Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A proposed class action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group that claims the company’s insurance unit UnitedHealthCare used of artificial intelligence tools to deny Medicare Advantage claims for medically necessary care has the green light to proceed from a federal judge. In a ruling Thursday, a Minnesota federal judge dismissed some of the plaintiffs’ allegations…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Global Data Protection Authorities Issue Joint Statement on Artificial Intelligence
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On February 11, 2025, the data protection authorities of the UK, Ireland, France, South Korea and Australia issued a joint statement on building trustworthy data governance frameworks to encourage development of innovative and privacy-protective artificial intelligence (“AI”) (the “Joint Statement”). In the Joint Statement, the DPAs recognize “the importance of supporting…
Texas investigating DeepSeek for violating data privacy law
Suzanne Smalley reports: Texas on Friday announced it is investigating the Chinese AI company DeepSeek for allegedly violating the state’s data privacy law. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office also has requested relevant documents from Google and Apple, seeking their “analysis” of the inexpensive and open source DeepSeek app and asking what documentation they required from…
European Commission Withdraws ePrivacy Regulation and AI Liability Directive Proposals
From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On February 11, 2025, the European Commission made available its 2025 work program (the “Work Program”). The Work Program sets out the key strategies, action plans and legislative initiatives to be pursued by the European Commission. As part of the Work Program, the European Commission announced that it plans to withdraw…