California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed frontier AI legislation by Sen. Scott Wiener (D), the governor’s office said Monday.
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Microsoft has stopped selling, and has disabled, several services it provides to the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) because they're being used for mass surveillance of civilians, Microsoft President Brad Smith told employees Thursday.
California Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D) and consumer advocates on Friday said they’re optimistic Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will sign child online safety legislation after his remarks this week about regulating AI technology.
The California Privacy Protection Agency’s head enforcer heralded “a new era of privacy enforcement,” in an update during the CPPA Board’s Friday meeting. The agency has “hundreds” of investigations open, and in most cases the targeted businesses don’t know about them yet, said Michael Macko, deputy director of enforcement. “We haven't surfaced yet."
California’s proposed “No Robo Bosses Act” will “end some of the harshest consequences of automated abuse at work,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Tuesday. EFF urged Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to sign SB-7, which covers employers’ use of automated decision systems (ADS).
The FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) unanimously approved a report Thursday on “best practices” for the FCC and industry on the ethical and practical use of AI and machine learning (ML). The report, which examines privacy and new risks for telecom networks, wasn’t released Thursday.
Businesses face a raft of incoming California regulations on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) from a variety of sources, but privacy lawyers said this week that resulting compliance plans need not be elaborate.
Twenty DPAs have called for the creation of a reliable governance framework for trusted AI, French authority CNIL announced Tuesday.
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The California Privacy Protection Agency received final approval on automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and other rules from the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), the CPPA said Tuesday. Meanwhile, in materials released ahead of a Friday board meeting, the CPPA disclosed that it has seen a steady increase in consumer privacy complaints over the last two years.