Another day, another CCPA action. A few takeaways on CalPrivacy's settlement with Ford: technologylaw.fkks.com/post/102mm32...

Takeaways from yesterday's $1.1M CCPA settlement with PlayOn Sports, including notes on risk assessments, opt outs (shocker), minors & students, the timing of it all, and more, at the link below. technologylaw.fkks.com/post/102mlys...

"in pursuit of protecting children online, we've age gated the internet. To make sure people age gate risk-free, we've made it okay to scan children's faces. this will fix the internet and our children."

this will be the one www.nist.gov/news-events/...

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

They're saying bullying works. Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

The incessant puns from the AG's Office about the Disney settlement make it all seem so unserious, sorry to say! You're not Lesley Fair!

OpenAI's privacy policy update is illuminating. Why are they harvesting contacts? Adding social features? Surely that was on the road map.

Szoboszlai WHAT

Schumer forcing removal of the OBBBA name but still using it in official contexts like this is so funny

Why did the FTC not twist the screws on the NFL about DJT’s Bad Bunnyphobia via the NFL Media/ESPN merger review

Ok the consumer welfare standard covers labor violations then got it www.ftc.gov/system/files...

TikTok's new ToS and PP update shared with users via pop-up that only accepts (no, I am not on TT, this was raised to me by my begrudgingly privacy-aware SO). Brazen disregard, crazy anti-consumerism. Best of luck with your ad network.

Nominating the car floor mat guy to the FTC is crazy work. What on earth.

In our corner of the world, FTC enforcement is pored over, dissected, and drives how we advise on risk. So when this administration starts setting aside previous enforcement, it naturally throws a lot into flux. I wrote on this week's Rytr reversal: advertisinglaw.fkks.com/post/102lz36...

First company to offer a ground-up non-anthropomorphic chatbot may actually capture the enterprise market.

Hochul vetoed the New York Health Information Privacy Act. Have a great weekend y’all.

So back

This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

Use Play Age Signals API terms of service link here 404s here - means they are not enforceable right? developer.android.com/google/play/...

This has been happening for years with basic garage band beats “featuring” like three unrelated artists. It almost ruined release radar (the one thing I look forward to every week, which Spotify has ruined on its own volition). AI just makes the songs more believable.

If you're interested in the future of neural data privacy and brain hacking read my Q+A with expert Nita Farahany. therecord.media/what-brain-p...

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Up to no good.

New CCPA regs consider “legal services offices” to be “sensitive locations.” I have never seen such protections afforded to lawyers like this, and I’m really curious exactly what prompted this inclusion.

"How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising" @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-wikipedi...

Excellent Verge piece on the age verification meteor hurtling towards the embattled right to anonymity. www.theverge.com/policy/78125...

Without an independent FTC, will it be credible enough to enforce the EU-US Data Privacy Framework? The US will lose its most effective federal regulator of privacy. My article about FTC privacy reg with @hartzog.bsky.social is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

Cheap TV prices are subsidized by sales of your viewership data (sorry)

Sending letters to 3 TikTok service providers about not weakening privacy/security of Americans’ data because of the threat of foreign powers is dripping with irony. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

OpenAI speed-running every available monetization model. Just sell ads, you're going to get there eventually. www.ft.com/content/4491...

Absolute bloodbath in both top 10s at Wimbledon

Between Utah v. Snap and Michigan v. Roku, the plaintiff's firms have realized they do not need a private right of action to go after big tech firms.

Great in-depth analysis from Daniel Goldberg: technologylaw.fkks.com/post/102kqsd...

Will be a fun experiment to watch play out: "Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access" blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

What

Odd Lots doing reputation and legitimacy laundering for this administration via Stephen Miran on today's ep is disappointing.

Shrek is Law.

Setting cars on fire is normal fare here. Universal sign for “Lakers won.”

Google AI Overviews is great for Legal Research 👍

Computer scientists have proposed a way to provide verifiable claims about location data without surrendering privacy. www.theregister.com/2025/05/17/p...

Comment sections under Onion posts are the true distillation of the Bluesky experience. The next joke taken will be the first.

This is quite the fun (?) fact.

I don’t get the blowback on this one, aside from general techlash. This feels like a natural, inevitable pivot for the company.

This won’t make it past Senate parliamentarian. Expect we get an EO declaring all training data lawfully collected or fair use dead soon enough instead.