The partners state that children’s online safety can only be effectively addressed through coordinated action, as young people use digital platforms that operate across borders.
The Recommendation urges governments to develop national regulations that protect mental privacy, ensure equitable access to therapeutic technologies and prevent misuse in commercial or employment settings. It highlights the risk of products that can influence behaviour or foster dependency, calling for clearer oversight and evidence-based evaluation.
The EU’s updated proposal on the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse removes mandatory scanning of all user communications, shifting to a voluntary detection model for messaging platforms. Denmark’s revised text is being presented as a compromise that protects encryption, yet it introduces new identity-verification rules, broad risk-mitigation duties, and vague provisions that critics say could re-open the door to surveillance in the future. As negotiations accelerate toward year’s end, the debate now centres on whether the reform meaningfully protects rights or merely repackages previous risks in a different form.
The law marks Morocco’s first attempt to embed AI governance into national policy, setting out ethical and accountability principles for the use of algorithms in both public administration and private-sector applications.
Their position is outlined in a joint letter sent to senior members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, calling for Section 6612 of S.2296 to remain intact as negotiations advance.
The ICANN Fellowship Program is designed to help people from underserved and underrepresented communities gain the knowledge and experience needed to participate meaningfully in ICANN’s multistakeholder processes.
According to the prosecutor’s statement, Delaporte’s referral highlighted several issues: insufficient moderation, easy access to the platform by minors, and an algorithm capable of quickly directing vulnerable users into harmful content cycles, including material that may encourage self-harm. These concerns were examined alongside findings from several earlier reports.
The Blueprint provides a roadmap for building age-appropriate, transparent, and research-informed AI products, focusing on key areas such as age verification, parental engagement, and ongoing evaluation.
ICANN has opened a new request for proposal to recruit expert panels that will evaluate look-alike and variant top-level domain names in the 2026 new gTLD round. The selected provider(s) will assess 'String Similarity' and 'Variant Strings' to prevent confusing or misleading domain endings and ensure the stability of the global DNS. Vendors may bid for one or both evaluation areas, with final proposals due by 16 January 2026.
ICANN’s background-screening RFP is one of many preparatory steps leading up to the 2026 new gTLD round.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
