China passed the world’s harshest data privacy law, threatening violators with fines of up to 50 million Yuan or 7.7 million at time of publication or 5 percent of annual revenue. The Personal Information Protection Law PIPL builds on China’s security-focused data protection regime.
The Biden era heightened momentum for the U.S. to pass a national privacy law, but those efforts have stalled, threatening prospects for broader action to rein in Silicon Valley.
The EU is considering a ban on AI for mass surveillance and social credit scores
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The European Union is considering banning the use of artificial intelligence for a number of purposes, including mass surveillance and social credit scores. This is according to a leaked proposal that is circulating online, first reported by
Politico, ahead of an official announcement expected next week.
If the draft proposal is adopted, it would see the EU take a strong stance on certain applications of AI, setting it apart from the US and China. Some use cases would be policed in a manner similar to the EU’s regulation of digital privacy under GDPR legislation.
U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash. U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., has reintroduced a bill that would create a nation-wide data privacy standard to be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission that in its latest version is intended to gather bipartisan support by addressing specific Republican concerns.
DelBene s Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act, if passed, would replace a patchwork of current state laws and provide an influx of $350 million to the Federal Trade Commission s budget to enforce these proposed regulations. The new DelBene bill marks an interesting start for the relaunch of the effort to advance federal privacy law, says Omer Tene, vice president of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Specifically, while coming from the Democrats side of the aisle, the bill is largely preemptive of state privacy laws and would not allow a private right of action.