Washington state bills requiring privacy and AI transparency are apparently dead after missing a Friday cutoff to clear fiscal committees in the legislature. However, child privacy bills in the House and Senate cleared their respective fiscal committees in time.
The Utah Senate Business Committee unanimously cleared a bill Friday that enacts provisions related to social media data portability and interoperability.
Maryland should create an AI working group instead of passing high-risk AI legislation modeled after Virginia’s potential AI law, tech industry representatives told Maryland’s Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
Buddy AI is now complying with child privacy law, BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) said Wednesday (see 2502260053).
Having humans understand and actively involved in implementing AI systems and tools in businesses can help counter privacy and ethical concerns, said tech experts on a Microsoft webinar Thursday.
European privacy law changes might be needed to address legal uncertainty related to interplay between Europe’s AI Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), said the European Parliamentary Research Service in a report released Wednesday.
The European Union’s Court of Justice Thursday issued a preliminary ruling that said data subjects are entitled to an explanation of how an automated decision was made. The court sided with an Austrian court's previous ruling that said an automated credit check of a mobile provider customer that didn't offer the customer an explanation of the logic behind its decision, violated the GDPR.
Buddy AI violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by failing to get parental consent for collecting children’s data and not providing proper notice of its practices, BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) said Wednesday.
About half of U.S. workers worry about the future impact of AI use at work, Pew Research Center said in a Tuesday report. Nearly one-third believe AI will lead to fewer job opportunities in the future, found Pew, which surveyed nearly 5,300 employed adults in October. However, most workers (63%) said they don’t use AI much today.
Having thorough and understandable guidelines for highly organized data storage is key in data minimization, which saves money in the long run, said a panel of privacy experts during a HaystackID webinar Wednesday on data minimization.