Florida and 18 other state enforcers, plus the Arizona state legislature, supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in asking a federal appeals court to remove a preliminary injunction on his state's age-verification law.
New York state Senate committees approved a variety of bills on biometrics at hearings this week. An age-verification measure failed to advance, however.
Collaboration is needed among tech industry experts, parents, legislators and others in the conversation about protecting children online, said Alabama lawmakers at a House State Government Committee hearing Tuesday. The panel agreed to work on an app store age-verification bill (SB-187) over the summer and bring back an updated bill next session.
The U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi granted NetChoice’s unopposed motion Friday and lifted the stay of proceedings in a case over a Mississippi age-verification law for social media.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed a kids social media bill after the legislature agreed to the governor’s recommended changes. The legislation amends the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act.
Louisiana legislators on Monday cleared privacy legislation requiring app stores to verify ages. Also at the House Commerce Committee hearing, the sponsor of a bill on protecting genomic data voluntarily deferred her own measure.
NetChoice filed an amended complaint Friday against Mississippi over an age-verification law in a case that was recently remanded to the district court by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A disconnect exists between legislatures, the privacy laws they create and the litigation that results from them, said panelists during a Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) event on privacy litigation trends Thursday. Instead, this ecosystem results in great confusion, prompting a rise in privacy law-related cases, they said.
Tennessee's attorney general told a federal district court Thursday that a case about an Ohio law requiring age verification is wrong and dissimilar from one before it concerning a Tennessee age-verification law. AG Jonathan Skrmetti (R) urged the court to ignore the decision in NetChoice v. Yost and deny a preliminary injunction against his state's law.
NetChoice sued Georgia on Thursday over a 2024 law aimed at protecting kids on social media, alleging it violates the First Amendment and poses digital safety and security risks.