President Donald Trump can’t block state AI regulation through executive order, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Monday. A top tech advisor for Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) backed DeSantis’ comments, saying the EO "doesn't actually do anything in terms of affecting” state laws.
AI Privacy
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.
It’s best to avoid building privacy compliance programs around specific regulations or treating customers differently by region, Iman Saleh, Airbnb senior manager of AI privacy architecture said during a panel at the Risk Digital Global virtual conference Thursday. “Generalize when possible" and "work within the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law,” she said.
As tools that collect biometrics and biometric information have become a focus for plaintiffs’ bars in recent years, there were many developments around Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in 2025, Squire Patton lawyers wrote in a post Thursday.
Introducing privacy to young children may help empower them to continue to assert their right to it as they grow older, author and academic Lorrie Cranor told Privacy Daily in an interview. A professor of security and privacy technologies at Carnegie Mellon, Cranor recently wrote a children's book, Privacy, Please!
Most proposed changes to the GDPR in the European Commission's digital omnibus package would, if approved, diverge in some respects from U.K. data protection law, Stephenson Harwood data protection attorneys said in a Nov. 27 analysis that assessed how the 10 key proposed GDPR changes compare with U.K. law. However, they are unlikely to affect either side's data transfer adequacy decisions, said Hogan Lovells privacy lawyer Eduardo Ustaran.
President Donald Trump’s AI executive order late Thursday drew backlash from Democrats and Republicans -- as well as applause from tech industry groups and Capitol Hill advocates trying to avoid a patchwork of state AI regulations.
States are passing a large variety of laws to regulate AI, with some, like Colorado, taking a comprehensive approach and others, like California, targeting specific issues such as discrimination and employment, Vedder Price attorney Michael Kurzer observed Thursday on a panel at the Risk Digital Global virtual conference. Also, the lawyer said he sees “strong overlap between regulation of privacy and the issues that we're focused on now with AI.”
China is crafting guardrails for applications and AI development and has spoken with the U.S. about AI safety issues, Lan Xue, a Brookings Institution visiting nonresident fellow, said Thursday at a streamed Forum Global International AI Summit in Brussels.
The White House should abandon plans to issue an executive order attempting to block states from regulating AI, New York Attorney General Letita James (D) and New Jersey AG Matt Platkin (D) said during a news conference Thursday (see 2512080056).
Privacy professionals expected more states to enact comprehensive privacy laws this year, but none of the bills introduced this year crossed the finish line, they said Thursday on a TrustArc webinar. Instead, states passed narrowly tailored privacy legislation or amendments to existing laws. In addition, several court decisions and enforcement actions drilled deep into top privacy issues, the privacy pros said.