Texas announced a lawsuit against Roblox on Thursday in state court for violating state and federal online safety laws via its conduct with children. It follows several other state attorneys general who have filed similar litigation against the gaming platform.
The regulatory landscape in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech v. Paxton and this year’s enactment of a Texas app store age-verification bill “is more complex and riskier than ever,” Kohrman Jackson attorneys blogged Wednesday.
A bill that would ban AI chatbots for minors and require age verification received a show of support from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other senators in interviews Tuesday.
A group of families on Friday voluntarily dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Disney that accused the company of illegally collecting children's data. No reason was given.
CHICAGO -- AI won't get immunity from FTC enforcement, Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said Tuesday in a keynote at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) ad law conference. Also, the Republican said the commission shouldn’t prejudge advertising practices that might benefit consumers or competition.
CHICAGO – With regulators increasingly focused on child privacy, compliance is critical, said privacy experts at the Association of National Advertisers conference on Monday.
CHICAGO -- Privacy regulators are looking beyond a company’s privacy policy when they review its advertising practices, said panelists at an Association of National Advertisers (ANA) ad law conference Monday. That can help or hurt an entity under investigation, they said. Also, panelists said it’s important to convey the value of privacy, not just its costs, in business conversations.
With questions arising about how principles of existing law apply to new technologies, judges are becoming historians and technologists by necessity, said Anne Voigts, Pillsbury Winthrop lawyer, on a SIIA podcast Wednesday.
The FTC should block Meta’s plans to use AI chatbot conversations for targeted advertising purposes, more than 30 civil society groups wrote Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Thursday.
Amid intensifying regulatory pressure about kids' online safety, Character.AI said Wednesday that it will roll out age assurance and remove “the ability for users under 18 to engage in open-ended chat with AI" on its platform by Nov. 25. The changes respond to questions raised by regulators and in recent news reports “about the content teens may encounter when chatting with AI and about how open-ended AI chat in general might affect teens,” the chatbot platform said.