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General Law Committee advances broad consumer-privacy bill to the floor
Summary
The General Law Committee voted to send Senate Bill 4 to the floor after lengthy debate over a one-stop delete mechanism for data brokers, tariff disclosures for vehicles, limits on algorithmic pricing and tighter rules on facial recognition and license-plate readers; members asked for clarification on fees, implementation and exemptions.
Senate Bill 4, a multipart consumer-privacy measure, cleared the General Law Committee on a motion to send the bill to the floor, after members debated how the statute would be implemented and how much it would cost state agencies and businesses.
Sponsor overviewed the measure as a package that creates a data-broker registry with a one-stop delete mechanism patterned after California, requires an estimate on how much of a vehicle’s price is attributable to tariffs, narrows the scope of algorithmic-pricing disclosures (only when algorithms raise prices), bans sale of geolocation data…
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