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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
State Agency Conducted ‘Mask Raids,’ Interviewed Preschoolers Alone
Will Huntsberry reports: Stephanie and Richard Rosado recently told their 4-year-old son about the importance of not talking to strangers. Only days later, state regulators came to the child’s preschool, isolated him in a room away from his teachers and friends and asked him questions about masking. His parents, and many others at the preschool,…
Texas Court Blocks ‘Child Abuse’ Investigation For Parents Of Transgender Child
Mason Bissada reports: A local judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating two parents who helped their child seek gender-affirming medical treatment, an early legal blow to Texas’ controversial new policy that frames gender-affirming treatment as “child abuse.” Read more at Forbes and USA Today.