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).
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Italian privacy regulator Garante fined U.S. consumer AI company Luka $5.6 million (5 million euros) for General Data Protection Regulation breaches and launched a probe into how it processes data during the life cycle of the generative AI systems that underlie its Replika chatbot, it announced Monday.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed the Take It Down Act into law, as expected (see 2505160034).
The House Rules Committee will consider the chamber’s reconciliation package and a potential AI moratorium at 1 a.m. E.T. Wednesday after House Budget Committee Republicans reached an agreement with House Freedom Caucus holdouts Sunday and advanced the measure. The package that House Budget considered at Friday’s markup included a provision that would set a 10-year moratorium blocking states from enforcing AI laws (see 2505140059).