It’s crunch time for the California legislature, with many privacy and AI bills nearing the finish line as lawmakers return from summer recess Monday. A few of the most potentially impactful measures for businesses cover universal opt-out preference signals, location privacy, automated decisions and so-called surveillance pricing, said privacy lawyers and consumer advocates in interviews with Privacy Daily this week.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Aug. 13 that the State Department’s newly released annual report on human rights highlights the Republic of Georgia’s crackdown on freedom of speech and association and underscores the need for Congress to approve a bill to sanction officials who undermine democracy in the country.
Nvidia chips don’t have and shouldn’t be required to have so-called “kill switches” that would allow exported chips to be remotely disabled without the user’s consent, the semiconductor company said this week.
On the first day of higher tariffs for dozens of countries, prominent Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee attacked the policy, while the Republican chairman put a positive spin on soft employment numbers. The Senate minority leader used his daily floor speech to tie the tariffs to broader economic woes, while Republican leadership focused on Democrats' obstructions to prompt confirmation votes for presidential nominees.
On the eve of more tariff hikes, four prominent Senate Democrats decried what they said were so-called deals -- or, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer put it, "a raw deal for the American people."
Arrangements that force website users to pay a fee if they refuse to consent to ad tracking are on the rise in Europe, Austrian advocacy group Noyb said in a report it published Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has tried to justify collecting personal data of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients, but its efforts have fallen short, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said in comments submitted Wednesday to the department.
The chief negotiator for the EU told reporters in Brussels July 14 that his team had thought "we are very close to an agreement," though there were still "quite large gaps" on what the U.S. was offering and what the EU could accept on goods subject to national security tariffs, such as cars and steel, and, perhaps in the future, pharmaceuticals.
Republicans and business groups during two hearings Tuesday objected to California legislation seeking limits on surveillance pricing. They raised concerns with proposals regulating businesses’ price flexibility and providing a private right of action.
Christian state lawmakers unanimously supported an app store age-verification model bill last month, the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL) said Monday.