The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act has long provided a flexible consumer protection framework. The law generally empowers the FTC to challenge net-harmful conduct while giving trade practices that benefit consumers the green light. In tech markets, this tends to fit well because it typically stops the Commission from [...]
The legislation aims to provide New Jersey residents with ‘more control over their personal data’, but provisions contain unnecessarily far-reaching and unusually restrictive mandates on innovative small businesses in the Garden State. Washington, DC (9/11/25) - The App Association shared comments with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs [...]
Amid proliferating efforts at both the federal and state levels to regulate children’s online safety, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) recently issued its opinion in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Addressing First Amendment concerns, the Court ruled in favor of upholding a Texas law that mandates age verification for [...]
What the recent Tea app breach teaches us about age verification, trust, and the cost of age verification mandates for developers and kids alike What happens when an app built for safety becomes the source of harm? The now-infamous app Tea, designed to help women protect themselves [...]
The Innovators Network hosted a webinar, Age Verification and the Future of Online Safety, featuring an expert panel including: Eric Goldman, Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and Co-director of the High Tech Law Institute; Shoshana Weissmann, Director of Digital Media and Resident Fellow of Technology and [...]
