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y now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’s platforms. The headlines are all covering the basics: the years-long case these states filed against Meta ends, and…

The landscape of children’s and teens’ privacy and online safety regulation continues to evolve at a rapid pace. In the absence of comprehensive federal legislation, state legislatures are driving a patchwork of privacy protections, spanning age verification mechanisms, social media restrictions, addictive design prohibitions, and data minimization requirements. Meanwhile, litigation…

Canada’s private sector privacy law is more than 25 years old and there is broad consensus that a modernization is long overdue. Bill C-36, tabled on Monday, is the government’s third attempt at updating the law, following the failed efforts with Bill C-11 in 2020 and Bill C-27 in 2022. My first post on the new bill…

On Sept. 15, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, A.B. 2273 (CAADCA) into law, which goes into effect July 1, 2024. CAADCA is California’s most recent privacy law, following the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), which modifies and extends the California Consumer…