Vermont’s take on Daniel’s Law of New Jersey passed the state House with a private right of action (PRA) intact Friday, despite reservations by some members about that enforcement provision allowing individuals to sue.

Until recently, there was no real political appetite to reopen the General Data Protection Regulation, though it was becoming increasingly necessary to align GDPR with other data-related EU laws such as the Data Act and to streamline it, Linklaters IT, data and cyber attorney Tanguy Van Overstraeten said in an interview Friday.

Regulation of AI tools and systems is all based on the same data governance principles used in privacy law, and it’s important for this regulation to be tackled collaboratively on a state level, said a Texas legislator and privacy and emerging tech experts during a regulatory panel at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) AI and Technology for Marketers Conference Friday.