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).
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.