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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DOJ should enforce the law and block TikTok in the U.S. if ByteDance isn’t willing to divest from the Chinese social media app, several Republican senators told us in interviews Thursday, citing data-related national security concerns.
The California Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would establish civil action against a social media platform that violates hate crime and civil rights laws. SB-771 passed on a 29-4 vote and now heads to the Assembly.
A pair of amicus briefs were filed Tuesday at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to side with a district court’s previous ruling that blocked the Utah attorney general from enforcing an age-verification law regulating social media and minors. The briefs argue against the law on First Amendment and privacy grounds.
A recent district court decision blocking enforcement of a Florida social media law requiring age verification (see 2506030057) should serve as a reason to grant a preliminary injunction against similar measures in Tennessee and Mississippi, NetChoice said in court documents Wednesday.
Florida AG James Uthmeier (R) on Tuesday appealed a district court decision that would block enforcement of a state social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts, as expected. The law also requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds before creating social posts and employs age-verification to implement these restrictions (see 2506030057).
The FTC is exploring statutory authorities for stopping pornography websites from illegally sharing content with children, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Wednesday. The agency recently consulted EU enforcers and is also focused on new authorities under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), he said during an agency workshop.