California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) slammed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for reportedly abusing personally identifiable information, in violation of privacy rights.
A proposed requirement that mental health warning labels appear on social media passed the Minnesota legislature and was presented to Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Thursday. The New York Senate passed a similar bill the same day. Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recommended social media warning labels last year (see 2406170059),
Louisiana’s app store age-verification bill will go to Gov. Jeff Landry (R) after the state's House and Senate unanimously agreed to a conference report on HB-570 Thursday. The bill would impose age-verification requirements on app stores before users can download apps.
New York's Senate rushed through AI legislation without taking stakeholder feedback into account -- favorable or unfavorable, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said Friday. Meanwhile, the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) said it’s dissatisfied with recent changes to one of the bills.
The New York Senate passed legislation that would ban most biometrics in schools (S-3827). It will go next to the Assembly, which has similar legislation (A-6720) pending in a committee.
The New York Senate voted in support of a bill regulating high-risk AI with enforcement from the attorney general and through a private right of action.
The Oregon House supported making it a crime to unlawfully disclose private data. Members voted 54-2 Thursday in favor of SB-1121, which cleared a House committee in late May (see 2505290041).
Vermont will have an age-appropriate design code (AADC) law. Gov. Phil Scott (R) signed S-69, based on an Assembly bill by Rep. Monique Priestley (D), on Thursday, his office said.
California Privacy Protection Agency draft rules for making a data deletion mechanism required by the state’s Delete Act exceed the law’s scope and one requirement may be unconstitutional, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) said in comments at the CPPA.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) vetoed Democrats’ genetic privacy bill (AB-589) Monday because he said it “unnecessarily duplicates existing federal requirements and is likely to create greater confusion around the handling of this data.”