Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced bicameral legislation that would set data-minimization standards for the collection and sharing of personal reproductive and sexual health data.
The New York Senate voted in support of a bill regulating high-risk AI with enforcement from the attorney general and through a private right of action.
The California Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at protecting reproductive health privacy, including through a private right of action. The bill, which appropriators recently cleared (see 2505230062), now moves to the Senate.
Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) posted a new version of her comprehensive privacy bill Friday. However, the legislature doesn’t plan to advance it until next year, following summer talks (see 2505280021).
A bill aimed at amending the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) may decrease the number of lawsuits if it's passed, but plaintiffs’ attorneys could simply find other avenues to bring claims, privacy lawyers who often represent defendants in such cases said.
An app store age-verification bill under consideration in Louisiana drew heated discussion from the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday.
Vermont’s comprehensive privacy bill won’t pass the legislature in 2025, the second year in a row that sweeping legislation by Rep. Monique Priestley (D) has failed to become law. At a livestreamed House Commerce Committee meeting Wednesday, Priestley said legislators “ran out of time” to finish the bill this session, particularly with more pressing housing and education measure before the legislature. However, to tee up summer talks about privacy, Priestley said she plans to post an amendment restoring the Senate bill to the original House version, with some changes.
A substantive amendment to a Maine privacy bill would color in what data is allowed to be collected under its Maryland-like data minimization requirement. House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) on Thursday released the proposed amendment to her LD-1822, which also moves back the bill’s effective date, addresses mergers and bankruptcies, and makes many wording changes. The joint Judiciary Committee plans to consider the draft amendment at a work session Friday.
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The Maine Legislature’s joint Judiciary Committee will probably meet at least once more to continue discussing the content of a possible comprehensive state privacy law, House Chair Amy Kuhn (D) said before the committee began delving into differences between three rival proposals during a work session Wednesday. While referring to a side-by-side comparison at a livestreamed work session, the panel zeroed in on a key choice between taking a data-minimization or consent-based approach to privacy. Some members questioned not including a private right of action.