California appropriators greenlit a plethora of privacy bills at Friday meetings. Assembly and Senate panels ticked through a laundry list of “suspense file” bills, including on age assurance, automated decisions, reproductive health, workplace surveillance and revisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The approved bills could get floor votes next.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) signed a bill requiring social media platforms to verify ages and not allow those younger than 18 to have accounts unless their parents give consent, the governor’s office said Tuesday.
The Mississippi attorney general fired back Monday against NetChoice, opposing motions for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against a law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages, obtain parental consent for minors to have accounts, and limit the content minors are exposed to on the platforms.
The increased ties between industry and government have led to more data collection, which has had serious implications for democracy, panelists told a Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute forum on surveillance and democracy at the National Press Club on Friday.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) announced Friday it's consulting with children, young people and parents on how children's privacy can be better protected online.
Congress should reject a “destructive” proposal that would block states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years, a bipartisan coalition of 40 state attorneys general said in a letter to congressional leaders Friday (see 2505150021 and 2505140059).
Public concern about privacy remains high in New Zealand, an Office of the Privacy Commissioner survey published Thursday found.
A tech industry group raised privacy and other concerns with a Texas bill (HB-186) that would require age verification and ban kids younger than 18 from creating social media accounts.
Texas and Nebraska governors will consider signing age-verification bills soon.
Noyb is considering mounting a European class action against Meta if the social media platform continues with a plan to use data of EU Facebook and Instragram users for AI training, the Austrian privacy advocacy group said Wednesday.