The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) renewed its call for a court to require that the Social Security Administration (SSA) promptly process its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to possible privacy violations.
Maine lawmakers are mulling limits on using AI to make healthcare decisions without human involvement. The legislature’s joint Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee received testimony Thursday on two such AI bills (LD-1301 and LD-955), plus a third requiring chatbot disclosures (LD-1727).
Regulators should apply “extra scrutiny to menstruation apps because they may process and collect highly sensitive health data that requires additional protections and safety measures,” Privacy International (PI) said Tuesday in a report on the privacy of period-tracking apps.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft President Brad Smith will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee at Thursday’s hearing on AI competition.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) notified several Chinese-aligned companies that they are violating Texans’ privacy rights and gave them 30 days to comply with Texas law, the AG office said Tuesday.
There’s not enough time left in the legislative session to resolve areas of disagreement in Colorado’s proposal to overhaul its AI law, Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez (D) said Monday, tabling SB-318 (see 2504290017). The session ends Wednesday.
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Scholars, teachers and leaders from the Privacy Law Scholars Foundation (PLSF) and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) penned a letter Friday noting their concerns over “threats to privacy and democracy” under the Trump administration.
EU plans for cutting red tape in measures such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and AI Act, if done pragmatically, will help rather than hamper innovation, lawyers and academics told us.
Comments are due June 2 on revised draft rules for the California Privacy Protection Agency’s rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), risk assessments, cybersecurity, insurance and other rule changes, the CPPA decided Thursday.