Consumer privacy advocates cheered as Maine House members Tuesday passed a comprehensive privacy bill with Maryland-like data minimization rules and other strict requirements. Meanwhile, Alabama’s comprehensive privacy bill could hit the House floor as soon as next week after clearing the body’s Commerce Committee on Tuesday.

A federal court judge dismissed a DOJ suit against Michigan that had demanded it turn over sensitive voter data to the federal government. Judge Hala Jarbou of the U.S. District Court for Western Michigan ruled Tuesday that none of the three federal laws DOJ cited gave it authority to request the voting data.

Consumer advocacy organizations said they weren't surprised to see NetChoice sue South Carolina over its new Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Monday.

Nebraska lawmakers are weighing a proposal to expand the applicability threshold in the state’s currently narrow age-appropriate design code law. However, at the unicameral legislature’s Commerce Committee hearing Monday, the plan received backlash from two industry groups that frequently sue states over such bills.

Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T have updated internal processes so they’re better prepared to respond to investigative subpoenas involving members of Congress, representatives from the companies told Senate Judiciary Committee members Tuesday during a subcommittee hearing on the Arctic Frost probe of the Jan. 6 Capitol siege (see 2601230065).