Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig challenged privacy professionals at the IAPP Global Policy Summit to “think about how to build a privacy law to give us the right to be left alone again.”
European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiorowski is worried about what's going on in the U.S. and its potential effect on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), he said Wednesday at a streamed Brussels briefing on the EDPS' 2024 annual report.
With Congress strongly divided along partisan lines, a few common issues unite the two parties, including children’s privacy, said lawyers and policy professionals during a panel Tuesday on the new administration at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Public Policy & Legal Summit.
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The Connecticut Senate is likely to vote on data privacy and AI legislation in mid-May, state Sen. James Maroney (D) told Privacy Daily on the sidelines of the IAPP Global Privacy Summit on Tuesday.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) plans to return to its rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) at its meeting May 1, said an agenda released Monday.
Dean Ball has taken on the role of senior policy advisor for AI and emerging technology at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, he announced Thursday on Substack. Ball was previously a research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, and authored the Substack "Hyperdimensional," which, he said, he will continue in a more limited capacity while in his new position.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) is exploring the use of emotion-recognition AI in society for an upcoming report on AI and algorithmic risks, it said Friday. The report will consider trends and developments in using algorithms and emotion-recognition AI in the Netherlands, it said.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed the Right to Compute Act into law Wednesday, codifying state residents' ability to own and use computational technology, such as hardware, software and processing tools. It had previously passed the Senate 50-0 and the House 61-38.
Neurotechnology is the next big thing in privacy law and our minds are the last vestige of privacy, Cooley lawyers said Wednesday during a webinar.