Skye Witley reports: Parties in the adult entertainment industry asked a Texas federal court to block state officials from enforcing a new law that would require pornography websites to verify the age of their users and display a health warning notice. Those two requirements of the law set to take effect Sept. 1 are the…
Snapchat under scrutiny from UK watchdog over underage users
Martin Coulter reports: Britain’s data regulator is gathering information on Snapchat to establish whether the U.S. instant messaging app is doing enough to remove underage users from its platform, two people familiar with the matter said. Reuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap Inc had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its…
Russian bill to hide the PII data of military, police, and intelligence agents
Catalin Cimpanu writes: The Russian government has submitted a bill to the Duma (the Russian Parliament) that would grant the military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies the power to edit, anonymize, or delete the personal data of certain groups of people—presumably their own employees. At first reading, the proposed law appears to allow these agencies to freely…
Judge partially blocks Texas abortion ban for medical emergencies, fatal diagnoses
Nadine El-Bawab reports: A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction on Texas’ multiple abortion bans on Friday, allowing abortions in cases of medical emergencies and fatal fetal diagnoses while litigation continues in an ongoing lawsuit filed by women alleging Texas’ bans put their lives in danger. The judge also denied the state’s request to throw out…