(The Consumer Protection Dispatch summarizes industry news and updates on emerging issues involving a variety of consumer protection issues including, but not limited to, data and AI.)
This week’s edition includes latest developments relating to AI laws passed by Colorado, Tennessee and Utah, U.S. Senate bipartisan working group on AI, a new privacy bill from
Communications, Media & Entertainment
Digital Dynamics: Booking.com's DMA Gatekeeper Role and AI's Expanding Impact on Travel Planning
By Greg Duff
Booking.com’s “gatekeeper” designation under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and artificial intelligence’s increasing influence on online travel garnered much of the attention this past week. Enjoy.
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- Chase Scores Major Win with Southwest Airlines. Want to get away? Chase Travel has a solution. Chase Travel is the only online platform (not competing card companies or
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ICO’s Third Consultation on Generative AI: Accuracy of Training Data and Model Outputs
By Max Gross
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently closed its third and final call for evidence on data protection issues in relation to generative artificial intelligence (AI) models. This time, the focus was on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) accuracy principle to the output of AI models, and how the accuracy of the…
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: May 13, 2024 to May 17, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- The Justice Department has submitted a proposal to be published in the Federal Register to reclassify marijuana under the Controlled
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Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Looking Ahead to Potential Practical and Legal Issues When AI Gets Autonomous
Generative AI has been most synonymous in the public mind with “AI” since the commercial breakout of ChatGPT in November 2022. Consumers and businesses have seen the fruits of impressive innovation in various generative models’ ability to create audio, video, images and text, analyze and transform data, perform Q&A chatbot functions, and write code, to…
Tennessee Out Front: Enacting Protections Against AI Misuse in the Music Industry
In late March, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act of 2024—known as the “ELVIS Act”—making Tennessee the first state to address head-on potential misuses of artificial intelligence (AI) related to an individual’s voice. The law prohibits individuals from using AI to generate and distribute replicas of…
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 29, 2024 to May 3, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- The FTC announced that it will hold a 45-minute webinar on May 14 at 11:00 a.m. ET to provide an
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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 22, 2024 to April 26, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- Perhaps the biggest regulatory news of the past week came not from the FCC, but instead from the Federal Trade
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11 States Now Have Laws Limiting Artificial Intelligence, Deep Fakes, and Synthetic Media in Political Advertising – Looking at the Issues
Artificial Intelligence was the talk of the NAB Convention last week. Seemingly, not a session took place without some discussion of the impact of AI. One area that we have written about many times is the impact of AI on political advertising. Legislative consideration of that issue has exploded in the first quarter of 2024,…
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 15, 2024 to April 19, 2024
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from this past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- The FCC announced several dates and deadlines in proceedings of importance to broadcasters:
- The FCC announced that May 16 is
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