A federal judge Wednesday denied Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's request for a stay of an injunction blocking a social media age-verification law. Fitch (R) asked for the injunction to be lifted while an appeal of case 24-00170 was pending at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2506200009).
The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed legislation that would expand the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to cover teens up to the age of 16 (see 2506180068).
Multi Media asked a federal court on Monday to drop a suit against the porn site, claiming the plaintiff failed to state a claim. Multi Media was one of four adult websites sued in the U.S. District Court for Kansas on May 12 for allegedly violating Kansas law by failing to implement age verification on their sites (see 2505130023).
Google on Tuesday announced its support for legislation that would update the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
The FTC’s 2024 settlement with NGL Labs and 2023 agreement with Epic Games could serve as a blueprint for federal and state enforcers protecting teens from privacy and design-related harms, former Consumer Protection Bureau Director Samuel Levine told Privacy Daily in an interview Monday.
Data-driven innovation can bring important economic, societal and public interest benefits, but it must be handled responsibly, G7 data protection and privacy authorities (DPAs) said in a Thursday statement following their roundtable in Canada. The G7 countries are the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) on Monday asked for the dismissal of a lawsuit from NetChoice over the state’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act, arguing that the trade association failed to state a claim and lacked jurisdiction.
Amendments to the FTC’s Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule took effect Monday, but companies will have until April 2026 to come into compliance with most of the changes (see 2505050053).
As some regulators expand their focus on protecting children online to include teens, industry is complying with new laws while seeking workarounds and/or challenging regulation in courts, panelists said during a Morrison Foerster webinar Monday. The struggle will continue for a while, they added.
Trade association NetChoice asked a court Friday to consider blocking a Utah age-verification law because of its similarity to a Florida measure that was preliminarily enjoined.