Sep 10, 2024 California AI Bill Would Make Companies Liable for "Critical Harms" to Humanity By Mitzi Hill California's legislature has passed AI-regulating legislation that, if signed, would directly take on developers of large AIs. The bill...
Sep 05, 2024 Uber Fined 290M Euro for Transferring Personal Data to the US By Mitzi Hill The Netherlands has fined Uber hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to provide adequate protection for driver data transferred to...
Aug 27, 2024 NIST Creates Generative AI Standards Useable as Best Practices By Mitzi Hill The government's standard-setting body, NIST, in late July published non-binding guidelines on the use of AI that can serve as a...
Aug 22, 2024 Kids' Privacy Bills on the Block in the House By Mitzi Hill After passing the Senate with much fanfare, a pair of federal privacy bills intended to protect children online has ground to a halt in...
Aug 15, 2024 Avoiding Buyer's Remorse With AI Tools By Mitzi Hill Attached is a story about how AI grading tools exposed school districts in California to embarrassing failures (including giving students...
Aug 13, 2024 Senate Passes Kids' Privacy Bills By Mitzi Hill Although Congress has been hard pressed to do anything in the privacy arena – for years – it has managed to get significant traction this...
Aug 08, 2024 NY AG Publishes How-To Guide for Businesses Regarding Consumer Tracking on the Web By Mitzi Hill The Attorney General of New York has published two new websites (one for businesses, one for consumers) relating to privacy choices...
Aug 06, 2024 An AI Walks Into a Bar... By Mitzi Hill If you are a sentient human, you probably recognize the headline of this post as the set-up for a million jokes and puns. (If you are...
Aug 01, 2024 Gut Check for Privacy Commitments By Mitzi Hill The Washington Post recently published a consumer guide to “sketchy” apps. If you are a business owner who offers your customers a...
Jul 25, 2024 Supreme Court Declines to Support Social Media Laws Banning "Deplatforming" By Mitzi Hill During the height of pandemic-era social and political disagreements about almost everything, two states (Florida and Texas) passed laws...
Jul 23, 2024 AI Triaging Tools Used in 911 Calls By Mitzi Hill In an effort to improve efficiency and to make up for staffing shortages, New Orleans parish is using AI software that helps triage 911...
Jul 18, 2024 Court Tosses HHS Rule about Online Tracker Privacy By Mitzi Hill In recent years, lots of litigation has claimed the online trackers such as the Meta pixel violate HIPAA (and other federal and state...