Legislators can help protect kids on social media, but a cultural shift on the issue of child safety also will require collaboration from Big Tech, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) said Tuesday.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission published a final decision Thursday on its investigation into whether TikTok violated the GDPR by transferring Europeans' personal data to China. The decision, including fines of 530 million euros ($600 million), was announced May 2 (see 2505020001).
Sendit violated COPPA by illegally collecting children’s data and deceived users with messages from fake people, the FTC announced Tuesday in a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based anonymous messaging app.
Canada's investigation of TikTok found inadequate measures to prevent collection and use of kids’ sensitive personal information, said Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne on Tuesday. The national privacy regulator said it jointly investigated the social media platform with provincial privacy commissioners for Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia.
A Canadian security camera company with ties to China misled consumers about its privacy and security standards, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Hilgers, in an interview with Privacy Daily, discussed how he's using his office's consumer protection authority, as well as the outlook for the state's new privacy law.
Organizations providing content accessible to kids “should prepare for greater legal and regulatory scrutiny,” said an IAPP analysis on age assurance published Monday.
Tech-holding company MediaLab.AI and its social messaging app Kik harm children through anonymous accounts that have become a haven for child predators, said Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) in a lawsuit made public Tuesday.
TikTok exploits children by using addictive design features, and in turn profits off their time on the social media app, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. These are deceptive and unfair business practices that violate state consumer protection laws, he added.
A federal court's dismissal of a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) case claiming a TikTok tool was a "trap and trace device" shows plaintiffs' claims must match the statute's definitions exactly, or they risk having the case tossed before getting "to the starting gate," Troutman Amin's Keerti Jaya said in a blog post Monday.
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., on Thursday released draft legislation that would allow TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. under specific national security conditions.