at combating disinformation

The Hindu

T.N. developing software to enable individuals to submit appeals directly under Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam

The Guardian - UK

Social media firms ‘not ready to tackle misinformation’ during global elections

Experts urge big tech companies to ensure their platforms are equipped to protect democracy in 2024 votes

The Times of India

Posting adverse review online is not defamation: Madras HC

CHENNAI: Is posting an adverse online review on the services rendered by an advocate wrong or defamatory? Hardly, said Madras high court.

The Independent UK

Google reaches tentative settlement with 36 states and DC over alleged app store monopoly

Thirty-six states and the District of Colombia have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant’s alleged monopolistic control of the distribution of apps for the software that runs most of the world’s cellphones

The Independent UK

EU targets Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft in next phase of digital crackdown

The European Union is targeting Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies

Zenger

Zuckerberg’s Threads Tangles With Slow Growth As Web Launch Falls Flat

The widely anticipated web launch of Meta's Threads, appears to have failed to significantly increase its user base.

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