Tennessee joined five other states in suing gaming platform Roblox over concerns for children’s safety. Filed in state court Thursday, the suit accuses Roblox of engaging in unfair and deceptive business practices that harm kids, in violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.
Possible New York regulations aimed at protecting kids against addictive feeds raise significant privacy concerns, tech industry and consumer privacy groups agreed in comments reviewed Tuesday by Privacy Daily. The groups weighed in Monday on a Sept. 15 NPRM from the state attorney general's office to implement the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act.
A recent court decision demonstrates that “retail sites aren’t getting a free pass” when it comes to California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claims, especially when pixel trackers are collecting much more than what's needed for ads, said Troutman Amin lawyer Keerti Jaya in a blog post Friday.
Fresh New York state laws on algorithmic pricing and AI chatbots that are now in effect prompted comments from elected officials about the statutes' importance.
While cyberattacks and the litigation that stems from them are growing concerns, companies can sometimes escape the legal thicket as courts increasingly are open to dismissing data breach cases, Hogan Lovell lawyers said during a podcast Monday.
Although it's mainly a framework at present, Italy's AI Act (Law No. 132/2025) represents a "sophisticated regulatory approach" that could influence other EU countries and the U.K., lawyers said recently. The country was the first to adopt the EU AI Act into national law.
Meta is restructuring its compliance team and will maintain “high standards,” the company said Friday in response to reports that it’s laying off hundreds of employees and automating certain compliance tasks.
A growing number of wiretapping cases are being brought against schools that register for free analytics services without realizing the third parties are then collecting data from visitors to the school website and using it, said Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Friday.
A federal judge dismissed a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against the NBA on Monday, citing the ordinary person standard from Solomon v. Flipps Media (see 2508110052) as the basis for doing so.
Canada-based WestJet Airlines may have suffered a breach that leaked the sensitive information of more than 1 million customers, a law firm investigating the incident said Thursday. Multiple states also recently reported the breach.