If Senate opposition pushes hard enough against the AI moratorium proposed by Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, it could potentially lead to a floor vote on the provision itself, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and a Republican Senate staffer told us Monday.
The Senate’s AI moratorium proposal won’t impact copyright laws, such as those in Tennessee, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Thursday.
The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed legislation that would expand the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) to cover teens up to the age of 16 (see 2506180068).
The FTC’s 2024 settlement with NGL Labs and 2023 agreement with Epic Games could serve as a blueprint for federal and state enforcers protecting teens from privacy and design-related harms, former Consumer Protection Bureau Director Samuel Levine told Privacy Daily in an interview Monday.
Senate Commerce Committee Democrats on Monday circulated updated text proposed by Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for an AI regulation moratorium (see 2506170054). The Senate Parliamentarian on Saturday approved the text under the Byrd rule, officially attaching the proposal to the budget reconciliation package.
U.S. companies can use state privacy laws to better gauge when they’re considered data brokers under DOJ’s data transfer rule, Hunton privacy attorney Michael La Marca said during a Tuesday webinar.
Expect 23andMe to close its $305 million sale to former CEO Anne Wojcicki and her nonprofit in the “coming weeks,” the company announced Friday.
States rely on private aircraft owner data to collect millions in tax revenue annually, so the Federal Aviation Administration shouldn’t block access to it, state tax agencies said in comments to the agency.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined Republican opposition to the proposed federal moratorium that would block enforcement of states' AI laws for 10 years (see 2506060019).
State privacy investigators are in constant contact about potential enforcement action that goes beyond the recently launched bipartisan consortium (see 2504160037), privacy officials from California, Colorado and Texas said.