Facial recognition technology brings "clear benefits" for preventing and detecting crime, but it relies on processing large amounts of sensitive personal data, so its use must be necessary and proportionate, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said in a statement Wednesday.
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority Tuesday published answers to frequently asked questions about AI from applicants and participants in its regulatory sandbox.
NEW YORK CITY -- State lawmakers are following up on their comprehensive privacy laws with AI legislation that seeks to regulate consequential decisions, said AI and privacy legal experts at a Perrin Conferences event Wednesday at the New York City Bar Association. Amid general federal inaction, state lawmakers have proposed hundreds of AI bills on a plethora of subjects related to the growing technology, they noted.
The Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) Monday published a checklist on guidelines for use of generative AI (Gen AI) by employees, along with findings from a data breach investigation.
Nine of 10 South Koreans recognize the importance of privacy and seven in 10 are concerned about invasion of privacy from AI, a survey from the government's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) found.
Utah added a right to correct inaccurate information to its comprehensive privacy law. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) Thursday signed HB-418, which would also require social media data portability and interoperability (see 2503100039).
Regulation of AI tools and systems is all based on the same data governance principles used in privacy law, and it’s important for this regulation to be tackled collaboratively on a state level, said a Texas legislator and privacy and emerging tech experts during a regulatory panel at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) AI and Technology for Marketers Conference Friday.
Until recently, there was no real political appetite to reopen the General Data Protection Regulation, though it was becoming increasingly necessary to align GDPR with other data-related EU laws such as the Data Act and to streamline it, Linklaters IT, data and cyber attorney Tanguy Van Overstraeten said in an interview Friday.
The French privacy authority CNIL Thursday listed its 2025 projects which aim at helping privacy professionals comply with the General Data Protection Regulation.
The Connecticut legislature’s Sen. James Maroney (D) and Rep. Hubert Delany (D) formed an AI caucus, the lawmakers announced Thursday. The group will push for passage of SB-2, Maroney’s AI anti-discrimination bill that cleared a committee last week (see 2503210065).