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6 days ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Kara Thompson
SB-690 is making its way through the state legislature. It would eliminate wiretapping, pen register and trap-and-trace liabilities from online tracking technologies used for business. The California Senate could vote soon on the bill. A legislative committee cleared it for a floor vote on a 6-0 tally last week (see 2505230062).
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1 week ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Karl Herchenroeder
Polis, who publicly backed a federal moratorium on state enforcement of AI laws, has said AI will be part of the conversation if the legislature returns for a special session. He has expressed interest in delaying the law’s implementation date. Polis called special sessions in 2020, 2023 and 2024. Tech groups are pushing hard for a special session this fall. Special sessions typically last three to four days.
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1 week ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender
“Today marks a gigantic step in protecting our kids,” said Pillen in a news release Friday. The governor added that LB-504 and a few other child safety bills he recently signed (see 2505210009) “provide parents with the tools they need to protect our kids from big tech online companies and predators.”“We’re not going to wait for social media companies to do that anymore,” agreed LB-504 sponsor Carolyn Bosn (R).
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1 week ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Karl Herchenroeder
The measure, which the Louisiana House unanimously passed May 12 (see 2505130015), mirrors laws in Texas (see 2505270048) and Utah (see 2503270047). The concept is dividing members of tech associations, with Apple and Google representing the two largest app stores. Both companies filed in opposition to HB-570 but didn’t send company representatives to testify at Wednesday's hearing. ACT | The App Association, largely funded by Apple, testified in opposition.
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1 week ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender
Gov. Phil Scott (R) is expected to let the bill become law without signing it, Rep. Monique Priestley (D) said after it passed. S-69 is the Senate version of a House bill written by Priestley. Scott will have five days from the date that the legislature sends him the measure to sign or veto it, or it becomes law without his signature. Last year, Scott vetoed a broader privacy bill that included a proposed kids code as one piece. The governor didn’t comment Thursday.
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1 week ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Karl Herchenroeder
HB-570, which the Louisiana House unanimously passed May 12 (see 2505130015), mirrors a law Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed Monday (see 2505270048). Utah became the first state to enact an app store age-verification law in March (see 2503270047). X supports HB-570 and urged federal lawmakers to pass app store age-verification legislation. CEO Linda Yaccarino said she hopes to see Louisiana and other states following Texas’ example. Meta also supports the legislation. HB-570 author Rep.
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1 week ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender
Priestley's privacy legislation got further in 2024. Last year, her comprehensive privacy bill passed the legislature, but Gov. Phil Scott (R) vetoed it due to its outlier private right of action and other concerns. At Wednesday's meeting, Priestley said stakeholders continue to disagree on enforcement and data minimization language, especially. The state lawmaker is “trying to work on data-minimization changes in coordination” with other New England states, she told the committee.
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1 week ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender
|StatesCalifornia appropriators greenlit a plethora of privacy bills at Friday meetings. Assembly and Senate panels ticked through a laundry list of “suspense file” bills, including on age assurance, automated decisions, reproductive health, workplace surveillance and revisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The approved bills could get floor votes next. A location privacy bill won’t go anywhere, however.
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2 weeks ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Adam Bender
Under the original bill’s data-minimization requirement, which effectively copied text from the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act, a controller must limit “the collection of personal data to what is reasonably necessary and proportionate to provide or maintain a specific product or service requested by the consumer to whom the data pertains.” The amendment would add to that sentence: “including any routine administrative, operational, website, or account-servicing activity that is consistent...
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2 weeks ago | 
privacy-daily.com | Karl Herchenroeder |Monty Tayloe
Slaughter and Bedoya in March sued Trump, Ferguson and the FTC over their “illegal” firings, citing protections established by the high court’s unanimous 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor (see 2503270056). SCOTUS issued an order Thursday granting the administration’s request for a stay of two district court decisions enjoining Trump from firing members of the National Labor Relations Board and a Merit Systems Protection Board employee.