Centre for Information Policy Leadership

On March 8, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency Board discussed and voted 3-2 in favor of further edits to revised draft regulations regarding risk assessments and automated decisionmaking technology, which were released in February 2024, but did not initiate the formal rulemaking process for these regulations, which is anticipated to begin in July 2024.
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On February 20, 2024, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Theodore Christakis, Professor of International, European and Digital Law at University Grenoble Alpes, released a comprehensive study titled The “Zero Risk” Fallacy: International Data Transfers, Foreign Governments’ Access to Data and the Need for a Risk-Based Approach.
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The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP recently published a discussion paper on “Comparison of US State Privacy Laws: Data Protection Assessments.” This blog entry provides a summary of the paper and a link to download a copy of the paper.
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On February 21, 2024, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP published a white paper on Building Accountable AI Programs: Mapping Emerging Best Practices to the CIPL Accountability Framework. This blog entry discusses the paper and provides a link to download the paper.
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On February 9, 2024, Hunton Andrews Kurth and its Centre for Information Policy Leadership prepared an op-ed discussing the implications of the European Commission’s Draft GDPR Procedural Regulation and European Parliament’s Draft LIBE Report.
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On December 12, 2023, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP released a white paper on Privacy-Enhancing and Privacy-Preserving Technologies: Understanding the Role of PETs and PPTs in the Digital Age.
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On October 30, 2023, U.S. President Biden issued an Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. It marks the Biden Administration’s most comprehensive action on artificial intelligence policy, building upon the Administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (issued in October 2022) and its announcement (in July 2023) of securing voluntary commitments from 15 leading AI companies to manage AI risks.
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On October 18, 2023, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership published an opinion piece in the leading European policy outlet, Euractiv, titled “The Time is Now: Why modernising transatlantic cooperation on cross-border law enforcement access to electronic evidence should be a priority.”
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