Introducing privacy to young children may help empower them to continue to assert their right to it as they grow older, author and academic Lorrie Cranor told Privacy Daily in an interview. A professor of security and privacy technologies at Carnegie Mellon, Cranor recently wrote a children's book, Privacy, Please!
Though age gating is increasingly prevalent, laws regulating it vary widely from state to state, and courts haven't fully addressed their legality, said Corynne McSherry, legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The House Commerce Subcommittee passed several kids-related bills Thursday, setting up votes from the full House Commerce Committee, as expected (see 2512090058).
X breached its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and should pay a 120 million euros ($140 million) fine, the European Commission said Friday in its first non-compliance decision under the law. X didn't immediately comment.
With Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act taking effect Dec. 10, Google's YouTube on Thursday sent its users and creators what it called "a disappointing update."
The U.K. Office of Communications fined porn site operator AVS Group 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) for its lack of strong age checks, plus another 50,000 pounds ($66,000) for failing to respond to the regulator's information request, it said Thursday. An operator of 18 adult sites, AVS faces a daily penalty of 300 pounds ($400) from today "until it responds or for 60 days, whichever is sooner," Ofcom added.
Though a variety of age assurance methods exist, effectively enforcing them “remains a persistent challenge,” said IAPP contributors Katelyn Ringrose and David Sullivan in an analysis Monday. Ringrose is a privacy lawyer at McDermott Will, while Sullivan is executive director at Digital Trust and Safety Partnership.
Possible New York regulations aimed at protecting kids against addictive feeds raise significant privacy concerns, tech industry and consumer privacy groups agreed in comments reviewed Tuesday by Privacy Daily. The groups weighed in Monday on a Sept. 15 NPRM from the state attorney general's office to implement the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act.
Possible federal preemption of state laws and concerns about whether the FTC has the bandwidth to enforce new kids’ privacy and safety measures came up frequently during a hearing Tuesday of the House Commerce Committee subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. The session was meant to discuss nearly 20 kids’ privacy and safety bills (see 2511250080).
Pornhub’s decision to exit Missouri rather than comply with new age-verification requirements “proves exactly why this rule is necessary,” said state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) in a press release Monday.