New-for-2025 comprehensive privacy bills appeared in Illinois and Oklahoma this week. In Illinois, state Sen. Sue Rezin's (R) proposed measure seems based on California’s law. The Oklahoma proposal, from Sen. Brent Howard (R), takes a Virginia-style approach. Privacy Daily is tracking comprehensive bills in at least five states.
X's copyright case against a data-scraping company is worth watching closely this year, McCarthy Law Group founder Kieran McCarthy said in a blog post Monday.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) expects bipartisan support for various forthcoming kids’ tech safety bills, including one requiring age verification for social media and implementing an age-appropriate design code. The governor and Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) announced support for those and two other kids’ safety bills at a livestreamed news conference Monday.
Privacy protections might be sidelined during the Trump administration in order to focus on other emerging technology, said Mallory Knodel, founder of the Social Web Foundation, in a Friday piece for TechPolicy.Press.
Virginia lawmakers proposed children-focused bills on healthcare data and social media as the 2025 legislative session opened Wednesday.
Indiana state Sen. Mike Bohacek (R) is cutting “about two-thirds” of a social media bill requiring age verification to address concerns with the measure (SB-11), he said at a Senate Judiciary hearing Wednesday evening.
New York state legislators opened their 2025 session Wednesday, introducing comprehensive and healthcare-focused privacy bills, among other measures related to consumer data. Assemblymember Nily Rozic (D) offered the 2025 version of the New York Privacy Act. However, some of it is "not aligned with other comprehensive privacy laws,” which could make compliance a challenge for businesses, warned Hinshaw & Culbertson privacy attorney Cathy Mulrow-Peattie in an email Wednesday.
A reintroduced Connecticut AI bill aims to build on the state’s 2022 comprehensive privacy law, state Sen. James Maroney (D), the privacy law’s author, said in an interview. Maroney’s second attempt at establishing AI requirements will be a priority bill for majority Democrats in the Connecticut Senate next year, Maroney, Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney and Majority Leader Bob Duff said in a joint announcement last month.
An early January surge of kids’ bills requiring age verification and parental consent continued this week, with legislation surfacing in Virginia and New Mexico. In addition, similar bills have appeared in South Dakota and Wyoming (see 2501060008).
The U.S. District Court of Tennessee will hold a telephone status conference on Wednesday to discuss the status of a state age-verification law that took effect Jan. 1, said Judge William Campbell.