Program Details
2026-10-20 14:30:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-10-20 14:30:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ESTThis session maps the substantive legal framework governing minors’ online privacy and safety. It opens with the federal picture — the amended COPPA Rule and related regulatory updates, plus proposed federal legislation focused on minors — before turning to the states, beginning with the defined terms that drive every compliance analysis (who counts as a minor, which organizations are in scope, and how age-verification and age-gating obligations differ) and an overview of the constitutional challenges working through the courts. The session then surveys each category of state law: consumer privacy laws with minor-specific provisions, Age-Appropriate Design laws focused on minors’ online safety and mental health, minors’ online safety laws addressing AI companions, addictive feeds, and CSAM, app-store accountability laws, social media and parental consent laws, and digital ID and age-verification laws. It closes with the international landscape, including social media bans, digital duties of care, AI companion rules, and age-appropriate default settings. Penalties and potential liability — including personal liability — are addressed within the discussion of each law.
Joel SchwarzJulia B. Jacobson 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm ESTThis session turns from the legal framework to enforcement, litigation, and compliance in practice. It examines the multistate and private litigation shaping the field — the Meta lawsuits, including private class actions and the multi-state attorney general actions, and public school district suits against social media companies — alongside FTC Act Section 5 unfair and deceptive acts and practices enforcement, including the potential personal liability and penalties that follow officers (e.g., Drizly), and state UDAP enforcement. The session then provides a practical roadmap for complying with minors’ privacy and online safety laws: conducting a children’s privacy review, identifying the appropriate compliance approach, updating compliance systems and documentation (online notices, parental notices, consent mechanisms, and related materials), understanding what good-faith compliance efforts look like, and building ongoing monitoring.
Julia B. JacobsonJoel SchwarzJoel Schwarz is the Managing Partner of The Schwarz Group, LLC, a boutique consultancy providing risk-based legal, technical, and compliance guidance across cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, and emerging technologies, and an adjunct professor at Albany Law School. His career spans internet enforcement and privacy oversight in government and industry, from prosecuting cybercrime at the US Department of Justice to serving as Special Counsel for Internet Matters and Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General’s Office Internet Bureau.
Julia B. Jacobson is a partner in the Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets practice at Squire Patton Boggs, based in New York. She counsels national and international clients on privacy and cybersecurity compliance strategies across the fast-moving landscape of US state privacy laws, consumer marketing initiatives (including mobile, email, and social media marketing compliance), artificial intelligence and technology transactions, and data breach response.
Joel Schwarz is the Managing Partner of The Schwarz Group, LLC, a boutique consultancy providing risk-based legal, technical, and compliance guidance across cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, and emerging technologies, and an adjunct professor at Albany Law School. His career spans internet enforcement and privacy oversight in government and industry, from prosecuting cybercrime at the US Department of Justice to serving as Special Counsel for Internet Matters and Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General’s Office Internet Bureau.
Julia B. Jacobson is a partner in the Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets practice at Squire Patton Boggs, based in New York. She counsels national and international clients on privacy and cybersecurity compliance strategies across the fast-moving landscape of US state privacy laws, consumer marketing initiatives (including mobile, email, and social media marketing compliance), artificial intelligence and technology transactions, and data breach response.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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