#childrens-privacy — Public Fediverse posts

Weekly output: TikTok fine, AI and healthcare, fixed wireless access, Google’s latest AI travel-search tools

About four years ago here, I wrote here that I had to bring my family to the Kennedy Space Center someday so they could see why I’m so crazy about watching rocket launches in person. I finally made that happen with Sunday morning’s launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket. The sound from the KSC visitor’s center, about seven miles from historic Launch Complex 39A, wasn’t nearly as loud as from the center’s press site. But the sonic booms of the rocket’s two side boosters landing may have been even louder than I remembered from 2018’s debut of that SpaceX rocket.

8/24/2026: TikTok Hit With $400 Million Fine for Violating Children’s Privacy Law, PCMag

The Friday-news-dump timing of the Department of Justice’s release about this settlement gave me a little extra time to gather some context about how much this fine might actually hurt the short-form video platform. Answer: not much!

8/26/2026: The Doctor Is Not Real. More Americans Comfortable Consulting AI for Health Info, PCMag

I’d missed chances to cover the last couple of interesting Pew reports about attitudes towards AI, but I did have barely-enough time Tuesday to read and write up this pair.

8/27/2026: 5G Home Broadband Is Soaring in Urban Areas, and This Carrier Comes Out on Top, PCMag

A report with a conclusion that I didn’t expect from an organization whose work I trust always gets my attention.

8/27/2026: Google’s AI Mode Can Track Flight Prices, Help You Book With Points or Miles, PCMag

Appropriately enough, I wrote this from the airport in San Diego. For additional insights about the utility of these tools from somebody with what I’m sure is millions of miles more travel experience than me, see Matthew Klint’s take at Live and Let’s Fly.

In a recent Cybersecurity Law & Strategy article, Zach Lerner and Rushil Mehta detail how app store accountability laws are forcing developers to confront a new children's privacy reality.

#AADC #AppStores #ChildrensPrivacy #Privacy

https://www.zwillgen.com/publication/age-data-app-developers-primed-trigger-cascading-effects/

The UK’s Online Safety Act has entered a new phase, with in-scope user-to-user services now required not only to remove detected child exploitation content, but also to report it to the UK’s National Crime Agency or a foreign agency exercising equivalent functions. View our coverage:

#UKCompliance #ChildrensPrivacy #OnlineSafety 

https://www.zwillgen.com/eu-uk/new-uk-csea-reporting-rule-takes-effect-user-to-user-services/

Companies that have paused their Age-Appropriate Design Code compliance efforts will have to pick the pen back up. South Carolina enacts an immediately effective AADC and California's Ninth Circuit vacated, in part, the injunction against the CA AADC.

#AADC #ChildrensPrivacy #Privacy

https://www.zwillgen.com/privacy/south-carolina-enacts-immediately-effective-novel-aadc-california-aadc-revived/

A $10 million FTC settlement with Disney highlights how COPPA obligations may be triggered by content mislabeling on YouTube. Learn what businesses should be doing now in our new blog post: #COPPA #ChildrensPrivacy #FTC #ContentCreators
https://www.zwillgen.com/privacy/ftc-puts-content-creators-notice-10-million-coppa-settlement-disney/

FTC Files Complaint Against Sendit App, CEO Over Illegal Data Collection From Children https://thecyberexpress.com/ftc-complaint-against-sendit-app-ceo/ #Children’sonlineprivacy #Childrensprivacy #FirewallDaily #OnlinePrivacy #Compliance #CyberNews #SendIt #COPPA

U.S. Government Sues TikTok for COPPA Violations, Exposing Millions of Children’s Data https://thecyberexpress.com/us-government-sues-tiktok-for-coppa-violations/ #USGovernmentSuesTikTok #childrendataprivacy #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #Childrensprivacy #CyberEssentials #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #Regulations #dataprivacy #Compliance #Governance #TikTok

UK Data Privacy Watchdog Targets Social Media for Children’s Privacy Violations https://thecyberexpress.com/uk-targets-social-media-for-childrens-privacy/ #videosharingplatforms #socialmediaplatforms #targetedadvertising #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #Childrensprivacy #CyberEssentials #TheCyberExpress #dataprotection #FirewallDaily #childrenscode #ageassurance #OnlineSafety #Regulations #Compliance #Privacy

