As state attorneys general significantly increase technical hiring in pursuit of more sophisticated enforcement of privacy laws, companies should prepare for a similar raising of the regulatory bar in AI and other tech areas, said Brownstein Hyatt lawyers in a blog post Wednesday.
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A California surveillance-pricing bill could soon hit the Assembly floor after approval from the chamber’s Judiciary Committee on an 8-3 vote Tuesday. SB-259 previously cleared the Privacy Committee and the full Senate (see 2506250011).
Despite major changes in a California bill on automated decision systems (ADS), the Business Software Alliance (BSA) still urged lawmakers to slam the brakes on AB-1018 on Wednesday.
To prevent AI discrimination, regulators will soon tackle surveillance pricing, also known as behavioral data mining, said Wayne Stacey, executive director at the Berkley Center for Law & Technology, during a panel at a Troutman Amin law conference Monday.
People who use generative AI for personal use at home risk exposing their data and other privacy harms, Israel's Privacy Protection Authority noted Tuesday in recommendations for safeguarding personal information.
AI and data breaches were among top issues last year for Italian data protection authority Garante, it said Tuesday in an annual report.
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As laws and enforcement continue in the privacy and AI space, companies must pay attention to detail, panelists said during a webinar that vendor TrustArc hosted Tuesday.
The Texas attorney general is set to become one of the top AI enforcers in the U.S. after this year’s passage of the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA), said Goodwin attorney Omer Tene in a blog post earlier this week.
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board might act later this month on pending proceedings related to automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and establishing a data deletion mechanism.