Despite originating as a way to protect children from harms in the digital world, age-verification practices have morphed into a serious risk to privacy and digital rights, Rindala Alajaji, legislative activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), wrote in a blog Friday. “What started as a misguided attempt to protect minors from ‘explicit’ content online has spiraled into a tangled mess of privacy-invasive surveillance schemes affecting skincare products, dating apps, and even diet pills, threatening everyone’s right to privacy."
Correction: More businesses will be willing to fight, "as opposed to settling,” after a recent series of favorable California Invasion of Privacy Act rulings, said Usama Kahf, partner at Fisher Philips (see 2503030050).
Following backlash over Terms of Use and language inserted in its Privacy Notice last week, Mozilla Firefox announced additional language updates later, hoping "to more clearly reflect the limited scope of how Mozilla interacts with user data," Ajit Varma, a Firefox vice president, said Friday.
NFL websites and mobile apps are now in compliance with the BBB National Programs’ Digital Advertising Accountability Program, the organizations announced Thursday.
Buddy AI is now complying with child privacy law, BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) said Wednesday (see 2502260053).
Websites with cookie banners allowing a visitor to opt out may still store cookies or scripts, raising compliance risks, said privacy experts on a Privado panel Thursday.
Buddy AI violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by failing to get parental consent for collecting children’s data and not providing proper notice of its practices, BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) said Wednesday.
New York state's attorney general will likely play a more prominent role in privacy and cybersecurity oversight in 2025, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Correction: Exterro hosted Wednesday's webinar about the benefits of data deletion, not IAPP (see 2502190062).
Policy debates about age verification methods and privacy should be informed by recent developments in technology, not the assumption that privacy and security are always at odds, Luke Hogg, director of technology policy, and Evan Swarztrauber, senior fellow, Foundation for American Innovation, said in a research paper posted Tuesday.