12/23/2025 8:05:38 PM Texas App Store Accountability Act ENJOINED: The Happiest of Holidays By Emma Smizer In the eleventh hour, the Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420) has been enjoined. As a brief refresher, Texas passed the App...
12/15/2025 6:24:51 PM Countdown to Jan. 1, 2026: Mobile Developers Must Adopt Apple, Google APIs to Comply with App Store Accountability Acts By Andrew Folks Emma Smizer Several states, including Texas, Utah, Louisiana, and California, have enacted so-called “App Store Accountability Acts.” Broadly, these...
10/13/2025 10:35:18 PM California Enacts Landmark Age Verification, Social Media Warning, and AI Chatbot Safety Laws By Emma Smizer Last month, I wrote about an age-verification law that made its way to California Governor Newsom. Today, that bill – and several other...
9/19/2025 8:38:46 PM California Age Verification Bill Advances to Governor Newsom By Emma Smizer Good things comes in threes - or so they say. California might just be the third state to enact age verification laws for certain digital...
3/7/2025 6:02:50 PM App to No Good? Novel App Store Age Verification Bill Passes Utah Legislature By Andrew Folks In the online safety conversation, assigning responsibility for verifying a user’s age has been a protracted study in buck passing....
6/17/2024 9:25:22 PM Pornography, The First Amendment, and Data Privacy Walk Into a Bar By Michael Ling Once again, the First Amendment has come to the defense of pornography. This time, though, the battlefield has also roped in data privacy...