Conn. Senate Unanimously Passes Privacy Bill

Connecticut’s comprehensive privacy bill got a 35-0 bipartisan vote in the Senate and will go to the House. Democratic and Republican state senators praised the amended SB-6, modeled after Colorado’s privacy law, on the floor Wednesday (see 2204200070). "There is a crisis of privacy that we must overcome," said Senate President Bob Duff (D). The amended bill would apply to companies that possess personal data of 100,000 Connecticut residents in the previous calendar year, up from 65,000 in a previous version, or 25,000 residents if more than 25% of revenue comes from processing that data. Under other changes, controllers would no longer have to authenticate opt-out requests and children-specific protections would apply to 13-to-16-year-old teens, which is narrower than ages 13 to 18 in the previous version. In Maine, biometric privacy bill LD-1945 died amid disagreement between chambers.