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Minnesota’s Attempt to Copy California’s Constitutionally Defective Age Appropriate Design Code is an Utter Fail (Guest Blog Post)

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by guest blogger Jess Miers, Legal Advocacy Counsel at Chamber of Progress [Eric’s intro: last year I blogged about Minnesota’s flirtation with mandatory age verification. Default Privacy Settings. This year is a glaring reminder of the consequences of passing terrible Internet policy through state legislatures.

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Why I Think California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Is Unconstitutional

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I’ve repeatedly expressed my opposition to the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC), and now I’ve put my opposition into more formal terms for a judge. California’s law would upend these efforts by instituting an inconsistent and unworkable children’s privacy regime. You can read my amicus brief here. .

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The Office Of The Privacy Commissioner Publishes Survey Report Of Canadian Businesses On Privacy Matters

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On August 11, 2022, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) published a report on its survey of Canadian businesses regarding privacy related-issues (the Survey). The Survey findings are used by the OPC to provide privacy guidance to the public and improve outreach efforts with businesses.

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Do Mandatory Age Verification Laws Conflict with Biometric Privacy Laws?–Kuklinski v. Binance

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California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. Doing age assurance/age verification raises substantial privacy risks.

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The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act Enjoined

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On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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Office Of The Privacy Commissioner Of Canada Releases Observations Following Global Initiative On Privacy Expectations For Video Teleconferencing Companies

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On October 27, 2021, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the OPC) released observations following a series of international engagements between data protection and privacy authorities around the world and four of the biggest video teleconferencing (VTC) companies: Microsoft, Cisco, Zoom, and Google (the Organizations).

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A Short Explainer of How California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Bill (AB2273) Would Break the Internet

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It’s “burn-down-the-Internet” week on the blog, during which I will recap three bad California bills that the California legislature is poised to enact. For background on the bill and its voluminous problem, see this lengthy blog post. Today’s bill is AB 2273, the most pernicious of the three.

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