During a 26-hour markup Tuesday, the House Commerce Committee approved reconciliation language that would set a 10-year moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws (see 2505130069). Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Wednesday that discussions are ongoing in the upper chamber about moratorium language.
Members of a bipartisan multistate AI policy working group are preparing an open letter opposing a U.S. House proposal that sets a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state AI laws (see 2505120067), Maryland Sen. Katie Fry Hester (D) told us Tuesday. Virginia Del. Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D), another working group member who has helped spearhead AI legislative efforts in her state, told us the House proposal appears to be part of a concerted industry effort to kill forward momentum on state AI bills. Meanwhile, senators we spoke to on Capitol Hill split largely on party lines about the plan Tuesday.
The House Commerce Committee on Tuesday will mark up budget reconciliation language that would impose a 10-year moratorium blocking states from enforcing AI regulations, Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., announced Friday night.
The GDPR’s Article 5 data-processing principles will likely remain intact, but there’s potential for compromise on revisions to other data-processing requirements in forthcoming negotiations, a center-right digital policy advisor for the European Parliament said Friday at the Privacy + Security Forum spring academy.
While the Biden administration’s FTC focused on platform accountability for child safety, the Trump FTC appears far more concerned with strengthening parental control to protect kids' privacy and shield them from online harm, former FTC officials said Thursday at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy.
There’s a checklist companies can complete to show they’re operating in “good faith” to comply with DOJ’s Data Security Program before full enforcement begins July 8 (see 2504140047), Orrick attorneys said Wednesday at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy event.
A California Assembly committee cleared a surveillance pricing bill Tuesday that would prohibit companies from using personal data to set customized prices for consumers.
Lobbying numbers show the tech industry backed up its public support for the Take It Down Act with Q1 2025 spending focused in part on the deepfake porn bill.
Congress should update the Privacy Act with statutory limits on exemptions for government data-handling and extend protections for immigrants living in the U.S., privacy advocates told Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., in comments this week.
The House voted 409-2 Monday to pass the Take It Down Act (S-146), despite privacy-related objections from encryption advocates.