One of Maine’s two competing comprehensive privacy bills failed to clear the Joint Judiciary Committee during a work session Friday while the other bill was passed as amended.
The Oregon House could soon vote on a Senate-passed bill that would create a new crime for unlawfully disclosing private data. The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 6-1 to advance SB-1121, which would add a right to cure to the state’s comprehensive privacy law for public broadcasters.
Vermont’s comprehensive privacy bill won’t pass the legislature in 2025, the second year in a row that sweeping legislation by Rep. Monique Priestley (D) has failed to become law. At a livestreamed House Commerce Committee meeting Wednesday, Priestley said legislators “ran out of time” to finish the bill this session, particularly with more pressing housing and education measure before the legislature. However, to tee up summer talks about privacy, Priestley said she plans to post an amendment restoring the Senate bill to the original House version, with some changes.
Long-awaited draft rules to implement New Jersey's comprehensive privacy law surfaced Wednesday. Comments are due Aug. 1, said the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs document, which is expected to be published in the New Jersey Register on Monday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday signed a law requiring app stores to verify users’ ages (see 2505210015). SB-2420 mandates that app stores obtain parental consent before a minor can download an app.
California appropriators greenlit a plethora of privacy bills at Friday meetings. Assembly and Senate panels ticked through a laundry list of “suspense file” bills, including on age assurance, automated decisions, reproductive health, workplace surveillance and revisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The approved bills could get floor votes next.
Delaying the Maine privacy bill’s effective date gives the state an “escape hatch if things go awry in Maryland,” said House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) at a Maine Judiciary Committee meeting Friday. The panel weighed an amendment to Kuhn’s comprehensive measure (LD-1822), which features a data-minimization standard similar to the one in the Maryland privacy law. Also, members narrowed to two, from three, the number of comprehensive privacy bills pending before the committee.
A substantive amendment to a Maine privacy bill would color in what data is allowed to be collected under its Maryland-like data minimization requirement. House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) on Thursday released the proposed amendment to her LD-1822, which also moves back the bill’s effective date, addresses mergers and bankruptcies, and makes many wording changes. The joint Judiciary Committee plans to consider the draft amendment at a work session Friday.
Increased FTC enforcement and expanding state regulatory requirements mean it's crucial that advertisers ensure their consumer health data activity complies with consumer privacy laws, said panelists during a Wiley health advertising webinar Tuesday.
Reducing the number of exemptions in states’ comprehensive privacy laws, “particularly where they may seem arbitrary and carve out protections for large industries, may serve as low-hanging fruit for regulators,” said University of California-Los Angeles law students Nicola Haubold and J.Y. Khoo in a Monday op-ed for TechPolicy.press.