A bipartisan group of Georgia senators Wednesday introduced a comprehensive privacy bill in the mold of most other state privacy laws besides California.
Maryland, one of many states across the country introducing age-verification bills aimed at protecting children online, heard testimony Wednesday in support of HB-394. The bill would make websites liable for distributing obscene content to kids younger than 18, while setting data retention rules for identifying information collected for age verification (see 2501170053).
Maryland Democrats cross-filed data broker registry bills in the House and Senate on Wednesday.
A Hawaii automotive data privacy bill cleared its first committee Tuesday. The Senate Transportation Committee voted 5-0 to advance SB-1286, but it still needs approval from the Commerce Committee before it can go to the floor.
Virginia legislators approved multiple AI measures on Tuesday that cover private and public use of high-risk systems.
A Wyoming bill limiting government use of personal data passed the Senate unanimously on Monday. State senators voted 31-0 for SF-65. The House received the bill Tuesday.
State senators passed multiple updates to the Virginia Consumer Data Privacy Act (VCDPA) on Monday.
Two Tennessee Democrats want to amend the state privacy law to add authorized-agent and universal opt-out mechanism requirements. On Friday, Rep. John Clemmons (D) introduced HB-630 in the House, while Sen. Heidi Campbell (D) filed SB-663. The cross-filed bills would let consumers choose an authorized agent for opt-out requests and require data controllers to comply with opt-out preference signals from tools like the Global Privacy Control, which lets users toggle a browser setting so they can opt out from several companies simultaneously.
Following months of discussion about revising Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI discrimination law, a legislative task force recommended more meetings in a report released Monday.
A Hawaii House committee on Friday voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would establish an AI Advisory Council.