The Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity will hold a virtual hearing Oct. 13 to consider data privacy-related bills. The committee's agenda features at least seven bills proposed by state lawmakers from both chambers that cover data privacy matters, including frameworks for comprehensive state privacy law, biometric privacy and education privacy. Meanwhile, Northeastern University School of Law and College of Computer and Information Science Professor Woodrow Hartzog wrote an op-ed supporting consideration of Bill S.46, the Massachusetts Information Privacy Act.
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