Josh Gerstein reports: The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older. The justices rejected a First Amendment challenge to the law. The court said in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that protecting children from sexually explicit material online justifies the burden that the…
Category: Online
Sky Views Personal Data as a Potential Weapon in IPTV Piracy War
Andy Maxwell writes: Sky’s war on TV piracy has raged for well over thirty years and despite the passing of time, the goal remains the same. In broad terms, pirates retain their original goals too, but how that can be achieved is always subject to change, largely depending on who has taken the lead in…
Vermont signs Kids Code into law, faces legal challenges
Ben Breen reports: One of the ten bills Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed Thursday has the goal of making Vermont children safer online. The bill faces challenges in court, but its supporters say it is necessary in a rapidly changing world. Senate Bill 69, known as the Vermont Kids Code, aims to protect kids from…
Norwegian Data Protection Authority’s findings on tracking pixels: 6 cases
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has carried out an inspection of six websites’ use of tracking pixels. All of the websites unlawfully shared personal data of website visitors with third parties, and in several of the cases, the personal data shared were of a sensitive nature. In one of the cases, we imposed a fine…