Aaron Cooper will join Jenner & Block as co-chair of the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice, among other roles, the law firm announced Thursday. Cooper worked previously at Jenner & Block. He most recently served as deputy legal advisor to the National Security Council, where he worked on AI, cybersecurity and investigations.
House Republicans have requested that DeepSeek explain how the company might be sharing U.S. consumer data with the Chinese Communist Party.
A trio of child online safety bills became law in Arkansas this week. Meanwhile, in Texas, the House passed a kids safety measure Thursday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) cautioned this week that rules regulating automated decision-making technology (ADMT), under consideration at the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), could have unintended consequences, increasing costs and threatening tech innovation in the state.
Legal challenges around AI are growing with the technology, said an OpenAI official during a Wednesday panel at the IAPP Global Policy Summit in Washington. Meanwhile, an official from Anthropic said the company is emphasizing safety and transparency with Claude, its AI assistant.
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) Thursday published the results of a preliminary investigation of DeepSeek, the controversial China-based AI company.
The Texas House passed the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) Wednesday on a 146-3 vote. Sponsored by a coalition of bipartisan legislators, it now goes to the Senate.
House Commerce Committee Republicans are “committed to moving” a federal privacy bill “this Congress,” a committee staffer said at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on Thursday.
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig challenged privacy professionals at the IAPP Global Policy Summit to “think about how to build a privacy law to give us the right to be left alone again.”
European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiorowski is worried about what's going on in the U.S. and its potential effect on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), he said Wednesday at a streamed Brussels briefing on the EDPS' 2024 annual report.