State lawmakers filed nearly 500 AI-related bills in 2024 with Colorado, California, Illinois, and Utah passing notable laws. With state lawmakers emboldened by federal inactivity, 2025 promises to see even more state action. Regulatory agencies such as the California Privacy Protection Agency are also considering AI-related rulemaking that could have significant impact on businesses.
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Given the variety and complexity of tasks associated with operations management, automated systems, including those utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), are increasingly deployed by businesses to improve overall efficiencies. As part of this effort, the use of AI or related automated systems to track and monitor production, including employee activities, is becoming widespread. A 2022 New
Keypoint: With the increased frequency and severity of cyberattacks against healthcare systems, state and federal agencies strive to improve cybersecurity controls with varied success.
In November 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced proposed regulations that would be the first state regulations for hospitals in New York. The governor described the proposed regulation as a
On November 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency Board voted to advance the new draft CCPA regulations to formal rulemaking. In this on-demand webinar, HB privacy partner David Stauss provides a high-level summary of the draft regulations on automated decisionmaking technology (ADMT). During the Board meeting, the draft ADMT regulations were a source of many
Keypoint: The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) circulated an industry letter offering guidance to NYDFS “Covered Entities” for assessing and managing AI-related cybersecurity risks, including threats malicious actors using AI and the risks associated with a Covered Entity’s own AI systems.
The NYDFS industry letter (“Letter”) recognizes that Covered Entities can leverage AI to enhance
Keypoint: Of the ten privacy- and AI-related bills passed by the California legislature in the 2024 legislative session, Governor Newsom signed seven into law and vetoed three by the September 30 deadline.
Throughout the 2024 legislative session, we have been tracking numerous privacy- and AI-related bills pending in California. Ten of those bills passed the
It has been a busy year in state privacy and AI law with seven states passing consumer data privacy laws, four states amending their existing laws, multiple states passing children’s-related privacy laws, and four states passing AI-related laws. In this on-demand webinar available exclusively to Byte Back+ members, HB privacy partner David Stauss discusses those
Keypoint: The Texas Attorney General reaches a first-of-its-kind settlement with a healthcare company that provides generative AI products.
On September 18, 2024, the Texas Attorney General announced that it had reached a settlement with a Dallas-based artificial intelligence healthcare company. The Attorney General’s press release represents that it is a first-of-its-kind settlement, resolving allegations that
Keypoint: California district courts continue to split over whether “knowledge” is required to plead liability under Section 631(a)’s fourth prong while two decisions show courts taking different approaches to VPPA claims at the pleading stage.
Welcome to the seventeenth installment in our monthly data privacy litigation report. We prepare these reports to provide updates on
Keypoint: The California legislature closed its 2024 session by passing five privacy-related bills and four AI-related bills.
On Saturday, August 31, the California legislature closed its 2024 session. During the past calendar year, we tracked numerous privacy and AI-related bills with fourteen of them passing out of their chamber of origin prior to the legislative