Adam Bender

2 weeks ago | privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender

Negative privacy implications of the 23andMe bankruptcy have been “all over the media,” while attorneys general in many states have issued calls for people to delete their 23andMe data, said France Bélanger, Virginia Tech professor. Bélanger co-hosts the university’s Voices for Privacy podcast with Donna Wertalik, another professor who spoke on the same Osano panel. The 23andMe incident "really made people think, and a lot of people didn't realize that it wasn't just their data,” said Bélanger.

2 weeks ago | privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender

Massachusetts legislators are seeking consensus on eight comprehensive privacy bills introduced this year in the House and Senate, two senators told us last month (see 2503170036). The committee heard testimony Wednesday on those bills plus narrower privacy measures on children (H-98), location (H-86, S-197), biometric and neural data (S-36, S-43, H-96 and H-103), security breaches (H-93, S-39) and surveillance pricing (H-99, S-47).

2 weeks ago | privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender

|StatesAssemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D) doesn’t believe tech industry opposition can stop his bill to set civil penalties for big social media platforms that breach their “responsibility of ordinary care and skill” to children under 18, he said at an Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. Also, Lowenthal disagreed with concerns that AB-2, moving in the Assembly after a court blocked California’s age-appropriate design code (see 2503140063), could lead to more litigation.

2 weeks ago | privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender

The New Hampshire Data Privacy Act (NHDPA) took effect about three months ago. If HB-195 were to become law, some organizations would be barred from disclosing personal information without opt-in consent. That’s unlike current law under the NHDPA, which requires opt-out consent except for sensitive data. Last year, the House also passed a bill like HB-195, but it stalled in the Senate. Bill sponsor Rep.

2 weeks ago | privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender

The U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas ruled March 31 that an Arkansas social media safety law was unconstitutional (see 2504010044). Two days later, on April 2, Arkansas Sen. Tyler Dees (R) filed SB-611 on behalf of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) to amend the law and SB-612 to create a private right of action against social media companies. One day later, the Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee approved SB-611. Then on Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee cleared SB-612 in a voice vote.