Some supported a Texas app store age-verification law, while others criticized its constitutionality and regulatory hurdles in amicus briefs filed last week at the U.S. District Court for Western Texas (case 1:25-cv-01660).
Introducing privacy to young children may help empower them to continue to assert their right to it as they grow older, author and academic Lorrie Cranor told Privacy Daily in an interview. A professor of security and privacy technologies at Carnegie Mellon, Cranor recently wrote a children's book, Privacy, Please!
Though age gating is increasingly prevalent, laws regulating it vary widely from state to state, and courts haven't fully addressed their legality, said Corynne McSherry, legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Privacy professionals expected more states to enact comprehensive privacy laws this year, but none of the bills introduced this year crossed the finish line, they said Thursday on a TrustArc webinar. Instead, states passed narrowly tailored privacy legislation or amendments to existing laws. In addition, several court decisions and enforcement actions drilled deep into top privacy issues, the privacy pros said.
As lawsuits over tracking technologies increase rapidly, some courts have managed to narrow the scope of older statutes, countering the litigation wave, said panelists during an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) webinar Wednesday. But other courts remain split on the reach of these laws, they added.
Instacart offers various prices to different customers for the exact same product, according to an independent study by Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union. In an email to Privacy Daily, Instacart rejected the study's assertions that it uses personal, demographic and other data to set online prices.
Shadow AI remains a significant challenge for businesses, said panelists during a Practising Law Institute webinar Monday. They discussed an IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025 report that focused on the problem of employees using AI platforms that aren't sanctioned by the workplace.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to forego reviewing a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case means questions and conflicting rulings on the statute will remain unsettled, leaving businesses in a lurch, David Krueger, privacy litigator at Benesch, told Privacy Daily Monday.
The modest fine of $56,000 that California Privacy Protection Agency’s (CalPrivacy) assessed against a company recently for failing to register as a data broker (see 2512030029) “may be the last penalty we see of this size,” said Dentons privacy attorney Dalton Cline, who sees several factors increasing monetary burdens on violators in the future.
The Department of Homeland Security has unlawfully made changes to a system containing the personal information of citizens and non-citizens that allows government agencies to check immigration status and enable voter roll purges, a coalition of advocacy groups said this week.