A coalition of labor unions and consumer advocates this morning are asking California’s privacy watchdog to defy Big Tech and advance potentially sweeping regulations for algorithms that influence everything from hiring to health care.
The California Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would place guardrails on companion chatbots, the latest target in lawmakers’ efforts to address youth online safety.
Yet California is also home to a powerful ecosystem of advocates and experts dedicated to responsible tech development. Common Sense Media and newly-launched Tech Oversight Project-California are working on kids safety, data privacy, and accountability in the tech sector.
“Good for state legislators in California and across the country who are standing up to protect our pocketbooks from these companies’ unrelenting greed and nip this emerging problem in the bud,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Tech Oversight Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that recently launched a California-focused advocacy effort.
The wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted Silicon Valley leaders Monday for cozying up to Donald Trump, calling them a “tech oligarchy” and accusing them of using “unchecked” power to avoid accountability for kids’ safety on social media.
Seeking to offset a rush of recent tech lobbying in California, the D.C.-based nonprofit Tech Oversight Project launched a Sacramento branch last week to advocate for stricter oversight of the industry.
With Big Tech pouring legal and lobbying dollars into Sacramento, a relatively upstart outfit with the mission of pushing back against industry titans called Tech Oversight Project told California Decoded it will launch its first state legislative branch in California.
California lawmakers want to stop artificial intelligence from ripping you off. In recent weeks they introduced five bills to address the issue, making predictive pricing based on a customer’s personal information one of the most popular tech policy concerns in the Legislature this session.
There are actions state leaders can take now to blunt the threat of mass surveillance and criminalization of people who live, work, or travel to our state. I spent years working to protect Californians’ rights to privacy as a California legislator, so I know there’s more that Governor Newsom and the Legislature can do —…