The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) penned letters to the attorneys general of Florida, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas Tuesday urging them to investigate pregnancy crisis centers (CPCs) who may have misrepresented that the information given to them by patients would be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, said Corynne McSherry, EFF’s legal director, in a blog post Wednesday.
Utah and Arizona bills requiring age verification online advanced in committee votes this week. Many states are mulling legislation this year focused on protecting kids on certain websites (see 2501170053).
Industry and consumer advocates on Wednesday voiced opposition against two kids’ social media bills that the Senate Commerce Committee is planning to take up.
Almost half the states with consumer privacy laws get failing grades for protecting consumer data and none received an “A,” the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Tuesday.
Florida lawmakers are turning their attention to kids’ social media and AI regulation now that the debate over comprehensive privacy is behind them, Rep. Fiona McFarland (R) told us in a recent interview.
The Virginia Senate passed a reproductive health data privacy bill on Friday. Then on Monday, the Virginia House Communications Committee advanced multiple AI and privacy bills. However, legislation that would add a private right of action and make other changes in Virginia’s comprehensive privacy law appeared to stall in a subcommittee.
"A strong data privacy bill must include a private right of action to allow … individuals to bring a lawsuit when they suffer actual damages,” Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) said Monday. At a livestreamed press conference, Clark supported state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) in reintroducing a privacy bill that Gov. Phil Scott (R) vetoed last year. Priestley said the 2025 bill will also include data minimization rules, despite business concerns stemming from Maryland’s law, which includes such requirements.
Legislators in states like Texas, Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts can set the tone for privacy-related AI laws in 2025, stakeholders told the Multistate AI Policymaker Working Group during a public feedback session Monday.
Two broad data privacy bills surfaced in the Mississippi Senate this week. Sen. Bart Williams (R) introduced SB-2500, while Sen. Angela Turner-Ford (D) proposed SB-2779, a much shorter measure, in the Republican-controlled legislature.
New York state health data privacy legislation could soon hit the governor’s desk after the Assembly and Senate quickly passed bills this week. Despite Republican opposition on the Assembly floor Wednesday, members voted 95-41 to pass S-929, the Senate version that was substituted forA-2141. The effectively same bills have been compared to Washington state’s My Health My Data law. The Senate passed S-929 on Tuesday after bypassing its committee process (see 2501210068). Republicans and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) raised concerns with the legislation, which is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).