On Wednesday, the Washington Senate Ways & Means Committee held a public hearing on the Washington Privacy Act (SB 5376). This was the second time the bill had come before a committee for a public hearing, after previously enjoying support from Microsoft General Counsel Julie Brill, during an earlier public hearing in front of the Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Committee. Comments from the speakers at the Ways & Means Committee hearing varied from proposals for clarifying amendments to opposition of specific provisions to support for the “strongest privacy protections of any law in the U.S.” The hearing featured several public commenters who generally expressed support for the goals of the bill. In this Privacy Tracker post, IAPP Westin Fellow Mitchell Noordyke, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, followed along with Wednesday's hearing to gauge support for the bill and where there still may be concerns for it going forward. 
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