Lindsey Tonsager, Jenna Zhang, and Natalie Maas of Covington and Burling write: On June 18, 2024, Louisiana enacted HB 577, prohibiting “social media platforms” with more than 1 million users globally from displaying targeted advertising to Louisiana users that the platform has actual knowledge are under 18 years of age and from selling the sensitive personal…
Category: Youth & Schools
Anonymous messaging app targeting teens: Read the disturbing allegations in FTC and Los Angeles DA action against NGL
By Leslie Fair for the Federal Trade Commission, July 9 – An anonymous messaging app marketed to kids and teens: What could possibly go wrong? A lot, allege the FTC and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. A complaint against NGL Labs and founders Raj Vir and Joao Figueiredo alleges violations of the FTC Act, the…
Photos of Australian children used in dataset to train AI, human rights group says
Josh Taylor reports: Photos of Australian children have been included in the dataset used by several AI image-generating tools without the knowledge or consent of them or their families, research by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found. An analysis of less than 0.0001% of the 5.85bn images contained in the Laion-5B dataset, used by services…
New Jersey Doubles Down on Keeping Baby Blood, Parents Vow to Continue Lawsuit
Dan King reports: New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the New Jersey Department of Health doubled down on their unconstitutional policy of keeping blood drawn from every baby born in the state. A group of New Jersey parents, who filed a class action lawsuit against the state, announced they will fight on until the policy…