Florida Enacts the Digital Bill of Rights, Joining the Growing Privacy Landscape | White & Case LLP
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed Senate Bill 262 into law, adopting the "Digital Bill of Rights" proposed by his office in February. Florida joins the rapidly increasing group of states, California, Utah, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, and Texas (together, "US State Data Privacy Laws") with comprehensive data privacy laws. The Florida Digital Bill of Rights ("FDBR") is set to take effect on July 1, 2024.

But note from the article that Florida’s law is almost useless due to being exteremly narrow in the scope of who must comply. It only applies to tech giants, generally. E.g., generally must “Derive 50 percent of its global gross annual revenue from the sale of advertisements online”. That gets a lot of data abusers off the hook. It is said to be modeled after Virginia.

This Florida rule might be interesting:

Mandatory Disclosures for Search Engines. The FDBR requires search engines to provide easily accessible descriptions of the main parameters used to determine the rankings of search results, “including the prioritization or deprioritization of political partisanship or political ideology in search results.” In addition, search engines must disclose the relative importance and influence of the main parameters on the search results.

So I wonder if you VPN tunnel to Florida to perform a search, how many search engines give this info which they perhaps withhold outside FL?