New York's Senate rushed through AI legislation without taking stakeholder feedback into account -- favorable or unfavorable, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said Friday. Meanwhile, the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) said it’s dissatisfied with recent changes to one of the bills.
The New York Senate passed legislation that would ban most biometrics in schools (S-3827). It will go next to the Assembly, which has similar legislation (A-6720) pending in a committee.
The New York Senate voted in support of a bill regulating high-risk AI with enforcement from the attorney general and through a private right of action.
The Oregon House supported making it a crime to unlawfully disclose private data. Members voted 54-2 Thursday in favor of SB-1121, which cleared a House committee in late May (see 2505290041).
Vermont will have an age-appropriate design code (AADC) law. Gov. Phil Scott (R) signed S-69, based on an Assembly bill by Rep. Monique Priestley (D), on Thursday, his office said.
California Privacy Protection Agency draft rules for making a data deletion mechanism required by the state’s Delete Act exceed the law’s scope and one requirement may be unconstitutional, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) said in comments at the CPPA.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) vetoed Democrats’ genetic privacy bill (AB-589) Monday because he said it “unnecessarily duplicates existing federal requirements and is likely to create greater confusion around the handling of this data.”
The California Assembly on Thursday voted 55-15 for a bill restricting how employers use workplace surveillance tools (see 2503030037).
A bipartisan group of senators in Michigan introduced a comprehensive privacy bill on Thursday in an effort toward establishing privacy rights for the state's consumers. If enacted, the state will join the 20 others who have comprehensive privacy laws, though six won’t take effect until later in 2025 or in 2026 (see 2501060066).
The California Assembly on Thursday approved a bill that would require web browsers to include a setting that consumers could activate to automatically opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal data and limit the use of their sensitive personal information. AB-566 passed on a 53-1 vote and now heads to the Senate.