The Connecticut Senate passed legislation to update the state's comprehensive privacy law. After a 26-9 vote Wednesday, SB-1356 goes to the House.
The European Commission Tuesday launched a consultation on draft guidelines for protecting minors online under the Digital Services Act. The move offers privacy attorneys a golden opportunity to influence next-generation child protection, one lawyer said.
Rhode Island lawmakers should add a private right of action to their comprehensive AI legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union told that state's Senate Artificial Intelligence Committee at a hearing Monday.
Members of a bipartisan multistate AI policy working group are preparing an open letter opposing a U.S. House proposal that sets a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state AI laws (see 2505120067), Maryland Sen. Katie Fry Hester (D) told us Tuesday. Virginia Del. Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D), another working group member who has helped spearhead AI legislative efforts in her state, told us the House proposal appears to be part of a concerted industry effort to kill forward momentum on state AI bills. Meanwhile, senators we spoke to on Capitol Hill split largely on party lines about the plan Tuesday.
The House Commerce Committee on Tuesday will mark up budget reconciliation language that would impose a 10-year moratorium blocking states from enforcing AI regulations, Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., announced Friday night.
Making it easier to exercise privacy rights is a key priority for California Privacy Protection Agency Executive Director Tom Kemp, he blogged Thursday.
The GDPR’s Article 5 data-processing principles will likely remain intact, but there’s potential for compromise on revisions to other data-processing requirements in forthcoming negotiations, a center-right digital policy advisor for the European Parliament said Friday at the Privacy + Security Forum spring academy.
The U.S. has entered a “golden age” of privacy regulation, but states are crafting ineffective laws that don’t fully protect consumers, George Washington University Law School professor Daniel Solove said Thursday at the Privacy + Security Summit.
AI’s high-speed evolution makes it a tough technology to regulate, said panelists at a partly virtual University of Illinois privacy conference Thursday.
Checks on 60 local organizations by the Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data found that all were in compliance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO), the PCPD announced Thursday.