Sen. Margo Juarez (D) wants to add “teeth” to Nebraska’s privacy law with a bill like California’s Delete Act that aims to make it easier for consumers to delete their data, she said in an interview Tuesday. However, at a livestreamed hearing of the bicameral legislature’s Commerce Committee Monday, counsel for Nebraska’s secretary of state raised concerns that the bill would be difficult to implement.
A Washington state House chair strongly supported letting individuals sue companies in comprehensive privacy legislation despite concerns that state and national industry groups raised about possibly making Washington the only state with that type of enforcement mechanism. At a livestreamed hearing Tuesday, the House Technology Committee heard support from consumer advocates and opposition from industry about HB-1671, a measure Rep. Shelley Kloba (D) introduced. Kloba hopes the bill can be scheduled for a committee vote next week, her office said after the hearing.
AI legislation drawing opposition because of its private right of action and potential conflicts with federal privacy law passed a New Mexico House committee Thursday.
A pair of proposed updates to Virginia’s comprehensive privacy law cleared the Senate General Laws Committee on Wednesday.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) penned letters to the attorneys general of Florida, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas Tuesday urging them to investigate pregnancy crisis centers (CPCs) who may have misrepresented that the information given to them by patients would be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, said Corynne McSherry, EFF’s legal director, in a blog post Wednesday.
Washington state Rep. Shelley Kloba (D) filed comprehensive privacy legislation (HB-1671) on Tuesday after previously carrying such bills in prior sessions.
Montana's senate voted 50-0 Tuesday to pass a bill that adds neural data to the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act. It’s now in the House.
Industry and consumer advocates on Wednesday voiced opposition against two kids’ social media bills that the Senate Commerce Committee is planning to take up.
Although North Carolina lacks a comprehensive privacy law, the state Department of Information Technology’s Office of Privacy and Data stands ready to "support legislators in efforts to draft privacy legislation,” a department spokesperson emailed Tuesday.
Florida lawmakers are turning their attention to kids’ social media and AI regulation now that the debate over comprehensive privacy is behind them, Rep. Fiona McFarland (R) told us in a recent interview.