The Trump administration’s creation of large government databases consolidating the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans in an attempt to purge voter rolls is unlawful, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), League of Women Voters and others.
While there are state and federal protections for sensitive data, a comprehensive privacy framework at the federal level is needed to ensure all modes of data sharing are transparent, legal and regulated, panelists said Wednesday. They spoke during a Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) webinar about the federal government’s recent attempts to access state data.
Several House members are working on proposals to preempt state AI laws with targeted federal regulations, Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said Tuesday.
Congress should amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and preempt all state privacy laws from regulating financial services, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said in comments to the House Financial Services Committee.
A federal privacy statute is badly needed, and the timing is right to pass one now, said Chris Oswald, executive vice president and head of law, ethics and government relations at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). He spoke Tuesday during a panel on data privacy at the group's Masters of Data Conference.
President Donald Trump’s possible health-tracking system with Big Tech companies should increase the urgency for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to sign a health data privacy bill that passed the state legislature months ago, Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal (D) said in a Wednesday interview with Privacy Daily: “I will bring it to” the governor's office’s “attention today.”
States should amend comprehensive privacy laws to remove loopholes for consumer reporting agencies (CRAs), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said in a white paper released Tuesday.
The White House on Wednesday released its AI Action Plan, directing federal agencies to potentially withhold discretionary funding from states with AI regulations that “hinder” innovation. California's privacy agency and legislators from two other states rebuked the proposal.
The Senate Privacy Subcommittee will hold a hearing later this month on comprehensive privacy legislation, Chair Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told us Thursday.
There’s an audit trail showing Palantir is following privacy laws and protocols in its work with agencies like DHS and the Internal Revenue Service, the company's global privacy director said Wednesday.