California appropriators greenlit a plethora of privacy bills at Friday meetings. Assembly and Senate panels ticked through a laundry list of “suspense file” bills, including on age assurance, automated decisions, reproductive health, workplace surveillance and revisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The approved bills could get floor votes next.
Meta can use data from publicly accessible user profiles on Facebook and Instagram for AI training in Germany, the Cologne Higher Regional Court ruled Friday. Meta didn't immediately comment.
Engaging with leading tech companies at the forefront of AI development is helping ensure they understand how to reduce high risks and harms to people, the Irish Data Protection Commission said in a statement Wednesday.
A recent decision by a California federal court that granted collective action certification in an age-discrimination case about using AI in the hiring process has larger implications for AI-driven recruiting technology, said Davis Wright attorneys Jeremy Merkelson and Erik Mass in a blog post Wednesday.
The House passed its reconciliation package with a proposed 10-year AI moratorium on a 215-214 vote Thursday (see 2505210065).
While a California bill on AI in the workplace “aims to protect workers, employers have expressed concerns about how it might affect business efficiency and innovation,” JacksonLewis attorneys Joseph Lazzarotti and Sierra Vierra blogged Wednesday.
Since data-protection litigation and enforcement are on the rise, companies can't assume data practices instituted years ago will insulate them from compliance issues, said privacy experts during a webinar hosted Thursday by Privado, a privacy vendor. New regulations and older laws leveraged to cover evolving technologies have made overseeing data and privacy a corporate priority, they said.
Though general counsels (GCs) worldwide are using technology as they work, including Generative AI, their concerns about data privacy and security and regulatory compliance remain, according to a CSC study.
Privacy regulators should begin tackling neurotechnology issues now as the devices, which establish direct computer or AI connections with human brains, move into the mass market, the International Working Group on Data Protection in Technology said. It published a working paper on data protection in connection with neurotechnologies.
New York state should update its consumer protection statute to respond to data breaches, AI-based schemes and other unfair, deceptive and abusive practices, Attorney General Letitia James (D) said Wednesday.