Christian state lawmakers unanimously supported an app store age-verification model bill last month, the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL) said Monday.
Colorado shouldn’t use upcoming kids’ privacy regulations as a “back door” to require age verification, retailers warned the state’s law department last week. In addition to warning against requiring verification through possible rules about a company’s “willful disregard” of a user being a minor, industry groups cautioned that any regulation of system design features mustn’t violate the First Amendment.
The chief negotiator for the EU told reporters in Brussels July 14 that his team had thought "we are very close to an agreement," though there were still "quite large gaps" on what the U.S. was offering and what the EU could accept on goods subject to national security tariffs, such as cars and steel, and, perhaps in the future, pharmaceuticals.
The FCC shouldn’t take up a proposal to give broadcasters expedited waivers of media ownership rules in exchange for their promises to reduce retransmission consent rates by 50% over three years, said Free State Foundation Senior Fellow Andrew Long in a post Monday. The proposal, from Cincinnati Bell Extended Territories and Hawaiian Telcom Services Co., was filed in the FCC’s “Delete” docket in June. It amounts to “forward-looking, government-imposed pricing mandates” on retransmission consent rates “that could persist for a decade or more,” Long wrote. The proposal would also use administrative contracts that couldn't be reviewed in court and would bind broadcasters and MVPDs, he said. “These so-called voluntary ‘social contracts’ would impose enforceable, multiyear pricing constraints -- effectively, rate regulation -- while circumventing judicial scrutiny.”
Lawyers for the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition and the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society said Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month upholding the USF was a clean win for the program and the FCC (see 2507020049). By rejecting the challenge -- brought by Consumers’ Research, a right-wing group -- SCOTUS lifted a cloud that has loomed over the USF for years, the lawyers said during an SHLB webinar.
No part of an e-tailing franchise fee payment that a buyer makes to a seller should be included in the price actually paid, according to a March 6 CBP ruling. This also applies to situations where an e-tailing fee payment is added as a statutory addition or is tacked on to what is payable for the merchandise, the ruling determined.
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region appears to be taking a different approach to AI regulation and governance than the EU and U.S., privacy professionals told Privacy Daily.
No part of an e-tailing franchise fee payment that a buyer makes to a seller should be included in the price actually paid, according to a March 6 CBP ruling. This also applies to situations where an e-tailing fee payment is added as a statutory addition or is tacked on to what is payable for the merchandise, the ruling determined.
The Trump administration released more details about the conditions for Japan-based Nippon Steel's purchase of U.S. Steel, which Trump said would result in a $14 billion investment in the U.S. economy while keeping the American company headquartered in the U.S. (see 2505230075).
Humans live in a "paradoxical situation" in that we believe our personal data belongs to us while, in reality, it doesn't, Vilnius University professor Paulius Jurcys said in an article published Tuesday. He called for a new social contract where people own and control their data.