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The California Privacy Protection Agency lacks authority to regulate AI, business groups protested during a partially virtual CPPA hearing Tuesday. They urged that the agency pump the breaks on proposed rules for automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and other changes to privacy regulations under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). However, workers’ rights groups and consumer privacy organizations urged that it proceed with increasing privacy rules.
Colorado will step in if the federal government pulls back on privacy enforcement under the second Trump administration, the state’s AG Phil Weiser (D) told Privacy Daily. In an interview, he said privacy will continue to be a priority for the state in 2025, with Weiser hoping to raise awareness with businesses and consumers about their duties and rights under the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA).
Privacy laws in the EU and at the state level in the U.S. serve as a basis for building an AI regulation regime, Morrison Foerster’s Marian Waldmann Agarwal and Marijn Storm said during a webinar about the intersection of privacy and AI last week. The partners discussed recent AI regulatory developments and their intersection with privacy obligations.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office Monday welcomed government plans that "turbocharge" AI across the nation during the next decade. Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed a set of 50 recommendations in an AI Opportunities Action Plan aimed at positioning the U.K. ahead of the world on the technology.
State privacy laws offer Californians broad AI protection, said Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) in legal guidance released Monday.
An Alaska agency would need to notify individuals when transferring their personal information to another state agency, under a bill introduced last week. State Sen. Shelley Hughes (R) prefiled SB-2 Friday, ahead of the legislative session that starts Jan. 21. SB-2 also tackles election deepfakes and state agencies’ use of generative AI, as in a similar bill last year that never received a vote on the Senate floor.
Due to “devastating wildfires” across the state, the California Privacy Protection Agency added a hearing and extended comment deadlines by a month in its rulemaking on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and other changes to privacy regulations, the CPPA said in a notice Friday.
Privacy protections might be sidelined during the Trump administration in order to focus on other emerging technology, said Mallory Knodel, founder of the Social Web Foundation, in a Friday piece for TechPolicy.Press.
The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) has launched an initiative aimed at addressing the risk of bias and discrimination from the use of AI and other emerging technologies, Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) announced Thursday.