The European Union’s Court of Justice Thursday issued a preliminary ruling that said data subjects are entitled to an explanation of how an automated decision was made. The court sided with an Austrian court's previous ruling that said an automated credit check of a mobile provider customer that didn't offer the customer an explanation of the logic behind its decision, violated the GDPR.
Buddy AI violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by failing to get parental consent for collecting children’s data and not providing proper notice of its practices, BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) said Wednesday.
About half of U.S. workers worry about the future impact of AI use at work, Pew Research Center said in a Tuesday report. Nearly one-third believe AI will lead to fewer job opportunities in the future, found Pew, which surveyed nearly 5,300 employed adults in October. However, most workers (63%) said they don’t use AI much today.
Having thorough and understandable guidelines for highly organized data storage is key in data minimization, which saves money in the long run, said a panel of privacy experts during a HaystackID webinar Wednesday on data minimization.
The Connecticut Senate will vote on an AI bill by Sen. James Maroney (D) this year, as it did last year, declared President Pro Tempore Martin Looney (D) at a press conference ahead of a Wednesday hearing on SB-2. While Looney said passage of the bill is urgent, Connecticut's chief innovation officer told a hearing the state risks regulating too soon and getting it wrong.
While AI practices continue to raise privacy concerns, privacy laws may create a pathway for AI regulation, said Clark Hill privacy attorney Myriah Jaworski in a Tuesday webinar about the rise of AI liability.
Due to “misperceptions” about its multistate AI policymaker working group, Future of Privacy Forum “will be withdrawing from our work supporting the Working Group,” FPF CEO Jules Polonetsky said in a blog post Tuesday. FPF had convened the bipartisan group of 200 state legislators from more than 45 states to work on AI bills.
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Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) would lack the resources to enforce Maryland privacy laws without a proposed tax on data brokers that would fund a dedicated privacy team in his office, he said during a state House Economic Matters Committee hearing Tuesday. During a livestreamed session, the panel heard testimony on HB-1089, which would require that data brokers register with the state and, starting in the 2027 tax year, pay a 6% tax on gross income.
While the intent of a proposed workplace privacy bill in the Nebraska legislature was to ensure that employers don't violate employee privacy, more research is needed to ensure the benefits of artificial intelligence or workplace apps aren't stifled in the regulatory process, said bill sponsor Sen. John Frederickson (R) at a hearing on the bill in front of the Business and Labor Committee Monday.