European Parliament backs ban on AI sexual abuse images and delays wider AI rules
The prohibition follows public anger over sexualised deepfake images that spread on social media.
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EU lawmakers back ban on sexualised AI deepfakes
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Danish EU Presidency and EC push for novel tobacco product bans, defying member states
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EU to police open source software
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Apple says EU digital law ‘has brought porn to iPhone’
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Amazon price rules anti-competitive: German regulator
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NGOs file complaint against Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein’s ‘irregular’ lobbying
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Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein may have to pay EU under three different regulations
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‘Green investing rules could be legally exploited to weaken EU firms,’ report warns
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EU to act against ‘invasion’ of small Chinese parcels
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Meta takes on European digital rights watchdog over user data for AI training
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EU ‘doesn’t know what it’s doing with digital laws’
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Cheap Chinese imports spur record EU product safety violations
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