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).
Florida and a bipartisan coalition of 32 states and the District of Columbia supported an Arkansas social media law in an amicus brief Wednesday. They claimed a “district court erred in permanently enjoining … the Social Media Safety Act” (see 2504010044).
Privacy professionals expected more states to enact comprehensive privacy laws this year, but none of the bills introduced this year crossed the finish line, they said Thursday on a TrustArc webinar. Instead, states passed narrowly tailored privacy legislation or amendments to existing laws. In addition, several court decisions and enforcement actions drilled deep into top privacy issues, the privacy pros said.
The House Commerce Subcommittee passed several kids-related bills Thursday, setting up votes from the full House Commerce Committee, as expected (see 2512090058).
A coalition of child advocacy groups asked a federal court Wednesday for permission to submit an amicus brief supporting the Texas attorney general in a case against the state’s app store age-verification law.
If the last three years in state privacy "was really the bill-passing phase,” then 2026 “might be the year of enforcement,” said DBR Tech Law’s Nicole Sakin McNeill on a Wednesday webinar by Privado, a privacy compliance vendor.
There’s a lot of “basic” work companies can do to update front-facing websites and apps and avoid unnecessary attention from federal and state regulators in 2026, former FTC officials said Wednesday during a Red Clover Advisors webinar.
Expect the House Commerce Committee to pass kids safety legislation, despite the lack of support from Democrats, Republican sponsors of the bills told us in interviews.
The FTC will hold a Jan. 28 workshop on age-verification technology, the agency said Monday. It will touch on “regulatory contours” and how COPPA applies to the technology.