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VPNs and legal challenges are only the latest developments in an ongoing war over online privacy and speech. There's a lot more at stake than who gets to decide what websites are appropriate for kids.
Such laws, which have been passed in a total of 19 states since 2023, are intended to protect minors from a variety of harmful effects that, studies have found, online pornography can have on ...
Key Republicans and Democrats in Congress see a window to pass sweeping online privacy legislation to protect adults' and kids' data from Big Tech companies. Congress eyes new online privacy bills ...
Internet censorship in the United States of America is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States.The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression against federal, state, and local government censorship.
In January 2020, Bobby Rush and Tim Walberg introduced a similar house bill known as the Preventing Real Online Threats Endangering Children Today (PROTECT Kids) Act, which would extend all existing COPPA consent requirements to users under the age of 16, and explicitly add mobile apps, "precise geolocation", and biometric data to its remit.
Many privacy experts have called for omnibus privacy protection legislation in the US [28] in lieu of the current blend of self-regulation and selective codification in certain sectors. [ 29 ] Critics from a business perspective often prefer to limit FIPs to reduced elements of notice, consent, and accountability.
A sponsor of legislation that is now being considered by the Maryland General Assembly and designed to protect residents’ privacy online called the current data environment in the United States ...
Some web browsers may transmit "Do Not Track" signals to the websites and other online services with which the browser communicates. Currently, there is no standard that governs what, if anything, websites should do when they receive these signals and Oath currently does not take action in response to these signals.