Utah Limits Teens Under 18 from Social Media Access
Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed two bills that prohibit children under 18 from using social media between 10:30 pm and 6:30 am and require age verification for all social media users in the state. The laws also give parents access to their children’s posts and messages and hold platforms liable for civil fines if they […]
Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, and many more caught in entrepreneur’s crypto scheme
More celebrities are being accused of participating in a cryptocurrency scheme, and they’re paying the price for doing so. Actress Lindsay Lohan and YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul, amongst 6 other celebrities, were slapped by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) with an official complaint accusing them of promoting cryptocurrencies without disclosing they were paid to do […]
Dark Times for Dark Patterns?
Epic Games, the developer of the popular video game Fortnite, has been fined a combined $520 million by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for violating FTC rules. The payment is the largest ever required for an FTC rules violation and relates to two complaints concerning in-game microtransactions and privacy concerns. Interestingly, the FTC had […]
A New Outlook on Political Advertising?
The Ontario Election Finances Act (EFA) imposes spending limits on political parties and third parties, with a $600k spending limit for third-party political advertising in the 6-12 months before a general election. Political parties successfully challenged these amendments as an infringement of freedom of expression under §2(b) of the Charter. The government re-enacted identical amendments […]