DOJ sues TikTok, alleging “massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy” - Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto)

The US Dep... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2040944 #departmentofjustice #onlinechildsafety #childrensprivacy #onlineprivacy #dataprivacy #copparule #policy #tiktok #coppa

The #FTC's new order requires NGL Labs to bar users under 18 with a neutral age gate—the first time the agency has banned minors from an online service. Learn about the implications of this landmark decision in our latest blog post #ChildrensPrivacy https://www.zwillgen.com/ftc-state-ag/were-not-gonna-lie-ftcs-settlement-contains-novel-requirement-neutral-age-gate-u18

Australia: Children’s Personal Photos Misused to Power AI Tools https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/03/australia-childrens-personal-photos-misused-power-ai-tools #AI #Australia #ChildrensRights #ChildrensPrivacy #exploitation #AIEthics

At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say - Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and “unlawfully” collected the... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/technology/instagram-meta-children-privacy.html #childrensonlineprivacyprotectionact #mobileapplications #childrensprivacy #instagraminc #socialmedia #privacy #meta

As Red States Curb Social Media, Did Montana’s TikTok Ban Go Too Far? - Montana is at the forefront of a wave of new tech laws passed by Republican-led states. S... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/technology/red-states-montana-tiktok-ban.html #mobileapplications #tiktok(bytedance) #contentmoderation #childrensprivacy #instagraminc #socialmedia #pornography #montana #privacy #snapinc #utah #meta

YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says - YouTube’s advertising practices on kids’ channels could have resulted in companies tracki... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/technology/youtube-google-children-privacy.html #childrensonlineprivacyprotectionact #onlineadvertising #childrensprivacy #adalytics #youtube #privacy #google #coppa

Louisiana Passes Bill That Would Require Parental Consent for Kids’ Online Accounts - The measure would allow parents to cancel the contracts underlying their children’s accou... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/business/louisiana-consent-minors-online.html #childrensonlineprivacyprotectionact #surgeongeneral(us) #tiktok(bytedance) #childrensprivacy #schlegellaurie #instagraminc #socialmedia #robloxcorp #louisiana

TikTok Is Fined $15.9 Million Over Misusing Kids’ Data in Britain - The video-sharing app inappropriately allowed more than one million underage children in ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/business/media/tiktok-fine-uk-kids-privacy.html #informationcommissionersoffice(greatbritain) #tiktok(bytedance) #fines(penalties) #childrensprivacy #greatbritain #socialmedia #privacy

Epic Games will pay over half a billion dollars to settle two FTC complaints regarding the company's use of children's private information and its use of "dark patterns" to encourage accidental in-game purchases.

#FTC #EpicGames #DarkPatterns #Microtransactions #ChildrensPrivacy #COPPA
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/12/epic-will-pay-520-million-to-settle-ftc-privacy-payment-complaints/

you know how everyone's mom posts pictures of their kids all over Facebook and Instagram all the time, even when their kids tell them they don't want their pictures on the Internet? Well, in the United States, that's perfectly legal, because we have zero #privacy rights 😊
#childrensprivacy #facebookmoms

TikTok May Face $29 Million Fine for Failing to Protect Children’s Privacy - British regulars have sent a warning notice to the company, the first major case under ne... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/technology/tiktok-children-privacy-fine-uk.html #informationcommissionersoffice(greatbritain) #mobileapplications #tiktok(bytedance) #childrensprivacy #socialnetworking #childrenscode #videosharing #musicvideo #privacy

TikTok to add more privacy protections for teenaged users, limit push notifications - TikTok today becomes the latest tech company to roll out increased protections for... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BFIwpHVRIlg/ #childrensprivacy #privacy #social #tiktok #apps

YouTube unlawfully violates kids’ privacy, new $3.2B lawsuit claims - Enlarge / A sign featuring the YouTube logo, outside the YouTube Space studios in London on June 4,... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1705851 #childrensonlineprivacy #childrensprivacy #alphabet #children #foxglove #lawsuits #privacy #youtube #policy #google #uk

TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles children’s data and safety - TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles the safety and personal data of underage... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/vP6P7m6IMIM/ #childrensprivacy #investigation #bytedance #startups #children #tiktok #apps #data #tc #uk