Facial recognition technology brings "clear benefits" for preventing and detecting crime, but it relies on processing large amounts of sensitive personal data, so its use must be necessary and proportionate, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said in a statement Wednesday.
The California Senate Judiciary Committee supported data broker and breach notification bills at a late Tuesday hearing. The panel cleared SB-361, which adds requirements to the California Delete Act. And it approved SB-446, a data breach bill adding specific deadlines to the state’s notification law.
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.
Many new cars collect large amounts of data about people, often without their knowledge, Denmark's Data Protection Agency said Monday.
A judge for the U.S. District for Northern Illinois on Monday scrapped a previous ruling in a case about a company collecting biometrics of its employees, claiming instead that the amendment to the Biometric Information Privacy Act does not apply retroactively, reopening case 24-01925.
A California data broker registration bill received support from Consumer Reports and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. In a Tuesday letter to California Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Thomas Umberg (D), the consumer privacy advocates backed SB-361, which would amend the California Delete Act to require disclosure of more types of personal information.
The Montana House unanimously passed a neural data privacy bill on Wednesday. The House voted 99-0 to pass an amended SB-163 that adds neurotechnology data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act.
Minnesota could add health information as a form of sensitive data and toughen limits for sensitive data more broadly under its comprehensive privacy law, a privacy attorney said Tuesday. Rep. Steve Elkins (D), author of the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act, introduced HB-2700 Monday to amend the act before it takes effect in July. Sensitive data requires opt-in consent under the Minnesota law, unlike other personal data that carries an opt-out standard.
States must step in to protect healthcare privacy when the federal administration is likely to try and undermine the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, said privacy lawyers in a keynote fireside chat on the politics of healthcare privacy at the National HIPAA Summit Tuesday.
Connecticut Sen. James Maroney (D) took the middle ground in a private right of action (PRA) debate between Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) and Mariner Strategies President Andrew Kingman at a Federal Communications Bar Association New England event Tuesday. The panelists agreed that a national comprehensive privacy law is unlikely soon.