An app store age-verification bill under consideration in Louisiana drew heated discussion from the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday.
Vermont’s comprehensive privacy bill won’t pass the legislature in 2025, the second year in a row that sweeping legislation by Rep. Monique Priestley (D) has failed to become law. At a livestreamed House Commerce Committee meeting Wednesday, Priestley said legislators “ran out of time” to finish the bill this session, particularly with more pressing housing and education measure before the legislature. However, to tee up summer talks about privacy, Priestley said she plans to post an amendment restoring the Senate bill to the original House version, with some changes.
Long-awaited draft rules to implement New Jersey's comprehensive privacy law surfaced Wednesday. Comments are due Aug. 1, said the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs document, which is expected to be published in the New Jersey Register on Monday.
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It’s unclear whether a proposed 10-year moratorium on AI regulation will survive parliamentary procedure in the Senate, and predictions vary based on political party and business interests.
Meta can use data from publicly accessible user profiles on Facebook and Instagram for AI training in Germany, the Cologne Higher Regional Court ruled Friday. Meta didn't immediately comment.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding President Donald Trump’s recent board firings suggests FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya shouldn’t be reinstated, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and the Trump administration said in a filing Friday (see 2505060040).
Delaying the Maine privacy bill’s effective date gives the state an “escape hatch if things go awry in Maryland,” said House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) at a Maine Judiciary Committee meeting Friday. The panel weighed an amendment to Kuhn’s comprehensive measure (LD-1822), which features a data-minimization standard similar to the one in the Maryland privacy law. Also, members narrowed to two, from three, the number of comprehensive privacy bills pending before the committee.
Since data-protection litigation and enforcement are on the rise, companies can't assume data practices instituted years ago will insulate them from compliance issues, said privacy experts during a webinar hosted Thursday by Privado, a privacy vendor. New regulations and older laws leveraged to cover evolving technologies have made overseeing data and privacy a corporate priority, they said.
A substantive amendment to a Maine privacy bill would color in what data is allowed to be collected under its Maryland-like data minimization requirement. House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) on Thursday released the proposed amendment to her LD-1822, which also moves back the bill’s effective date, addresses mergers and bankruptcies, and makes many wording changes. The joint Judiciary Committee plans to consider the draft amendment at a work session Friday.