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The Maine Judiciary Committee’s top Democrats unveiled a comprehensive privacy bill Tuesday that contains data minimization language similar to the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act. Judiciary House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) and Senate Chair Anne Carney (D) introduced LD-1822 with five Democratic colleagues.
California Assembly members advanced privacy bills on geolocation data and AI transparency, while acknowledging there's still work ahead to address opponents' concerns during a livestreamed Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. The committee advanced the bills to the Appropriations Committee.
The House voted 409-2 Monday to pass the Take It Down Act (S-146), despite privacy-related objections from encryption advocates.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) sued Roku, alleging on Tuesday that the streaming TV box maker collects the personal information of minors without parental consent or knowledge, in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the Michigan Consumer Protection Act. Roku plans to fight back, a spokesperson said.
Guarding the data security and privacy of consumers is just as important for small businesses as it is for large corporations with massive troves of data, said privacy experts and small business owners Monday during a panel hosted by Small Business Privacy.
Louisiana lawmakers lambasted videogame industry opposition Monday to a bill creating a duty of care for online platforms with minor users. At a livestreamed hearing, the state’s House Civil Law Committee voted unanimously by voice to clear HB-37 with amendments. At a separate hearing, the House Commerce Committee decided to wait for a week to vote on an app store age-verification bill (HB-570) to allow for more negotiation with tech companies.
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) plans to “relax” online advertising-related privacy enforcement, using the GDPR's "legitimate interest" principles as justification, Executive Director-Regulatory Risk Stephen Almond told us Thursday at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington.
Privacy advocacy organizations are warning about the dangers of having the federal government collecting medical and health data from citizens after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Monday that medical records will be compiled from commercial and federal databases as part of an autism study.
Expect movement shortly on three Vermont privacy bills, including a comprehensive privacy measure, state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) said in an interview at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington earlier this week. Priestley will continue tweaking the legislation based on feedback, including a change covering more businesses in her kids code bill.