Skye Witley reports: Parties in the adult entertainment industry asked a Texas federal court to block state officials from enforcing a new law that would require pornography websites to verify the age of their users and display a health warning notice. Those two requirements of the law set to take effect Sept. 1 are the…
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Snapchat under scrutiny from UK watchdog over underage users
Martin Coulter reports: Britain’s data regulator is gathering information on Snapchat to establish whether the U.S. instant messaging app is doing enough to remove underage users from its platform, two people familiar with the matter said. Reuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap Inc had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its…
Twitter/X Might Have a New DMCA Subpoena Controversy On Its Hands
Andy Maxwell writes: June 2022 marked the end of a legal battle that despite modest roots, went on to become one of the most interesting copyright cases in recent years. After paying just $47, a shadowy business entity hoped to obtain a DMCA subpoena that would compel Twitter to hand over the personal details of…
S.T.O.P. Condemns ESRB’s Gaming Facial Recognition Plans
(New York, NY, 7/26/2023) – Today, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, condemned the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) proposal to use facial recognition to surveil gamers’ ages. The proposal was made in a filing to the Federal Trade Commission, detailing software that would use gamers’ photos to…