Vermont House Rep. Monique Priestley will run for state Senate in 2026, the Democrat announced Wednesday. Priestley has authored various privacy bills, including this year’s age-appropriate design code law (see 2506120094) and comprehensive privacy legislation (see 2510060010).
Amid increasing scrutiny from state enforcers, Roblox is partnering with attorneys general on a youth online safety initiative. In a news release Wednesday, the Attorney General Alliance (AGA) said the “initiative aims to reduce online harms through the development of practical, collaborative, and measurable design-based safeguards while also sharing best practices and tools that public and private partners can use to collaborate more effectively and better protect children online.”
Lynch Carpenter is investigating recent Discord and WestJet data breaches on behalf of potential victims, the law firm said Friday.
Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Tuesday led a bipartisan group in introducing legislation that would ban AI chatbots for minors and require age verification.
California’s newly minted Digital Age Assurance Act “will likely create significant compliance challenges for many businesses,” blogged David Stauss and two other Troutman privacy lawyers on Monday.
The U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) has made progress in the two years since it took effect, but broad gaps remain in child-protection provisions, said 5Rights Foundation, an international children's rights advocacy group.
Apple, Microsoft, Snap and X continue to lead a tech industry push for passage of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) against opponents like Meta, Google, ByteDance and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, according to the latest Senate lobbying numbers.
Businesses should comb through their data-collection practices to comply with the unusual aspects of the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), Kelley Drye privacy lawyers Aaron Burstein and Austin Del Priore blogged Friday.
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State attorneys general have relied on a combination of state consumer protection law, state comprehensive privacy law, federal children’s privacy law and multistate letters in cases against privacy violators, according to a new report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center.