Ellen O'Regan

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Eliza Gkritsi |Ellen O'Regan |Emile Marzolf |Klara Durand

PARIS — France's President Emmanuel Macron is set on banning kids from social media.  All that stands in his way are legal fights, glitchy tech, a powerful lobby of Big Tech and Big Porn — and kids being kids. Macron said late Tuesday that France "can't wait" any longer in banning social media for children under 15, in response to the fatal stabbing of a teaching assistant at a high school in the suburbs of Paris.

2 months ago | politico.eu | Ellen O'Regan

The investigation threatens to stoke further tensions between the EU and U.S. over tech rules.

Feb 13, 2025 | politico.eu | Max Griera |Ellen O'Regan

The European Parliament has asked lawmakers, parliamentary assistants and staff to use Signal, an end-to-end-encrypted messaging app, as an instant messaging tool for work-related communications, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO.

Jan 23, 2025 | politico.eu | Ellen O'Regan |Alfred Ng

Donald Trump wants to oust three members of a national privacy watchdog that is a key part of Europeans’ privacy protections in the United States — spelling trouble for thousands of U.S. companies moving personal data out of Europe.  The U.S. White House told three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign or be fired by the close of business on Thursday.

Jul 2, 2023 | irishtimes.com | Ellen O'Regan