NetChoice asked a federal court to ignore the Maryland attorney general's request that a case about the constitutionality of the state's Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act be dropped. The organization argued that it proved standing and plausibly alleged violations of the First and Fifth Amendments.
NetChoice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to quickly reinstate a preliminary injunction on a Mississippi age-verification law in an emergency application Monday. The tech group appealed just days after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of HB-1126 with no explanation, allowing it to go into effect for the time being (see 2507170019).
Wikipedia's operator will argue in London's High Court of Justice this week that upcoming provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) could classify the site incorrectly and hence threaten the privacy of those Wikipedia contributors who choose to remain anonymous.
Online game Roblox will use age-estimation technology to confirm users' ages and filter what content is available to children, teens and adults, the company announced Thursday. In addition, the developer will provide more privacy tools, including expanded parental controls for teen accounts.
A Mississippi law requiring parental consent for those younger than 18 to create accounts with certain digital service providers will go into effect for now, despite pending litigation against it.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld Texas' law requiring age verification to access adult websites (see 2506270041) will have a ripple effect, prompting the creation of similar laws in states along with constitutional questions about how and where age verification can happen, said privacy experts in recent blog posts. Similarly, advocacy groups that disagreed with the high court's decision argued it may embolden other states to expand the definition of off-limits material, further challenging the First Amendment and ultimately letting politicians make content decisions (see 2507070037).
When the terms and conditions of a website violate the law, it doesn't matter that a person agreed to them, a plaintiff argued in a case against adult website Multi Media.
Google renewed its call for a federal court to dismiss a class-action case against it that alleges the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent. In its motion to dismiss, Google claims the plaintiffs -- parents of minor schoolchildren -- haven't alleged invasion of privacy.
California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D) said her bill to require transmission of age-verification signals (AB-1043) “still is a very strong bill” after she accepted various proposed changes. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, Chair Thomas Umberg (D) foreshadowed more adjustments could come in the weeks ahead.
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