The Alabama House approved a comprehensive privacy bill Tuesday on an overwhelming 101-0 vote. The legislation now moves to the Senate, where it needs approval before it reaches the governor's desk for signature.
Nearly the entire Florida Senate supported a social media decryption bill that the Electronic Frontier Foundation condemned as “dangerous and dumb” (see 2504110042).
Vermont Sen. Philip Baruth (D) and Chief Superior Judge Tom Zonay disapproved of a bill aimed at protecting the sensitive information of certain public servants, including judges, during a hearing Wednesday on H-342 in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Pennsylvania Senate passed an amendment to its comprehensive privacy bill Wednesday with a unanimous vote. The proposed amendment, brought by Rep. Stephenie Scialabba (R), would expand the definition of "sensitive information" under the bill to include details such as Social Security numbers, driver's license information and financial account information.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) plans to return to its rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) at its meeting May 1, said an agenda released Monday.
Colorado senators removed language from an immigration civil rights bill that might have revised the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) to include a Maryland-style data minimization standard. The Senate voted 22-13 on Monday to pass SB-276, sending it to the House.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed the Right to Compute Act into law Wednesday, codifying state residents' ability to own and use computational technology, such as hardware, software and processing tools. It had previously passed the Senate 50-0 and the House 61-38.
The Oklahoma Senate Technology and Telecommunications Committee cleared a pair of social media bills Thursday, despite their sponsors admitting the legislation needs work before coming to the floor. One bill addresses cyberbullying while the other is about age-verification, which many states have addressed this year (see 2501170053).
Law enforcement called out John Molinelli, former Bergen County prosecutor, and the Public Safety Information Protection Coalition (PSIPC) for attempts to weaken Daniel's Law, which protects the sensitive information of certain public servants and their families. An open letter headed by Peter Andreyev, president of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association (PBA), was published Wednesday in the New Jersey Globe.
Vermont's attempt at copying New Jersey's Daniel’s Law has faced much deliberation in the legislature over the measure's private right of action. Bill sponsor Rep. Monique Priestly (D) has tried to counter that by increasing the cure period and allowing state attorney general enforcement, she said during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Wednesday.