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President Trump’s Dec. 11, Executive Order, “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” (the “order”), targets what the administration views as burdensome and fragmented state AI regulation in favor of a single national framework.

Although the order does not overturn any existing or proposed state AI law, it directs federal agencies to challenge certain state AI laws, condition federal funding on compliance with the order, and propose federal preemption legislation.Continue Reading President Trump Signs Executive Order to Limit State AI Regulation

Privacy has been a hot political topic the last couple of months. President Obama proposed, among other things, that Congress enact the following:

  1. Personal Data Notification and Protection Act, which would nationalize consumer privacy standards and breach notification obligations; and
  2. Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which would give Internet users certain rights to control their data.

He also announced that he was creating a new federal agency called the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center to collect and analyze cyber…
Continue Reading Legislative Update: Obama Administration Continues Push for National Privacy Governance