Restricting children's social media access “does not violate the First Amendment,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said Monday at the U.S. District Court for Northern Florida in case 4:24-cv-438-MW-MAF.
Toyota was sued Monday in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas for the alleged collection and sale of drivers' data to insurance company Progressive, despite saying in their Data Sharing Policies that it does not share this information without the drivers' consent. Progressive uses the data in their Snapshot data-sharing program that measures a variety of aspects related to driving, the class action alleges.
Oregon privacy regulators noticed a spike in consumers complaining about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and how the government may be handing their personal information, the state DOJ said Monday. Also, the department released a Q1 2025 report on enforcement of the state’s comprehensive privacy law.
E-commerce company Shopify will face a data privacy lawsuit, the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Monday, overturning the lower court's dismissal on the grounds that plaintiff Brandon Briskin could bring the suit in the state of California.
South Carolina senators are undaunted by potential lawsuits against a proposed state law requiring social media companies to adopt an age-appropriate design code (AADC), said Senate Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee members at a livestreamed hearing Monday. The panel voted unanimously by voice to send the identical S-268 and H-3431 to the Senate floor. The House passed an earlier version of H-3431 in February (see 2502200059).
Increased scrutiny at the U.S. border poses heightened digital privacy risks for foreign nationals and even U.S. citizens entering the country, said John Francisco, a lawyer at Woods Rogers, said in a blog Friday.
President Donald Trump’s recent firings of FTC commissioners were illegal and undermine bipartisan work on privacy enforcement, a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general wrote Friday in an amicus brief.
The Privacy Act includes cybersecurity provisions that can be used to hold the Department of Government Efficiency liable for data abuse, Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Mario Trujillo said Thursday.
Law enforcement called out John Molinelli, former Bergen County prosecutor, and the Public Safety Information Protection Coalition (PSIPC) for attempts to weaken Daniel's Law, which protects the sensitive information of certain public servants and their families. An open letter headed by Peter Andreyev, president of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association (PBA), was published Wednesday in the New Jersey Globe.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced Thursday he is filing a lawsuit against messaging platform Discord for deceptive and unlawful business practices that led to children on the platform being exposed to violent and sexual content as well as child predators.