Donald Trump becoming president again probably fueled momentum for a New York state health privacy bill, a business privacy lawyer and an American Civil Liberties Union official said in recent interviews. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) so far has kept her cards close to the vest concerning whether she will sign a health data privacy bill that sailed through the state's legislature last week (see 2501220073 and 2501210068). Meanwhile, privacy attorneys are sounding the alarm about possible business compliance problems.
Utah and Arizona bills requiring age verification online advanced in committee votes this week. Many states are mulling legislation this year focused on protecting kids on certain websites (see 2501170053).
Montana's senate voted 50-0 Tuesday to pass a bill that adds neural data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act. It’s now in the House.
Days ahead of the Jan. 31 deadline for data broker registration, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced that Connecticut-based data broker Key Marketing Advantage (KMA) agreed to pay $55,800 for failing to register and pay a fee in 2024.
Although North Carolina lacks a comprehensive privacy law, the state Department of Information Technology’s Office of Privacy and Data stands ready to "support legislators in efforts to draft privacy legislation,” a department spokesperson emailed Tuesday.
Hawaii may need to protect privacy of genetic information due to uncertainty about what will happen in the Trump administration, a state senator signaled at a Hawaii Senate Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday.
The Virginia Senate passed a reproductive health data privacy bill on Friday. Then on Monday, the Virginia House Communications Committee advanced multiple AI and privacy bills. However, legislation that would add a private right of action and make other changes in Virginia’s comprehensive privacy law appeared to stall in a subcommittee.
"A strong data privacy bill must include a private right of action to allow … individuals to bring a lawsuit when they suffer actual damages,” Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) said Monday. At a livestreamed press conference, Clark supported state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) in reintroducing a privacy bill that Gov. Phil Scott (R) vetoed last year. Priestley said the 2025 bill will also include data minimization rules, despite business concerns stemming from Maryland’s law, which includes such requirements.
A new privacy protocol aims at getting consumers quicker responses from businesses when they seek to exercise their data rights under a growing body of state laws. Consumer Reports and a group of privacy compliance companies will release the Data Rights Protocol (DRP) on Tuesday after nearly four years of development, CR told Privacy Daily. OneTrust, Transcend, Yorba and CR’s Permission Slip announced that they added DRP to their systems and are working to move it to production.
Montana legislators mulled two privacy bills from the author of the state’s 2023 comprehensive law during hearings Thursday. At one livestreamed session, Montana Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R) urged the Senate Energy and Telecom Committee to clear a fix of another data bill from that year, the Genetic Information Privacy Act. Later, during an Education Committee hearing, the state senator urged support for a bill that gives students “the right to be forgotten.”