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.
A federal court halted enforcement of a Florida social media law that would prohibit kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts, requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds to create them and uses age-verification to implement these restrictions. The ruling by the U.S. District Court for Northern Florida on Tuesday granted a request for a preliminary injunction brought by NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), who say HB-3 violates the First Amendment and poses privacy risks.
Expect the Senate to reach a Byrd rule decision on the House’s proposed AI moratorium within the next two weeks (see 2505270049), Senate Commerce Committee Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Tuesday, saying he’s not sure the language will survive.
A Texas federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit against Eyemart Express that alleges the eyewear company tracks users’ activity on its website without consent or disclosing tracking practices. The plaintiffs didn't prove their private health information (PHI) was actually disclosed to a social media platform, Judge David Godbey said in dismissing the case.
The Arkansas attorney general’s plea for a federal court to reverse or amend its ruling enjoining a social media safety act must “be rejected out of hand,” NetChoice said in a court brief Monday. The U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas previously sided with the tech association, ruling the safety act unconstitutional for violating the First and 14th Amendments (see 2504010044).
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against TikTok's request that a case alleging the social media platform violated the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act be dismissed. A state circuit court had previously denied a motion to dismiss the case, which TikTok appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court, asking to halt the case.