This year’s Pennsylvania comprehensive privacy bill might have a shot of becoming law despite a similar bill’s failure last year, Fisher Phillips lawyers blogged Monday.
A Pennsylvania bill meant to stop inappropriate data-driven pricing surfaced this week with 15 Democratic House sponsors. Rep. Danilo Burgos (D) introduced HB-1942 on Thursday and the House referred it to the Consumer Protection Committee.
A Massachusetts bill about employers’ use of electronic monitoring and automated decisions advanced in the state Senate this week. The Internet Committee approved and sent S-35 to the Ways and Means Committee on Thursday. The panel also cleared a social media accountability bill (see 2510160046).
New York should catch up with many other states and enact comprehensive privacy legislation, officials from the state attorney general’s office told a joint hearing of the Assembly Consumer Affairs and Science committees recorded Tuesday.
This year’s updates to Connecticut and Montana privacy laws “signal that consumer privacy regimes continue to evolve and remain a significant -- and often bipartisan -- priority at the state level,” Cooley privacy attorneys blogged Wednesday.
The Future Caucus on Wednesday announced the full roster for its bipartisan state AI policy task force.
Massachusetts would create a social media transparency and accountability office under a bill advanced Thursday by the Senate Internet Committee. S-51 will go next to Senate Ways and Means.
Employers won’t face a new set of California requirements on automated decision systems. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed SB-7, which would have added employer ADS rules on top of recent regulations about automated decision-making technology by the California Privacy Protection Agency and the California Civil Rights Council (see 2509240045).
Parents will have restored access to their children’s electronic medical information under an agreement with medical provider Austin Diagnostic Clinic (ADC), Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced Friday.
With advancements in AI and wearable technology, privacy concerns about reproductive health data are “at a pivotal intersection of federal and state regulations,” said Troutman lawyers in a blog post. As such, companies with a connection to health care, no matter how tenuous, should assess their data processes and collection policies, they added.