Coalition Sends Letter Expressing Serious Concerns Over Safety and Well-Being of Children By Josh Kaul - May 10th, 2021 09:41 am
MADISON, Wis. – Citing serious concerns about the safety and well-being of children and the harm social media poses to young people, Attorney General
In a letter to Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg, the coalition contends that social media can be detrimental to children for myriad reasons and that Facebook has historically failed to protect the welfare of children on its platforms.
“Launching a version of Instagram for children under 13 would make it more difficult to protect kids from the detrimental effects of social media. Facebook needs to reconsider and drop this plan,” said Attorney General Kaul.
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This Week in History: April 17-23, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
April 17
1704 – John Campbell publishes in Boston the first successful U.S. newspaper.
1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in President Lincoln’s assassination. She owns the boarding house where her son John Surratt, along with John Wilkes Booth and others, conspire to kill the president. She is hanged on July 7th with three others convicted of the conspiracy. Mary, aged 42, is the first woman executed by order of the U.S. government.
1924 – Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Company merge to form MGM.
Keypoint: Bill would add right to deletion to COPPA.
Senators introduced the “Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2021” in the United States Senate last week. The bill seeks to amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).
The bill provides individuals with the right to delete personal information the operator collected from the individual as a child. The right to delete applies even in instances where parental consent was provided for the collection of the personal information.
The bill requires operators to provide notice in a prominent place on their website demonstrating how individuals can exercise their right to request deletion of personal information. The bill makes it unlawful for operators of a website or online service directed to children, or any operator that has actual knowledge that it is collecting personal information from a child, to fail to delete personal information if an individual submits a request to delete. Following a request to d
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On March 19, 2021, Colorado State Senators Richard Rodriguez (D)
and Paul Lundeen (R) introduced Senate Bill 21-190 as part of a
bipartisan effort to make Colorado the latest state to implement
comprehensive legislation establishing certain consumer data
privacy rights. Dubbed A Bill for an Act Concerning
Additional Protection of Data Relating to Personal Privacy,
SB 21-190 largely follows in the footsteps of California s
CCPA, Virginia s CDPA and the European Union s GDPR with a
stated intent to empower consumers to protect their privacy
and require companies to be responsible custodians of data as they