#Disney agrees to pay a $10M civil penalty after the US DOJ and FTC say its YouTube videos weren’t properly labeled as for kids, allowing children’s data to be collected without parental consent under #COPPA.

Read: https://hackread.com/disney-fine-violating-children-privacy-laws-youtube/

#ChildPrivacy #YouTube #DataProtection #CyberSecurity #Privacy

The ethical concerns over sharing children’s emotional moments online

The article discusses the growing trend among parents to share videos of their young children expressing strong emotions such as crying, tantrums, and distress on social media. While there is a cultural recognition of 'big feelings' in children and an emphasis on gentle parenting, the author critiqu... [More info]

🚨 The FTC is suing Sendit for illegally collecting personal info from children under 13 and deceiving them into $9.99/week subscriptions via fake messages.

⚠️ Violations include COPPA, FTC Act, and ROSCA.
💬 What safeguards should apps implement to protect minors online? Comment your thoughts & follow @technadu for more updates.

#CyberSecurity #ChildPrivacy #COPPA #Sendit #FTC #OnlineSafety #DataProtection #DigitalEthics

Mattel plans AI-powered toys using OpenAI technology, facing scrutiny over child privacy risks and emotional manipulation concerns from safety advocates and regulators.Mattel's upcoming holiday release of OpenAI-integrated toys has triggered alarms among child safety experts. ❤️ #AIethics #childprivacy #DataSecurity #EmotionalAI #FTCregulation #Mattel #OpenAI #smarttoys #redrobot

https://redrobot.online/2025/07/mattels-openai-toys-ignite-child-safety-debate-ahead-of-holiday-launch/

#Rumble Among 15 Targets of #Texas Attorney General’s #ChildPrivacy Probe

Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that #privacy experts describe as unusual suspects.
#TexasAG

https://www.wired.com/story/texas-social-media-investigation-children-privacy/

Hey, parents! What apps or services do you use to protect your kids' privacy in shared photos? I'm looking for something that can auto-blur faces. Any suggestions?

#privacy #onlineprivacy #childprivacy #parentalcontrols #photoediting #photoeditor #imageediting #techtips #techhelp #digitaltips

Tuesday, I’ll flee D.C.’s 90-something temperatures for the 100-something temperatures of Las Vegas–but as I’ve realized over previous trips to that desert city for the Black Hat information-security conference, it really is a dry heat.

In addition to the posts below, my Patreon readers got a recap of a very long day of travel on Thursday of the previous week that saw me returning home about 21 hours after I’d stepped off of the front porch that morning.

7/30/2024: These Are the Services Seeing the Biggest Uptick in Passkey Adoption, PCMag

What I thought would be an easy writeup of an embargoed copy of a Dashlane study about passkey adoption among users of that password manager wound up enlightening me about Facebook’s support of that authentication standard. And once again, I found Facebook’s documentation out of date and incorrect.

7/31/2024: Here’s How Microsoft Wants to Shield You From Abusive AI–With Help From Congress, PCMag

I had ambitions of attending this downtown-D.C. event Tuesday afternoon featuring Microsoft’s vice chair and president Brad Smith, but my schedule ran away from me and I watched the proceedings online. And then I didn’t finish writing this piece until Wednesday morning, although that at least let me nod to news that day of the impending introduction of a new bill targeting AI impersonations of people.

8/2/2024: Circuit Court Throws a Stop Sign in Front of FCC’s Net-Neutrality Rules, PCMag

Reading this unanimous opinion from three judges–one named by Clinton, another a Biden appointee–that the Federal Communications Commission didn’t have the authority to put broadband providers into one of two possible regulatory buckets left me feeling like I’d been taking crazy pills over the last 20 years of the net-neutrality debate, during which the FCC has repeatedly done just that.

8/3/2024: Justice Department Sues TikTok, Alleging Massive Child-Privacy Violations, PCMag

I woke up Saturday thinking that somebody at PCMag was already covering the DOJ lawsuit against TikTok, but nobody had grabbed that story. So I set aside part of that morning to read the DOJ’s complaint, get a comment out of a TikTok publicist and write this post summarizing the department’s allegations.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/04/weekly-output-passkey-adoption-ai-safety-net-neutrality-doj-v-tiktok/

#AI #AIHarm #BradSmith #childPrivacy #COPPA #Dashlane #deepfakes #FacebookPasskeySupport #FCC #majorQuestionsDoctrine #Microsoft #netNeutrality #passkey #passkeys #TikTok