A government privacy bill in New Hampshire is dead. The legislature updated the status of HB-522 Thursday to “BILL KILLED” after the Senate Judiciary Committee placed the legislation on the execution stand a week prior. A proposed supplement to New Hampshire’s comprehensive privacy law also recently died (see 2505020036).
Incorporating children's and teen safety into privacy has led to a variety of approaches under state law, said two Latham Watkins attorneys on a panel at the Privacy + Security Forum spring academy Friday. An age-gate is the best way for companies to ensure compliance with all of them, they added.
Employing reasonable practices and security measures can help companies comply with the multitude of state privacy laws, said HP and Maryland attorneys during a panel at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy on Thursday.
An Oregon Senate panel Tuesday cleared a House-passed bill requiring carmakers to follow state privacy laws concerning collecting and using drivers' personal data (see 2504140015). Without objection, the Senate Labor Committee agreed to send HB-3875 to the floor.
The Colorado legislature agreed Monday to add precise geolocation data to the definition of sensitive data in the state's comprehensive privacy law. Lawmakers passed an immigration bill (SB-276) that would amend the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) to do that and prohibit controllers from selling consumers’ sensitive data without opt-in consent.
Maine should follow “where the puck’s going” on comprehensive privacy laws in the states, said the legislature's joint Judiciary Committee House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) during the panel's hearing Monday. That means adopting a bill, like Kuhn’s LD-1822, based on data minimization rather than notice and consent, she said. However, two alternative Maine privacy bills would follow the approach included in state privacy laws prior to Maryland’s comprehensive law.
The status of legislation to supplement New Hampshire’s comprehensive privacy law is “BILL KILLED,” according to the legislature’s webpage for HB-195. A Senate committee last week decided the bill was “inexpedient to legislate” and added it to a consent calendar so that the Senate could place the final nail in the coffin Thursday (see 2504240034).
A possible Vermont version of Daniel’s Law (H-342) is “not dead, but it is not moving,” state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) said Thursday on Vermont Perspective, a radio show on WDEV. After the show, Priestley told us in a phone interview that another piece of legislation, her comprehensive privacy bill, remains “very much in play.”
The Maine Judiciary Committee’s top Democrats unveiled a comprehensive privacy bill Tuesday that contains data minimization language similar to the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act. Judiciary House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) and Senate Chair Anne Carney (D) introduced LD-1822 with five Democratic colleagues.
A Connecticut bill that updates the state’s comprehensive privacy law took a step closer to passage Friday when it cleared the legislature’s joint Judiciary Committee.