Senate Judiciary Committee members hope for unanimous support Thursday during a markup on legislation meant to protect children on social media, despite opposition from Public Knowledge and industry groups (see 2305010034 and 2304200032).
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Montana is right to try to ban TikTok across the state, but it’s unclear how such a prohibition can be enforced at the state-level, Republican senators told us in interviews last week. Consumer groups and the tech industry condemned the Montana measure as unconstitutional.
Consumers should have a “one-stop shop” where they can ask data brokers to delete their information, House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., said during a House Oversight Subcommittee hearing Wednesday (see 2304130057).
The FTC is willing to suspend its privacy rulemaking if Congress enacts a new federal privacy law, Chair Lina Khan told House Commerce Committee members Tuesday.
House Commerce Committee Democrats asked TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Thursday to commit to not selling American data to third parties, including Chinese parent company ByteDance.
The California Assembly Privacy Committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would hold online platforms liable for knowingly, recklessly or negligently helping facilitate child sex trafficking.
Tech companies need to build mobile devices that allow police “lawful access by design” and strike a better balance in the end-to-end encryption debate, FBI Science & Technology Branch Section Chief Katie Noyes said Thursday. The longstanding debate is over law enforcement’s desire to create backdoors into encrypted devices (see 2004060064). Companies should be thinking about statutes that allow lawful access during the design phase, not when products have already been deployed, she said during a Center for Data Innovation livestream.
Legal advocates are discussing how to challenge the EU’s cross-border data transfer agreement with the U.S. for a third time, Max Schrems said Wednesday, discussing expectations for Schrems III (see 2211170005). President Joe Biden's executive order initiating an EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework didn’t solve the fundamental issues between U.S. and EU surveillance policies, said Schrems during the International Association of Privacy Professionals Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C.
If the U.S. Supreme Court opens online platforms to liability for algorithms through a narrow interpretation of Section 230, it could mean a less consumer-friendly internet and entrench dominant platforms further, tech experts said Tuesday.
Tech and communications companies should prepare themselves for an FTC rulemaking that could significantly affect policies for consumer subscription services, legal experts and consumer advocates said in interviews.