While a California bill on AI in the workplace “aims to protect workers, employers have expressed concerns about how it might affect business efficiency and innovation,” JacksonLewis attorneys Joseph Lazzarotti and Sierra Vierra blogged Wednesday.
The Oregon Senate voted 27-0 on Thursday for a bill that would add location and child data restrictions to the state’s comprehensive privacy law. Senators amended the bill last week (see 2505160040), so HB-2008 must return to the House for concurrence before it can pass the legislature.
A Nevada genetic privacy bill responds to the 23andMe bankruptcy and Trump administration misinformation about people with autism, Nevada Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D) said Thursday. Yeager urged passage of his AB-589 at a livestreamed Assembly Government Affairs Committee hearing.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) should veto a bill requiring app stores to verify users’ ages, the president of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) wrote in a Tuesday letter to the governor.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) signed a bill requiring social media platforms to verify ages and not allow those younger than 18 to have accounts unless their parents give consent, the governor’s office said Tuesday.
Nearing a House floor vote, Vermont’s age-appropriate design code bill still looks “generally defensible” in court, said a Vermont attorney general office staffer at a House Commerce hearing Wednesday morning. Later that day, after amending S-69 with a longer implementation period, the committee voted 10-0 to advance the measure to the House floor.
The Oregon legislature approved an automotive privacy bill Thursday, while another possible change to the state’s comprehensive privacy bill edged closer to the finish line.
Alabama’s comprehensive privacy bill ran out of time to pass the legislature this year, so sponsor Rep. Mike Shaw (R) is looking toward 2026, he told Privacy Daily Friday. The state legislature adjourned earlier this week.
A tech industry group raised privacy and other concerns with a Texas bill (HB-186) that would require age verification and ban kids younger than 18 from creating social media accounts.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauded Montana for being the first state to close a “data broker loophole” for law enforcement. Separately, Cooley lawyers noted Montana's leadership role among states in crafting the country's third neural privacy law.