DUBLIN -- EU digital rules such as the General Data Protection (GDPR) and AI Act must align with technological reality or risk harming innovation, speakers said Wednesday at the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe 2025 conference.
While the U.S. House this week moved ahead with a plan for a 10-year moratorium on AI laws, the Connecticut Senate supported a bill that would establish AI requirements. However, in the first state to enact an AI law, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) supported federal preemption.
Noyb is considering mounting a European class action against Meta if the social media platform continues with a plan to use data of EU Facebook and Instragram users for AI training, the Austrian privacy advocacy group said Wednesday.
DUBLIN -- One of the least clear aspects of the EU AI Act is its content on using biometric data, panelists said Wednesday at the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe 2025 conference.
During a 26-hour markup Tuesday, the House Commerce Committee approved reconciliation language that would set a 10-year moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws (see 2505130069). Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Wednesday that discussions are ongoing in the upper chamber about moratorium language.
The Connecticut Senate passed legislation to update the state's comprehensive privacy law. After a 26-9 vote Wednesday, SB-1356 goes to the House.
The European Commission Tuesday launched a consultation on draft guidelines for protecting minors online under the Digital Services Act. The move offers privacy attorneys a golden opportunity to influence next-generation child protection, one lawyer said.
Rhode Island lawmakers should add a private right of action to their comprehensive AI legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union told that state's Senate Artificial Intelligence Committee at a hearing Monday.
Members of a bipartisan multistate AI policy working group are preparing an open letter opposing a U.S. House proposal that sets a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state AI laws (see 2505120067), Maryland Sen. Katie Fry Hester (D) told us Tuesday. Virginia Del. Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D), another working group member who has helped spearhead AI legislative efforts in her state, told us the House proposal appears to be part of a concerted industry effort to kill forward momentum on state AI bills. Meanwhile, senators we spoke to on Capitol Hill split largely on party lines about the plan Tuesday.
The House Commerce Committee on Tuesday will mark up budget reconciliation language that would impose a 10-year moratorium blocking states from enforcing AI regulations, Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., announced Friday night.