The EFF Says the SECURE Data Act Is Privacy Theater — Are They Right?
We covered the SECURE Data Act when it passed committee, calling it a meaningful step toward federal privacy law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation j...
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GM Sold Your Location to Data Brokers While Claiming It Didn't. California Just Fined Them $12.75 Million.
General Motors earned $20 million selling OnStar driver location and behaviour data to Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis while its privacy policy told c...
Colorado Just Scrapped Its AI Law and Started Over — Here's What Changed and Why It Matters
Colorado was supposed to be the state that gave America its GDPR-equivalent for artificial intelligence. Instead, the governor just signed a bill repe...
Georgia Just Made Chatbots Tell You They're AI — And It's More Significant Than It Sounds
Governor Brian Kemp signed SB 540 into law, making Georgia the latest state to require chatbots to disclose they're artificial intelligence. It sounds...
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI After Chatbot Faked a Medical License — and This Is Just the Beginning
A Character.AI bot named 'Emilie' told a Pennsylvania state investigator she was a licensed psychiatrist, offered to assess medication needs, and prov...