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.
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The increased ties between industry and government have led to more data collection, which has had serious implications for democracy, panelists told a Columbia University Knight First Amendment Institute forum on surveillance and democracy at the National Press Club on Friday.
Businesses must traverse an expanding “minefield of state and international regulations,” said BigID CEO Dimitri Sirota in an interview last month at the IAPP Global Privacy Conference in Washington. The emergence of AI has also created privacy compliance challenges -- but the emerging technology could also make some aspects of the data protection profession more efficient, he said.
Massachusetts senators advanced a comprehensive privacy bill that includes a private right of action and Maryland-like data-minimization requirements. On Monday, the Senate side of the legislature’s joint Advanced Information Technology Committee advanced to the Ways and Means Committee a new draft of the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (S-2516) that replaces bills by the committee’s Senate Chair Michael Moore (D), Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Creem (D) and Sen. William Driscoll (D). Some alternatives remain pending, including legislation by Sen. Barry Finegold (D), his spokesperson told Privacy Daily.
Age-verification tools are not a silver bullet that will protect children and young people on internet sites and social media platforms, speakers said Monday at a session of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance.
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.
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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.