Some state lawmakers are looking to pass legislation regulating the data broker industry in the wake of the shooting deaths last month of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband and the attempted killing of John Hoffman (D), a Minnesota senator, and his wife.
With rules governing general-purpose AI under the EU AI Act becoming effective Aug. 2 and enforceable for new models one year later, the European Commission on Thursday unveiled a code of practice aimed at helping industry comply with the act's GPAI provisions.
Expect the California attorney general’s office to support a bill requiring it to build internal expertise on AI once it sees “the money for it,” predicted California Sen. Jerry McNerney (D) during an Assembly Privacy Committee hearing Tuesday. The committee approved the measure to go to the Judiciary Committee by a 14-0 vote.
A European Commission proposal to ease some reporting requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) won backing from the EU's top privacy bodies Wednesday. They cautioned, however, that the amended rules must not result in reduced protection for individuals.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) hasn’t kept pace with privacy risks associated with wearable devices, Senate Health Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., said during a hearing Wednesday. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., also addressed the issue, noting state laws like the Colorado Privacy Act impose security requirements on companies selling wearables.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding Texas’ porn site age-verification law bodes well for dozens of similar state laws, but it might not apply meaningfully to app store age-verification laws, policy experts said during a livestream Tuesday.
Not only has General Motors (GM) and subsidiary OnStar unlawfully collected, processed and sold Nebraskans' sensitive data since 2015, but many residents unknowingly opted in to these data practices, Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) alleged in a lawsuit against the companies Tuesday. The AG said GM and OnStar violated the Nebraska Consumer Protection Act and Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
In the first major enforcement under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), the state's Attorney General William Tong (D) reached an $85,000 settlement with online marketplace TicketNetwork concerning privacy violations, Tong's office said Tuesday.
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region appears to be taking a different approach to AI regulation and governance than the EU and U.S., privacy professionals told Privacy Daily.