Ashley Belanger reports: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently seeking comments on new rules that would further restrict platforms’ efforts to monetize children’s data. Through the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the FTC initially sought to give parents more control over what kinds of information that various websites and apps can collect from their kids….
Category: Online
California Privacy Protection Agency Votes to Advance Legislation Requiring Certain Browsers to Support Opt-Out Preference Signals
Libbie Canter and Andrew Longhi of Covington and Burling write: At its December 8 board meeting, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) voted to advance a legislative proposal that would require vendors of web browsers to include a feature that would allow consumers to exercise data subject rights through opt-out preference signals. Regulations promulgated under…
Bedroom camera footage hacked, sold online
Pham Du reports” Untold hours of private camera footage from bedrooms, changing rooms, toilets and massage parlors in Vietnam have been hacked and put on sale online. Minh Hung read the description of a private Telegram group which invited him to join: “A group specialized in hacking into private cameras of families and shops in…
To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First
Corynne McSherry, Cindy Cohn, Mario Trujillo, and Thorin Klosowski of EFF write: Every year, we encounter new, often ill-conceived, bills written by state, federal, and international regulators to tackle a broad set of digital topics ranging from child safety to artificial intelligence. These scattershot proposals to correct online harm are often based on censorship and news cycles. Instead…