The House Commerce Committee on Tuesday will mark up budget reconciliation language that would impose a 10-year moratorium blocking states from enforcing AI regulations, Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., announced Friday night.
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.
House Commerce Committee Republicans are “committed to moving” a federal privacy bill “this Congress,” a committee staffer said at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on Thursday.
With Congress strongly divided along partisan lines, a few common issues unite the two parties, including children’s privacy, said lawyers and policy professionals during a panel Tuesday on the new administration at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Public Policy & Legal Summit.
Comprehensive privacy laws in Texas and Kentucky are viewed as “betting favorites” to serve as potential models for a federal privacy law, Texas’ Privacy Enforcement Director Tyler Bridegan said Thursday.
Several Massachusetts lawmakers supported passing privacy legislation Wednesday. However, at a lengthy livestreamed hearing, members of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology said little about how they might coalesce around a plethora of comprehensive and narrower privacy bills that came up for discussion.
House Commerce Committee Republicans will begin meeting in person with offices and stakeholders on drafting comprehensive privacy legislation, a committee staffer told us Monday.
NEW YORK CITY -- State lawmakers are following up on their comprehensive privacy laws with AI legislation that seeks to regulate consequential decisions, said AI and privacy legal experts at a Perrin Conferences event Wednesday at the New York City Bar Association. Amid general federal inaction, state lawmakers have proposed hundreds of AI bills on a plethora of subjects related to the growing technology, they noted.
Connecticut Sen. James Maroney (D) took the middle ground in a private right of action (PRA) debate between Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) and Mariner Strategies President Andrew Kingman at a Federal Communications Bar Association New England event Tuesday. The panelists agreed that a national comprehensive privacy law is unlikely soon.
The FTC will update its children’s privacy rules in “some form” that complies with President Donald Trump’s regulatory agenda, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told us Tuesday.