Multiple Connecticut privacy and AI bills appeared to have enough votes to advance to the Senate floor at the joint General Laws Committee’s livestreamed meeting Friday. The committee approved an age-verification measure (SB-1295) as part of a consent agenda vote, but final roll calls weren't clear at our deadline on a comprehensive privacy update and two AI bills.
NEW YORK CITY -- The Interactive Advertising Bureau aims to provide a more predictable cadence of state privacy law updates to its global privacy protocol (GPP) this year, Rowena Lam, IAB Tech Lab senior director of privacy and data, said Thursday during IAB’s Signal Shift event.
Democrats and consumer privacy advocates raised concerns Wednesday that a Georgia comprehensive privacy bill won’t adequately protect consumers, in part because it lacks a private right of action. At a livestreamed hearing Wednesday, the House Technology Committee considered SB-111, which the Senate passed on a bipartisan basis last week (see 2503040026). The bill is based on Virginia’s data protection statute and includes several exemptions (see 2502060057).
Oregon lawmakers weighed whether to update the state’s data privacy laws during a hearing on two data privacy bills Tuesday in the House Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Multiple state attorneys general signaled that they will flex their privacy enforcement muscles in the wake of President Donald Trump's Tuesday firing of Democratic FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter. Privacy experts said the development raises new concerns about the fate of trans-Atlantic personal data transfers and the legitimacy of potential FTC rulemaking decisions.
A West Virginia comprehensive privacy bill cleared the House Energy Committee at a livestreamed markup Tuesday. Without any discussion, members voted by voice to send HB-2987 to the Judiciary Committee.
Legislators from other states have told Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) that they'd like to see someone enact a comprehensive privacy law with a private right of action (PRA), Priestley said in a livestreamed interview Tuesday with Daniel Solove, a George Washington University Law School professor.
A Pennsylvania House Committee teed up a potentially imminent floor vote on a comprehensive privacy bill. The Commerce Committee voted unanimously by voice Tuesday to advance HB-78 to the floor. At a livestreamed meeting, the committee also adopted by voice an amendment to delay by six months the proposed effective date to one year after it’s enacted.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) raised privacy concerns Monday concerning a social media bill requiring age verification. Maine’s joint Judiciary Committee received testimony on LD-844, which would require age verification and ban accounts for kids younger than 14, while allowing them for 14- and 15-year-olds with parental consent (see 2503060022).
Kentucky tweaked its comprehensive privacy law to flesh out an exemption for data subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed the amendment (HB-473) to the 2024 privacy law Saturday after it passed the legislature unanimously (see 2503130017).