Here comes the digital commission. It will make policy, take complaints, investigate abuses, review plans and regulate companies’ collection and use of personal information, how the data of children are scraped up into AI, social-media platforms, and more.
When it was first outlined in a bill to regulate social media last week, the Digital Safety Commission sounded like a body with some flexibility to grapple with some of the thorny, evolving problems of regulating big platforms – even if some worried its mandate to protect children and others came with extensive powers.
