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KGI’s Assigning Responsibility for Age Assurance examines how policymakers can allocate responsibility for age assurance across the digital ecosystem. It provides practical recommendations for assigning age assurance obligations in ways that support youth online safety while appropriately accounting for tradeoffs involving privacy, competition, accessibility, and openness.
KGI distills research to inform actionable policy concerning platform governance and design, transparency, and competition policy.
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Age assurance is entering a new phase. From the recent multistate Meta settlement and California legislation to New York’s final SAFE for Kids Act rules, broad requirements to protect youth online are now being translated into concrete requirements for how companies determine users’ ages, measure whether their systems work, and demonstrate compliance. As these implementation frameworks take shape, New York’s approach offers important early lessons for policymakers across jurisdictions developing their own age assurance rules.
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The appeals in the United States v. Google search case hinge on a fundamental question: do the District Court’s remedies address the anticompetitive conduct that maintained Google’s search monopoly, or do they leave the market largely unchanged? Eight leading economists, legal experts, and technologists argue in an amicus brief that better remedies exist to help restore meaningful competition.
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KGI’s Age Assurance Rules provides practical recommendations for designing age assurance rules that support youth online safety while appropriately accounting for tradeoffs involving privacy, service availability, competition, and openness.
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KGI’s Measuring Risk II report examines what EU risk assessments and US litigation reveal about Snap and YouTube’s approaches to risks on their platforms, with a particular focus on risks to minors. The report explores the gap between what these platforms publicly disclose about risk mitigation and what has emerged through discovery in US litigation, including their own internal research, product development, and risk evaluation.
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As the European Commission advances efforts under the Digital Markets Act to require Google to share its search data with competitors, lessons from historic antitrust remedies underscore how data access could be transformational in the AI-powered search market. While the Commission’s proposals represent a novel and comprehensive approach, key improvements to data scope and sharing frequency, privacy protections, and dispute resolution are needed. US courts and enforcers charged with implementing similar provisions should take note.
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As social media and generative AI chatbot lawsuits in the United States proceed to discovery and trial, courts are emerging as central actors in shaping technology governance, platform accountability, and online safety. A new report by the Knight-Georgetown Institute, Tech Justice Law, and the USC Marshall School Neely Center provides a practical, evidence-based framework to help courts, litigators, and policymakers craft effective and enforceable remedies for harms associated with social media platforms and AI chatbots.
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Meta admitted no wrongdoing in the August 26 settlement that brought its legal dispute over child safety with 47 state attorneys general, the District of Columbia, and three US territories to its abrupt, anticlimactic end. There would be no testimony or bombshell cross-examination of Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, nor a suspenseful reading of the verdict. This conclusion is unlikely to inspire a prestige legal drama.
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As social media platforms increasingly shape how people are informed, connected and, at times, harmed online, governments are also intervening more directly in these environments, particularly where children are concerned. Meta recently agreed, subject to court approval, to a package of new safety measures for teenagers in the United States, including default time limits and restrictions on late-night use, as part of a multi-billion-dollar settlement of litigation alleging harm to young users. The UK government has said it expects similar protections to extend to UK users.
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State lawmakers and youth advocates are calling for further social media regulations after the blockbuster, multi-billion-dollar settlement announced this week between state attorneys general and Meta. The sweeping agreement is being heralded as a watershed moment in a years-long effort to address concerns about social media addiction and harm to youth. But it is unlikely to slow momentum in statehouses for new laws governing how social media sites interact with kids.
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