Marc S. Martin and Sydney Veatch of Perkins Coie write: In the last 30 days, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed 17 artificial intelligence (AI) bills and vetoed AI safety bill SB 1047. One of the AI-related bills signed into law, AB 2013 “Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency,” imposes new disclosure requirements on the developers of…
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China Issues Guideline on Sensitive Personal Information
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On September 18, 2024, the National Technical Committee 260 on Cybersecurity Standardization Administration of China released the “Cybersecurity Standard Practice Guideline – Sensitive Personal Information Identification Guideline” (the “Guideline”). Prior to this Guideline, existing laws of China, such as the Personal Information Protection Law and the Information Security Technology – Personal…
Activist wins privacy case against Meta over personal data on sexual orientation
Associated Press reports: The European Union’s top court has said social media company Meta cannot use public information about a user’s sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalised advertising under the bloc’s strict data privacy rules. The decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg is a victory for Austrian…
Neural data privacy an emerging issue as California signs protections into law
Suzanne Smalley reports: Neurobiologist Rafael Yuste had what he calls his “Oppenheimer moment” a decade ago after he learned that he could take over the minds of mice by turning on certain neurons in their brains with a laser. While initially excited about how the discovery might help schizophrenics suffering hallucinations, Yuste’s euphoria dissipated once…