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Sendit violated COPPA by illegally collecting children’s data and deceived users with messages from fake people, the FTC announced Tuesday in a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based anonymous messaging app.
Data security and child privacy are among the FTC’s enforcement priorities for the next five years, the agency said Friday in its draft strategic plan. Comments are due Oct. 17.
The FTC Act and COPPA are among the statutes that will be focal points for DOJ’s new Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation Branch, the department announced Thursday.
Ohio and Arizona age-verification laws will soon take effect, the Free Speech Coalition noted Wednesday.
A potential tech industry legal challenge is looming as child-related amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act go into effect Wednesday.
Ketch announced an age-gating and video-consent product for addressing kids’ privacy law compliance and wiretapping litigation. The compliance vendor said its release of “dynamic consent” tools responds to a growing number of age-appropriate design code and other age-verification laws in the states, as well as increasing litigation against businesses from plaintiffs’ attorneys under laws like the California Invasion of Privacy Act and the federal Video Privacy Protection Act.
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A federal appeals court should affirm a lower court’s decision and block Florida’s social media ban on children because it violates the First Amendment, the American Civil Liberties Union and consumer groups said in a filing Friday, siding with the tech industry (see 2509120040). The groups also highlighted privacy concerns related to age verification (docket 25-11881).
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral argument for Nov. 3 concerning a 2023 Texas age-verification law (case 24-50721). The hearing starts at 9 a.m. CT in New Orleans, the court said Friday.