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.
Texas and Nebraska governors will consider signing age-verification bills soon.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have signed onto the Kids Online Safety Act, its lead sponsors announced Wednesday.
True to its name, Free Speech Coalition, a trade association representing the adult entertainment industry, condemned Arizona’s age-verification bill, HB-2112, whose aim is to prevent minors from accessing porn websites (see 2501170053). Governor Katie Hobbs (D) signed the age-verification legislation Tuesday.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D) hailed a "strong bipartisan vote" in the state legislature on a social media age-verification bill. The House voted 121-26 Wednesday in favor of HB-6857, sending it to the Senate.
The European Commission Tuesday launched a consultation on draft guidelines for protecting minors online under the Digital Services Act. The move offers privacy attorneys a golden opportunity to influence next-generation child protection, one lawyer said.