Multiple Connecticut privacy and AI bills appeared to have enough votes to advance to the Senate floor at the joint General Laws Committee’s livestreamed meeting Friday. The committee approved an age-verification measure (SB-1295) as part of a consent agenda vote, but final roll calls weren't clear at our deadline on a comprehensive privacy update and two AI bills.
NEW YORK CITY -- The Interactive Advertising Bureau aims to provide a more predictable cadence of state privacy law updates to its global privacy protocol (GPP) this year, Rowena Lam, IAB Tech Lab senior director of privacy and data, said Thursday during IAB’s Signal Shift event.
Parents “don’t stand a chance” of protecting children against data-driven algorithms on social media, Texas House Rep. Jared Patterson (R) said Wednesday.
Starting March 17, the U.K. Office of Communications (Ofcom) said it will monitor providers of online file-sharing and file-storage services that pose particular risks to users from child sexual abuse material (CSAM) for potential enforcement activities under the Online Safety Act (OSA).
Multiple state attorneys general signaled that they will flex their privacy enforcement muscles in the wake of President Donald Trump's Tuesday firing of Democratic FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter. Privacy experts said the development raises new concerns about the fate of trans-Atlantic personal data transfers and the legitimacy of potential FTC rulemaking decisions.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) urged the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee on Friday to deny NetChoice’s request for a preliminary injunction on a bill requiring age verification to access social media accounts following the decision in CCIA & NetChoice v. Uthmeier (see 2503170061). NetChoice responded Tuesday, asking the court to grant the preliminary injunction and enjoin the AG from enforcing HB-1891, as the ruling in the Uthmeier case “has no bearing here.”
NetChoice filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Middle Louisiana against Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) over an act that would require age verification before a user could access social media platforms. The action Tuesday alleges the legislation violates the First Amendment and poses a serious threat to online safety and cybersecurity.
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Google’s “feckless alternative” to the Utah App Store Accountability Act “would enable Google to do as little as possible,” the Digital Childhood Alliance said in a blog post expected to be published Monday.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) raised privacy concerns Monday concerning a social media bill requiring age verification. Maine’s joint Judiciary Committee received testimony on LD-844, which would require age verification and ban accounts for kids younger than 14, while allowing them for 14- and 15-year-olds with parental consent (see 2503060022).