A possible Vermont version of Daniel’s Law (H-342) is “not dead, but it is not moving,” state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) said Thursday on Vermont Perspective, a radio show on WDEV. After the show, Priestley told us in a phone interview that another piece of legislation, her comprehensive privacy bill, remains “very much in play.”

Congress should update the Privacy Act with statutory limits on exemptions for government data-handling and extend protections for immigrants living in the U.S., privacy advocates told Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., in comments this week.

An appeals court narrowed liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) Thursday, ruling it only applied to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history.

California Privacy Protection Agency Chairperson Jennifer Urban raised concerns Thursday about the extent of recent changes to draft rules on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), cybersecurity and other issues. “We’ve really cut to the bone, in terms of what is in line with the statute's requirements for the regulations we need to do, and in terms of the relative value to businesses and the relative value to the people … whose personal information is at stake,” she said at a livestreamed CPPA board meeting Thursday. Staff said the new draft reduced potential business costs in the first year by nearly two-thirds.

Privacy and data are at the heart of larger concerns about rights and freedoms, and consumers and corporations need to be clearer about their knowledge, understanding and intent around data collection and use, said data experts during a Tuesday webinar that privacy compliance vendor TrustArc hosted.

Microsoft supports regulatory efforts to simplify compliance with privacy laws globally, said Cari Benn, the company’s associate general counsel-privacy, accessibility and regulatory affairs, in an interview last week at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit. Meanwhile, as Microsoft embraces AI, it's striving to apply privacy principles to the emerging technology.

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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.