Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) pressed her case for including a private right of action (PRA) in a proposed comprehensive state privacy law (S-71) at a Senate Institutions Committee hearing livestreamed Tuesday. However, a Republican committee member and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce pushed back against allowing individuals to sue. The Chamber witnesses urged lawmakers to instead pass a rival bill (S-93) to more closely align Vermont with privacy laws in other New England states.
The FTC asked an Idaho court Friday to deny data broker Kochava’s request for a jury trial and strike its affirmative defenses in a case alleging that the company's data sales are unfair acts or practices likely to cause substantial injury to consumers in violation of Section 5(a) of the FTC Act.
Two law firms alerted clients to increased data broker oversight by California in blog posts last week.
California DOJ will scrutinize the location data industry for possible California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) violations, Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Monday. The AG cited concerns about what the federal government could do with location information as he announced the investigative sweep.
California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) board members voted 5-0 at their Friday meeting to advance draft rules about data deletion to a formal rulemaking.
Several people spoke out about how the California Privacy Protection Agency's draft rule changes to the data broker registration regime (see 2503050020) will affect small businesses, during the CPPA’s public meeting Friday. Ahead of the meeting, the agency released draft rule changes that support the state’s upcoming data-deletion mechanism (see 2502270066).
The General Data Protection Regulation shouldn't become a tiered, risk-based entity, though the European Commission should have more centralized power to enforce it, Charly Helleputte, Squire Patton Boggs EU data privacy attorney, emailed. His comments responded to Axel Voss' recent tiered GDPR proposal. Voss is a German Member of the European Parliament from the European People's Party Group. He discussed his proposal during a March 3-4 Centre for European Policy Studies Ideas Lab panel.
Maryland lawmakers will narrow definitions in a data broker tax proposal so the bill targets hundreds, not thousands, of businesses, Sen. Katie Hester (D) said Wednesday (see 2502250042).
Privacy experts said they’re closely watching how a direct relationship is defined in California Privacy Protection Agency draft rules for the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP), an upcoming data deletion mechanism required by the California Delete Act. The CPPA last week posted draft rule changes to data broker registration rules (see 2502270066). The board is scheduled to weigh the draft and get a DROP update from staff at its meeting Friday.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed data broker rule exceeds the CFPB's authority under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), tech and open finance groups told the agency in comments this week (see 2503030069).