The New York State Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) appointed Shreya Amin as chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, ITS announced Thursday. Armin previously served as chief data and AI scientist at healthtech company Wellist.
The California Civil Rights Council agreed Friday to clear proposed employment rule changes that update the state’s anti-discrimination regulations for automated decision-making technology (ADMT). Friday’s action sent the final proposed text to the Office of Administrative Law for approval.
Priorities for Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner include addressing the privacy impacts of fast-moving technological developments and ensuring that children's privacy is protected, the OPC said in a Friday report setting out the results of a consultation on age assurance.
The bankruptcy of biotechnology company 23andMe is raising privacy concerns about the future of customers' sensitive genetic data. Democratic and Republican state AGs and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said they're monitoring the situation.
Open AI's ChatGPT regularly "hallucinates" about people, providing false information without giving them a way to correct it, European privacy advocacy group Noyb charged Thursday in a complaint to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority.
Multiple Connecticut privacy and AI bills appeared to have enough votes to advance to the Senate floor at the joint General Laws Committee’s livestreamed meeting Friday. The committee approved an age-verification measure (SB-1295) as part of a consent agenda vote, but final roll calls weren't clear at our deadline on a comprehensive privacy update and two AI bills.
French regulator CNIL and the country's Competition Authority exchanged views earlier this month about the links between data protection and competition in AI development, CNIL announced Thursday.
The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner closed its informal preliminary investigation into X's use of data for training its AI system Grok, it announced Thursday. It found that X users can refuse to have their public messages used for AI training, and that the platform is in compliance with the country's privacy law.
NEW YORK CITY -- Advertisers must “remain vigilant” and take a privacy-first approach with the increase in global privacy regulations and enforcement heating up, Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur said at IAB’s Signal Shift event Thursday. To help, the IAB Tech Lab plans to launch a privacy lab this summer and is exploring privacy-compliant technologies that can help reduce advertisers’ revenue shortfalls from “signal loss,” which refers to reduced access to consumer data stemming from tech changes like privacy controls in web browsers.
The Jan. 6 resignation of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau effectively ended all legislative bills that haven't yet received Royal Assent, Cozen O'Connor lawyer Any Obando Ospina blogged. These included two measures pivotal in the digital sphere: The Digital Charter Implementation Act and the Online Harms Act.