The U.S. has set itself on a "fundamentally divergent path" from the EU by focusing on deregulation and national security in the new White House AI Action Plan (see 2507230058), Pinsent Mason AI and intellectual property attorney Cerys Wyn Davies blogged Thursday.
Mississippi's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to let stand a state law that requires parental consent for those younger than 18 to create accounts with certain digital service providers. AG Lynn Fitch (R) argued that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which on July 17 allowed the previously-enjoined law to go into effect with a stay on a lower court's injunction, had "compelling, independent merits grounds for issuing the stay."
Though several recent enforcement actions have targeted websites, mobile apps are also subject to all privacy laws, a lawyer said Thursday during a webinar by Privado, a privacy vendor. Daniel Goldberg, a Frankfurt Kurnit lawyer, also noted that it's no longer enough for companies to rely on privacy vendors for compliance; they must practice due diligence too.
Minnesota's comprehensive privacy law that took effect Thursday uniquely requires companies to allow consumers to question their automated decisions. The law also includes uncommon requirements about material changes to privacy polices and giving lists of third parties to consumers. While companies will also for the first time face requirements such as having to conduct data inventories and appoint chief privacy officers, many of the law's stipulations are already best practices, privacy lawyers told us.
President Donald Trump’s possible health-tracking system with Big Tech companies should increase the urgency for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to sign a health data privacy bill that passed the state legislature months ago, Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal (D) said in a Wednesday interview with Privacy Daily: “I will bring it to” the governor's office’s “attention today.”
Exports are a crucial part of the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, whose goal is for the U.S. to win the AI race, said Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, during a Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) event Wednesday. There's also the potential for a revival of the 10-year moratorium on enforcing state AI regulations in the action plan, an official said, though specifics weren't provided.
Colorado plans to forego a mandate that companies verify users' ages in a rulemaking that updates the state’s comprehensive privacy law. But when enforcing kids privacy restrictions, the state's attorney general could consider companies’ use of age-estimation technologies, said draft rules released Tuesday.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Wednesday restarted the Senate's privacy legislation conversation with a hearing exploring what “core principles” and state protections could be incorporated into a federal bill.
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Age-verification vendors weren't "surprised" by attempts to circumvent proof-of-age mechanisms once the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) rules took effect Friday, Age Verification Providers Association Executive Director Iain Corby told us Tuesday.