Arguing that the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) does enough to protect consumers, national tech trade groups and California business associations opposed a revised location privacy bill now pending in the California Senate. In a Tuesday letter to the body’s Judiciary Committee, ahead of a scheduled July 15 hearing on AB-322 and many other bills, the groups said they opposed the measure unless it’s amended.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding Texas’ porn site age-verification law bodes well for dozens of similar state laws, but it might not apply meaningfully to app store age-verification laws, policy experts said during a livestream Tuesday.
Advocacy groups that disagreed with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld a Texas age-verification law for accessing adult sites (see 2506270041) argued the decision is significant because it could embolden other states to expand the definition of off-limits material, further challenging the First Amendment and ultimately letting politicians make content decisions. Another worry is the harm the decision could bring to the LGBTQ community, some groups said.
Adult website ICF Technology asked a federal court on Thursday to drop a suit against it for lack of jurisdiction. ICF Technology was one of four adult websites sued in the U.S. District Court for Kansas on May 12 for allegedly violating Kansas law when they failed to implement age-verification tools on their sites (see 2505130023).
Responding to a suit against New York over a state law requiring that retailers disclose when they are using algorithmic pricing, privacy lawyer Heidi Saas argued that the First Amendment does not protect surveillance pricing.
Recent enforcement against Honda and Healthline in California and FTC action against data brokers show that companies must understand data flow and consent, an executive with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) said in an interview Monday.
Federal court Judge Halil Ozerden granted a stay of proceedings in a Mississippi social media age-verification law case while an appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending. The parties in the case, NetChoice and Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R), jointly moved for the stay on Wednesday (see 2507020027).
Trade association NetChoice and Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch (R) jointly moved for a stay of proceedings of a social media age-verification law case while Fitch's appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending.
Louisiana will be the third state with an app store age-verification law. Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed HB-570 on Monday, and it will take effect July 1, 2026. Aimed at enhancing children's online safety, the legislation imposes age-verification requirements on app stores before users can download apps.
Utah should consider amending its comprehensive privacy law, given the underwhelming number of consumer privacy complaints filed in the statute’s first 18 months, said Attorney General Derek Brown (R) and the Utah Division of Consumer Protection in a report obtained Wednesday by Privacy Daily. “Complaints have not been as forthcoming as anticipated,” it said, but “violations are likely occurring.”