The 23andMe bankruptcy will likely lead to more privacy regulation and enforcement due to significant public awareness of the event and its possible implications for people’s sensitive genetic information, privacy experts at the Osano Privacy Pro Survival Summit said Thursday. Meanwhile, the rise of enamored but potentially dangerous AI technology could increase challenges for privacy pros, said Noelle Russell, founder of the AI Leadership Institute.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Monday signed SB-754, which would update the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to prohibit obtaining, disclosing, selling or disseminating personally identifiable reproductive or sexual health information without a consumer’s consent.
Texas should reject AI legislation mirroring a proposal that was recently vetoed in Virginia (see 2503250010), Americans for Prosperity told state lawmakers Wednesday.
Virginia won’t be the next state with an AI law regulating development, deployment and use of high-risk systems. Calling the proposed requirements “burdensome,” Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed HB-2094 Monday.
Washington state bills requiring privacy and AI transparency are apparently dead after missing a Friday cutoff to clear fiscal committees in the legislature. However, child privacy bills in the House and Senate cleared their respective fiscal committees in time.
Maryland should create an AI working group instead of passing high-risk AI legislation modeled after Virginia’s potential AI law, tech industry representatives told Maryland’s Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
The Connecticut Senate will vote on an AI bill by Sen. James Maroney (D) this year, as it did last year, declared President Pro Tempore Martin Looney (D) at a press conference ahead of a Wednesday hearing on SB-2. While Looney said passage of the bill is urgent, Connecticut's chief innovation officer told a hearing the state risks regulating too soon and getting it wrong.
The Virginia legislature passed kids social media and student privacy bills on Thursday. The Senate voted 39-0 to agree with House substitutes on SB-854 and SB-1486. The House voted 97-0 and 98-0, respectively, for the bills earlier that day.
The Virginia House on Thursday agreed 52-46 to the Senate-amended version of an AI bill (HB-2094). The legislation would create requirements for the development, deployment and use of AI systems considered high-risk.
Virginia legislators approved multiple AI measures on Tuesday that cover private and public use of high-risk systems.