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.
California's anti-discrimination rules -- updated for the rise of AI -- will go into effect Oct. 1. The California Civil Rights Council said Monday that it received final approval for employment rule changes that update the state’s anti-discrimination regulations for automated decision-making technology.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed legislation Friday that bolsters data protection and resilience of government entities against cyberattacks by requiring breach-disclosure rules and cybersecurity training.
Maine has joined a growing list of states in which comprehensive privacy bills stalled in 2025. However, Rep. Amy Kuhn (D), the Maine Judiciary Committee’s House chair, told Privacy Daily on Thursday that her LD-1822 will return in 2026.
The Colorado attorney general's office is seeking comments ahead of a planned rulemaking to implement kids privacy rules, it said Thursday. It must make rules to implement a 2024 bill (SB 24-041) that amended the Colorado Privacy Act to enhance protections for processing minors’ data.
A Wisconsin bill amending a state law protecting the privacy of judges passed the legislature this week. Meanwhile, in the wake of the shooting deaths earlier this month of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband and the attempted killing of John Hoffman (D), a Minnesota senator, and his wife, a New Jersey assemblyman floated a bill to expand Daniel’s Law to additionally prohibit disclosure of state legislators’ personal information.
Disclosing private data for certain unlawful reasons will be a crime in Oregon starting next year. Gov. Tina Kotek (D) on Tuesday signed SB-1121, which makes unlawful disclosure of private information a Class B misdemeanor.