NetChoice wins permanent injunction to Louisiana social media age check law
NetChoice has quashed another U.S. online safety law. The legal lobby for Silicon Valley’s biggest companies has issued a release…
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Two months in, Snapchat is still not a fan of Australia’s social media law
As Australia daily moves further into its era of age restrictions on large social media platforms, various stakeholders are offering…
Snap selects ConnectID, k-ID for Australian age verification
In Australia, Snapchat users can now prove their age using ID document validation or biometrics from k-ID, or with ConnectID,…
Australia latest nation to face insults, threats from US over online safety laws
America has summoned Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, to answer for her alleged offenses against free speech. In a…
Big platforms pout over Australia’s social media law but pledge to comply
Any parent understands that, in some cases, no matter how hard a child protests the rules, they’ll probably give in…
Federal judge denies Florida bid to force age assurance on Snapchat
The back-and-forth over online safety laws for social media sites continues, this time in a Florida court, where a federal…
Social media platforms could keep more Australian kids off if they actually tried
The most popular social media platforms among Australia’s youth are mostly ones they are not old enough to be allowed…
Meta insists app stores, not apps, are the best place for age assurance measures
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta continues to lead the push to make app stores responsible for age assurance, in a thinly-veiled campaign…
Snap settles case for $35M as BIPA trips up Amazon and adult entertainment purveyors
Snap (parent of Snapchat) has agreed to settle a biometric data privacy complaint with a class of Illinois users for…
Parties seek clarity in biometric data privacy lawsuits’ scope
A series of court cases over alleged violations of biometric data privacy are gradually increasing clarity on the scope of…
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