{"id":9298,"date":"2025-04-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9298"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T17:31:09","slug":"data-privacy-bill-hearing-this-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/data-privacy-bill-hearing-this-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Privacy Bill Hearing This Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity will hold a hybrid public hearing on bills related to data use, data privacy and cybersecurity. The <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Events\/Hearings\/Detail\/5114\">hearing is on Wednesday, April 9th from 1 to 5pm<\/a>. It will be in-person and remote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At our previous member meeting we voted to support the&nbsp;Location Shield Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/H86\">H.86<\/a>&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/194\/S197\">S.197<\/a>). This bill is part of Wednesday&#8217;s hearing. We supported it in the previous session, as well. The committee is considering a number of privacy bills at this hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We encourage you to testify at the hearing.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=a36UCyb_E0uuHFc8Z1DIiJV6Ah7kZLlHg4MWBo6r9PNUNDQ4R1ZQNjg2Q09EWEVKRjA4Q0dZQzBVVC4u\">You can sign up with this form<\/a>.&nbsp;If you wish to testify virtually, you must sign up no later than 5pm on Monday, April 7th.&nbsp;Oral testimony is limited to 3 minutes, but longer statements will be accepted by written testimony until Monday, April 14th at 5pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written testimony may be submitted to the Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet, and Cybersecurity by emailing House Chair Tricia Farley-Bouvier at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Tricia.Farley-Bouvier@mahouse.gov\">Tricia.Farley-Bouvier@mahouse.gov<\/a>&nbsp;and Senate Chair Michael Moore at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Michael.Moore@masenate.gov\">Michael.Moore@masenate.gov<\/a>. The committee requests that your email have the subject line \u201c<em>AITIC Written Testimony (Bill #)\u201d.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;The committee will accept&nbsp;written testimony until Monday, April 14th at 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity will hold a hybrid public hearing on bills related to data use, data&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,10,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-privacy","category-take-action"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/StateHouse.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2pY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9299,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions\/9299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}