U.S. President Joe Biden announced a series of actions to "further promote responsible American innovation in artificial intelligence and protect people's rights and safety." The administration said the U.S. National Science Foundation will allocate USD140 million to fund seven new National AI Research Institutes.
As lawmakers conclude new regulations are needed to support the online protection and development of children and young people, a recent proliferation of codes, laws, bills and regulatory guidance documents govern how online service providers interact with them. Key examples are the U.K. Age-Appropriate Design Code and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. Baker McKenzie's Elizabeth Denham and Jonathan Tam, CIPP/C, CIPP/US, explore the similar principles and subtle differences between the two regulations.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, opinion columnist Thomas Friedman likened artificial intelligence advances to opening Pandora's box. "We as a society are on the cusp of having to decide on some very big trade-offs as we introduce generative A.I.," he writes. "And government regulation alone will not save us." Full Story
U.K. lawmakers are facing a potential fallout if encrypted messaging apps cease offering their services in the country if the Online Safety Bill includes provisions that require breaking end-to-end encryption in certain instances, Politico reports.
The fifth annual Helsinki Information Law Moot court competition was held 17 March. Aspiring lawyers were given the opportunity "to apply their knowledge and interest" in the field of personal data and data protection by organizers Tobias Bräutigam, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, a partner and Head of Data Protection at the law firm Bird & Bird, and Sam Wrigley, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki.
The U.S. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published a request for information on automated tools used by employers to surveil, monitor and manage workers. OSTP Deputy U.S.
In an op-ed in The New York Times, U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said generative artificial intelligence will be "highly disruptive," and the agency "will vigorously enforce" its laws "even in this new market." She said, "We once again find ourselves at a key decision point. Can we continue to be the home of world-leading technology without accepting race-to-the-bottom business models and monopolistic control that locks out higher quality products or the next big idea?
With the EU's Digital Markets Act taking effect 2 May, the European Commission said potential online gatekeepers have until 3 July to notify their core platform services. The commission will then have until 6 Sept. to determine gatekeepers, and those designated will have until March 2024 to comply with the DMA. The commission also published a Q&A on the DMA, covering who will be subject to the regulation, what it means to be designated a gatekeeper and more.
On the heels of Iowa, Indiana became the seventh U.S. state to pass a comprehensive privacy law. While Indiana differentiated itself by providing covered entities with more than two and a half years to come into compliance, IAPP Westin Research Fellow Anokhy Desai, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, writes there is substantial overlap between the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act and three of the six state privacy laws, and organizations that have already implemented compliance processes with other states should not expect a major compliance overhaul.