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.”
The Senate Commerce Committee plans to hold votes on at least three different kids privacy bills this year, Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Thursday.
New York Senate Internet Committee Chair Kristen Gonzalez (D) Thursday reintroduced the New York Privacy Act (S-3044) that Sen. Kevin Thomas (D) proposed last year. Thomas departed the legislature at the end of 2024.
In addition to an increase in privacy laws, 2025 is expected to bring an escalation of privacy and data protection claims under old laws, said International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) members on a webinar Wednesday.
Consumer privacy groups applauded multiple Massachusetts privacy bills introduced last week.
A Hawaii data privacy bill that state Sen. Chris Lee and five other Democrats (SB-1037) introduced Friday generally follows other comprehensive state bills in the mold of Virginia or Connecticut.
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Almost all comprehensive state privacy laws include enforcement language against AI-related discrimination, so additional efforts to regulate automated decisions could be redundant, Minnesota Rep. Steve Elkins (D) told Privacy Daily in a recent interview.
Massachusetts state Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier (D) filed a comprehensive privacy bill based on a model bill (see 2501070081) by Consumer Reports and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said CR on Thursday.
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