Washington State’s My Health, My Data Act (ESHB 1155) has Senate approval and has been sent to the House with some amendments. Pending that approval, it will go to the governor to sign. The bill is important because it is enforceable under the Washington Consumer Protection Act and Attorney General and would allow citizens to access, delete, and withdraw consent from the collection, sharing, or selling of their health data and allow private right of action for injunction, recovery of damages and attorney fees.

TikTok which has been raising alarms in many countries over its data handling has just been fined £12.7 million by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Charges include that they allowed millions of underage UK children to use their platform without parental or caregiver consent, and that they failed to properly protect children’s data.