There’s “no valid reason” to amend the Colorado AI Act, the law's House author, Rep. Brianna Titone (D) emailed Privacy Daily on Wednesday.
Colorado will reconsider its comprehensive AI law during a special session this month, Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced Wednesday, as expected (see 2505300046).
New Jersey’s Office of Consumer Protection delayed until Sept. 2 the deadline to submit comments on draft rules for implementing the New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA), according to the office’s website. The comments were previously due Aug. 1.
Minnesota's comprehensive privacy law that took effect Thursday uniquely requires companies to allow consumers to question their automated decisions. The law also includes uncommon requirements about material changes to privacy polices and giving lists of third parties to consumers. While companies will also for the first time face requirements such as having to conduct data inventories and appoint chief privacy officers, many of the law's stipulations are already best practices, privacy lawyers told us.
Colorado plans to forego a mandate that companies verify users' ages in a rulemaking that updates the state’s comprehensive privacy law. But when enforcing kids privacy restrictions, the state's attorney general could consider companies’ use of age-estimation technologies, said draft rules released Tuesday.
A coalition of 20 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over what they claim are unlawful attempts to collect the personal data of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients from the states. Led by the attorneys general of California and New York, the suit -- filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California -- argues the federal demand for state data violates the U.S. Constitution and multiple federal privacy laws.
Businesses should start thinking now about complying with new data-protection regulations approved Thursday by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), privacy attorneys said immediately afterward in blogs and LinkedIn posts. While consumer privacy advocates slammed the rules as weak, one acknowledged they still give California a lead over other U.S. states.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) attempts to collect personal data of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients from the states are unnecessary, inefficient, and unlawful, said a Friday comment letter from a coalition of states, led by the California attorney general. The USDA, which suspended its data demand after a lawsuit from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and others, published a System of Records Notice (SORN) on June 23 in an attempt to resolve legal issues and resume the data collection (see 2507180027).
Congress must address the growing issue of companies using algorithms to adjust prices of consumer goods based on personal data, Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, said Wednesday during an American Economic Liberties Project event.