A district court preliminarily enjoined a Mississippi social media age-verification law for the second time Wednesday, ruling it's too broad to survive a First Amendment challenge. The U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi previously enjoined the same law, HB-1126, in July 2024 (see 2407010062).
The Senate Commerce Committee will consider legislation updating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) at a June 25 markup, Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced Wednesday.
The New York state legislature passed a social media warning labels bill (S-4505/A-5346) on Tuesday, just days after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed a wide-ranging finance omnibus containing a similar measure (HF-2).
The Tennessee attorney general on Monday pushed back against NetChoice's recent claim that a district court decision blocking enforcement of a Florida social media law requiring age verification (see 2506030057) should serve as a reason to do the same thing against similar measures in Tennessee (see 2506040049).
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford sued YouTube and its corporate parents, Google and Alphabet, on Monday over allegations that the companies knowingly created an addictive and harmful platform that targets the youth.
A North Carolina bill aimed at protecting children on social media cleared a House committee Tuesday. The Commerce Committee voted by voice to advance an amended HB-860 to the Appropriations Committee.
The FTC’s unfairness authority can continue to be a useful enforcement tool in holding social media companies liable for harming teens, former FTC Chair Lina Khan wrote in a Stanford Law Review article with former Consumer Protection Bureau Director Samuel Levine and former Chief Technologist Stephanie Nguyen.
A proposed requirement that mental health warning labels appear on social media passed the Minnesota legislature and was presented to Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Thursday. The New York Senate passed a similar bill the same day. Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recommended social media warning labels last year (see 2406170059),
While immigrants seem to be the current target of mass-data collection, the federal government's collection of massive amounts of personal information has implications for other populations, including those who speak out against Washington, panelists said during a webinar Wednesday hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights & Technology.
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