The Montana House unanimously passed a neural data privacy bill on Wednesday. The House voted 99-0 to pass an amended SB-163 that adds neurotechnology data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act.
While states are increasingly coordinating their privacy bills, Maine Rep. Amy Kuhn (D) is unwilling to "prioritize interoperability to the point where we’re agreeing on the lowest common denominator,” the House chair of the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee told Privacy Daily this week. Instead, Kuhn wants to focus on what’s good for consumers, small businesses, and “not so much Big Tech.”
Minnesota could add health information as a form of sensitive data and toughen limits for sensitive data more broadly under its comprehensive privacy law, a privacy attorney said Tuesday. Rep. Steve Elkins (D), author of the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act, introduced HB-2700 Monday to amend the act before it takes effect in July. Sensitive data requires opt-in consent under the Minnesota law, unlike other personal data that carries an opt-out standard.
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Connecticut Sen. James Maroney (D) took the middle ground in a private right of action (PRA) debate between Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) and Mariner Strategies President Andrew Kingman at a Federal Communications Bar Association New England event Tuesday. The panelists agreed that a national comprehensive privacy law is unlikely soon.
The FTC will update its children’s privacy rules in “some form” that complies with President Donald Trump’s regulatory agenda, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told us Tuesday.
A dozen Pennsylvania senators introduced a comprehensive privacy bill that looks nearly the same as a House bill that advanced last week.
Massachusetts lawmakers plan to hear testimony on a plethora of privacy bills during an April 9 hearing, as expected, the Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity announced Monday.
The bankruptcy of biotechnology company 23andMe is raising privacy concerns about the future of customers' sensitive genetic data. Democratic and Republican state AGs and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said they're monitoring the situation.
Consumer privacy advocates condemned a West Virginia comprehensive privacy bill as weak in a letter to the House Energy committee, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Friday. The committee voted by voice to send the bill, which is nearly identical to Virginia’s law, to the Judiciary Committee earlier this week (see 2503180050).