New safety rules for under-16 Snapchat users

Snapchat is rolling out new content-sharing protections for 13- to 15-year-old users. The platform announced Wednesday that younger teens will get a “friends-only” experience for their Spotlight posts. That public feed consists of vertical videos short-form similar to Instagram Reels or TikTok. SEE ALSO: Survey: Teens regularly see harmful content, messages on Snapchat The new…

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Safeguarding what makes us human in the age of AI

Privacy, as a thing of value in the human experience, is perhaps as old as clothes, or doors, or whispers. As a legal concept, though, it’s younger than the Kodak camera. And that’s not a coincidence. The concept of a right to privacy was first sketched out in 1890 by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis…

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Dueling PACs gear up for GOP primary wars over immigration

The GOP’s escalating infighting over immigration now has a pair of PACs lining up millions of dollars on opposing sides of Republican primaries across the country. The dueling pledges turn a congressional fight over Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s (R-Fla.) Dignity Act into an electoral proxy war between hardliners and moderates over how far the Republican…

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