Vermont's attempt at copying New Jersey's Daniel’s Law has faced much deliberation in the legislature over the measure's private right of action. Bill sponsor Rep. Monique Priestly (D) has tried to counter that by increasing the cure period and allowing state attorney general enforcement, she said during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Wednesday.
A Virginia reproductive data privacy law taking effect July 1 covers many companies, poses significant compliance challenges and contains a private right of action, privacy attorneys warned last week. In addition, while many believe Virginia has one of the more business-friendly comprehensive privacy laws, the purple state’s narrower new law requires a higher consent standard than blue Washington state’s My Health My Data Act (MHMDA), they said.
Texas will excise the private right of action from its app store age-verification bill, Rep. Caroline Fairly (R) told the House Trade Committee on Tuesday evening.
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.
A Democrat and a Republican testified together at a hearing Tuesday in support of an opt-in bill meant to enhance New Hampshire’s comprehensive privacy law. The state’s Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on HB-195, which passed the House on a bipartisan basis March 26 despite industry arguments that supplementing the state’s comprehensive privacy law is unnecessary (see 2503270021). The committee also considered a House-passed government privacy bill (HB-522).
Two social media safety bills are advancing in the Arkansas legislature after a court recently blocked the state’s 2023 age-verification law. Meanwhile, as many states consider age-verification bills aimed at protecting kids’ privacy online (see 2503060022), a social media age-assurance bill passed Montana's House Friday.
House Commerce Committee Republicans will begin meeting in person with offices and stakeholders on drafting comprehensive privacy legislation, a committee staffer told us Monday.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken up a challenge to New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law, which plaintiffs say is a violation of the First Amendment. The 3rd Circuit’s review of such a law is unusual and will impact other states that attempt to model it, but might also serve as an opportunity to review the statute and tighten it, said privacy lawyers.
Businesses covered by a recently signed Virginia reproductive health privacy bill “will need to implement substantially the same compliance measures in Virginia that they have put in place in Washington State to comply with the My Health, My Data Act,” Hintze privacy lawyers blogged Wednesday.
Congress should craft and approve a federal privacy law, which can then be used to address online harms to children, Family Online Safety Institute CEO Stephen Balkam said Wednesday at a Broadband Breakfast event.