A group of Texas lawmakers warned about potential internet harm for minors during a hearing on a pair of kids online safety bills in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Monday.
Rhode Island’s age-verification legislation raises privacy concerns for adults and minors who don’t want to share personal information with social media platforms, the American Civil Liberties Union told state lawmakers Thursday.
Utah added a right to correct inaccurate information to its comprehensive privacy law. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) Thursday signed HB-418, which would also require social media data portability and interoperability (see 2503100039).
Utah is the first state to require that app stores implement age verification measures. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed SB-142 Wednesday. The bill passed the legislature earlier this month (see 2503050052).
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Monday signed SB-754, which would update the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to prohibit obtaining, disclosing, selling or disseminating personally identifiable reproductive or sexual health information without a consumer’s consent.
Expect House floor consideration for the Kids Online Safety Act and the Take It Down Act, House Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said Wednesday.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) asked the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee on Monday again to deny NetChoice's preliminary injunction against a law requiring age verification to access social media accounts. Skrmetti argued the association's notice of supplemental authority concerns an unrelated data privacy law.
The FTC will host a workshop on kids online safety at a May 28 event, Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced Tuesday.
Priorities for Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner include addressing the privacy impacts of fast-moving technological developments and ensuring that children's privacy is protected, the OPC said in a Friday report setting out the results of a consultation on age assurance.
The Wisconsin Assembly voted 69-22 Thursday in favor of an age-verification bill (AB-105) aimed at keeping kids off of porn websites. One of many kids online safety bills advancing across numerous states this year (see 2503060022), the measure goes next to the Senate.