Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner will fund seven research projects on how smart devices handle personal information, it said Thursday.
AI Privacy
AI privacy concerns are growing as copyrighted works and personal data are used to train, optimize and operate machine learning systems. From facial recognition to inference risks, AI applications often test the limits of existing privacy laws. Regulators worldwide are developing safeguards to govern data use, bias, transparency and consent in AI development. This page tracks legislation, regulatory frameworks and enforcement actions at the intersection of AI and data protection.
Colorado's AI Act won’t take effect until June 30, 2026. Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed SB-4 into law on Thursday after previously applauding legislators for trying to make changes to the measure in a special session (see 2508270009).
A California bill to set notification deadlines for data breaches passed the Senate unanimously on Thursday and could be headed to the governor’s desk soon. The Senate passed SB-446 on May 28 and it’s been sailing through the Assembly on consent agendas since then (see 2508200033). Meanwhile, state fiscal hawks advanced many privacy and AI bills, while holding back some others, at committee meetings Friday.
Successful privacy professionals make the most of limited resources, BlueSky Privacy CEO Teresa Troester-Falk said in an IAPP opinion piece Thursday.
Though boosting AI innovation is one of the EU’s top priorities for the next several years, member states are implementing and interpreting plans and rules differently from one another, said panelists during an IAPP webinar Wednesday. The session covered the European Commission's new mandate of priorities and policies, the EU AI Act, the AI Continent Action Plan and their impact on data governance programs.
Regulation doesn't block Europe from leading in AI innovation, but fragmentation in areas such as employment and the capital markets makes it harder to scale up, EU AI Office Director Lucilla Sioli said Thursday on a Center for Strategic & International Studies webinar.
Gov. Jared Polis (D) applauded state lawmakers’ work on AI after the legislature agreed to delay Colorado AI Act implementation rather than make changes during a special session (see 2508260056).
California legislators refined a proposed update to the California Delete Act on Tuesday. Now on third reading and awaiting a floor vote in the Assembly, SB-361 by Sen. Josh Becker (D) would require data brokers to disclose more types of personal information in their state registrations than they do now.
French data protection authority CNIL announced a Sept. 30 meeting to discuss the practical application of data protection law to other branches of the law.
California privacy enforcers may soon be “counting clicks” to make sure it doesn’t take more steps for consumers to opt out than to opt in, warned privacy attorney Webb McArthur on a Hudson Cook webinar Tuesday.