There’s not enough time left in the legislative session to resolve areas of disagreement in Colorado’s proposal to overhaul its AI law, Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez (D) said Monday, tabling SB-318 (see 2504290017). The session ends Wednesday.
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Scholars, teachers and leaders from the Privacy Law Scholars Foundation (PLSF) and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) penned a letter Friday noting their concerns over “threats to privacy and democracy” under the Trump administration.
EU plans for cutting red tape in measures such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and AI Act, if done pragmatically, will help rather than hamper innovation, lawyers and academics told us.
Comments are due June 2 on revised draft rules for the California Privacy Protection Agency’s rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), risk assessments, cybersecurity, insurance and other rule changes, the CPPA decided Thursday.
Lobbying numbers show the tech industry backed up its public support for the Take It Down Act with Q1 2025 spending focused in part on the deepfake porn bill.
Microsoft announced five commitments to show its "steadfast support" for Europe and its wish to provide digital stability.
California Privacy Protection Agency Chairperson Jennifer Urban raised concerns Thursday about the extent of recent changes to draft rules on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), cybersecurity and other issues. “We’ve really cut to the bone, in terms of what is in line with the statute's requirements for the regulations we need to do, and in terms of the relative value to businesses and the relative value to the people … whose personal information is at stake,” she said at a livestreamed CPPA board meeting Thursday. Staff said the new draft reduced potential business costs in the first year by nearly two-thirds.
Companies should be cognizant of state and local privacy law limitations on biometric data collection when deploying AI systems in the workplace, compliance attorneys at Ice Miller said Wednesday. They highlighted privacy law restrictions in Illinois, Texas, Washington and New York City.
Meta is building a capability called Private Processing for the messaging app WhatsApp, giving customers the option of using AI to process messages in a secure cloud environment that no one, including the social media and messaging platforms, can access.