Texas will excise the private right of action from its app store age-verification bill, Rep. Caroline Fairly (R) told the House Trade Committee on Tuesday evening.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) told a court Monday that the decision in NetChoice, LLC v. Griffin demonstrates the weakness of NetChoice's argument for a preliminary injunction against a law that requires age verification before accessing social media accounts. NetChoice urged the U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee on April 1 to use the Griffin ruling (see 2504010044), to enjoin the law (see 2504020033).
A proposed committee substitute for a North Carolina bill aimed at creating social media protections for minors passed the House Commerce and Economic Committee Tuesday by voice vote and will now be referred to the Rules, Calendar and Operations of the House.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) should veto SB-86, legislation intended to protect children from online harms, NetChoice wrote the governor in a letter announced Tuesday (see 2504040064).
Three amendments to a bill that would ban tech companies from collecting, retaining and disclosing minors' data, except in a few outlined situations, passed by a voice vote in the Arkansas House Aging, Children and Youth & Legislative Affairs Committee Monday. Rep. Zack Gramlich (R), one of the bill's sponsors, said the amendments served to clarify language and definitions in the bill.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) on Friday appealed an injunction on the state’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, re-emphasizing the need to protect children online. The U.S. District Court for Northern California had granted trade association NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the Act on March 13, ruling that the legislation was content-based, likely violating the First Amendment, and the state failed to allege real harms.
FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya on Friday asked a federal court to expedite their reinstatement at the agency, arguing the law is clear that their firings were illegal.
Google was hit with a class-action complaint Monday alleging the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent.
The FTC should investigate allegations that Meta violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by knowingly allowing children to use its virtual reality platform without parental consent, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., said in a letter to Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Thursday.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) announced a rule requiring commercial pornographic websites to verify the age of users on both the website itself and on the device being used to access the site, for what he calls a “first-in-the-nation” standard to safeguard children. However, the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) said Thursday that the technology for this doesn't exist, while the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) raised privacy concerns.