Colorado lawmakers will consider four proposals to amend or repeal the state’s comprehensive AI law during a special session starting Thursday, according to the Colorado General Assembly’s agenda.
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.
California fiscal hawks added multiple privacy bills to the Senate Appropriations Committee’s suspense file during a livestreamed meeting Monday. A state finance official raised red flags on measures involving data-driven pricing and AI chatbots.
Amid rising regulatory scrutiny over AI-based therapy, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) opened a probe into Meta, Character.AI and other chatbot platforms “for potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools,” the AG’s office said Monday.
New Zealand agencies must comply with New Zealand data protection laws, not those from overseas, Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster said in a statement Friday.
California should lead the way in banning data-driven pricing, Assemblymember Chris Ward (D) told Privacy Daily on Thursday.
It’s crunch time for the California legislature, with many privacy and AI bills nearing the finish line as lawmakers return from summer recess Monday. A few of the most potentially impactful measures for businesses cover universal opt-out preference signals, location privacy, automated decisions and so-called surveillance pricing, said privacy lawyers and consumer advocates in interviews with Privacy Daily this week.
As AI and other data-rich emerging technologies become more prevalent and amp up the need for information, organizations must ensure their privacy policies and practices help engender customer trust, said JoAnn Stonier, Mastercard fellow of data and AI, said Wednesday.
Legislation significantly revamping Israel's data protection law took effect Thursday, but the country's privacy watchdog said it will delay enforcement of one of its provisions until October.
A federal privacy statute is badly needed, and the timing is right to pass one now, said Chris Oswald, executive vice president and head of law, ethics and government relations at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). He spoke Tuesday during a panel on data privacy at the group's Masters of Data Conference.
A German regional court on Tuesday dismissed a request for a preliminary injunction in a General Data Protection Regulation-related lawsuit against Meta over its AI-related data processing.