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.
Montana legislators mulled two privacy bills from the author of the state’s 2023 comprehensive law during hearings Thursday. At one livestreamed session, Montana Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R) urged the Senate Energy and Telecom Committee to clear a fix of another data bill from that year, the Genetic Information Privacy Act. Later, during an Education Committee hearing, the state senator urged support for a bill that gives students “the right to be forgotten.”
Class action lawsuits surrounding cybersecurity breaches have risen significantly in recent years and 2024 was no exception, lawyers said during a Practising Law Institute event Thursday. Speakers discussed trends from 2024 concerning litigation about data privacy, cybersecurity breaches and the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act.
Video telematics and fleet management products provider Lytx denied violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in an email Wednesday following settlement of a class-action lawsuit over the company's driver-monitoring technologies (see 2501210054).
New York state health data privacy legislation could soon hit the governor’s desk after the Assembly and Senate quickly passed bills this week. Despite Republican opposition on the Assembly floor Wednesday, members voted 95-41 to pass S-929, the Senate version that was substituted forA-2141. The effectively same bills have been compared to Washington state’s My Health My Data law. The Senate passed S-929 on Tuesday after bypassing its committee process (see 2501210068). Republicans and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) raised concerns with the legislation, which is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Video telematics and fleet management products provider Lytx must pay $4.25 million as part of a settlement with truck drivers over its alleged violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), according to last week’s ruling (case 22-00046) in U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois.