Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) should veto a bill requiring app stores to verify users’ ages, the president of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) wrote in a Tuesday letter to the governor.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) signed a bill requiring social media platforms to verify ages and not allow those younger than 18 to have accounts unless their parents give consent, the governor’s office said Tuesday.
Nearing a House floor vote, Vermont’s age-appropriate design code bill still looks “generally defensible” in court, said a Vermont attorney general office staffer at a House Commerce hearing Wednesday morning. Later that day, after amending S-69 with a longer implementation period, the committee voted 10-0 to advance the measure to the House floor.
Legislators can’t address kids’ safety issues without also considering kids’ privacy issues because they're intertwined, privacy attorney Paula Bruening said Tuesday during an Innovators Network webinar.
The Mississippi attorney general fired back Monday against NetChoice, opposing motions for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against a law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages, obtain parental consent for minors to have accounts, and limit the content minors are exposed to on the platforms.
Italian privacy regulator Garante fined U.S. consumer AI company Luka $5.6 million (5 million euros) for General Data Protection Regulation breaches and launched a probe into how it processes data during the life cycle of the generative AI systems that underlie its Replika chatbot, it announced Monday.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., will headline the FTC’s June 4 workshop on child online safety, the commission announced Monday.
In its latest proposal on risk assessment requirements, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) appears to try to seal up potential constitutional holes that took down California’s age-appropriate design code (AADC) law, Squire Patton attorney Alan Friel said in an interview last week. Ahead of a June 2 deadline to file comments (see 2505020034), privacy lawyers at many firms are combing through the latest tweaks in a highly watched rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other topics.
The U.K. digital identity industry is feeling reassured about the upcoming GOV.UK Wallet following a meeting with, and apology from, the government, according to Iain Corby, executive director of the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA).
A tech industry group raised privacy and other concerns with a Texas bill (HB-186) that would require age verification and ban kids younger than 18 from creating social media accounts.