Gov. Newsom: Calif. Privacy Agency Authority 'Not Unbounded'
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) cautioned this week that rules regulating automated decision-making technology (ADMT), under consideration at the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), could have unintended consequences, increasing costs and threatening tech innovation in the state.
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The CPPA has an “important task of enforcing our state’s robust consumer privacy protections,” wrote the governor in an April 23 letter to the CPPA. “That charge is critically important, but it is not unbounded and must be exercised responsibly.”
Newsom agreed with the warnings of a bipartisan group of 18 California state legislators on Feb. 19 (see 2502200025). Their “letter persuasively laid out why the Agency’s proposed regulations on [ADMT] overstepped the Agency’s delegated authority to enact regulations related to consumer privacy.”
That said, Newsom noted he was pleased when the CPPA board directed staff at its April 4 meeting to narrow the scope of the ADMT draft rules, and to remove training of ADMT and AI from the proposal (see 2504040043). Newsom said his team would provide feedback on an updated proposal when it becomes available.
The CPPA board plans to continue the discussion at its May 1 meeting (see 2504210017). The agency didn’t comment Friday.