A California bill restricting how employers use workplace surveillance tools would go beyond laws in other states, cautioned Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced Wednesday that the state sued General Motors (GM) for selling data collected through its subsidiary OnStar to third parties, who later sold it to insurance companies.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) on Tuesday released its first annual report, offering an overview of what it has accomplished since voters established it in November 2020.
New York state's attorney general will likely play a more prominent role in privacy and cybersecurity oversight in 2025, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Recently fired Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board members Travis LeBlanc and Ed Felten should be reinstated because President Donald Trump removed them without “good cause,” attorneys argued in a lawsuit filed Monday.
It’s unclear if fired Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be reinstated, but recent legal success against the Trump administration is encouraging, newly dismissed PCLOB member Travis LeBlanc said Friday (see 2502110062).
States play a unique role in preserving constitutional order and won't shy from fighting alleged privacy violations by President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D) during a press conference Friday ahead of a scheduled oral argument.
Perhaps New Mexico shouldn’t go beyond other states' privacy laws, legislators on the House Commerce Committee said during a livestreamed hearing Wednesday. However, an American Civil Liberties official encouraged New Mexico lawmakers to lead the way with HB-307, an opt-in privacy bill containing a private right of action, strict data minimization requirements and kids’ design code rules (see 2502060058).
The federal government’s failure to act on children and teens’ online safety and privacy was called out in a Thursday hearing in Washington state's Senate Business Committee. Supporters of a bipartisan bill to protect minors online said that job is now up to the states.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with a coalition of privacy defenders including Lex Lumina, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk, among others, over alleged violations of the Privacy Act of 1974.