TikTok transferred European Economic Area (EEA) users' personal data to servers in China, the Irish Data Protection Commission said Thursday as it launched a probe into the social media platform's activities.
Massachusetts should follow New York state in passing an age-verification bill to ban social media platforms from using algorithms to deliver content to users younger than 18, said Massachusetts Rep. William MacGregor (D) at a livestreamed Thursday hearing of the Joint Committee on Advanced IT, the Internet and Cybersecurity.
Some state lawmakers are looking to pass legislation regulating the data broker industry in the wake of the shooting deaths last month of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband and the attempted killing of John Hoffman (D), a Minnesota senator, and his wife.
Federal court Judge Halil Ozerden granted a stay of proceedings in a Mississippi social media age-verification law case while an appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending. The parties in the case, NetChoice and Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R), jointly moved for the stay on Wednesday (see 2507020027).
Trade association NetChoice and Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch (R) jointly moved for a stay of proceedings of a social media age-verification law case while Fitch's appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is pending.
Following a joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal Friday from data scraper Bright Data and social media platform X, U.S. District Court for Northern California Judge William Alsup ordered the copyright case dismissed on Tuesday.
Pleasing businesses, California lawmakers further scaled back a privacy bill requiring support for universal opt-out signals so it now covers only browsers. At a hearing Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-0 to advance AB-566 to the Appropriations Committee. In addition, the Judiciary Committee forwarded a bill that would require social media platforms to treat consumers deleting accounts as requests to delete their information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The panel also supported requiring warning labels on social media.
Qualified researchers would gain access to the internal data of companies designated as very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines (VLOSEs) under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). The new access stems from part of a "delegated act," the European Commission announced Wednesday.
Utah should consider amending its comprehensive privacy law, given the underwhelming number of consumer privacy complaints filed in the statute’s first 18 months, said Attorney General Derek Brown (R) and the Utah Division of Consumer Protection in a report obtained Wednesday by Privacy Daily. “Complaints have not been as forthcoming as anticipated,” it said, but “violations are likely occurring.”
A bipartisan group of eleven states, led by New Hampshire and Vermont, filed an amicus brief Monday in support of California's litigation against Meta in an online safety case concerning addicting children. The brief highlights other state litigation that has found the Communications Decency Act (CDA) doesn't immunize the social media platform against claims that it employs coercive design features that addict minors. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) also filed a brief Monday supporting California.