Mobile app stores and developers could soon face private lawsuits under a Texas age-verification law coming into effect on Jan. 1, Womble Bond privacy attorney Tyler Bridegan blogged Tuesday.
Networking equipment manufacturer TP-Link Systems may be aiding the Chinese government in accessing and abusing American consumers’ data, said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) Monday as he announced an investigation into the company.
El Cajon, a city 17 miles east of San Diego, broke the law when it shared license plate data with federal and out-of-state law enforcement agencies, argued California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) in a lawsuit filed Friday.
Social media companies have a Jan. 1 deadline for reporting their content moderation policies to the New York Attorney General's Office, it said Thursday as it announced that the online portal for submitting those reports is open. The Stop Hiding Hate Act, signed into law in December, requires social media companies to submit terms of service reports to the AG's office, and report on the steps taken and on flagged or actioned items of content. “With violence and polarization on the rise, social media companies must ensure that their platforms don’t fuel hateful rhetoric and disinformation,” said AG Letitia James (D).
Lorex will contest Tuesday’s lawsuit from Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) and is confident the record will show the company has appropriately protected user privacy, it said in an emailed statement Wednesday (see 2509230050).
A coordinated enforcement sweep by California, Colorado and Connecticut signals “the growing power of multi-state cooperation on privacy enforcement,” Perkins Coie lawyers Alison Watkins and Peter Hegal blogged Wednesday. Other privacy lawyers also flagged last week’s development in blog posts this week.
Oklahoma’s top enforcer is seeking outside counsel to investigate and pursue legal action against Temu over privacy and security concerns, Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) said in a Tuesday news release.
A bipartisan group of attorneys general from some 40 states discussed cybersecurity and privacy in late August, demonstrating a growing interest in these topics for policy and enforcement purposes, said a blog post from Kelley Drye lawyers.
California, Colorado and Connecticut privacy enforcers warned that they are scanning for companies not complying with the Global Privacy Control (GPC), a leading type of universal opt-out preference signal. The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced the collaborative investigative sweep on Tuesday.
The need to succeed in AI must happen “without sacrificing the well-being of our kids in the process," said a bipartisan coalition of 44 state and territory attorneys general in a Monday letter to several Big Tech organizations. The AGs notified the companies, including Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Google, Luka, Meta, Microsoft, Nomi AI, Open AI, Perplexity AI, Replika and Xai, that they “will be held accountable for [their] decisions.”