The United Kingdom and eight European countries operating Panasonic Lumix Pro services have announced that they will cease to do so on November 30, 2025. [Read More]
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Flickr has made some rather dramatic changes to the photo-sharing site in response to new safety standards put in place by the United Kingdom. While some of the new rules only affect citizens of the UK, the website is now acting like an adult website: in order to create an account, new users must be 18 years of age or older. [Read More]
The Children's Commissioner, a United Kingdom regulator tasked with promoting and protecting the rights of children in the U.K., issued a report calling for the immediate ban of artificial intelligence (AI) apps that enable "deepfake sexual abuse of children." [Read More]
Meta is considering charging Facebook and Instagram users for an ad-free version in the U.K. after a landmark privacy case in which the company agreed to stop targeting ads at a British woman. [Read More]
Earlier this month, United Kingdom security officials reportedly issued a secret order to Apple to require the company to create backdoor access to users' encrypted iCloud data.
The U.K. will become the first country in the world to make it illegal to use AI tools that create child sexual abuse images. [Read More]
The creation of sexually explicit deepfake images is to be made a criminal offense in the U.K. -- with anyone sharing these images facing the possibility of jail time. [Read More]