Daily Compliance News: September 10, 2025, The All FT Edition
Empowering Children in the Online Era with Katie Schumacher
"Monsters Inc." y el tratamiento de los datos
State AG Pulse | Content moderation vs. free expression
The FTC Takes a Closer Look at Blurred Advertising to Children
AD Nauseam – Children, They are Indeed Our Future – COPPA Developments
The FTC and DOJ Act Against Amazon to Protect Privacy
AD Nauseam: A Very Special AD Nauseam – Back to School
AD Nauseam: The FTC’s Updated Endorsement Guides: Get into the Groove
[Podcast] An Introduction to the California Age-Appropriate Design Code
The UK GDPR Children’s Code
Attorneys General from 40 US States sent letter to leading LLM companies earlier this week warning that sycophantic and delusional outputs produced by LLMs constitute “dark patterns” and may open LLM companies to liability...more
Ofcom has stepped up the pressure, firstly, by issuing two new sets of fines, with one reaching up to £1,050,000 for failure to implement highly effective age verification and failure to respond to statutory notices....more
A new lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General against Roblox has brought privacy, safety, and data handling into the spotlight for online platforms, especially those used by kids and teens. The allegations followed...more
Hawai’i AG Anne Lopez, assisted by private outside counsel, filed a lawsuit against Bytedance Inc., the parent company of TikTok, alleging violations of state consumer protection laws for knowingly designing an addictive...more
Ohio’s new age-verification law for online adult content, which requires online platforms to limit certain users’ access to sensitive material, took effect on September 30, 2025. The statute, RC § 1349.10, asks covered...more
Selected U.S. Privacy & Cyber Updates - SEC Dismisses Remaining Claims Against SolarWinds - On November 20, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dismissed its landmark enforcement action against SolarWinds Corp....more
On November 19, 2025, the European Commission published a package of legislative proposals known as the "Digital Omnibus." Designed to introduce flexibility into the EU's digital regulatory framework, the proposal aims to...more
With the federal government again threatening to prevent states from regulating AI, another bipartisan coalition of 36 state attorneys general is speaking out through a National Association of Attorneys General policy letter....more
Four states – California, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah – have enacted laws that purport to require mobile app stores and mobile app developers to verify the age of users and implement certain safeguards based on the user’s age....more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, government affairs professionals, policy advocates, and legal practitioners seeking to navigate the ins and outs of congressional oversight, this edition of MoFo’s “Congressional...more
The wave of online safety regulation is continuing to surge, with Brazil’s recent enactment of Law No. 15,211/2025—the Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents (Digital ECA)—as the latest addition. Effective on March...more
Key point: The court held that NetChoice’s complaint adequately states constitutional claims against Maryland’s age-appropriate design code act and allowed NetChoice’s lawsuit to continue but did not rule on the merits of the...more
If your company has a mobile application, you should be ready to address new age-assurance requirements, starting Jan. 1, 2026. In 2025, four states enacted laws that will require app stores to implement age-assurance...more
The Federal Trade Commission and Utah Attorney General recently announced a settlement with Aylo Group Ltd. and its co-defendants that places extensive obligations on the defendants to prevent the upload of and remove child...more
On November 13, North Carolina Attorney General (AG) Jeff Jackson and Utah AG Derek Brown, along with the Attorney General Alliance, announced a task force in conjunction with generative artificial intelligence (AI)...more
A recent study revealed widespread use of AI chatbots among teenagers—in fact, nearly three in four teens reported using AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Grok by X, or Meta AI....more
The war over TikTok has many battle lines. A Biden era law that would have banned TikTok as of January 1, 2025 if it didn’t find a U.S. owner for its operations here was aimed at national security concerns. Congress passed...more
A new law about to take effect in Texas will force any company that either distributes software applications or develops apps to jump through safety-related hoops in an effort to protect minors. As of January 1, 2026, the App...more
After legal review following the expected notification date at the end of September, India's government has notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 ("Final Rules") under the Digital Personal Data Protection...more
North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson and Utah AG Derek Brown announced the creation of a nationwide bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force aimed at identifying emerging AI-related issues and developing basic safeguards...more
Colorado’s attempt to rein in teen screen time has met a familiar obstacle: the First Amendment. On November 6, 2025, U.S. District Judge William J. Martínez paused the state’s new social media warning law, finding that the...more
On October 23, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul enacted the Jack Reid Law (the Reid Law), amending the New York Education Code to extend certain protections to students attending nonpublic elementary and secondary schools, similar...more
New York became the first state to regulate emotionally responsive “AI companion” chatbots on November 5, 2025, when the Artificial Intelligence Companion Models Law entered effect. California’s SB 243 follows close behind,...more
If you thought social media needed a warning label, many state regulators agree. California recently passed a new warning label law, which will take effect on January 1, 2027. That is, unless it is challenged. Meanwhile,...more
NAD Weighs in on Reference Pricing for Scales - The National Advertising Division (NAD) recently issued a decision addressing alleged false reference pricing claims related to body weight scales. The case arose from a...more