An Australian government review of age-assurance technology shows that it "works, that it can be privacy-preserving and that it is mature enough to give policymakers real confidence," the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) said Monday.
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Disney violated children’s privacy law by allowing illegal collection of minors' personal data on YouTube, the FTC alleged in a $10 million settlement announced with Disney on Tuesday.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral argument on NetChoice's challenge of a Utah age-verification law for Nov. 20 at 9 a.m. MT.
Parents who allege Google's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without knowledge or consent continued hurling accusations at the technology giant.
The as-applied challenges and vagueness challenge in NetChoice's amended complaint in a case against a Tennessee age-verification law should be dismissed, argued Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti Tuesday. In case 3:24-cv-01191, NetChoice argued the statute violates the First Amendment and other privacy measures (see 2501170070), but the U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee declined to preliminarily enjoin HB-1891 in June (see 2506200017).
Organizations providing content accessible to kids “should prepare for greater legal and regulatory scrutiny,” said an IAPP analysis on age assurance published Monday.
California and Maryland parents on Monday appealed a child privacy case against an education technology platform to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. District Court for Central California ruled in favor of Instructure earlier this month, saying the parents failed to plausibly allege specific facts about the taking or use of data (see 2508050033).
Bluesky's decision to block Mississippi IP addresses from its social media platforms highlights the inefficiencies and problems that come with age-verification laws, said consumer privacy and tech industry officials. After the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state age-verification law to stand last week (see 2508140048), Bluesky announced its response in a statement Friday (see 2508220047).
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) fails to establish how federal law preempts a state social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts, Florida argued Thursday in asking a federal court to dismiss some of the organization's amended complaint in case 4:24-cv-00438.