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Children’s Privacy: Is passing US’ KOSA quickly a good idea or a political football?

If 90+ US human & internet rights groups are to be believed, the end-year push to get the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed by the Senate during the current lame-duck Congress may do more harm than good. The groups sent a joint letter to lawmakers saying they believe the law’s weakly defined protections for ages 16 and under could provide opportunities for censoring information about LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights and also give parents tools to spy on their kids.

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Children’s Privacy: Finnish GDPR4CHLDRN initiative to establish privacy ed and training program

December 6, 2022

Finland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is overseeing the GDPR4CHILDRN project, which has a 2-year plan to develop a toolkit to be used by children’s activity associations and by parents and young people to help educate about data protection for youth. Plans are for the toolkit to be published in Finnish, Swedish, and English, and translated into Russian, Estonian, Somali, and Arabic.

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Google Again Delays Third-Party Cookie Deprecation

April 25, 2024

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.

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