The need to succeed in AI must happen “without sacrificing the well-being of our kids in the process," said a bipartisan coalition of 44 state and territory attorneys general in a Monday letter to several Big Tech organizations. The AGs notified the companies, including Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Google, Luka, Meta, Microsoft, Nomi AI, Open AI, Perplexity AI, Replika and Xai, that they “will be held accountable for [their] decisions.”
Though California is the leader in privacy legislation and regulation, other states are stepping up their enforcement actions, said a blog post last week by McGuire Woods lawyers. Recent actions by Connecticut and Nebraska attorneys general "highlight an important shift: states beyond California are not only enacting laws aimed at safeguarding privacy, they are taking action to demonstrate that those laws have teeth," they wrote.
Tech-holding company MediaLab.AI and its social messaging app Kik harm children through anonymous accounts that have become a haven for child predators, said Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) in a lawsuit made public Tuesday.
Dental insurance company Healthplex must pay a $2 million penalty for violating the New York State Department of Financial Services' (DFS) cybersecurity regulation, Superintendent Adrienne Harris announced Thursday. A DFS investigation showed Healthplex lacked an adequate data retention policy that would have limited the storage of emails, which resulted in exposure of consumer data during a breach in 2021.
“Regulators are increasingly sensitive to consumer privacy in connection with [IoT] devices,” Troutman Pepper lawyers blogged Thursday. They highlighted a New Jersey automotive data deletion law as reflecting a “growing trend in this respect.”
Roblox facilitates the distribution of child sexual abuse material and is in potential violation of federal child privacy statutes, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Enforcers should ensure that registered data brokers improve their performance when consumers request information from them about their data, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said in a blog post Monday. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants consumers the legal right to request access to, or deletion of, their data.
There has been a quiet shift recently where state privacy enforcement is often aided behind the scenes by private law firms, according to a Tuesday blog post from Frankfurt Kurnit attorneys. These firms typically develop the case and can even appear in the final complaint filed in court, lawyers Daniel Golberg and Holly Melton wrote.
Fidelity Information Services' (FIS) disclosure of personal information to the federal government about Washington residents who applied for or received food benefits is a breach of contract, the state's AG Nick Brown (D) alleged Thursday in a lawsuit.
Texas investigated data practices of more than 200 companies and issued “dozens of privacy violation notices” under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act during the past year, said Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a Monday press release touting his office’s privacy accomplishments.