J.D. Tuccille writes: There’s seemingly no policy turd that lawmakers are unwilling to polish in the name of “the children.” That brings us to the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, currently working its way through the U.S. Senate. This measure borrows bad proposals from another federal bill and combines them with legislative idiocy enacted…
Category: Laws
Tech Industry Group Halts Arkansas Age Checks for Social Media
Andrea Vittorio reports: A tech industry group won a federal court order halting the implementation of an Arkansas law that requires parental permission to register for social media accounts and online age checks to access certain platforms. The Thursday ruling from the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas prevents the state’s attorney general from…
Alabama attorney general says he has right to prosecute people who facilitate travel for out-of-state abortions
Andy Rose reports that a white male is not only trying to tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies, but he is criminalizing — or attempting to — assisting a woman trying to arrange healthcare out of state. Yep, you read that correctly. The Alabama Attorney General calls it a criminal…
Twinning Tales – India’s Data Protection and Competition Laws
Anisha Chand and Tanveer Verma write: As the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 receives presidential assent and officially graduates to a statute, discourse on the tension between the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the Competition Act, 2002 (Competition Act) has gained momentum. There are two competing ideologies – one that…