A kids social media bill requiring age verification cleared the Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment in a 10-1 vote at a livestreamed hearing Wednesday. The bill would prohibit kids 15 years old and younger from accessing social media unless they have parental permission.
Hawaiians would vote on having a state constitutional “right to own one’s own data” under a bill (SB-170) that state Sen. Karl Rhoads and five other Democrats proposed Monday.
An Alaska agency would need to notify individuals when transferring their personal information to another state agency, under a bill introduced last week. State Sen. Shelley Hughes (R) prefiled SB-2 Friday, ahead of the legislative session that starts Jan. 21. SB-2 also tackles election deepfakes and state agencies’ use of generative AI, as in a similar bill last year that never received a vote on the Senate floor.
Websites could soon be sued in Oregon for not keeping kids younger than 18 off pornographic websites, with a penalty up to $5,000 per violation. The Oregon House Monday had its first reading of a bill (HB-2032) mandating age verification.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) expects bipartisan support for various forthcoming kids’ tech safety bills, including one requiring age verification for social media and implementing an age-appropriate design code. The governor and Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) announced support for those and two other kids’ safety bills at a livestreamed news conference Monday.
Due to “devastating wildfires” across the state, the California Privacy Protection Agency added a hearing and extended comment deadlines by a month in its rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and other changes to privacy regulations, the CPPA said in a notice Friday.
"With the passage of time and the exponential growth of generative AI,” it’s time to update Virginia’s 2021 privacy law “to keep pace with current technological advances,” Del. Michelle Maldonado (D) said in an emailed statement Friday.
Signaling a possible trend, an increasing number of state legislators are filing AI discrimination bills. Similar to Colorado's nation-first AI law, the bills focus on preventing businesses from discriminating by using AI algorithms.
Two bills regarding how data and security breaches should be handled surfaced Thursday in the New York State Assembly. The Assembly referred both to Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee.
Lawmakers in Montana and New York are seeking to enhance student privacy through bills filed this week. The New York measure would also set rules for employers.