A New Mexico privacy bill would target websites that collect personal data from consumers for targeted advertising of data brokering. Rep. Pamelya Herndon (D) introduced the Internet Privacy & Safety Act (HB-307) on Wednesday.
Nebraska should avoid passing AI legislation with onerous reporting requirements and overly broad definitions, industry groups told the state's Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing Thursday.
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A Washington state House chair strongly supported letting individuals sue companies in comprehensive privacy legislation despite concerns that state and national industry groups raised about possibly making Washington the only state with that type of enforcement mechanism. At a livestreamed hearing Tuesday, the House Technology Committee heard support from consumer advocates and opposition from industry about HB-1671, a measure Rep. Shelley Kloba (D) introduced. Kloba hopes the bill can be scheduled for a committee vote next week, her office said after the hearing.
Following months of discussion about revising Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI discrimination law, a legislative task force recommended more meetings in a report released Monday.
The Wyoming Senate received a bill requiring age verification Friday after the House approved it a day earlier.
AI legislation drawing opposition because of its private right of action and potential conflicts with federal privacy law passed a New Mexico House committee Thursday.
A Washington state privacy bill with a private right of action is scheduled for a first hearing on Feb. 4 at 10:30 a.m. PT in the House Technology Committee. Rep. Shelley Kloba (D) introduced HB-1671 on Tuesday.
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).