Taft Senior Associate Beau Braswell was recently featured in a Law360 article discussing the implications of two major recent court cases involving social media giants Meta and Google involving allegedly addictive platform features. The article addresses current initiatives and challenges for federal and state lawmakers in attempting to regulate social media providers and to protect children’s privacy and other interests. In the article, Braswell discusses how these verdicts may give rise to further state-level legislative and regulatory action, as the protection of children’s data has been a key initiative at the state level in recent years. Braswell discusses how the emergence of artificial intelligence is inflaming the issue of protecting children online. The article also touches on where the future of enforcement risks for companies that process data from children and interact with them online could be headed.

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Braswell is a senior associate in Taft’s Privacy, Security, and Artificial Intelligence practice in Atlanta. Before joining Taft, he served as in-house counsel at a Fortune 500 company operating in over 40 countries, where he advised on U.S. and international privacy laws. Drawing on extensive experience, Braswell provides in depth knowledge on the critical areas of artificial intelligence and privacy that are needed to excel in the changing landscape.