The Netherlands and Spain have asked the European Commission to establish an EU-wide minimum age for social media, combined with privacy-preserving age verification and a framework for assessing platform safety.
A new U4SSC guide, developed with ITU, UNECE and UN-Habitat, defines autonomous cities and provides a framework for assessing and deploying AI and other autonomous systems in urban environments.
The European Commission has proposed a European Innovation Act aimed at improving access to finance, simplifying R&D procurement and creating a common approach to regulatory sandboxes for innovative companies.
Five human rights organisations have jointly submitted information to Uganda’s fourth Universal Periodic Review, citing concerns over civic space, security-force accountability, electoral freedoms, expression, and discrimination.
A joint foresight study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and Europol examines how emerging privacy-enhancing technologies could both protect digital privacy and make criminal investigations more difficult.
A coalition of civil society and advocacy organisations is urging the US administration to make public the framework it is developing to review frontier AI systems, arguing that confidential oversight could weaken accountability and disadvantage smaller and open-source developers.
China’s Supreme People’s Court has issued guidelines setting out when AI-generated content, including deepfakes, voice clones, algorithmic price discrimination and false information, may give rise to legal liability.
China’s National Copyright Administration has published a copyright development plan for 2026–2030, setting a target of 9.5 million registered works annually by 2030 and proposing a fair-use system for AI training data.
San Francisco’s City Attorney’s Office has sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter over paid advertisements containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material, asking the company to stop the ads and provide information about how they passed through its advertising systems.
A coalition of app developers, digital businesses, news publishers, consumer organisations and civil society groups has criticised Apple’s new EU App Store terms and called on the European Commission to clarify its position on the company’s compliance with the Digital Markets Act.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
