Arizona House Democrats and Republicans joined forces to vote 47-11 Monday to approve a bill meant to protect kids’ privacy on social media. The House then transmitted HB-2861 to the Senate.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Monday announced investigations into how three social media and video-sharing platforms use children's personal data. It's probing how TikTok uses personal data of teens 13 to 17 years old to make recommendations to them, and how Reddit and Imgur assess the age of child users.
The New Jersey Essex County Superior Court will dismiss the state's case against social media platform TikTok, Judge Lisa Adubato said in a notice Saturday.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) filed an answering brief in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, reiterating that the bill regulating kids’ social media feeds at the center of the case is constitutional, and that plaintiff NetChoice failed to compile a record showing how the legislation would impact platforms -- including those of NetChoice members -- across the internet.
Department store Bloomingdale's was hit with a class-action complaint Monday over violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act for allegedly sharing personal information and data with social media platform TikTok without user consent.
The Utah Senate Business Committee unanimously cleared a bill Friday that enacts provisions related to social media data portability and interoperability.
A video games industry lobbyist raised questions Thursday about Meta’s involvement in an Alabama child online safety bill requiring app stores to check users’ ages. However, at a livestreamed hearing, the Alabama Senate Children Committee supported SB-187, an app store age-verification bill spotted in several other states including Utah. The panel also cleared SB-186, requiring that phone and tablet manufacturers activate internet filters by default to protect kids.
TikTok moved to dismiss a case that New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) brought for alleged violations of the state's consumer-protection law. The AG lacks jurisdiction to bring the case, and federal law bars many of its counts, the social media platform's motion said.
An Iowa social media bill requiring age verification cleared the state’s House Judiciary Committee by a 19-2 vote on Tuesday. The committee approved HF-278, which says that platforms must not permit those younger than 18 to obtain accounts without parental consent. Child online safety bills advanced in multiple other states this week, too (see 2502250017).
A Vermont Senate panel weighed changes to an age-appropriate design code bill (S-69) at a meeting Wednesday. The Institutions Committee was scheduled to meet again about the bill Thursday.