As AI and other data-rich emerging technologies become more prevalent and amp up the need for information, organizations must ensure their privacy policies and practices help engender customer trust, said JoAnn Stonier, Mastercard fellow of data and AI, said Wednesday.

California’s Judicial Council adopted a rule July 18 requiring court staff who use generative AI in their work to do so within the parameters of a use policy. A task force that developed the rule understood "the rapid evolution" of generative AI and, instead of "prescribing whether and how" courts can deploy the technology, attempted "to situate" its use "into a framework reflecting and applying broad legal, ethical, and professional principles," Morgan Lewis lawyer Jeffrey Niemczura said in a Thursday blog post.

Proton said it’s adding a privacy-respecting AI assistant called Lumo to its email service. “With no logs kept and every chat encrypted, Lumo keeps your conversations confidential and your data fully under your control -- never shared, sold, or stolen,” Proton blogged Wednesday.

The U.S. should urge international trading partners to remove cloud service restrictions and cross-border data restrictions, the Business Software Alliance said Monday, launching its AI Adoption Agenda.

AI-equipped social robots may “seem like a natural evolution of traditional smart home devices,” but “their extensive data collection capabilities, anthropomorphic features, and capacity to interact with their environment make social robots a more significant security and privacy threat,” said a Duke University paper released this week.

To prevent AI discrimination, regulators will soon tackle surveillance pricing, also known as behavioral data mining, said Wayne Stacey, executive director at the Berkley Center for Law & Technology, during a panel at a Troutman Amin law conference Monday.

The Texas attorney general is set to become one of the top AI enforcers in the U.S. after this year’s passage of the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA), said Goodwin attorney Omer Tene in a blog post earlier this week.

Logitech’s global AI lead doesn’t "subscribe" to the idea that the EU AI Act will stifle innovation, she said Wednesday.

Clearly defined data rights are critical aspects of commercial transactions, especially when health care agreements include AI technology, Foley & Lardner attorneys blogged Wednesday.

Congress should reject the proposed 10-year moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday in a New York Times editorial (see 2506030068).