Maryland should create an AI working group instead of passing high-risk AI legislation modeled after Virginia’s potential AI law, tech industry representatives told Maryland’s Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
Recently fired Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board members Travis LeBlanc and Ed Felten should be reinstated because President Donald Trump removed them without “good cause,” attorneys argued in a lawsuit filed Monday.
The FTC is bound by federal law to protect business and consumer data in investigations, FTC nominee Mark Meador said Tuesday.
The FTC would work productively with state attorneys general on privacy enforcement if Congress granted the authority in a federal privacy law, FTC nominee Mark Meador told the Senate Commerce Committee during his confirmation hearing Tuesday.
House Commerce Committee Republicans on Friday requested public input on potential federal privacy legislation. The elimination of a private right of action, preemption of state privacy and AI laws and conflicts with existing federal law were among the topics Republicans outlined in their request for information (RFI).
It’s unclear if fired Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be reinstated, but recent legal success against the Trump administration is encouraging, newly dismissed PCLOB member Travis LeBlanc said Friday (see 2502110062).
The president should be able to fire members of the FTC, and it’s good the Trump administration is preparing for a potential U.S. Supreme Court case that could make that a reality, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Thursday.
Connecticut’s age-verification bill includes only minor changes from current state privacy and social media regulations, Sen. James Maroney (D) said Wednesday.
President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking greater control of independent agencies like the FTC will politicize the regulatory process and result in further bureaucratic delay, Democratic senators and stakeholders told us in interviews Wednesday. Capitol Hill Republicans and Democrats were divided along party lines in support and against Trump’s executive action.
An AI transparency bill introduced in the Maryland General Assembly is overly broad and anti-competitive, tech industry representatives told state lawmakers Tuesday.