Virginia Privacy Law: Lawmakers Chart Enforcement, Outreach
Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act Working Group has recommended giving the Attorney General’s office new tools to enforce the privacy law as well as launching consumer education efforts. A new working group report aims to give Virginia a smooth path for implementing its passed but-unenforced consumer data privacy law. Virginia has delayed enforcing the Consumer Data Protection Act until 2023, […]
New Senate bill could block Big Tech mergers
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill Friday that would make it more difficult for Big Tech to acquire rival companies, Axios’ Ashley Gold reports. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Democratic senator introduces data privacy legislation
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is introducing legislation aimed at strengthening data privacy protections for American consumers. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
A European approach to artificial intelligence
The EU’s approach to artificial intelligence centres on excellence and trust, aiming to boost research and industrial capacity and ensure fundamental rights. The European approach to artificial intelligence (AI) will help build a resilient Europe for the Digital Decade where people and businesses can enjoy the benefits of AI. It focuses on 2 areas: excellence […]
Sen. Gillibrand: The only way to fix Facebook is to create a government data agency
A Data Protection Agency would safeguard Americans’ personal data and civil liberties. Thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents made public on Monday show a company whose own employees question its roles in the spread of dangerous content and calls to violence. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
How Can Government Protect Constituents’ Digital Privacy?
Digital privacy moves beyond protecting the data we have to ensuring that constituents have knowledge of and a say in how their data is used. So where do state and local governments go from here? Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Google’s Pichai calls for federal privacy legislation over patchwork of state laws
Washington has discussed, but not passed, privacy legislation. Pichai said Europe’s privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, is a useful model for the US in considering legislation to protect personal data. The 3-year-old law governs how and what companies can do with data they collect on residents of the EU. Read on our […]
Over 40 groups call on Congress to finally pass federal data privacy standard
A collection of more than 40 human rights, internet rights, and public interest groups are calling on Congress to pass data privacy legislation and investigate Facebook in the wake of a whistleblower testifying before a Senate committee last week. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Big Tech to face another bipartisan U.S. antitrust bill
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headed by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Grassley, plan to introduce a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms, like Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, from favoring their products and services. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
White House science advisers call for an “AI Bill of Rights”
The Biden administration is exploring a “bill of rights” to govern facial recognition and other potentially harmful uses of artificial intelligence, but the problems AI poses are much bigger than figuring out how to regulate a new technology. ata secure channel. Join Us Now!
