Colorado will step in if the federal government pulls back on privacy enforcement under the second Trump administration, the state’s AG Phil Weiser (D) told Privacy Daily. In an interview, he said privacy will continue to be a priority for the state in 2025, with Weiser hoping to raise awareness with businesses and consumers about their duties and rights under the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA).
To prevent mass deportations by President-elect Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), schools, employers and state and local governments must protect personal data, Victor Guillen Febres, program strategist at United We Dream, wrote in a blog for TechPolicy.Press Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a case about a Texas age-verification law aimed at preventing minors from accessing adult websites. However, in addition to First Amendment implications, the case could become much broader, centering on technology that verifies the ages of website visitors younger and older than 18 and whether that process infringes on their rights.
Businesses should write broad biometric compliance strategies in response to Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) regulations adopted last month by the state attorney general office, BCLP lawyers Goli Mahdavi and Andrea Rastelli blogged Thursday.
A private right of action appeared in a New York state health privacy bill introduced Thursday. Another lawmaker introduced a biometric privacy bill enforced by the state AG.
Companies deploying AI in ways that the EU AI Act has banned have until Feb. 2 to stop using them, but exactly how to do that remains unclear, privacy experts told us. The European Commission consulted with stakeholders in December on the practical aspects of compliance and plans to issue guidance ahead of the deadline, an EC spokesperson emailed.
The second U.S. state privacy law could be updated this year. Virginia’s legislative session opened Wednesday with a bill by Del. Michelle Maldonado (D) that would add protections for teens, include support for universal opt-out mechanisms and revise other parts of the 2021 Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. Maldonado's measure would also add an AI section called the "Artificial Intelligence Training Data Transparency Act,” which includes a private right of action.
A Texas bill covering smart devices aims to show “people in real-time on their personal devices what data is being collected and by whom and also gives them the ability to stop the data collection,” state Sen. Bryan Hughes (R) said in an emailed statement Wednesday.
New York state legislators opened their 2025 session Wednesday, introducing comprehensive and healthcare-focused privacy bills, among other measures related to consumer data. Assemblymember Nily Rozic (D) offered the 2025 version of the New York Privacy Act. However, some of it is "not aligned with other comprehensive privacy laws,” which could make compliance a challenge for businesses, warned Hinshaw & Culbertson privacy attorney Cathy Mulrow-Peattie in an email Wednesday.