State legislatures have passed 20 bills this year that could directly or indirectly affect private-sector AI development and deployment, the Future of Privacy Forum said in a report released Thursday.
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AI privacy concerns are growing as copyrighted works and personal data are used to train, optimize and operate machine learning systems. From facial recognition to inference risks, AI applications often test the limits of existing privacy laws. Regulators worldwide are developing safeguards to govern data use, bias, transparency and consent in AI development. This page tracks legislation, regulatory frameworks and enforcement actions at the intersection of AI and data protection.
French DPA CNIL and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) agreed on a new collaboration on data protection, privacy and evaluation of algorithms and systems, they announced Wednesday.
New privacy regulations took effect in Maryland and various other states on Wednesday. Read our coverage of the new requirements, including:
Democratic state lawmakers around the U.S. want to ban algorithmic pricing, but the “corporate lobby” is killing or watering down proposals, Colorado Rep. Javier Mabrey (D) said Wednesday.
The IAPP on Tuesday unveiled a guide to Europe's digital law landscape for business, policy and tech audiences. The guide explains various digital regulations, changes being made, whom the measures affect and where the main risks and opportunities lie. Among other things, it maps the intersection of the GDPR with other laws, such as the AI Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act and Data Governance Act.
A Hamburg, Germany, company from the financial industry that violated the GDPR by failing to tell several customers why their credit card applications were rejected must pay 492,000 euros ($578,000), the city's DPA announced Tuesday.
Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Monday introduced a bill creating liability for developers and deployers of AI systems.
NetChoice urged California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to veto several bills as the tech trade group hopes it can convince state legislators to “relent in their seemingly inexhaustible desire to police speech and regulate sources of expression.”
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Lithuanian-based digital identity research tool Whitebridge.ai is selling "reputation reports" compiled from large amounts of scraped personal information about unsuspecting people to "anyone willing to pay" for them, privacy advocate Noyb alleged Monday. It slammed the company's "shady business model."