AI Big Issue at NCSL Summit Artificial intelligence was a major focus of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ 2024 Summit in Louisville last week, with 10 sessions devoted to various aspects of the issue. And while 2024 seemed like the year of...
CA High Court Upholds Gig-Economy Ballot Measure California’s Supreme Court ruled that a ballot measure passed by the state’s voters in 2020, allowing Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to continue classifying their California drivers as independent contractors...
States Target School Cell Phone Use At least four states have banned or severely restricted the use of smart phones in schools in the current legislative biennium. Florida became the first state to do so last year, and Indiana and Ohio passed bans this year....
NY Enacts Social Media Protections for Minors New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed first-in-the-nation legislation ( SB 7694 ) prohibiting social media platforms from providing algorithmic feeds to minors to try to keep them online. But the “Stop Addictive...
VT Gov Vetoes Tough Privacy Bill Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) vetoed HB 121 , which would have been one of the strongest consumer data privacy laws in the nation, allowing residents to sue data brokers for violations. Scott said the measure would make the state...
AI Disclaimer Bills Draw Support in NY First-of-its-kind legislation introduced last month in New York ( AB 10103 / SB 9450 ) would require generative artificial intelligence systems to notify users that the content they provide “may be inaccurate and/or...
CO Enacts Sweeping AI Law Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed SB 205 , the most sweeping artificial intelligence legislation in the country so far. In a letter to lawmakers, the governor said he was signing the measure in the hope of furthering the national...
CO Lawmakers Pass Sweeping AI Bill Colorado lawmakers have passed the most sweeping artificial intelligence legislation (SB 205 ) in the country to date. The bill was patterned after a bill ( SB 2 ) introduced in Connecticut this year by Sen. James Maroney (D...
VT Retailers Fight Data Privacy Bill Orvis and other online retailers based in Vermont are mounting an effort to scale back comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation ( HB 121 ) that has been passed by the state’s House. The opposition campaign is...
ME House Passes Restrictive Data Privacy Bill Maine’s House narrowly approved a bill ( LD 1977 ) that would impose restrictions on the digital information that companies can collect. Businesses would only be allowed to collect “personal data”...
MD Passes Major Data Privacy Bills With the approval of a pair of bills last week, Maryland joined a handful of other states, including California, Connecticut, Texas and Utah, that have passed both comprehensive data privacy legislation and social media or online...
Artificial intelligence is the “it” topic in statehouses this year with lawmakers everywhere considering proposals to regulate the rapidly evolving technology. There’s a lot of legislation to keep track of. Fortunately, the International Association...
DOJ and State AGs Sue Apple over iPhone Practices The U.S. Department of Justice and the attorney’s general of 16 states filed a lawsuit accusing Apple of violating antitrust laws by engaging in practices designed to keep iPhone customers from switching...
U.S. House Passes Bill to Force Chinese Owner’s Divestiture of TikTok On a 334-60 vote, the U.S. House passed a bill ( HR 7521 ) that would require TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the popular video app or have it banned in the United States...
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for Putting Profits Ahead of Humanity Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in San Francisco accusing ChatGPT creator OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of breach of contract for placing commercial interests ahead...