A bipartisan group of 18 California state legislators told the California Privacy Protection Agency that the organization lacks authority to regulate AI and should scale back proposed automated decision-making technology (ADMT) rules. The legislators wrote to the CPPA board Wednesday, which was the CPPA’s deadline for written comments on draft rules for ADMT and other issues. A coalition of business groups and trade associations condemned the draft rules in a separate letter that day.
The Montana Senate could soon vote on a bill broadening how many businesses are covered by the state's comprehensive privacy law. Meanwhile, in Kentucky, a House panel advanced a bill tweaking healthcare exemptions in that state's data privacy law.
The European Data Protection Board's (EDPB's) Dec. 18 opinion on processing personal data for AI models has "sparked intense debate" because "the more you reflect on it, the more it resembles a Rorschach test -- everyone seems to see what they want to see," civil and human rights group European Digital Rights (EDRi) posted 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.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation expects an "onslaught" of privacy issues in Congress this year, said Maddie Daly, EFF assistant director-federal affairs, in an interview with Privacy Daily. Some of EFF's top priorities, including a national privacy bill, may be "idealistic," but it's still important to push for them, Daly said.
An AI transparency bill introduced in the Maryland General Assembly is overly broad and anti-competitive, tech industry representatives told state lawmakers Tuesday.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion for a temporary restraining order against the Education Department, as sought by the University of California Student Association (USCA). Judge Randolph Moss ruled Monday that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to student data and records will not cause the plaintiffs irreparable harm, so a TRO is unnecessary. However, DOGE faced a new lawsuit at the same court Monday, this time challenging the entity's access to sensitive information at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Thirty years after the idea of restricting international data transfers was conceived, companies find themselves facing a greater level of "dogmatism" than ever and geopolitical tensions could take restrictions to an even higher level, Hogan Lovells privacy and cybersecurity attorneys said during a podcast. Driven by U.S. rules hampering some data flows to China and several other countries, personal data protection is morphing into national security protection. One way to navigate the maze could be a greater focus on binding corporate rules (BCRs), they said.
A private right of action survived a Washington House panel vote on a comprehensive privacy bill Friday. The state's House Technology Committee voted 7-4 on partisan lines to advance an amended HB-1671, with Republicans supplying the nays.