Bluesky will comply with kids online safety laws in Wyoming and South Dakota, unlike in Mississippi, the social media platform said Wednesday. “Bluesky will remain available to users in these states, and we will not need to restrict the app for everyone.”
California state senators unanimously supported a bill Tuesday on social media account deletions, which, due to a Senate amendment, also requires platforms to treat such cancellations as California Consumer Privacy Act requests to delete users’ personal information (see 2509050003). The Senate voted 39-0 to pass AB-656. The Assembly next must concur with the Senate's changes to the bill.
A California bill to require web browser support for universal opt-out preference signals appeared to have enough votes to pass the Senate at our deadline Wednesday.
A frontier AI models bill by California Sen. Scott Wiener (R) “has plenty of time to get a final vote and get sent to the Governor by the Friday night deadline,” a Wiener spokesperson emailed Privacy Daily on Tuesday.
Massachusetts should pass legislation protecting privacy of individuals’ social care information, said an official from FindHelp, a social care data software company, at a livestreamed Joint Consumer Protection Committee hearing Monday.
Maryland’s attorney general could make privacy rules despite lacking direct rulemaking authority from the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), WilmerHale’s Samuel Kane said Thursday during a webinar by Privado, a compliance vendor. That could tighten requirements under the state's comprehensive privacy law taking effect next month, the privacy attorney said. Meanwhile, MODPA is set to break ground for state privacy laws due to its unique data minimization provision, but companies can prepare now by more closely documenting how they use data, Kane said.
Workers won’t get a right to appeal automated decisions under an amended version of a California bill (SB-7) regulating employers’ use of automated decision systems (ADS). The Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced the legislation to the floor Friday despite Republican objections (see 2508290005).
California legislators’ refusal to advance a California location privacy bill disappointed Consumer Reports, said the group’s policy analyst, Matt Schwartz, in a statement. On Friday, the Senate Appropriations Committee effectively delayed the bill (AB-322) to next year (see 2508290005).
Only grocery stores need to worry about a California bill on so-called “surveillance pricing” after legislators amended AB-446 on Friday. The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced the amended bill to the floor that day (see 2508290005).
Colorado's AI Act won’t take effect until June 30, 2026. Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed SB-4 into law on Thursday after previously applauding legislators for trying to make changes to the measure in a special session (see 2508270009).