Fla. Senate Panel Keeps Right to Sue in Privacy Bill

A Florida Senate committee rejected an attempt to remove a private right of action from a comprehensive privacy bill (SB-1734). The committee killed that proposed amendment by Sen. Annette Taddeo (D) in a voice vote at a livestreamed Monday hearing. The committee then cleared the bill. Taddeo said the provision is overbroad; sponsor Sen. Jennifer Bradley (R) said it's critical to enforcement. Companies are making money on consumers’ lack of information about how their data is being used, Bradley said. The bill "pulls the curtain back on that industry” and shifts power back to consumers, she said.