Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On June 7, 2024, the New York legislature passed a bill (S.B. S7694A), the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act (the “Act”), addressing children’s use of social media platforms. The bill is pending Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature. The Act prohibits a “covered operator” of an addictive social media platform from providing…
Category: Youth & Schools
Google Database Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and…
Tech Groups Push to Narrow New York Child Digital Privacy Bills
Zach Williams reports: Tech lobbyists have the ear of New York lawmakers working to get measures protecting children online wrapped up in the last three weeks of the legislative session. Companies and industry groups are lobbying to narrow, rather than kill, proposals that could affect how minors and their parents interact with social media and…
Update: University of Alberta says they comply with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) Act, but then claims exemption when you file (1)
Update of May 2, 2024 After looking at the university’s denial of my access request which they based on an exemption for “research information,” I decided that failing to disclose information about matters of significant public concern by calling it “research information” was not within the spirit of a public policy of accountability and transparency. …