House Commerce Committee Republicans are “committed to moving” a federal privacy bill “this Congress,” a committee staffer said at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on Thursday.
The Pennsylvania House passed an amendment to its comprehensive privacy bill Wednesday with a unanimous vote. The proposed amendment, brought by Rep. Stephenie Scialabba (R), would expand the definition of "sensitive information" under the bill to include details such as Social Security numbers, driver's license information and financial account information.
With Congress strongly divided along partisan lines, a few common issues unite the two parties, including children’s privacy, said lawyers and policy professionals during a panel Tuesday on the new administration at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Public Policy & Legal Summit.
Oregon privacy regulators noticed a spike in consumers complaining about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and how the government may be handing their personal information, the state DOJ said Monday. Also, the department released a Q1 2025 report on enforcement of the state’s comprehensive privacy law.
Vermont's attempt at copying New Jersey's Daniel’s Law has faced much deliberation in the legislature over the measure's private right of action. Bill sponsor Rep. Monique Priestly (D) has tried to counter that by increasing the cure period and allowing state attorney general enforcement, she said during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Wednesday.
A Virginia reproductive data privacy law taking effect July 1 covers many companies, poses significant compliance challenges and contains a private right of action, privacy attorneys warned last week. In addition, while many believe Virginia has one of the more business-friendly comprehensive privacy laws, the purple state’s narrower new law requires a higher consent standard than blue Washington state’s My Health My Data Act (MHMDA), they said.
Legislation that would amend the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act passed the House unanimously Friday with a 99-0 vote, and now returns to the Senate with amendments. SB-297, sponsored by Sen. Daniel Zolnikov (R), would add child protections, halve the comprehensive privacy law’s 60-day right to cure, slash the legislation’s applicability thresholds and tighten exemptions (see 2502130054). Previously, the Senate unanimously passed updates to the law as well (see 2502240069).
Three amendments to a bill that would ban tech companies from collecting, retaining and disclosing minors' data, except in a few outlined situations, passed by a voice vote in the Arkansas House Aging, Children and Youth & Legislative Affairs Committee Monday. Rep. Zack Gramlich (R), one of the bill's sponsors, said the amendments served to clarify language and definitions in the bill.
A proposed expansion of Connecticut’s comprehensive privacy law “will make it difficult for companies to use consumer data responsibly to grow their business,” Connecticut business association CBIA warned Friday.
An Arkansas comprehensive privacy bill (SB-258) failed again to get enough votes to pass the Senate on Thursday.