This week California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a new investigative sweep under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We have anticipated this sweep for some time based on the focus and the direction of a number of inquiries, investigations, and enforcement proceedings initiated by Attorney General Bonta’s office over the past 12-24 months. The […]
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California Attorney General Delays Enforcement of CAADCA Amidst Legal Challenge
On March 4, 2025, the California Attorney General (AG) announced a further delay in the enforcement of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) until April 5, 2025. Initially operative on July 1, 2024, CAADCA’s enforcement had already been postponed to March 6, 2025, due to a trade association’s challenge to the statute’s validity. This […]
State AGs Publish Guidance on How State Laws Apply to AI
On December 24, 2024 and January 13, 2025, the Oregon Attorney General’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office published advisories (collectively, “Advisories”) explaining how existing statutes may be used to regulate, investigate and enforce against artificial intelligence (“AI”). These Advisories serve to remind AI developers, suppliers and users of heightened regulatory scrutiny of AI, […]
Top Ten Takeaways from California AG’s Healthcare AI Advisory
On January 13, 2025, California Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonta issued an advisory describing providers’ and businesses’ obligations related to the development, sale, and use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automated decision systems (“ADS”) in the healthcare industry (“Advisory”). The Advisory puts healthcare providers, insurers, and businesses serving the healthcare industry on notice of the […]
California Passes Generative AI “Training Transparency” Bill
On August 27, 2024, the California state legislature passed Assembly Bill 2013 and sent it to Governor Gavin Newsom for signature. If passed, AB 2013 would require companies that make generative AI systems and services publicly available to Californians to post documentation on their website about the data used to train such AI systems and […]