The European Commission and the European Data Protection Board have released over 100 submissions from a public consultation on draft guidelines explaining how the EU’s Digital Markets Act and GDPR should work together.
ICANN has approved the base contract that successful applicants in the 2026 round of new top-level domains will have to sign, setting the rules for how new domain endings must be run.
A report presented to the UN Human Rights Council calls for stronger international rules to address the growing cross-border collection of personal data in the digital environment.
Civil society organisations have urged the European Commission to strengthen privacy safeguards in upcoming rules for the European Digital Identity Wallet.
The UK’s communications regulator has ordered major social media and gaming platforms to demonstrate how they will better protect children online, warning that enforcement action could follow if progress is not made.
A court in the Netherlands has increased potential fines against Meta, ordering the company to ensure Facebook and Instagram users can keep timelines that do not rely on algorithmic profiling.
UK lawmakers have voted against a proposed ban on social media use for children under 16, opting instead to give ministers flexible powers to introduce safety measures following a public consultation.
EU institutions are examining new safeguards for AI tools capable of generating sensitive synthetic images as part of ongoing discussions around the implementation of the AI Act.
A new ITU technical recommendation introduces a framework to evaluate the performance, reliability and security of large AI models used across digital services and applications.
ICANN has launched a call for experts to serve as Independent Objectors in the upcoming 2026 round of the New gTLD programme.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
