David McCabe reports: A group of attorneys general on Tuesday asked Snap and TikTok to work more closely with parental control apps and to apply more scrutiny to inappropriate content on their platforms, the latest salvo in a growing fight over child protection between governments and social media companies. Attorneys general from 43 states and territories said…
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Some Russian oligarchs are using U.K. data privacy law to sue
Reed Albergotti reports: Russian oligarchs and other powerful individuals are turning to an unusual method to protect their online images: data privacy laws. Those laws, which were intended to prevent ads from tracking consumers too closely around the Internet, are now being used in the United Kingdom to sue anyone holding undesirable information on their…
Federal Court Approves $1.1 Million TikTok Settlement Over Children’s Privacy Claims
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 25, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a $1.1 million settlement with TikTok Inc. (“TikTok”) to resolve claims that TikTok collected children’s data and sold it to third parties without parental consent. Read more at Privacy & Information Security Law Blog.
How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment
How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment by Erin Smith, and Heather Vogell, ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Kim Fuller needed to move. Her…