Facebook owner Meta says it has banned seven surveillance companies for targeting users on its platforms.
A new report by Meta says about 50,000 users will receive warnings about the "malicious activities".
It accused surveillance firms of actions like creating fake accounts, befriending targets and using hacking methods to harvest information.
Eilish particularly criticised the way pornography can depict women's bodies and sexual experiences.
"I didn't understand why that was a bad thing - I thought it was how you learned how to have sex," Eilish said about watching, adding her mother was "horrified" when she told her.
"I was an advocate and I thought I was one of the guys and would talk about it and think I was really cool for not having a problem with it and not seeing why it was bad."
The singer-songwriter said she believed viewing the content while so young had "destroyed" her brain and caused her to suffer nightmares.
Eilish said it is a "real problem" that porn could skewer wider understandings of what is normal during sex, including around consent.
The parents of a 15-year-old autistic girl who died by suicide after her school did not monitor her online activity have described the circumstances of her death as a “catastrophic failure” as they warned the Department for Education (DfE) against complacency.
Frances-Rose Thomas, known as Frankie, took her own life at home in Witley, Surrey, on 25 September 2018 after reading a story that involved suicide on a school iPad, which had no safety features.
Schools and parents should do more to support students who are being sexually harassed through platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, while the tech companies need to clamp down on non-consensual sexual images being sent to young people, according to new research released on Monday.
A report from a joint committee of MPs and Lords recommending what should be included in the Online Safety Bill is due in the next few days.
The landmark legislation is one of the first attempts to lay down in law a set of rules about how online platforms should deal with content.
Its remit is huge - too wide for some. But others say it doesn't go far enough.
For the first time Prevent, the government's counter-terrorism programme, has had more referrals linked to far-right extremism than Islamist extremism.
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