With a fight brewing over the future of Colorado AI regulation, Gov. Jared Polis (D) sees “clear motivation in the legislature” to craft a balanced policy, he said in an emailed statement prior to the special session starting Thursday. Colorado lawmakers plan to weigh four proposals to amend or repeal the state’s comprehensive AI law. Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez (D) and Rep. Brianna Titone (D), who co-authored the Colorado AI Act, rallied support for their proposed “Colorado AI Sunshine Act” at a livestreamed press conference Wednesday.

Some state lawmakers are looking to pass legislation regulating the data broker industry in the wake of the shooting deaths last month of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband and the attempted killing of John Hoffman (D), a Minnesota senator, and his wife.

Paramount Global has agreed to a settlement in President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS over its editing of a 60 Minutes interview last October with former Vice President Kamala Harris during the election, the company said.

The Media Bureau has approved Sinclair’s sale of five stations to Rincon Broadcasting and waived a limit on common ownership of top-four stations in the same market, said an order Tuesday. The bureau also rejected a petition to deny the deal from recently formed public interest group Frequency Forward (see 2504150056). The group’s “allegations concerning Sinclair’s character qualifications have repeatedly been considered and rejected,” the order said.

While immigrants seem to be the current target of mass-data collection, the federal government's collection of massive amounts of personal information has implications for other populations, including those who speak out against Washington, panelists said during a webinar Wednesday hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights & Technology.

Amendments to Connecticut’s privacy law passed the legislature on Tuesday as part of a different bill that included other subjects. Changes to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act would take effect July 1, 2026, if the bill is signed by Gov. Ned Lamont (D).

President Donald Trump’s recent firings at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board were illegal based on congressional intent and the Constitution, a federal judge ruled Wednesday (see 2502250052).

While the U.S. House this week moved ahead with a plan for a 10-year moratorium on AI laws, the Connecticut Senate supported a bill that would establish AI requirements. However, in the first state to enact an AI law, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) supported federal preemption.

Google's nearly $1.4 billion settlement with Texas solidifies the state's status as an aggressive privacy enforcer, lawyers and consumer privacy advocates said Monday. Texas announced the settlement Friday in a case involving Google's allegedly unlawful tracking and collection of users' personal information, including geolocation and biometric data (see 2505090071).

Public interest groups defended the FCC’s July order implementing the Martha Wright-Reed Act of 2022 (see 2501280053) in briefs filed last week at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The order reduces call rates for people in prisons while establishing interim rate caps for video calls (see 2407180039). Parts of the order were challenged by Securus and Pay Tel, which provide incarcerated people’s communication services (IPCS), as well as by state and law enforcement interests led by the National Sheriffs’ Association (see 2502140049). Briefs were posted last week in 24-8028.