Face scanning technology and the under 16s social media ban

Just two days after President Donald Trump declared he was pulling out of trade negotiations with Canada over its taxes on US tech companies, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced he’ll rescind the Digital Serves Tax which was due to come into force today North America time. 

The day that Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X changed everything. For the particularly chronically online folks amongst us, that day — October 28 2022, to be exact — has gone down in history as an indisputable shift in stan culture.

When the Australian government passed legislation in November last year banning young people under 16 from social media, it included exemptions for platforms “that are primarily for the purposes of education and health support”. One such platform was YouTube.

Tech giant Google has just suffered another legal blow in the United States, losing a landmark antitrust case. This follows on from the company’s loss in a similar case last year.