Pl share! Letter to Congress in opposition to privacy invasive College Transparency Act that wd allow feds to track every college student thru life; letter signed by @parents4privacy @ACLU @Fairplay @EPICprivacy @ConsumerFed @Network4publiced & others https://t.co/Rz5Ye6W4Lv pic.twitter.com/5f3g7fqrwu — leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) March 14, 2022 Direct link to larger view of letter. Update: As I discussed…
Category: Youth & Schools
Texas Blocked From Investigating Transgender Kids’ Parents For Child Abuse
Andrew DeMillo of AP reports: A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth. District Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to compel the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate. Read more…
France Enacts New Law on Parental Controls
Kristof Van Quathem, Alix Bertrand, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington and Burling write: On March 2, 2022, following a fast-track legislative process in the French National Assembly and Senate, President Macron of France signed into law a new piece of legislation designed to reinforce parental controls over minors’ access to the Internet (the “Law”) (see…
Weight Watchers App Illegally Gathered Data From Children, F.T.C. Says
Claire Fahy reports: WW International, the weight-loss organization formerly known as Weight Watchers, used an app to illegally collect personal information from children without their parents’ permission, the Federal Trade Commission said. A complaint filed Friday by the Justice Department on behalf of the commission said that WW and its pediatric weight-loss app, Kurbo, violated…