The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Thursday with a district court decision and dismissed a case alleging violations of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), taking a narrow view of what it means to be a "consumer." However, one of the three judges, Rachel Bloomekatz, issued a dissent from most of the decision.
More than 30 people testified about a bill seeking to limit automated analysis of personal data for making financial inferences during a Wednesday hearing in the Colorado House Judiciary Committee, with many people supporting its protections for both workers and consumers.
A French lawmaker who challenged the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework in 2023 had his first hearing in the EU General Court Monday. Member of Parliament Philippe Latombe is seeking annulment of the DPF (see 2309120030) (Latombe v. Commission, Case T-533/23).
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should withdraw the Biden administration’s proposed data broker rule because it’s an “illegal” expansion of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, industry groups told the bureau in comments due Wednesday (see 2503040058).
Montana Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R) is “very confident” Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) will sign his neural data privacy bill into law, the state senator told us after SB-163 passed the legislature Thursday. Montana senators voted 49-1 for the legislation, which adds neurotechnology data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act and modifies the same law to allow people to volunteer for medical studies.
A revival of a California bill that would require all web browsers and mobile operating systems to provide universal opt-out mechanisms cleared its first test in the state legislature and received bipartisan support. At a late Tuesday hearing, the California Assembly Privacy Committee voted 9-0 to advance AB-566 to the Appropriations Committee.
Judges for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared to side with California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) during oral argument in NetChoice v. Bonta Wednesday in what Judge Ryan Nelson called “a very complicated case” over a state law that makes it illegal for addictive internet-based services and applications to provide an addictive feed to a user younger than 18 unless the operator does not know that the user is a minor.
DOJ’s data transfer rule is scheduled to go into effect April 8, the department confirmed Wednesday.
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The U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas ruled Monday in favor of tech trade association NetChoice, permanently enjoining an Arkansas social media safety act as unconstitutional. The court said the age-verification law violated the First and 14th Amendments.