The Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) raised concerns Tuesday with a California bill that would require manufacturers to transmit signals about users’ ages.
Several major ad industry associations opposed a California bill they claim would make it difficult or impossible for businesses in the state to offer potential customers popular discounts based on interest or demographic data.
Device manufacturers would transmit age-verification signals under a California bill (AB-1043), as amended Friday by sponsor Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D).
A group of Texas lawmakers warned about potential internet harm for minors during a hearing on a pair of kids online safety bills in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Monday.
More than 30 Wisconsin Republicans sponsored a comprehensive privacy bill introduced Thursday in the GOP-controlled legislature on Thursday. Co-sponsors to SB-166 by Sen. Romaine Quinn (R) include three other senators and 28 Assembly members.
Rhode Island’s age-verification legislation raises privacy concerns for adults and minors who don’t want to share personal information with social media platforms, the American Civil Liberties Union told state lawmakers Thursday.
Utah added a right to correct inaccurate information to its comprehensive privacy law. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) Thursday signed HB-418, which would also require social media data portability and interoperability (see 2503100039).
The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have authored a letter to Gov. Wes Moore (D) Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) and the Maryland General Assembly asking them to protect student privacy by prohibiting campus administrators from sharing students' data with federal agencies without a warrant. In a press release Friday, CAIR asked other faith-based organizations, advocacy groups, and student associations from across the state to sign on to the letter as well.
The Connecticut legislature’s Sen. James Maroney (D) and Rep. Hubert Delany (D) formed an AI caucus, the lawmakers announced Thursday. The group will push for passage of SB-2, Maroney’s AI anti-discrimination bill that cleared a committee last week (see 2503210065).
National advertising trade groups opposed a California location privacy bill (AB-1355) this week. The bill would prohibit covered entities from using an individual’s location information unless the individual has opted in and it’s necessary to provide goods or services requested by that person.