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State Privacy Law Roundup📅Thursday, October 3 | 9 – 10 a.m. PTSpeakers: Julia Jacobson, Elizabeth Berthiaume, Kyle DullIn the first half of 2024, seven new state consumer privacy laws were enacted and three state consumer privacy laws became effective…
On September 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“HHS OCR”) announced that it had settled its cybersecurity investigation with Cascade Eye and Skin Centers, P.C. (“Cascade”), a privately-owned health care provider in Washington. For background, HHS OCR is responsible for administering and enforcing the Health Insurance Portability…
This blog post focuses on how the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) regulates generative AI, which the AI Act refers to as General-Purpose AI (“GPAI”) Models.
As explained in our previous blog post, the AI Act generally relies on a risk-based approach. This means that different requirements apply depending on the level of…
California’s governor has signed an amendment to CCPA, the state’s well-known privacy law. While California was the first to pass a “comprehensive” privacy law, it is the second -with this new amendment- to include “neural data” to the definition of sensitive personal information. It follows Colorado, which added this information to its law earlier this…
Veto for the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: opt-out preference signalOn September 20, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a proposed law (Assembly Bill 3048) that would have strengthened protections under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) by requiring internet browsers and mobile operating systems to offer consumers the ability to exercise their privacy…
The Colorado AI Act, set to take effect on February 1, 2026, introduces new consumer protection regulations for AI systems used by Colorado residents. It imposes disclosure requirements for public-facing AI systems and stricter obligations for high-risk AI systems – those which significantly impact decisions in areas like education, employment, and health care.
We covered…
The United States government sued eBay for alleged violations of environmental regulations, claiming the online marketplace facilitated the sale of prohibited products in violation of the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). According to the government’s complaint, eBay allowed third-party sellers to…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has created numerous opportunities for growth and economic development throughout California. However, the unregulated use of AI can lead to a Pandora’s Box of undesirable consequences. A regulatory framework that leads to inconsistent results likely will lead to other problems. Acknowledging this, the most recent California legislature included a bevy of bills…
Now that the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) has entered into force, the EU institutions are turning their attention to the proposal for a directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence (the so-called “AI Liability Directive”). Although the EU Parliament and the Council informally agreed on the text of the proposal…
Fraud in the payments space is nothing new. In fact, it is fairly pervasive across the (now numerous) available payment systems. And despite the clear benefits of faster payments, the advent of faster, more easily accessible methods of payment has given rise to new opportunities for fraudsters.
From bill payment and payroll to the “behind…
