Massachusetts should follow New York state in passing an age-verification bill to ban social media platforms from using algorithms to deliver content to users younger than 18, said Massachusetts Rep. William MacGregor (D) at a livestreamed Thursday hearing of the Joint Committee on Advanced IT, the Internet and Cybersecurity.
Another tech industry group asked to quash a New York state AI bill from becoming law. In a letter Wednesday, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) urged Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to veto the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act.
Arguing that the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) does enough to protect consumers, national tech trade groups and California business associations opposed a revised location privacy bill now pending in the California Senate. In a Tuesday letter to the body’s Judiciary Committee, ahead of a scheduled July 15 hearing on AB-322 and many other bills, the groups said they opposed the measure unless it’s amended.
A California bill to set data-breach notification deadlines advanced to the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. The chamber’s Judiciary Committee unanimously approved SB-446 as part of the consent calendar during a livestreamed meeting.
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) vetoed a bill that would have allowed the state auditor to peruse data of companies receiving state funding, the governor’s office said Wednesday.
Louisiana will be the third state with an app store age-verification law. Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed HB-570 on Monday, and it will take effect July 1, 2026. Aimed at enhancing children's online safety, the legislation imposes age-verification requirements on app stores before users can download apps.
Some recommendations from last month’s California Frontier AI report (see 2506170051) could be added to an AI bill (SB-53) by Sen. Scott Wiener (D), the state lawmaker said Tuesday at a livestreamed Assembly Judiciary Committee session. The committee unanimously cleared SB-53, sending it to the Privacy Committee.
The Free Speech Coalition said it’s weighing legal options as age-verification laws took effect Tuesday in multiple states.
California and Utah are disappointed in the sale of 23andMe and its customers' genetic data, though some states blessed the transaction (see 2506200016). Bankruptcy Judge Brian Walsh approved the deal on Monday, allowing nonprofit TTAM Research Institute to acquire the biotechnology company and all of its assets.
Even publicly available sensitive information would remain sensitive information subject to heightened protections under a proposed amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that surfaced Friday.