Expect movement shortly on three Vermont privacy bills, including a comprehensive privacy measure, state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) said in an interview at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington earlier this week. Priestley will continue tweaking the legislation based on feedback, including a change covering more businesses in her kids code bill.
Legal challenges around AI are growing with the technology, said an OpenAI official during a Wednesday panel at the IAPP Global Policy Summit in Washington. Meanwhile, an official from Anthropic said the company is emphasizing safety and transparency with Claude, its AI assistant.
Amid European uncertainty about the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (see 2504230002), Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Julie Brill advised IAPP Global Policy Summit attendees to talk calmly with other countries about the state of U.S. privacy. On the same panel Thursday, Cisco CPO Harvey Jang said engagement with regulators and legislators is a must at the moment.
A Fourth Amendment exemption for searches at the border should be overturned because it doesn't fit today's digital age, Stanford law professor Orin Kerr argued in a Tuesday keynote at IAPP Global Privacy Summit for privacy professionals.
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig challenged privacy professionals at the IAPP Global Policy Summit to “think about how to build a privacy law to give us the right to be left alone again.”
States are seeking to build a foundation of privacy enforcement by taking action against a broad range of companies, state enforcement officials said Wednesday on a panel at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit. An increasing number of privacy regulations around the world present a big challenge for companies that operate in many global markets, said another IAPP panel earlier Wednesday.
Oregon privacy regulators noticed a spike in consumers complaining about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and how the government may be handing their personal information, the state DOJ said Monday. Also, the department released a Q1 2025 report on enforcement of the state’s comprehensive privacy law.
Colorado senators removed language from an immigration civil rights bill that might have revised the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) to include a Maryland-style data minimization standard. The Senate voted 22-13 on Monday to pass SB-276, sending it to the House.
South Carolina senators are undaunted by potential lawsuits against a proposed state law requiring social media companies to adopt an age-appropriate design code (AADC), said Senate Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee members at a livestreamed hearing Monday. The panel voted unanimously by voice to send the identical S-268 and H-3431 to the Senate floor. The House passed an earlier version of H-3431 in February (see 2502200059).
A Virginia reproductive data privacy law taking effect July 1 covers many companies, poses significant compliance challenges and contains a private right of action, privacy attorneys warned last week. In addition, while many believe Virginia has one of the more business-friendly comprehensive privacy laws, the purple state’s narrower new law requires a higher consent standard than blue Washington state’s My Health My Data Act (MHMDA), they said.