Device manufacturers would transmit age-verification signals under a California bill (AB-1043), as amended Friday by sponsor Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D).
NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) refiled a lawsuit Friday against Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) over HB-3, which the groups allege violates the First Amendment and puts cybersecurity and privacy risks on state residents. The same day at another federal district court, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) sought to dismiss a separate NetChoice lawsuit against the Maryland Age-Appropriate Design Code (MAADC) Act.
Rhode Island’s age-verification legislation raises privacy concerns for adults and minors who don’t want to share personal information with social media platforms, the American Civil Liberties Union told state lawmakers Thursday.
Utah added a right to correct inaccurate information to its comprehensive privacy law. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) Thursday signed HB-418, which would also require social media data portability and interoperability (see 2503100039).
Regulation of AI tools and systems is all based on the same data governance principles used in privacy law, and it’s important for this regulation to be tackled collaboratively on a state level, said a Texas legislator and privacy and emerging tech experts during a regulatory panel at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) AI and Technology for Marketers Conference Friday.
The Oklahoma House voted 75-14 Tuesday to pass a bill (HB-1388) that would require social media companies to complete data protection impact assessments on how their platforms might influence children. The bill goes next to the Senate.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Monday signed SB-754, which would update the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to prohibit obtaining, disclosing, selling or disseminating personally identifiable reproductive or sexual health information without a consumer’s consent.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) asked the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee on Monday again to deny NetChoice's preliminary injunction against a law requiring age verification to access social media accounts. Skrmetti argued the association's notice of supplemental authority concerns an unrelated data privacy law.
Regulating AI at the federal level might require a targeted approach on specific issues, rather than a comprehensive bill, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Tuesday during the Free State Foundation’s annual policy conference.
A panel of Florida senators supported requiring decryption of young users’ social media messages during law enforcement investigations. At a livestreamed hearing Tuesday, the state’s Senate Commerce Committee voted 7-2 to clear an amended SB-868.