Surveillance-Pricing Legislation Advances in California
A California surveillance-pricing bill could soon hit the Assembly floor after approval from the chamber’s Judiciary Committee on an 8-3 vote Tuesday. SB-259 previously cleared the Privacy Committee and the full Senate (see 2506250011).
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Republican members cast all three nays on SB-259. At the bill’s hearing that day, Vice Chair Diane Dixon (R) said she believed the market could resolve issues of companies setting individualized prices based on location and other data from a consumer’s device (see 2507150066).
The Assembly Judiciary panel additionally cleared an AI bill by a 12-0 vote. SB-69 would require the California attorney general to build internal expertise on AI. Its sponsor said at a previous hearing that the AG office wasn’t “wild” about the idea yet (see 2507080075).