Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said there will be votes in the Senate in early October to end emergencies that underlie tariffs on Canada and Brazil.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said Tuesday that he’s generally satisfied with how Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is playing out and raised doubts about whether the agency will plow further into the issue. The debate over Section 230 “is still alive,” but given changes by social media companies, Carr is in a “trust-but-verify posture,” he said at a Politico summit focused on AI.
Though creative plaintiffs' counsel saw early success, the tide is beginning to turn in favor of defendants in California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) cases, said Douglas Bonner in a blog post. The Potomac Law Group lawyer added that these developments may chill future litigation claims under the statute.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Monday for the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, which was signed into law in June 2024 (see 2406070065). The proposed rules offer advice for social media companies about how they should restrict their platforms' addictive features to avoid harming the mental health of children.
Michael Powell is leaving NCTA on a high note, with net neutrality -- an issue he has dealt with and opposed for decades -- seemingly dead. "It was going to be really dispiriting to me if I retired, and we were now in a Title II environment, and I'm super excited that no, I can say that we slayed that dragon," the group's outgoing leader told us.
The California legislature passed two laws about artificial intelligence and automated decision systems on Friday, the last day for legislators to pass bills. In addition, it approved a measure on age-verification signals. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has until Oct. 12 to sign or veto the bills.
CTIA, NCTA and USTelecom met with aides to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on their request to overturn a January declaratory ruling and NPRM addressing the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks (see 2501160041). The ruling found that Section 105 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act requires “carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.” The association representatives “discussed measures that providers are taking to address past and ongoing threats to cybersecurity, including risk management and remediation,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 22-329.
The U.S. opposed the intervention of members of the Blackfeet Nation indigenous tribe in the lead case on the legality of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act before the Supreme Court, arguing that the members don't identify anything "rare, unusual, or extraordinary that would warrant intervention here" (Learning Resources v. Donald J. Trump, U.S. 24-1287).
Many industries are sounding the alarm over proposed rules to implement the New Jersey Data Privacy Act. In comments submitted by the Sept. 2 deadline, industry officials said a draft by the attorney general’s Division of Consumer Affairs is too burdensome and exceeds what’s allowed under the NJDPA and other laws. On the flip side, several consumer privacy advocates suggested that the state legislature should overhaul the law itself to make it far stricter.
The growing use of voice recognition technologies in the public and private sectors is prompting data protection and regulatory concerns, an advisory body, the U.K. Biometrics & Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), and a privacy consultant said.