The head of a tech association blamed age-verification mandates for a Discord data breach Sept. 20 that exposed the personal information and some government ID images of its users.
The Department of Labor should withdraw a proposed rule that would force states to share unemployment data because it’s unconstitutional and contradicts state privacy laws, consumer and labor advocates said in recent comments to DOL. Government offices in California, Texas, Nevada, Connecticut and Washington raised questions and concerns about the proposal.
The $1.35 million California enforcement action against Tractor Supply Co. this week raised the bar for privacy compliance, emphasizing that privacy laws and rights extend beyond consumers, privacy lawyers and advocates said in interviews with Privacy Daily. The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) found that the country's largest rural lifestyle retailer violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in several instances, including how it handled candidates for employment (see 2509300010).
The U.K. government has no plans to ban virtual private networks (VPNs) despite a surge in users downloading them to circumvent age verification and estimation rules under the Online Safety Act (OSA), a government spokesperson said.
A comprehensive privacy bill passed the Pennsylvania House with "noteworthy" applicability thresholds and categories of sensitive data, a Philadelphia-based privacy attorney said Thursday. The state House also passed a bill Wednesday that would add a private right of action to the state’s data breach notification law.
Ohio senators on Tuesday weighed whether a bill requiring age verification at the app store level, or one that features age verification by app stores and developers, would better protect kids online.
Democratic state lawmakers around the U.S. want to ban algorithmic pricing, but the “corporate lobby” is killing or watering down proposals, Colorado Rep. Javier Mabrey (D) said Wednesday.
Montana became the third state to regulate neural data as an amendment to the state’s genetic privacy law took effect Wednesday, adding to a trend of states overseeing the neurotechnology space (see 2508180034). On the same day, amendments to Montana’s comprehensive privacy law took effect, expanding its scope and introducing more protections for children.
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The Trump administration’s creation of large government databases consolidating the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans in an attempt to purge voter rolls is unlawful, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), League of Women Voters and others.