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Connecticut Senate advances major update to state data-privacy law with new protections for children and data-broker registry
Summary
After a daylong debate lawmakers voted to adopt a strike-all amendment and pass Senate Bill 1356, which expands children''s protections online, lowers the business threshold to 35,000 Connecticut residents, creates a data-broker registry and tightens several exemptions; sponsors said changes address AG enforcement findings while critics warned about small-business burdens.
Hartford ' Senate lawmakers on May 14 adopted a strike-all amendment and passed a broad rewrite of Connecticut's data-privacy statute aimed at expanding protections for children, tightening exemptions and increasing enforcement tools.
Senator Will Maroney, the bill's lead proponent, said the measure updates a 2022 law after the attorney general's office documented enforcement gaps and changing technology. "We have had some learnings since then, and so this bill attempts to update that," Maroney said as he summarized the amendment, which became the bill on the floor.
Key changes in the Senate'passed measure include: a requirement that social platforms aimed at children host cyberbullying and mental-health resource pages and have written cyberbullying policies; an expanded definition of "sensitive data" to include precise geolocation and financial-account information; a lowered threshold for applicability from 100,000 to 35,000 Connecticut residents (or if the entity sells data or processes sensitive data); a data-broker registration…
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