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.
The Texas Senate voted 31-0 Wednesday to approve a bill requiring data brokers, when registering in the state, to include a link to the broker's website that instructs consumers about exercising their data privacy rights under the Texas comprehensive privacy law.
Utah is the first state to require that app stores implement age verification measures. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed SB-142 Wednesday. The bill passed the legislature earlier this month (see 2503050052).
Utah will require that law enforcement agencies have generative AI policies. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed SB-180 on Tuesday. The new law also requires police reports or other law enforcement records to include disclaimers if they were partly or wholly AI created. And it requires the author of an AI-generated report to certify that a human checked the report for accuracy.
A California data broker registration bill received support from Consumer Reports and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. In a Tuesday letter to California Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Thomas Umberg (D), the consumer privacy advocates backed SB-361, which would amend the California Delete Act to require disclosure of more types of personal information.