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Earlier this month, New Jersey became the thirteenth state to pass a comprehensive privacy bill. The law, which will go into effect January 15, 2024, is said to borrow many features from previously enacted state-level privacy legislation while also bearing several unique characteristics: it covers non-profit organizations as well as for-profit ones, bears a broad definition for “sensitive data,” and does not apply any revenue-based thresholds to organizations within its remit.
Deepfake phone calls have already factored into 2024 U.S. electoral races, as an AI-generated robocall purported to be from Joe Biden told New Hampshire voters to refrain from voting in the state’s primaries and an AI-generated audio clip of New York politician Keith Wright criticizing Inez Dickens disseminated last Sunday.
Even though New York City has recently passed and begun enforcing a law that requires companies to disclose how AI factors into its hiring decisions, few employers have complied.
Apple disabled a blood oxygen monitoring feature from two Apple Watch models sold in the U.S. in response to a successful patent litigation challenge from medical technology company Masimo.
In December, Israel published a draft of an amendment to a 2002 surveillance law that experts worry would allow its domestic security agency, Shin Bet, to secretly search electronic devices and databases using spyware.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a preliminary ruling in a landmark case on data protection in credit reporting, affirming the GDPR’s jurisdiction over automated credit reporting and scoring activities.
France fined Amazon 32 million Euros for violating the GDPR by “using an ‘excessively intrusive system’ to monitor worker performance and activity” within its warehouses.
Events
A weekly conversation series focused on the intersection of law and artificial intelligence, entitled LunchGPT, is set to be launched in the coming weeks. If you are interested in participating in this series, navigate here.
The Cyber Program at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is hosting a social event Tuesday, February 6 from 6:30 to 9pm EST at Arte Café. To RSVP, navigate here.
The 3rd ACM Computer Science and Law Symposium will be taking place March 12-13, 2024 in Boston. The day before this symposium, there will be a Workshop for Junior Scholars geared toward law students, post-docs, and recently appointed professors. The Workshop “aims to build community, provide advice in navigating interdisciplinary careers, and foster discussion about future research in Computer Science and Law.”
(Compiled by Student Fellow Cooper Aspegren)