More companies could become subject to the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act under changes contemplated by the original law’s sponsor. Senate Energy and Technology Chair Daniel Zolnikov (R) told Privacy Daily on Thursday he wants to slash the legislation’s applicability thresholds and tighten exemptions. Moreover, under a bill (SB-297) he filed earlier this week, Montana would also add child protections and cut in half the comprehensive privacy law’s 60-day right to cure.
Members of the advocacy group Oakland Privacy traveled to Chicago on Jan. 30 to tell a federal court in person that the proposed class action settlement resolving claims against Clearview AI for allegedly scraping facial images off the internet and then selling them to law enforcement is inadequate, the coalition said in a press release Tuesday.
Illinois legislators introduced a slew of privacy measures last week, including a comprehensive bill, Delete Act proposal and multiple updates to the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Sensitive information and transparency are key privacy issues that will continue attracting litigation, including in Texas, which has become a major player in regulation and enforcement, Odia Kagan, a partner in the law firm Fox Rothschild, said in an interview.
The Brazilian National Data Protection Authority's (ANPD's) decision to bar Tools for Humanity (TFH) from offering to pay people to have their irises scanned "speaks to a bigger problem" with AI, Justin Sherman, Electronic Privacy Information Center Scholar in Residence, argued Thursday.
A bipartisan group of Georgia senators Wednesday introduced a comprehensive privacy bill in the mold of most other state privacy laws besides California.
The European Commission published guidelines on prohibited AI practices under the European Union’s AI Act, the EC said Tuesday. The law’s AI prohibitions took effect Sunday (see 2501070022).
Life science companies should be aware of data-sharing restrictions under DOJ’s new rule banning cross-border data transfers to adversarial countries (see 2501070056), compliance attorneys said Monday.
The age-verification technology at issue in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case raises major privacy concerns, said Jennifer Huddleston, senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute. Huddleston discussed with Free State Foundation adjunct senior fellow Mike O'Rielly the justices' argument earlier this month on a Texas age-verification law (see 2501130012 and 2501150073).
Montana's senate voted 50-0 Tuesday to pass a bill that adds neural data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act. It’s now in the House.