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.
Due to “devastating wildfires” across the state, the California Privacy Protection Agency added a hearing and extended comment deadlines by a month in its rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and other changes to privacy regulations, the CPPA said in a notice Friday.
"With the passage of time and the exponential growth of generative AI,” it’s time to update Virginia’s 2021 privacy law “to keep pace with current technological advances,” Del. Michelle Maldonado (D) said in an emailed statement Friday.
Signaling a possible trend, an increasing number of state legislators are filing AI discrimination bills. Similar to Colorado's nation-first AI law, the bills focus on preventing businesses from discriminating by using AI algorithms.
Two bills regarding how data and security breaches should be handled surfaced Thursday in the New York State Assembly. The Assembly referred both to Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee.
Lawmakers in Montana and New York are seeking to enhance student privacy through bills filed this week. The New York measure would also set rules for employers.
A private right of action appeared in a New York state health privacy bill introduced Thursday. Another lawmaker introduced a biometric privacy bill enforced by the state AG.
Virginia would establish a Division of Emerging Technologies, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy within the state’s Department of Law, under a bill that Del. Bonita Anthony (D) proposed this week.
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.