More states are considering measures that protect the privacy of reproductive health data in the wake of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, privacy experts said in recent interviews.
French data protection regulator CNIL's guidelines on AI models "illustrate a more pragmatic approach than other regulatory positions addressing multiple issues raised by AI," Hogan Lovells privacy attorneys argued in a Feb. 18 post. For example, CNIL's position differs from that of Garante, the data protection authority (DPA) in Italy. Meanwhile, DPAs in other EU countries are waiting to see if the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) can craft a consensus, Etienne Drouard, a co-author of the post, said in an interview Thursday.
The president should be able to fire members of the FTC, and it’s good the Trump administration is preparing for a potential U.S. Supreme Court case that could make that a reality, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told us Thursday.
A bipartisan group of 18 California state legislators told the California Privacy Protection Agency that the organization lacks authority to regulate AI and should scale back proposed automated decision-making technology (ADMT) rules. The legislators wrote to the CPPA board Wednesday, which was the CPPA’s deadline for written comments on draft rules for ADMT and other issues. A coalition of business groups and trade associations condemned the draft rules in a separate letter that day.
The Montana Senate could soon vote on a bill broadening how many businesses are covered by the state's comprehensive privacy law. Meanwhile, in Kentucky, a House panel advanced a bill tweaking healthcare exemptions in that state's data privacy law.
The European Data Protection Board's (EDPB's) Dec. 18 opinion on processing personal data for AI models has "sparked intense debate" because "the more you reflect on it, the more it resembles a Rorschach test -- everyone seems to see what they want to see," civil and human rights group European Digital Rights (EDRi) posted Wednesday.
President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking greater control of independent agencies like the FTC will politicize the regulatory process and result in further bureaucratic delay, Democratic senators and stakeholders told us in interviews Wednesday. Capitol Hill Republicans and Democrats were divided along party lines in support and against Trump’s executive action.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation expects an "onslaught" of privacy issues in Congress this year, said Maddie Daly, EFF assistant director-federal affairs, in an interview with Privacy Daily. Some of EFF's top priorities, including a national privacy bill, may be "idealistic," but it's still important to push for them, Daly said.
An AI transparency bill introduced in the Maryland General Assembly is overly broad and anti-competitive, tech industry representatives told state lawmakers Tuesday.