California businesses launched a media blitz Monday against possible AI regulations under consideration in the state legislature, calling instead for “pro-growth” rules.
California should maintain verification safeguards in its Delete Act rules, advertising groups said in comments to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) due Aug. 18 (see 2507310053).
Bluesky will block access from Mississippi IP addresses rather than comply with a Mississippi age-verification law that the U.S. Supreme Court allowed to stand last week (see 2508140048), the social media company said in a statement Friday.
To comply with a new Colorado privacy law (SB 25-276), health care providers should start “reviewing and updating their policies and procedures regarding the collection and disclosure of immigration-related information,” Husch Blackwell health care lawyer Nick Healey and two colleagues blogged Tuesday.
A California bill that sets data-breach notification deadlines will go to the Assembly floor and is racing toward passage by the legislature. At a livestreamed hearing Wednesday, the Assembly Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to add SB-446 by Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D) to the Assembly consent calendar, which is reserved for noncontroversial bills.
Montanans can now add state IDs to their mobile wallets, enhancing security, privacy and convenience, the Montana Motor Vehicle Division said Tuesday. Users can add driver's licenses or a state-issued ID to Apple and Google devices, said the division: The mobile IDs let users prove their identity to access services online, in apps and in person, while providing “age verification to participating businesses without sharing any additional information such as name, address, or birthdate when making an age-restricted purchase.”
A Massachusetts educational privacy bill advanced with revisions, the legislature’s website indicated on Monday. The Joint Education Committee cleared H-4405, which is a new draft of H-633, and sent it to the House Ways and Means Committee.
The California Senate Appropriations Committee agreed Monday to add bills on workplace surveillance (AB-1331) and age-verification signals (AB-1043) to the “suspense file,” a category for bills deemed to be costly, setting them up for a vote at later meetings. In addition, it moved various other privacy and AI bills to suspense earlier in the hearing (see 2508180051).
A California AI bill on algorithmic discrimination would drive costs for businesses, said more than 20 state and national associations for tech and other industries in a joint letter to the state’s Senate Appropriations Committee last week. One of the groups, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), released the letter Tuesday.
A Montana neurotechnology privacy law enacted this year “signals a shift toward integrating neural data protections within existing biological data laws,” Morrison Foerster lawyers Linda Clark, Melissa Crespo and Katherine Wang blogged Friday.