Though much in the privacy space has yet to be “resolved,” some aspects have become more mainstream, especially concerning consumer online privacy, said Laura Riposo VanDruff, a privacy and data security lawyer at Kelley Drye, in an interview with Privacy Daily.
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Privacy professionals begin the new year considering significant changes to some state privacy requirements. Lawyers suggested resolutions to review data and get an early start on risk assessments.
A federal court has finalized Disney’s $10 million settlement over claims that the company violated COPPA when it failed to designate its YouTube content as “directed toward children,” DOJ said Tuesday.
The eleventh-hour freezing of a Texas app store age-verification law made for the “Happiest of Holidays,” Frankfurt Kurnit lawyer Emma Smizer blogged Tuesday after the U.S. District Court for Western Texas ruled that the Texas App Store Accountability Act likely violates the First Amendment (see 2512230062).
Kids privacy and child safety online have been hot-button issues on both sides of the aisle and will remain so in 2026, said privacy lawyers in interviews with Privacy Daily. Despite the bipartisan focus and federal bills pending on these issues, several of the lawyers were doubtful about passage of a national law next year.
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A district court’s decision Tuesday to grant a preliminary injunction against Texas’ App Store Accountability Act surprised some, but not others, as privacy pros digested the Computer & Communications Industry Association's initial victory.
A bipartisan coalition of 28 states plus the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief Monday supporting Virginia in a case that challenges the constitutionality of a social media law that would amend the state's privacy statute. Virginia AG Jason Miyares (R) opposed NetChoice’s proposed preliminary injunction in a court document Friday.
State legislators across the country already have filed several kids online safety bills ahead of 2026 legislative sessions. An attorney earlier this week predicted an “avalanche of new state laws” related to child online safety over the next one to two years (see 2512170031).