Montana Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R) is “very confident” Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) will sign his neural data privacy bill into law, the state senator told us after SB-163 passed the legislature Thursday. Montana senators voted 49-1 for the legislation, which adds neurotechnology data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act and modifies the same law to allow people to volunteer for medical studies.
The California Senate Judiciary Committee supported data broker and breach notification bills at a late Tuesday hearing. The panel cleared SB-361, which adds requirements to the California Delete Act. And it approved SB-446, a data breach bill adding specific deadlines to the state’s notification law.
A revival of a California bill that would require all web browsers and mobile operating systems to provide universal opt-out mechanisms cleared its first test in the state legislature and received bipartisan support. At a late Tuesday hearing, the California Assembly Privacy Committee voted 9-0 to advance AB-566 to the Appropriations Committee.
The Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) raised concerns Tuesday with a California bill that would require manufacturers to transmit signals about users’ ages.
NEW YORK CITY -- State lawmakers are following up on their comprehensive privacy laws with AI legislation that seeks to regulate consequential decisions, said AI and privacy legal experts at a Perrin Conferences event Wednesday at the New York City Bar Association. Amid general federal inaction, state lawmakers have proposed hundreds of AI bills on a plethora of subjects related to the growing technology, they noted.
Vermont’s take on Daniel’s Law of New Jersey passed the state House with a private right of action (PRA) intact Friday, despite reservations by some members about that enforcement provision allowing individuals to sue.
Privacy bills passed their originating chambers in multiple states this week -- and there could be more votes soon. On Thursday, the Vermont Senate voted unanimously by voice to approve a comprehensive privacy bill (S-71), sending it to the House.
Georgia’s comprehensive privacy bill marched forward on Wednesday. The Georgia House Technology Committee voted by voice to approve the Senate-passed SB-111, teeing up a potential floor vote soon.
While states are increasingly coordinating their privacy bills, Maine Rep. Amy Kuhn (D) is unwilling to "prioritize interoperability to the point where we’re agreeing on the lowest common denominator,” the House chair of the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee told Privacy Daily this week. Instead, Kuhn wants to focus on what’s good for consumers, small businesses, and “not so much Big Tech.”
The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework could be on the verge of collapse in the wake of President Donald Trump firing two FTC Democrats and ongoing uncertainty about the previous administration’s executive order to implement the framework for data transfers, said Austrian privacy activist and EU lawyer Max Schrems during a Tuesday webinar that George Washington Law School Professor Daniel Solove hosted.