The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Snap, Inc and Snap Group Limited (Snap) with a preliminary enforcement notice over potential failure to properly assess the privacy risks posed by Snap’s generative AI chatbot ‘My AI’. The preliminary notice sets out the steps which the Commissioner may require, subject to Snap’s representations on the preliminary…
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Is Your State’s Child Safety Law Unconstitutional? Try Comprehensive Data Privacy Instead
Mario Trujillo and Adam Schwartz write: Comprehensive data privacy legislation is the best way to hold tech companies accountable in our surveillance age, including for harm they do to chi ldren. Well-written privacy legislation has the added benefit of being constitutional—unlike the flurry of laws that restrict content behind age verification requirements that courts have…
Legislative Developments in AI: The Bipartisan Framework for the US AI Act
Douglas A. Grimm of ArentFox Schiff LLP writes: On September 12, 2023, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law convened a hearing to discuss potential legislation focused on AI models, the third in a series of hearings by the subcommittee analyzing issues in AI oversight. A key discussion topic was the Bipartisan…
Appeals court lifts partial block on Idaho abortion ban
Josh Gerstein reports: A federal appeals court has lifted a lower court ruling that prevented the State of Idaho from enforcing aspects of its near-total ban on abortion. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Thursday granting Idaho officials’ request to put the injunction against the law on hold while the state appeals the lower…