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CEOs of the largest social media companies in the United States testified in front of Congress Wednesday before the lawmakers launched into questions of their own.

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the United States Senate that, if passed, would require all children under the age of 18 to receive parental consent to use social media and would forbid the use of algorithms on that age group.

President Biden gave government agencies 30 days to remove Chinese-owned TikTok from federal devices yesterday (Monday).

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) has issued a written demand to the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their company's app stores due to the possibility that China's government could "weaponize" the app against the United States.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that bars federal employees from using TikTok on government-issued devices amid national security fears.

Members of both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate have introduced a new bipartisan bill that aims to completely ban TikTok from operating in the country amid spying concerns.

In early March, a report alleged that Facebook was working on a version of Instagram designed specifically for children. In the two months since, the company has faced repeated pressure to abandon the program, the latest comes from a swath of State Attorneys General (AG).

In March, Instagram was reportedly working on a version of its app that was designed specifically for children. Today, four Democratic lawmakers have expressed concern over the project, and have written a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking fourteen pointed and technical questions about the initiative.

Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a new bill designed to ban the "addictive" tricks used by social networking services to hook users and increase the amount of time they spend on their platforms.

Back in 2017, the CASE Act ("Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2017") was introduced to establish a copyright small claims system for pursuing infringements on a smaller scale in the US. That bill expired without being passed, new and revised CASE Act bills were just introduced in both the House and Senate this week to revive the effort.

There have been several incidents recently of camera drones getting in the way of firefighting efforts in California, including a case last week of firefighters being hindered in saving burning cars from a wildfire. Now lawmakers are taking action to deal with this problem.

An upcoming bill aims to give firefighters permission to knock camera drones out of the sky in order to safely do their job.

Well that was fast. Only a day after news broke of the controversial Massachusetts ruling that 'upskirt' photographs were in fact legal according to the states Peeping Tom laws, the state's legislature has responded by passing a ban.

In the past year -- and especially with the growth of the "occupy" movement -- police interfering with photographers or pedestrians trying to snap a photo of them has been in the news quite a lot. Just yesterday we reported on the Olympics' security guards who landed in hot water after harassing photogs shooting from public land. In the past, this was no problem, as police officers had little to fear in way of personal liability when they interfered; however, a new Connecticut bill -- the first of its kind -- may soon change that.

A banner on Andrew Romanoff’s Senate campaign website provoked a bit of an outrage from a minority group when …