Category: Legislation

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pending legislation
State of Florida
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Technology Transparency; Prohibits officers or salaried employees of governmental entities from using their positions or state resources to make certain requests of social media platforms; prohibits governmental entities from initiating or maintaining certain agreements or working relationships with social media platforms; providing exceptions; prohibits controller from collecting certai…
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KQED
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Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have a right to require a data broker to delete information they collected directly from you, but you can’t require a broker to delete information they may have acquired about you from other sources.

Under SB 362:

  • Data brokers would have to register with the California Privacy Protec…
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Legislation - Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
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What follows is a roadmap for the AIDA, explaining its intent and the Government's key considerations for operationalizing it through future regulations. It is intended to build understanding among stakeholders and Canadians on the proposed legislation, as well to support Parliamentary consideration of the Bill.
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Legislation - Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our economy and being used to tackle some of our toughest challenges, like fighting cancer, improving food production and reducing energy consumption. What's more, Canadian researchers and businesses are at the forefront of this transformation.

AI systems use data to automate complex tasks and sometimes to make decisions or predic…
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Nonprofit investigative news organization
The Markup
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The data brokers who’ve made fortunes from collecting and sharing millions of people’s personal information tend to fly under the radar. Names like LiveRamp or RELX might not be familiar to most Americans, but they’re making themselves known on Capitol Hill.
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The Guardian
Prof Nita Farahany argues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections now.
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Book
Nita Farahany
This book is an early warning and a call for immediate attention to put human rights legislation in place regarding neurotechnology and neural data collecting devices to protect everyone from both privacy invasion and its manipulative capabilities when coupled with AI. Professor Nita Farahany argues that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections now.
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Wired
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"...your right to know when and how AI is influencing a decision that affects your civil rights and civil liberties; your freedom from being subjected to AI that hasn’t been carefully audited to ensure that it’s accurate, unbiased, and has been trained on sufficiently representative data sets; your freedom from pervasive or discriminatory surveillance and monitoring in your home, com…
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Legislation - US
U.S. Congress
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The H.R. 3849 - ACCESS Act of 2021 Summary:

This bill requires large online platforms (e.g., YouTube, Salesforce) to facilitate consumers and businesses switching from one platform to another.

Specifically, the plat…