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.
Many companies may ignore opt-out requests submitted through universal opt-out mechanisms under state privacy laws, Consumer Reports and Wesleyan University researchers said in a report released Tuesday.
A revival of a California bill that would require all web browsers and mobile operating systems to provide universal opt-out mechanisms cleared its first test in the state legislature and received bipartisan support. At a late Tuesday hearing, the California Assembly Privacy Committee voted 9-0 to advance AB-566 to the Appropriations Committee.
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