Opponents of social media age-verification requirements Thursday cast a Michigan bill as outdated, bad for consumer privacy and likely to draw a lawsuit. However, at the Michigan House Regulatory Reform Committee hearing, sponsor Rep. Mark Tisdel (R) repeatedly said his legislation is meant to hammer home a critical concept: “Minors can’t consent.”
Privacy regulators in the U.S. and abroad are scrutinizing how connected vehicles collect and share data about their drivers, said Morrison Foerster attorneys on a webinar Wednesday.
OpenAI said the New York Times “disregards long-standing privacy protections” when it demands that the company turn over 20 million private ChatGPT conversations in a legal suit. But a spokesperson for the newspaper said the AI company is being misleading and there's no threat to users' privacy.
TikTok must face a case accusing it of violating the Nevada Deceptive Trade Practices Act (NDTPA) by deploying addictive social media algorithms, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday, siding with an earlier district court decision.
California's Oct. 30 settlement with Sling TV reinforced that regulators are focused on opt-out processes and children’s data, while revealing that they are looking more closely at how privacy choices influence the consumer experience, privacy lawyers said afterward.
The sudden dismissal of a consumer's biometrics lawsuit in Illinois against Home Depot leaves legal questions about facial scanning technology's future use at self-checkout kiosks, said Kathryn Rattigan, Robinson+Cole lawyer, in a blog post Thursday.
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 number of enforcement actions under state consumer privacy laws is “building” and could soon explode, said Troutman privacy attorney David Stauss on his firm’s webinar Thursday. For companies, injunctive relief could be just as costly as the monetary penalty, he cautioned.
Illuminate Education failed to use basic security measures to protect student data, which led to a breach affecting millions of children, attorneys general from Connecticut, New York and California announced Thursday in a $5.1 million settlement with the education software company.
When immigration enforcement and patient privacy collide, health care providers must remember that HIPAA's view of personal health information (PHI) is broad, Davis Wright's Adam Greene told a Health Care Compliance Association event Wednesday.