State privacy laws offer Californians broad AI protection, said Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) in legal guidance released Monday.
An Alaska agency would need to notify individuals when transferring their personal information to another state agency, under a bill introduced last week. State Sen. Shelley Hughes (R) prefiled SB-2 Friday, ahead of the legislative session that starts Jan. 21. SB-2 also tackles election deepfakes and state agencies’ use of generative AI, as in a similar bill last year that never received a vote on the Senate floor.
Due to “devastating wildfires” across the state, the California Privacy Protection Agency added a hearing and extended comment deadlines by a month in its rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and other changes to privacy regulations, the CPPA said in a notice Friday.
Privacy protections might be sidelined during the Trump administration in order to focus on other emerging technology, said Mallory Knodel, founder of the Social Web Foundation, in a Friday piece for TechPolicy.Press.
The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) has launched an initiative aimed at addressing the risk of bias and discrimination from the use of AI and other emerging technologies, Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) announced Thursday.
"With the passage of time and the exponential growth of generative AI,” it’s time to update Virginia’s 2021 privacy law “to keep pace with current technological advances,” Del. Michelle Maldonado (D) said in an emailed statement Friday.
Signaling a possible trend, an increasing number of state legislators are filing AI discrimination bills. Similar to Colorado's nation-first AI law, the bills focus on preventing businesses from discriminating by using AI algorithms.
Companies deploying AI in ways that the EU AI Act has banned have until Feb. 2 to stop using them, but exactly how to do that remains unclear, privacy experts told us. The European Commission consulted with stakeholders in December on the practical aspects of compliance and plans to issue guidance ahead of the deadline, an EC spokesperson emailed.
Boutique law firm ZwillGen will acquire Luminos.Law as the basis for launching an artificial intelligence division, ZwillGen announced Wednesday. ZwillGen AI Division will focus “on red team testing and audits for AI models and systems” as well as offering other legal and policy guidance about AI technology.
Virginia would establish a Division of Emerging Technologies, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy within the state’s Department of Law, under a bill that Del. Bonita Anthony (D) proposed this week.