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Iowa's comprehensive privacy bill signed into law

Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, signed Senate File 262 on consumer privacy into law. Reynolds touted the bill as giving consumers "a reasonable level of transparency and control over their personal data." The law will take effect 1 Jan. 2025. IAPP Westin Research Fellow Anokhy Desai, CIPP/US, CIPT, analy...
UK releases AI regulatory framework
The U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology published a white paper with its approach to regulating artificial intelligence technologies. The regulatory framework seeks to "build public trust in cutting-edge technologies and make it easier for businesses to innovate, grow and create j...
AI chatbots 'built by all of us'
The Atlantic reports that while artificial intelligence chatbots are built using data available online, there is "an uncomfortable disparity between who does the work that enables these AI models to function and who gets to control and profit from them." Chatbots are created "by ingesting books and ...
Arkansas files lawsuits against TikTok, Meta
The state of Arkansas brought lawsuits 28 March against social media companies TikTok and Meta, alleging the companies deceived consumers about children’s safety on their platforms, ABC News reports. In total, two lawsuits were brought against TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and on...
UK government offers UK GDPR reform bill analysis
The U.K. Regulatory Policy Committee, a government oversight entity, published its opinion on the proposed Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. The RPC's "fit for purpose" opinion examined the impact assessment conducted on the latest draft of the bill, including its amendments for the scie...
OAIC discusses Privacy Act reform
In an interview with the Australian Financial Review, Australian Information Commissioner Angelene Falk discussed her office's hopes for pending Privacy Act reforms. Falk called current data handling practices "very complex and difficult to understand," creating the need for improved guardrails that...