The NAIC’s Privacy Protections (H) Working Group met over the weekend as part of the NAIC’s Summer National Meeting. The working group announced that later in the year it will seek an extension on its efforts to create a unified privacy model act (#674) which will likely push back final adoption into sometime next year. Multiple states have publicly announced that they will not support the current proposed Version 1.2, and at least one state referred to it as fundamentally flawed. The opposed states do not want to move forward with the current version. The Chair announced that the working group will continue to receive public comments while it digests comments previously received and continues the direct one-on-one outreach to companies and trades.

Since the NAIC Spring National Meeting in late March, the Privacy Protections (H) Working Group has continued its work to draft a new unitary privacy model. Over April, the Working Group met one-on-one with industry and interested parties. Since then, the Working Group met twice to receive public comments on discrete topics. The Working Group will ratchet up that level of activity with two full days of in-person public drafting sessions, starting this week. The Working Group plans to circulate a new full draft by the end of the month followed by three more meetings to receive public comments before the Summer National Meeting in August.