California appropriators greenlit a plethora of privacy bills at Friday meetings. Assembly and Senate panels ticked through a laundry list of “suspense file” bills, including on age assurance, automated decisions, reproductive health, workplace surveillance and revisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The approved bills could get floor votes next.
In its latest proposal on risk assessment requirements, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) appears to try to seal up potential constitutional holes that took down California’s age-appropriate design code (AADC) law, Squire Patton attorney Alan Friel said in an interview last week. Ahead of a June 2 deadline to file comments (see 2505020034), privacy lawyers at many firms are combing through the latest tweaks in a highly watched rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other topics.
While the U.S. House this week moved ahead with a plan for a 10-year moratorium on AI laws, the Connecticut Senate supported a bill that would establish AI requirements. However, in the first state to enact an AI law, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) supported federal preemption.
The California Privacy Protection Agency's $345,000 fine for menswear retailer Todd Snyder last week (see 2505050066) put companies that do business in the state “on notice” that they shouldn’t collect excessive information to verify consumers’ identities, McCarter & English privacy attorney Erin Prest blogged Tuesday: “This is one detail at which the regulators are specifically looking and errors can be costly.”
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Members of a bipartisan multistate AI policy working group are preparing an open letter opposing a U.S. House proposal that sets a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state AI laws (see 2505120067), Maryland Sen. Katie Fry Hester (D) told us Tuesday. Virginia Del. Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D), another working group member who has helped spearhead AI legislative efforts in her state, told us the House proposal appears to be part of a concerted industry effort to kill forward momentum on state AI bills. Meanwhile, senators we spoke to on Capitol Hill split largely on party lines about the plan Tuesday.
Google's nearly $1.4 billion settlement with Texas solidifies the state's status as an aggressive privacy enforcer, lawyers and consumer privacy advocates said Monday. Texas announced the settlement Friday in a case involving Google's allegedly unlawful tracking and collection of users' personal information, including geolocation and biometric data (see 2505090071).
Celine Guillou joined the law firm Kelley Drye, she announced in a LinkedIn post Thursday. Guillou previously worked at the California Privacy Protection Agency.
Making it easier to exercise privacy rights is a key priority for California Privacy Protection Agency Executive Director Tom Kemp, he blogged Thursday.
AI’s high-speed evolution makes it a tough technology to regulate, said panelists at a partly virtual University of Illinois privacy conference Thursday.