Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) will introduce three privacy bills this week, the lawmaker said Tuesday.
A significant proposed edit to the Maryland privacy law’s data minimization rule would be “a huge boon to the companies that already exploit our data,” Eric Null, Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) privacy & data project co-director, said Monday. However, Keir Lamont, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) senior director-U.S. legislation, said the bill would bring clarity only for businesses that don’t handle sensitive data.
A bipartisan group of Georgia senators Wednesday introduced a comprehensive privacy bill in the mold of most other state privacy laws besides California.
A privacy expert who worked on Maryland's age-appropriate design code (AADC) said she hopes it can better withstand legal challenges than the California version of the law.
Oklahoma Rep. Josh West (R) said he won't bring his comprehensive privacy bill to the floor this year, despite the House Government Modernization and Technology Subcommittee clearing it at a Wednesday meeting. The panel also cleared an age-verification bill.
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.