Virginia’s reproductive health data privacy law could be amended next year in response to concerns from retailers, state Sen. Barbara Favola (D) said in an email to Privacy Daily Wednesday. “I expect to be making some changes to my data privacy law during the 2026 session.”
California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D) said her bill to require transmission of age-verification signals (AB-1043) “still is a very strong bill” after she accepted various proposed changes. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, Chair Thomas Umberg (D) foreshadowed more adjustments could come in the weeks ahead.
Republicans and business groups during two hearings Tuesday objected to California legislation seeking limits on surveillance pricing. They raised concerns with proposals regulating businesses’ price flexibility and providing a private right of action.
Colorado shouldn’t use upcoming kids’ privacy regulations as a “back door” to require age verification, retailers warned the state’s law department last week. In addition to warning against requiring verification through possible rules about a company’s “willful disregard” of a user being a minor, industry groups cautioned that any regulation of system design features mustn’t violate the First Amendment.
Massachusetts should follow New York state in passing an age-verification bill to ban social media platforms from using algorithms to deliver content to users younger than 18, said Massachusetts Rep. William MacGregor (D) at a livestreamed Thursday hearing of the Joint Committee on Advanced IT, the Internet and Cybersecurity.
Logitech’s global AI lead doesn’t "subscribe" to the idea that the EU AI Act will stifle innovation, she said Wednesday.
Expect the California attorney general’s office to support a bill requiring it to build internal expertise on AI once it sees “the money for it,” predicted California Sen. Jerry McNerney (D) during an Assembly Privacy Committee hearing Tuesday. The committee approved the measure to go to the Judiciary Committee by a 14-0 vote.
A California bill to set data-breach notification deadlines advanced to the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. The chamber’s Judiciary Committee unanimously approved SB-446 as part of the consent calendar during a livestreamed meeting.
A California privacy enforcer’s first use of a purpose-limitation requirement under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) makes this week’s record $1.55 million settlement with Healthline a significant enforcement action for companies in many sectors, privacy experts told Privacy Daily this week. Also significant was the highly technical, in-depth investigation that the office of Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) conducted, they said. Signs point to increased privacy enforcement ahead.
Pleasing businesses, California lawmakers further scaled back a privacy bill requiring support for universal opt-out signals so it now covers only browsers. At a hearing Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-0 to advance AB-566 to the Appropriations Committee. In addition, the Judiciary Committee forwarded a bill that would require social media platforms to treat consumers deleting accounts as requests to delete their information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The panel also supported requiring warning labels on social media.