Artificial Intelligence

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.
Continue Reading CPPA Board Holds Meeting on Revised Draft Regulations for Risk Assessment and Automated Decisionmaking Technology

As reported by Bloomberg Law, on February 27, 2024, at RemedyFest, a conference hosted by Bloomberg Beta and Y Combinator, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said that sensitive personal data that is linked to health, geolocation and web browsing history should be excluded from training artificial intelligence models.
Continue Reading FTC Chair Asserts Certain Sensitive Data Should Be Excluded from Training AI Models

President Biden recently released an Executive Order “addressing the extraordinary and unusual national security threat posed by the continued effort of certain countries of concern to access Americans’ bulk sensitive personal data and certain U.S. Government-related data.”
Continue Reading DOJ Regulations and White House Executive Order Will Target Protections for Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data Against Foreign Threat Actors

As reported on the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives blog, on February 15, 2024, California lawmakers introduced the bill AB 2930. AB 2930 seeks to regulate use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in various industries to combat “algorithmic discrimination.” The proposed bill defines “algorithmic discrimination” as a “condition in which an automated decision tool contributes to unjustified differential treatment or impacts disfavoring people” based on various protected characteristics including actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, sex, national origin, disability and veteran status. Continue Reading California Seeks to Regulation Employer Use of AI

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.
Continue Reading CIPL Releases White Paper on Accountable AI Best Practices

On February 8, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission declared that calls using AI-generated, cloned voices fall under the category of “artificial or prerecorded voice” within the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and therefore are generally prohibited without prior express consent, effective immediately.
Continue Reading FCC Issues Declaratory Ruling that TCPA Applies to AI-Generated Voice Calls