NetChoice lacks standing to bring a suit against Maryland's Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act and it hasn't sufficiently pleaded its facial claims, Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) said in a court document Friday. The AG again requested that a federal court dismiss the trade association's suit, which argues that the kids code law is unconstitutional.
Age-verification mandates will increase the number of data breaches, such as the recent incident involving dating safety app Tea (see 2507280017), ACT | The App Association said in a blog post Friday.
The claim that Roblox would intentionally put its users "at risk of exploitation is categorically untrue," the company said in a statement Friday in response to a lawsuit from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) (see 2508140051).
A federal judge on Thursday allowed a group of parents to file an appeal instead of an amended complaint in a previously dismissed child privacy case against an education technology platform. The court released a final judgment one day after the plaintiffs made the request at the U.S. District Court for Central California.
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Mississippi age-verification law to stand Thursday, denying NetChoice's emergency application that would have blocked the measure.
Roblox facilitates the distribution of child sexual abuse material and is in potential violation of federal child privacy statutes, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Colorado's proposed draft amendment on kids' privacy in a rulemaking for implementing changes to the Colorado Privacy Act reflect the ongoing trend of states expanding privacy protections for their constituents beyond federal law, said Morgan Lewis lawyers in a blog post Tuesday.
London's High Court of Justice Monday tossed a challenge by nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation to provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) it claimed could jeopardize the privacy and safety of Wikipedia contributors, but stressed that contributors must be protected.
Colorado’s proposed kids privacy rules show “a continued commitment by regulators to protect the data of minors,” Goodwin privacy attorney Jacqueline Klosek and two colleagues blogged Thursday.
The U.S. Supreme Court's June decision that upheld a Texas law requiring age verification for access to porn sites (see 2506270041) could have wide implications for future legislation at the federal and state levels, said privacy lawyers.