SAN DIEGO -- States, especially those with consumer privacy laws coming online soon, are bolstering their privacy and consumer protection enforcement by beginning to onboard additional attorneys and technologists, experts said during a panel at IAPP's privacy and security conference Friday.
SAN DIEGO -- Companies that want to avoid enforcement settlements and penalties should collaborate with state regulators during an investigation and whenever authorities are seeking information, officials from California, Colorado, Delaware and Indiana said during a panel at IAPP's privacy and security conference Thursday. The states are all members of the bipartisan Consortium of Privacy Regulators (see 2506020004).
SAN DIEGO – “Privacy should be easy” for businesses to implement and consumers to effectuate, said Tom Kemp, executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), during the closing keynote at IAPP's privacy and security conference Friday. At a panel Thursday, other CPPA employees spoke about regulations aimed at making privacy and privacy rights easier.
Amid intensifying regulatory pressure about kids' online safety, Character.AI said Wednesday that it will roll out age assurance and remove “the ability for users under 18 to engage in open-ended chat with AI" on its platform by Nov. 25. The changes respond to questions raised by regulators and in recent news reports “about the content teens may encounter when chatting with AI and about how open-ended AI chat in general might affect teens,” the chatbot platform said.
An appeal this week of an EU General Court ruling in a case that questioned the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) will bring the issue to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) again, IAPP officials and privacy lawyers said Thursday. Euractiv reported French Parliament Member Philippe Latombe's appeal Wednesday. Latombe didn't immediately comment.
There remains a need for the federal government to establish “lanes” limiting how states can regulate AI technology, Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., told reporters Wednesday.
SAN DIEGO -- In its fifth major enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the state's DOJ announced a $530,000 settlement with streaming platform Sling TV, which cited the company's complicated and confusing opt-out mechanisms (see 2510300040).
A Pennsylvania genetic data privacy bill could soon get a House floor vote, amid increased interest in the topic this year following the 23andMe bankruptcy. The House Consumer Protection Committee voted 26-0 on Wednesday to clear HB-1530 by Chair Danilo Burgos (D), with members from both political parties joining hands to vote yes.
The Trump administration should work with Congress to preempt burdensome AI regulations at the state level, industry groups told the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in comments due Monday. Meanwhile, consumer advocates urged OSTP to protect civil rights through mandatory auditing, transparency standards and human oversight of high-risk AI systems.
Privacy and other civil society advocates are the "regulators of last resort" seeking to uphold human rights in the age of AI, speakers said Wednesday during a hearing of the U.K. Parliament Joint Human Rights Committee. Lawmakers are considering recommendations to the government on AI regulation and rights protections.