Meta AI users posting what's typically private information for everyone to see on the app is raising questions about whether all users understand they’re sharing their AI queries with the world. Users on X posted about the trend this week with many examples.
The Michigan Senate Committee on Finance, Insurance and Consumer Protection cleared a comprehensive privacy bill during its meeting Wednesday on a 5-3 vote. A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced SB-359, or the personal data privacy act (see 2506060043). The legislation comes after Michigan failed to pass a similar consumer privacy measure last year (see 2412300043).
The actual cost to a company from a privacy enforcement action could be many times higher than the regulator's fine, Clarip CEO Andy Sambandam said in an interview. Privacy has become a quickly rising concern for companies amid a growing number of privacy laws and state enforcement actions, he told Privacy Daily.
State privacy investigators are in constant contact about potential enforcement action that goes beyond the recently launched bipartisan consortium (see 2504160037), privacy officials from California, Colorado and Texas said.
A bipartisan group of senators in Michigan introduced a comprehensive privacy bill on Thursday in an effort toward establishing privacy rights for the state's consumers. If enacted, the state will join the 20 others who have comprehensive privacy laws, though six won’t take effect until later in 2025 or in 2026 (see 2501060066).
As the California Privacy Protection Agency ramps up enforcement, it will “telegraph” how it plans to enforce the state’s privacy law and will act in ways that aren’t far from what other states would do, CPPA Executive Director Tom Kemp said in a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with Privacy Daily. In addition, Kemp panned Congress’ proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation while saying the agency is being careful about what aspects of AI may come under its jurisdiction.
While a change in opinion from notice-and-choice data minimization requirements is highlighted by several recent laws, whether there is a true paradigm shift cannot be understood until they go into effect and become enforceable, said the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) in a report Thursday.
The California Senate passed a bill that requires insurance licensees and their third-party service providers to adhere to a comprehensive privacy framework. The vote was 28-10 on Wednesday.
Oregon will add location and child data restrictions to its comprehensive privacy law. Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed HB-2008 on Tuesday, days after signing another amendment that added automotive rules to the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act.
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