The 23andMe bankruptcy will likely lead to more privacy regulation and enforcement due to significant public awareness of the event and its possible implications for people’s sensitive genetic information, privacy experts at the Osano Privacy Pro Survival Summit said Thursday. Meanwhile, the rise of enamored but potentially dangerous AI technology could increase challenges for privacy pros, said Noelle Russell, founder of the AI Leadership Institute.
TikTok doubled down on a dismissal motion in a case against it that alleges the social media platform violated consumer protection and product-liability laws.
Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D) doesn’t believe tech industry opposition can stop his bill to set civil penalties for big social media platforms that breach their “responsibility of ordinary care and skill” to children under 18, he said at an Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. Also, Lowenthal disagreed with concerns that AB-2, moving in the Assembly after a court blocked California’s age-appropriate design code (see 2503140063), could lead to more litigation.
The Arkansas Senate quickly passed governor-backed legislation to amend the state’s court-enjoined Social Media Safety Act.
In a lengthy hearing Tuesday in front of Vermont's House Commerce and Economic Committee, lawmakers weighed testimony from concerned parents, youth and other advocates of a kids code bill. However, the tech industry opposed the bill for privacy and First Amendment reasons.
Two social media safety bills are advancing in the Arkansas legislature after a court recently blocked the state’s 2023 age-verification law. Meanwhile, as many states consider age-verification bills aimed at protecting kids’ privacy online (see 2503060022), a social media age-assurance bill passed Montana's House Friday.
Compliance with EU data protection principles is the first step toward ensuring that minors aren't exposed to harmful content online, European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiorowski said Monday. Age assurance or verification is also important, but it shouldn't entirely block children from accessing some content, speakers said at the European Parliament Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) meeting.
Recent rulings in litigation over the constitutionality of laws aiming to protect children online will serve as examples for other states' future attempts to regulate the area of what works and what doesn't, said Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP managing director for Washington, D.C., in a blog post Friday.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California on Wednesday threw out a privacy suit against video game publisher Ubisoft on the grounds that the display of a cookie banner and creating an account that required accepting the terms of use and privacy policy meant that Ubisoft was granted consent to use pixel tracking and collect data on users.
The Colorado Senate concurred with House amendments and re-passed a bill setting various requirements for social media companies. Senators concurred on a 35-0 vote and 29-6 to repass SB-86. It will go to the governor next.