US lawmakers are watching to see whether Colorado's bill for regulating AI, modeled on Connecticut's now derailed bill, can withstand the tech lobby pressure
Mallory Culhane / Politico : X: @cendemtech , @mallorykculhane , and @cendemtech . LinkedIn: James Maroney X: @cendemtech : @CenDemTech's Matt Scherer in @Politico talking about recent state legislat...
The US OMB releases new AI guidance, requiring that all federal agencies submit an annual AI report and have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use
Given the widespread usage of machine learning in software this sounds so broad as to be useless. … X: Vice President Kamala Harris / @vp : At the first-ever Global AI Summit last year, I laid out our...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee advances the Kids Online Safety Act and COPPA 2.0; critics highlight issues, like forcing companies to collect more user data
Policy Analyst, Free Expression Project — Aliya Bhatia is a policy analyst … Twitter: Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : At Senate Commerce markup of KOSA/COPPA 2.0. Cruz, the top Republican, says he'...
Yelp will add a note on crisis pregnancy center pages to distinguish them from clinics with abortion services, amid pressure on Google to clarify search results
and aren't ¸— doing amid intense pressure from both sides of the abortion issue in the post-Roe era. Here's the latest move by @yelp ... https://www.axios.com/... @cendemtech : “Yelp adding prominent ...
A look at China's plans for the IPv6+ internet protocol, set to be presented at the UN's ITU conference, in a bid to lure regions lagging in IPv6 adoption
Luca Bertuzzi / Euractiv : Tweets: @cendemtech , @byron_wan , @byron_wan , @bertuzluca , and @byron_wan Tweets: @cendemtech : “'The strategy is unlikely to work'... For [@CenDemTech's @MalloryKnodel]...
A look at the SMART Health Card, a minimal verification system that uses QR codes to check COVID-19 vaccine status, available to ~200M people in the US
The SMART Health Card is voluntary and minimal by design to protect personal information. About 80 percent of vaccinated people in the U.S. most likely have access to it. Tweets: @david_ingram , @rkl...
NY city council passed a bill that bans employers from using AI hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit shows they won't discriminate based on race or gender
Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews. Tweets: @cendemtech and @fbajak Tweets: @cendemtech : .@AlexReeveG...
Nearly eight months into his term, Biden has yet to pick new leaders at the FCC and NTIA, delaying action on key agenda items, like reinstating net neutrality
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post : Tweets: @cendemtech , @viacristiano , @masspirates , @robpegoraro , @digiphile , and @karlbode Tweets: @cendemtech : “'The commission can't really move forward on t...
A new generation of cameras in the UK that feed into facial recognition software, enabling real-time identity checks, raises new privacy concerns among citizens
Adam Satariano / New York Times : Tweets: @clareangelyn , @kenroth , @nytimes , @sandrawachter5 , @nytimesbusiness , @cendemtech , and @satariano Tweets: Clare Garvie / @clareangelyn : “...police dep...