Legislationsby Glyph
United States (federal)United States (federal)S. 5714
A bill to subject professional baseball clubs to the antitrust laws.
A Senate bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Platforms and antitrust
199 on file · 124 became law · 23 still moving · 11 moved in 30 days
United States (federal)
European UnionEuropean Unionunverified
Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy Act
The European Commission adopted a legislative proposal aimed at strengthening the protection of children online.
European UnionEuropean Unionunverified
Digital Services Act TikTok Investigation
The European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over harmful algorithmic rabbit hole effects in its recommender system.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 10941
Antitrust Accountability and Transparency Act
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
GreeceGreeceunverified
Social Media Ban for Children Under 15
Greece's parliament passed legislation that bans children under the age of 15 from using social media platforms.
GeorgiaGeorgiaunverified
Georgia Social Media Law
A federal appeals court lifted a stay blocking Georgia from enforcing its law restricting children from accessing social media.
New MexicoNew Mexicounverified
New Mexico Meta Privacy Lawsuit
A New Mexico judge fined Meta over its user data privacy practices.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 10905
To prohibit individualized pricing, dynamic pricing, and pricing based on facial recognition technology at large retail food stores and their online platforms, and for other purposes.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 2481
Romance Scam Prevention Act
Would require online dating services to notify users who received messages from accounts banned for fraud.
FloridaFloridaunverified
Florida Youth Social Media Protection Law
A federal appeals court upheld a Florida law barring children under 14 from opening social media accounts and requiring parental consent for older minors.
GeorgiaGeorgiaunverified
Georgia Social Media Age Verification Law
A federal appeals court lifted an injunction, allowing Georgia to enforce its law requiring social media platforms to verify user ages and obtain parental consent for minors.
United KingdomSMS designation of Google in general search and search advertising
CMA decision designating Google with strategic market status in general search and search advertising under the DMCC Act, followed by conduct requirements on publishers, fair ranking and data portability.
European UnionEuropean UnionRegulation (EU) 2023/2854
Data Act
Sets rules on who can access and use data generated by connected products and related services, on business-to-government data sharing in exceptional need, and on switching between cloud and data processing services.
AustraliaAustraliaAct No. 83, 2026
Online Safety Amendment (Strengthening Enforcement for the Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2026
Doubles the maximum civil penalties for breaching the social media minimum age obligations and expands the eSafety Commissioner's powers to obtain compliance information.
AustraliaAustraliaAct No. 127, 2024
Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024
Amends the Online Safety Act 2021 to require providers of age-restricted social media platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent children under 16 from having accounts.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 1709
Covered Platforms: Age Restriction: e-Safety Advisory Commission
Bars covered platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, with Attorney General enforcement, and creates an e-Safety Advisory Commission in the Department of Justice.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 1856
Age Verification Signals: Software Applications
Amends the Digital Age Assurance Act to revise how operating systems collect age information and send age signals to app stores and app developers.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 1946
Reporting Mechanism: Child Sexual Abuse Material
Expands social media platform reporting duties for child sexual abuse material to cover intimate depictions of identifiable minors and makes noncompliant platforms liable to depicted individuals.
ChinaProvisions on Personal Information Protection by Large Personal Information Handlers (Draft for Comment)
Draft rules that would designate handlers processing personal information of 10 million or more people or providing important network services as large handlers, subject to registration, heightened security duties and independent personal information protection supervisory committees.
TexasTexasHB 18
SCOPE Act (Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment)
Requires digital service providers to register users' ages, limit collection and use of minors' data, give parents supervision tools, and filter harmful content for known minors.
United States (federal)United States (federal)No. 1:23-cv-00108
United States v. Google LLC (ad tech)
The court found Google liable for monopolizing publisher ad server and ad exchange markets, and later rejected divestiture of its AdX exchange in favor of behavioral remedies.
AustraliaAustraliaAct No. 15, 2025
Scams Prevention Framework Act 2025
Amends the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to create a Scams Prevention Framework imposing scam prevention, detection, reporting and response obligations on designated sectors such as banks, telecommunications and digital platforms.
MissouriMissouriHB 1839
Civil liability for publishing material harmful to minors on the internet
Establishes civil liability for publishing or distributing material harmful to minors on the internet.
FranceFranceLoi n. 2026-813 du 24 aout 2026
Law protecting minors from the risks of social networks
French law on protecting minors from social network risks whose central ban on social media access for under-15s was struck down by the Constitutional Council, leaving provisions amending the Penal Code and the 2004 digital economy law and requiring schools to address screen exposure and restrict mobile phones.
FranceFranceDecision n. 2026-911 DC
Constitutional Council decision on the under-15 social media ban
Constitutional Council decision striking down the law's blanket ban on social network access for under-15s as a disproportionate restriction on freedom of expression and communication, citing the lack of any parental authorization, service-specific risk assessment or legal safeguards for age verification data.
United KingdomSMS designations of Apple and Google mobile platforms
CMA decisions designating Apple and Google with strategic market status in their mobile platforms under the DMCC Act, followed by commitments on app review and ranking and a proposed steering conduct requirement.
New JerseyNew JerseyA4015
New Jersey Kids Code Act
Codifies the New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code, requiring online services to limit collection of children's data, set high-privacy defaults for minors and restrict engagement-maximizing features.
