TechCrunch reports that the passage of the Protecting Americans from Doxing and Political Violence Act has been prevented by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who argued that the measure could impede law enforcement, such as locating sexual predators.
Anonymous messaging app Sendit has allegedly violated child privacy laws by collecting personal information from children under 13 without parental consent and misleading users into paying for subscriptions, prompting a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit against Hunter Rice, the CEO of Iconic Hearts Holdings, the parent firm of Sendit, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Google and menstrual tracking app Flo Health have denied allegations they have been improperly sharing users' sensitive health data as they agreed to a $56 million combined settlement to resolve the lawsuit, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
The Federal Trade Commission would be required to work with other agencies, industry leaders, researchers, and consumer advocates to identify policy gaps and create a governance framework that would protect neural data from potential exploitation of data brokers and tech firms under new legislation introduced by Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
TikTok was found by Canadian privacy authorities to have implemented inadequate data protections for children accessing its platform, according to Reuters.
