The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) was established in 1994 to secure the fundamental right to privacy for all in the digital age.
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.@MarshaBlackburn had previously expressed concern over the moratorium and the effect it would have on laws such as Tennessee’s ELVIS Act, which protects artists’ voices from the misuse of artificial intelligence, as well as CSAM-related laws.
By necessity, many laws that protect people from AI-driven harms (such as the ELVIS Act) put a “disproportionate burden” on AI systems.
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“The Senate should remove this unworkable provision from the bill rather than trying to prevent states from protecting their constituents from the AI-driven harms that Congress has failed to regulate." - Caitriona Fitzgerald
Earlier today, Senators @MarshaBlackburn & @tedcruz announced a proposed compromise on the proposed moratorium on state AI laws contained in the Senate’s reconciliation bill.
EPIC opposes the revised AI moratorium: “The multiple iterations of the AI state law moratorium demonstrate that, at the end of the day, members of Congress recognize that a sweeping ban on state-level AI regulation simply does not work,” - Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director.
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Funny you mention it—guess which federal agency just proposed a rule cracking down on those data brokers selling the data of U.S. military personnel? consumerfinance.gov/about-us…
.@CFPB published a report that found that all of the state privacy laws exempt either the financial institutions or the data covered by the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and the communications covered by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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EPIC has long advocated that any exemptions in state privacy laws should be as narrow as possible and that GLBA institutions should not be exempted wholesale. EPIC’s model State Data Privacy Act includes only narrow, data-level exemptions.
epic.org/documents/the-state…
Join EPIC, @CLAPrivacyLaw, & expert panelists like Annette Bernhardt, Director of the Technology and Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, and Samantha Gordon, Chief Program Officer at @TECollab, on 11/21 to discuss @CalPrivacy's proposed AI regs.
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On this Election eve, a reminder that who you vote for is private! The right to a secret ballot is a core value in America’s system of self-governance. Whether you voted or not might be public record, but *who* you voted for is secret.