Privacy and AI-focused state lawmakers will meet with congressional offices next week to discuss legislative priorities, Virginia Del. Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D) told us in an interview Friday. For 2026, she expressed interest in updating Virginia’s comprehensive privacy law and regulating AI chatbots with Democrats now in full control of the legislative and executive branches after Tuesday's election.
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California Privacy Protection Agency legislative staff is closely watching potential preemption efforts on Capitol Hill while developing possible bills to tighten the California Consumer Privacy Act in its home state’s legislature, said an agency official during the CalPrivacy Board’s meeting Friday. The proposed bills would add whistleblower protections, require alternative methods for submitting consumer privacy requests and expand California’s deletion right to cover all personal information collected about a consumer.
The California Privacy Protection Agency is exploring possible rulemakings in the categories of employee data, opt-out preference signals (OOPS), disclosures and notices and reducing friction exercising consumer privacy rights, CalPrivacy staff told the board at its Friday meeting. Unlike with the previous rulemaking package on automated decision-making technology and other subjects, the agency plans to “present more targeted recommendations addressing only one or two policy issues at a time,” said General Counsel Philip Laird.
Nearly 75% of health care employees are shadow using AI, resulting in more than 80% of data policy infractions, a panelist said during the Health Care Compliance Association event Wednesday. Accordingly, providers should directly address the issue with staff immediately and implement measures that make employees' AI tools less of a privacy risk.
Focusing on trends can be a helpful way for health care companies to anticipate coming privacy laws and future compliance needs, said Kyle Rene, Whiteford Taylor lawyer, at a Health Care Compliance Association event Wednesday.
CHICAGO -- Keeping up with compliance is critical as the field of privacy evolves, in-house lawyers at two companies told the Association of National Advertisers ad law conference this week.
French DPA CNIL is taking part in an initiative to assess the impact of AI on the role of data protection officers (DPOs), it announced Wednesday.
Mikie Sherrill (D) won Tuesday's gubernatorial race in New Jersey after campaigning on issues including data privacy and online protections for children.
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A bill that would ban AI chatbots for minors and require age verification received a show of support from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other senators in interviews Tuesday.