The EU needs a consistent approach to age assurance, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said in a statement Wednesday after its Feb. 9 plenary. It set out specific guidance and high-level principles arising from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that it said should be considered when personal data is processed in the context of age verification.
Rep. John Joyce, R-Pa., will lead House Republicans’ working group for comprehensive privacy legislation, House Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., announced Wednesday, as expected (see 2501150064).
Oregon finalized a state government AI action plan, Gov. Tina Kotek (D) said Tuesday. An AI advisory council, established by a 2023 executive order, approved the plan that day, the governor’s office said.
The European Commission withdrew two controversial pieces of legislation from its 2025 work program, bringing cheers Wednesday from the tech sector as a consumer group jeered.
The U.S. shouldn’t rush to adopt comprehensive AI legislation, despite a growing patchwork of state regulations, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Wednesday.
Canada and Japan signed the Council of Europe (CoE) framework convention on artificial intelligence and human rights, democracy and the rule of law, the CoE announced Tuesday. They join 11 other signatories: Andorra, Georgia, Iceland, Montenegro, Norway, the Republic of Moldova, San Marino, the U.K., Israel, the U.S. and the EU. The convention provides a legal framework covering the entire lifecycle of AI products, which aims to foster innovation while managing the risks AI may pose to fundamental rights, said the CoE, a 46-nation human rights organization.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Tuesday discussed enforcement activities concerning the DeepSeek AI chatbot and agreed to extend the scope of its ChatGPT task force to AI enforcement, a spokesperson emailed. The task force was created to encourage cooperation and exchange information on possible enforcement actions conducted by data protection authorities (DPAs) on ChatGPT.
Members of the advocacy group Oakland Privacy traveled to Chicago on Jan. 30 to tell a federal court in person that the proposed class action settlement resolving claims against Clearview AI for allegedly scraping facial images off the internet and then selling them to law enforcement is inadequate, the coalition said in a press release Tuesday.
AI technology must be regulated at the federal level, House Technology Subcommittee Chairman Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., said Monday.
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