Welcome to the June edition of Akin Intelligence. To ensure continued receipt, please subscribe to future issues here if you have not already done so. For past issues and other AI content, check out Akin’s AI & ML Insights...more
On December 7, 2024, House and Senate Armed Services committee leaders unveiled legislative text (H.R. 5009) and a joint explanatory statement for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 must-pass defense authorization bill, which contains...more
Key Points - The Senate has passed landmark children’s online privacy and safety legislation via a near-unanimous vote shortly before departing for the August recess. The bill is comprised of revised versions of the Kids...more
8/2/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consent ,
COPPA ,
Data Collection ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Duty of Care ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Market Research ,
Minor Children ,
NDAA ,
Personal Information ,
Preemption ,
Privacy Policy ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Social Media ,
Transparency
On May 15, 2024, the Senate AI Working Group—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM)—issued their long-anticipated Roadmap for Artificial...more
5/17/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Fraud ,
General Elections ,
Healthcare ,
Innovation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Investment ,
Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
NIST ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Research and Development ,
Risk Mitigation
On December 7, 2023, House and Senate Armed Services committee leaders unveiled their conference report for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 must-pass defense authorization bill, which contains a number of artificial intelligence...more
Welcome to the November edition of Akin Intelligence. Looking back, October 2023 may be remembered as the month when the U.S. government tried to assume the mantle of global leadership on responsible artificial intelligence...more
11/22/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Bitcoin ,
China ,
Copyright ,
Deep Fake ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Digital Health ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Energy Sector ,
Executive Orders ,
Export Controls ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Infrastructure ,
Innovation ,
Know Your Customers ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Fraud ,
NIST ,
Notice of Inquiry ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Semiconductors ,
U.S. Commerce Department
Welcome back to Akin Intelligence: Hot AI Summer Edition! This month’s newsletter reflects the ongoing and increasing global activity around artificial intelligence (AI), including more proposed AI legislation and court...more
8/15/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Cybersecurity ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Innovative Technology ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Machine Learning ,
NIST ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Working Groups
Key Points -
Three of the four bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate committees with jurisdiction over data privacy have struck a deal on a comprehensive federal bill, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act,...more
Key Points -
The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2021, a bi-partisan proposal to increase Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) filing fees for the largest transactions, has passed the Senate...more
In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy partner Ed Pagano, senior policy advisor Casey Higgins and international trade counsel Maka Hutson discuss the Biden comprehensive immigration bill currently on Capitol...more
On Thursday, September 17, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and other Committee Republicans introduced a finalized version of their long-awaited data privacy legislation, which was first unveiled as a...more
9/22/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Transfers ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action ,
Proposed Legislation
On Thursday, May 14, House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce (CPC) Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a bicameral counter-proposal to the...more
5/15/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contact Tracing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Entities ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Health Emergency
Republican members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee formally introduced legislation on May 7, 2020, to give Americans more control over and insight into how their personal health, proximity and...more
5/12/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contact Tracing ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Geological Data ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Health Emergency
In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy partner Ed Pagano and senior policy advisor Galen Roehl discuss privacy legislation being considered in the U.S. Congress....more
1/9/2020
/ Connected Items ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Subjects Rights ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Internet of Things ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Preemption ,
Privacy Laws ,
Privacy Legislation ,
Private Right of Action ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Smart Devices
On Tuesday, November 26, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, introduced the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act. The bill notably contains a private right...more
• On October 17, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced legislation to establish baseline privacy and cybersecurity protections and issue fines to companies and criminal penalties to senior executives.
• The New Democrat...more
10/23/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fines ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Opt-In ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation
Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Rob Portman (R-OH) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) recently introduced the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (AI-IA) to organize a coordinated national strategy for developing AI. The...more
As part of the effort to rebrand the party and reconnect with working-class voters who were lost in the presidential election, congressional Democrats revealed a new populist policy agenda, titled “A Better Deal: Better Jobs,...more
9/18/2017
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
GAO ,
Job Creation ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
Obama Administration ,
Political Parties ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour