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A controversial proposed change to the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) will be held until next year, said state Sen. Anna Caballero (D) during an Assembly Public Safety Committee hearing Tuesday. The committee advanced Caballero’s SB-690 to the Privacy Committee with the understanding that it will be delayed. A day earlier, the committee staff raised questions about whether SB-690 was designed to protect “mom-and-pop” businesses from frivolous lawsuits.
Effective Tuesday, an amendment to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) that enhances protections for biometric identifiers widens the scope of whom the privacy law applies to and forces companies to review their policies, said privacy lawyers. Enacted as HB-1130 in June 2024, the measure compels entities that collect biometric data to meet stringent notice and consent requirements if they use or intend to use it for unique identification (see 2406030010).
A California-led multistate coalition sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday for providing individuals' health data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Legislators in Texas, Maryland and Vermont say they will renew bipartisan efforts to regulate AI at the state level after the U.S. Senate on Tuesday dropped its proposed AI moratorium.
Healthline must pay California $1.55 million as part of a record proposed settlement under the California Consumer Privacy Act, Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Tuesday. It also includes a novel injunctive term prohibiting the company “from sharing article titles that reveal that a consumer may have already been diagnosed with a medical condition,” the attorney general's office said.
Data protection authorities (DPAs) are increasingly helping mold AI model training rules that also spur innovation, a Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) panel said at a June 27 webinar focused on developments in Brazil and France.
If Senate opposition pushes hard enough against the AI moratorium proposed by Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, it could potentially lead to a floor vote on the provision itself, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and a Republican Senate staffer told us Monday.
A comprehensive privacy law taking effect Tuesday in Tennessee may appear business-friendly compared with similar measures in other states, but privacy lawyers note that it also contains some of the highest penalties for noncompliance. Companies could avoid a Tennessee crackdown by taking advantage of a novel safe harbor in the law, Mintz’s Cynthia Larose told Privacy Daily.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could soon issue a ruling on the retroactivity of a 2023 amendment to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which would provide significant clarity about pending BIPA cases, said blog posts by multiple law firms.