Brazil’s data authority orders Discord to suspend live-streaming over child safety concerns The Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has issued a preventative measure affecting Discord’s video-sharing functions in Brazil. Discord has been under scrutiny since police identified suspects who allegedly induced a 13-year-old girl to take her own life during a live broadcast. According...Read More

Meta is currently undergoing a landmark trial in Oakland, California, litigated by four US states — Colorado, California, New Jersey and Kentucky. The case could permanently change how popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram are designed. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The states accuse the social media giant of intentionally designing its platforms to addict...Read More

Exposing Online Predators Some of the people helping expose alleged online predators aren’t wearing badges. They’re content creators, internet sleuths, and groups like Predator Poachers, who recently brought their operation to Upstate New York. Predator Poachers is an online group founded by Alex Rosen that uses decoy social media accounts posing as minors. The group...Read More

A former Meta engineering director, who previously testified before Congress on child safety on Instagram, told jurors on Wednesday that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach towards children under 13 using its platforms, Associated Press reported.   On the second day of his testimony, Arturo Bejar said Meta prioritised profits...Read More

eSafety found in its tests that Roblox still allowed adult users to contact kids. Yalcin Sonat/Shutterstock Roblox has committed to a “court-enforceable undertaking” to implement changes that would better protect children from grooming and sexual abuse on its platform, according to Australia’s eSafety commission. The online safety regulator discovered earlier this year...Read More

BEE COUNTY, Texas — A New Mexico man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for grooming and exposing himself to three young sisters during video calls, with a plea agreement sparing the child victims from having to testify in court. Trinidad Guzman, a registered sex offender, received his sentence Monday in the 156th...Read More

(Legal Newsline) — A California prosecutor has accused Meta of designing social-media platforms to maximize the screen time of young users, turning a blind eye toward the number of preteens on Instagram and Facebook, and falsely assuring the public that its sites are safe. Meta, parent company of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, however,...Read More

Hempfield Area is expected to be the first school district to deploy an AI-driven weapon detection system designed with the help of a Carnegie Mellon University scientist. CurvePoint, based on Pittsburgh’s North Shore, was launched about 11⁄2 years ago by CEO Skip Smith and Chief Scientist Dong Huang — a senior project scientist in Carnegie...Read More

A former insider’s testimony has placed Meta’s leadership decisions and the personal cost of Instagram abuse at the center of a closely watched trial. A high-profile trial against Meta Platforms is underway in federal court in Oakland, California. Former company engineering director Arturo Behar testified that Mark Zuckerberg created a corporate culture in which child...Read More

SEATTLE — A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general began presenting its case against Meta as a trial opened in federal court, accusing the social media company of designing Facebook and Instagram in ways that encourage compulsive use among children and teens while misleading the public about safety. Washington Attorney General Nick Brown issued a statement...Read More