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.
Grocery chain Kroger collects vast amounts of personal data about its customers and makes inferences based on it, resulting in different shopping experiences, Consumer Reports (CR) said Wednesday. While Kroger responded that the CR report is misleading, a California legislator said it supports his argument for passing his surveillance-pricing bill.
The European Commission Wednesday unveiled its latest proposals that are intended to reduce administrative costs for European business by simplifying a range of rules, including in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR change, which differed slightly from what was expected, drew mixed reactions from stakeholders.
State attorneys general last week made unfounded claims against House Republicans’ proposed AI moratorium, Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., told us Tuesday. The moratorium doesn’t block states from enforcing traditional consumer protection laws, he added.
The rise of technologies like generative AI (GAI) and the advent of large language models (LLM) have serious privacy implications, including the idea that individuals can control their data, said three students at UCLA School of Law in a blog for TechPolicy.Press. The "right to be forgotten," as the removal of personal data from public access is called, gained legal acknowledgment under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which allows individuals to view, edit or delete personal data.
A subscriber to The Onion hit the satirical news site with a class-action complaint on Friday, alleging that it deployed a tracking pixel that transmitted his personally identifiable information to third parties without prior knowledge or consent, which violates the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).