A California bill that sets data-breach notification deadlines will go to the Assembly floor and is racing toward passage by the legislature. At a livestreamed hearing Wednesday, the Assembly Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to add SB-446 by Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D) to the Assembly consent calendar, which is reserved for noncontroversial bills.
With a fight brewing over the future of Colorado AI regulation, Gov. Jared Polis (D) sees “clear motivation in the legislature” to craft a balanced policy, he said in an emailed statement prior to the special session starting Thursday. Colorado lawmakers plan to weigh four proposals to amend or repeal the state’s comprehensive AI law. Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez (D) and Rep. Brianna Titone (D), who co-authored the Colorado AI Act, rallied support for their proposed “Colorado AI Sunshine Act” at a livestreamed press conference Wednesday.
California fiscal hawks added multiple privacy bills to the Senate Appropriations Committee’s suspense file during a livestreamed meeting Monday. A state finance official raised red flags on measures involving data-driven pricing and AI chatbots.
Amid rising regulatory scrutiny over AI-based therapy, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) opened a probe into Meta, Character.AI and other chatbot platforms “for potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools,” the AG’s office said Monday.
It’s crunch time for the California legislature, with many privacy and AI bills nearing the finish line as lawmakers return from summer recess Monday. A few of the most potentially impactful measures for businesses cover universal opt-out preference signals, location privacy, automated decisions and so-called surveillance pricing, said privacy lawyers and consumer advocates in interviews with Privacy Daily this week.
People are increasingly using general-purpose AI chatbots like ChatGPT for emotional and mental health support, but many don’t realize that regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) fail to cover these sensitive conversations, a Duke University paper published last month found. Industry self-regulation seems unlikely to solve the issue, which may disproportionately affect vulnerable populations, said Pardis Emami-Naeini, a computer science professor at Duke and one of the report’s authors.
CAMDEN, N.J. -- A federal judge raised doubts Monday that the Communications Decency Act gives data brokers immunity from New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law. In an oral argument at the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, Judge Harvey Bartle heard preemption arguments from various data brokers sued by Atlas Data Privacy under the 2020 state law, which is aimed at protecting the personal information of judicial and law enforcement officers, child protective investigators and certain family members.
Meta could be more transparent about a new Instagram feature that lets users share their location with friends, a consumer privacy advocate said Friday. While another advocate also raised safety concerns, the company listed ways that the mapping feature protects privacy.
New York Assemblymember Alex Bores (D) expects his AI safety bill, the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, could be revised through the chapter-amendment process, the legislator told Privacy Daily on Wednesday. “We’re open to amendments that … strengthen or clarify the bill.”
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is “like a big Lego block” to which state legislators “are constantly adding … Lego pieces,” said Tom Kemp, executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency, during an IAPP webinar Tuesday. The California Privacy Rights Act, which amended the CCPA, prohibits reducing Californians’ privacy rights, he noted.