After a federal judge said the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) was “a total mess” in a ruling Friday, a privacy lawyer touted Judge Vince Chhabria for “call[ing] it like it is.”
A federal court ruled Monday that LinkedIn must face a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case accusing it of deploying tracking pixels to transmit personally identifiable information (PII) of users to third parties without their knowledge and consent.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) cheered a federal court decision Wednesday that halts the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) demand for state data about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. However, it warned the personal information of millions of Americans remains at risk.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) demand for state data on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients will likely cause irreparable harm if not blocked, and is contrary to the SNAP Act, a federal court ruled Wednesday as it granted more than 20 states a preliminary injunction.
Several consumer advocates criticized an Ohio law requiring websites targeting children younger than 18 to obtain parental consent before engaging in contracts with minors. In amicus briefs Friday, the groups alleged that its age-verification requirement poses privacy risks and the law violates the First Amendment. They asked the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to join the district court in blocking the Ohio Social Media Parental Notification Act.
A Mississippi law that requires parental consent for those younger than 18 to create accounts with certain digital service providers poses significant privacy concerns and violates the First Amendment, according to a horde of amicus briefs filed Thursday. The briefs asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to side with NetChoice and strike down the Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act.
A federal judge Tuesday declined to dismiss a case over the constitutionality of a Florida law that would ban kids from social media (case 4:24-cv-00438).
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.
A Florida law that would ban kids from social media doesn't violate the First Amendment, said Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) in a brief filed Friday that asks a federal court to reverse a preliminary injunction on the law.
The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to block Mississippi’s social-media law from taking effect (see 2508140048) means that a similar Tennessee law should not be blocked, either, argued Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) on Friday.