A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic by designating the AI company a supply-chain risk, finding that the action violated the company’s First Amendment rights.
ICANN has updated its public DNS abuse data to distinguish between reported allegations and cases considered actionable, providing more detail for assessing how domain registrars and registries respond to abuse.
ICANN has terminated the accreditation of two domain name registrars after finding unresolved compliance failures, including inadequate responses to phishing reports and failures involving registration data services and fees.
Meta Platforms Inc. has reached a settlement with a coalition of 47 US states, the District of Columbia, and several territories, resolving claims brought by a group of 29 state attorneys general concerning the safety of teenage users of its services. Under the settlement, Meta must develop an age‑assurance standard that will be independently tested [...]
South Korea and Mexico are looking to expand cooperation in artificial intelligence, trade, energy, space and other strategic areas, while highlighting the role of middle powers in shaping international cooperation.
Slovakia’s government has approved a bill that would prohibit children under 16 from creating social media accounts, with age verification required for users.
The IGF Secretariat has published all session proposals submitted for the 2026 Internet Governance Forum, allowing the community to review the ideas put forward for the programme.
The Federal Executive Council of Nigeria approved the acquisition, manufacture, launch and deployment of two next‑generation high‑throughput communication satellites, NIGCOMSAT‑2A and NIGCOMSAT‑2B, with Thales Alenia Space and Israel Aerospace Industries selected as the satellite manufacturers.
The Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD) imposed a fine of R$ 153.7 million on ByteDance, the controller of TikTok, for alleged breaches of Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados in relation to the processing of children’s and adolescents’ personal data. The sanction, published on 25 August 2026, also orders the deletion of irregularly collected data and requires ByteDance to implement a compliance plan.
The latest version of the Web Authentication standard provides a framework for websites to use public key credentials and authenticators for stronger and more secure user authentication.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