United States (federal)United States (federal)S. 1748
Kids Online Safety Act
Would set a duty of care for covered online platforms to prevent specified harms to minors and require default safeguards and parental tools.
MinnesotaMinnesotaSF 4097
Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act and net neutrality (2024 commerce policy omnibus)
Commerce policy omnibus that enacted the Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act requiring social media platforms to publicly disclose engagement limits, ranking signals, usage statistics and product experiments, and barred internet service providers from blocking, throttling or paid prioritization of lawful internet traffic.
New YorkNew YorkS 7694-A / A 8148-A
Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act
Bars social media platforms from giving users under 18 algorithmic addictive feeds or overnight notifications without parental consent, with age determination rules set by the Attorney General.
European UnionEuropean UnionCOM(2025) 837
Digital Omnibus (data, GDPR, ePrivacy, NIS2 simplification)
Proposed regulation that amends the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, NIS2 and the Data Act to simplify EU rules on cookie consent, incident reporting and data sharing, and folds several data laws, including the Data Governance Act, into the Data Act.
European UnionEuropean UnionRegulation (EU) 2022/1925
Digital Markets Act
Sets obligations and prohibitions for large online platforms designated as gatekeepers, such as bans on self-preferencing and anti-steering, and requirements on interoperability and data use.
European UnionDMA non-compliance decision against Google
Commission decision fining Google 890 million euros under the Digital Markets Act: 460 million for self-preferencing its own services in Google Search and 430 million for anti-steering restrictions on Google Play.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.J.Res. 203
Directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and report on anticompetitive practices and violations of the antitrust laws in the fire truck manufacturing industry.
A House bill in Congress, now in committee. Latest step: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
European UnionEuropean UnionRegulation (EU) 2022/2065
Digital Services Act
Sets due diligence obligations for online intermediaries and platforms on illegal content, transparency, advertising and protection of minors, with extra systemic risk duties for very large online platforms and search engines supervised by the Commission.
European UnionEuropean UnionC(2025) 8630 final
DSA non-compliance decision against X
First Digital Services Act non-compliance decision, fining X 120 million euros for deceptive design of its blue checkmark (Article 25(1)), a deficient advertising repository (Article 39) and failing to give researchers access to public data (Article 40(12)).
MassachusettsMassachusettsS 3175
An Act protecting children from addictive social media feeds
Would restrict addictive social media feeds for minors.
HawaiiHawaiiHB 1753
Relating to Social Media (account deletion)
Requires certain social media platforms to let users delete their accounts and permanently erase associated personal information, and bars deceptive practices that obstruct deletion.
United States (federal)United States (federal)H.R. 7757
KIDS Act
Would require online platforms to add safeguards for minors, including limits on sexual material, parental controls on social media and games, and disclosures by AI chatbots.
MinnesotaMinnesotaHF 2
Social media mental health warning label (2025 health and human services omnibus)
Special session health omnibus that requires social media platforms, starting July 1, 2026, to show a mental health warning label with crisis resources each time a user accesses the platform, under guidelines set by the Department of Health.
KenyaKenyaAct No. 17 of 2025
Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2025
Amends Kenya's Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act of 2018, including new offences and powers for the National Computer and Cybercrimes Coordination Committee to act against unlawful websites and applications.
KenyaKenya[2026] KEHC 9453 (KLR)
Law Society of Kenya and 8 others v Attorney General and 17 others
Kenya's High Court partly upheld consolidated petitions against the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2025 and declared Sections 6(1)(ja) and 27(1)(b) unconstitutional.
SingaporeOnline Safety (Relief and Accountability) Act 2025
Creates a Commissioner of Online Safety and Online Safety Commission that can direct takedowns and account restrictions for online harms such as intimate image abuse, doxxing and harassment, and creates statutory torts for victims.
European UnionEuropean UnionCOM(2022) 209
Regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse online (CSA Regulation)
Proposed regulation that would set obligations for online service providers to assess and reduce the risk of child sexual abuse on their services, allow detection orders, and create an EU Centre on child sexual abuse.
NebraskaNebraskaLB 383
Parental Rights in Social Media Act; AI-generated child sexual abuse material
Requires social media companies to verify ages and obtain parental consent for minors' accounts, and expands child sexual abuse material crimes to cover computer-generated images.
IllinoisIllinoisSB 318
Prohibition on Bots Purchasing Tickets
Expands the ban on using bots to buy event tickets and requires event facilities to report known violations to the Attorney General.
SpainSpain121/000052
Organic Law on the protection of minors in digital environments
Government organic law bill to protect minors in digital environments, processed by urgent procedure in the Justice Committee of the Congress of Deputies.
BrazilBrazilRE 1037396 (Tema 987) and RE 1057258 (Tema 533)
STF ruling on Marco Civil da Internet article 19 platform liability
Declares article 19 of the Marco Civil da Internet partially unconstitutional and holds internet application providers civilly liable for certain third-party content after notice, and without notice for paid ads, bot networks and a list of serious crimes, until Congress legislates.
CanadaCanadaBill C-34 (45th Parliament, 1st Session)
Safe Social Media Act (Digital Safety Act)
Government bill that would enact the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act to impose safety duties on social media services and AI chatbots, with a focus on children.
OhioOhioSB 175
Age verification and parental consent for apps and developers
Would require app stores and developers to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors.