The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could soon issue a ruling on the retroactivity of a 2023 amendment to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which would provide significant clarity about pending BIPA cases, said blog posts by multiple law firms.
Connecticut will amend its privacy law again with what some lawyers say are significant changes. Gov. Ned Lamont (D) on Wednesday signed an omnibus (SB-1295) that contained the language of a bill (SB-1356) by Sen. James Maroney (D) updating the state’s 2022 privacy law (see 2506050004). Changes to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) will take effect July 1, 2026.
Affirming a circuit court's earlier ruling, an Illinois appellate court Tuesday certified class for railway workers who want to file a class-action suit claiming violations of the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Plaintiffs in case 1-24-1961 allege that railway industry service provider ITS Technologies' use of employee biometric information for time clocks violates the state statute.
The European Commission must urgently reassess Israel's data protection adequacy status, European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Electronic Privacy Information Center and 15 other civil rights groups said in a Tuesday letter to Michael McGrath, EU commissioner for democracy, justice, rule of law and consumer protection. Neither the EC nor the Israeli government commented immediately.
A California bill seeking to limit “surveillance pricing” cleared a key committee at a hearing Tuesday afternoon. The Assembly Privacy Committee voted 10-4 for SB-259, with Republicans opposing. In addition, the committee cleared bills about data brokers and breaches as part of a unanimous vote on a consent agenda. All the bills previously passed in the Senate.
The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed legislation that would expand the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to cover teens up to the age of 16 (see 2506180068).
The American Medical Association will support legislation and regulations to protect the privacy of individual neurological data and guard against discrimination potentially caused by neurotechnologies, the organization said Tuesday in a resolution its House of Delegates adopted.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has signed two AI bills, including the much-watched Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA).
The New York Senate passed legislation that would ban most biometrics in schools (S-3827). It will go next to the Assembly, which has similar legislation (A-6720) pending in a committee.
While immigrants seem to be the current target of mass-data collection, the federal government's collection of massive amounts of personal information has implications for other populations, including those who speak out against Washington, panelists said during a webinar Wednesday hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights & Technology.