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Games Without Frontiers: The EU KIDS Act Bans Loot Box Mechanics Everywhere Except Games

The leaked KIDS Act Regulation goes far beyond the leaked Communication that announced it. Its most consequential move sits beneath the proposed social media age...

Don’t You (Forget About Me): Three Features That Owe a Child an Answer

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover Simple Minds performing “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”. Where the earlier posts...

Every Breath You Take: Three Features That Decide Who Can Reach a Child

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover The Police performing “Every Breath You Take”. The previous post in this...

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: Three Features That Put a Child on the Bottom Line

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover the Eurythmics performing “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”. The previous post...

You Spin Me Round: Three Features Built to Keep a Child in the Loop

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover Dead or Alive performing “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”. The...

Non, a Ban Is Not a Plan: France Struck Down the Ban, Meta Settled on Features

For some background music when reading this post, we encourage you to (re)discover Michel Polnareff’s “La poupée qui fait non”. France adopted its under-15 social...

Zero Knowledge, Full Record: Age Verification And The Infrastructure The Privacy Label Ignores

The “privacy-preserving age verification” label should be understood at two separate levels: on the one hand, it accurately describes a mechanism, yet on the other,...

Two Megaphones and an Empty Room: The Need to Write the Copyright Reform for the Empty Seats

The EU copyright review is being argued by two blocs of private interests. The party that will live with the result, the public, was never...

Ownership 2.0: A Gamer, a Librarian, and a Random Mum Walk Into a Bar…

A video gamer, a librarian, and a random mum walk into a bar. That could be the start of a great joke. Sadly, it is...

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