Grace Gedye

ICYMI: @CFPB issued a circular making clear that financial institutions may be breaking a law w/whistleblower protections when they make employees sign broad NDAs Whistleblower protections are esp. important in tech/AI, where harms are often obscured ⤵️ https://t.co/Utep5F5rWD

RT @AricToler: Disable this here: https://t.co/iDIoxaiP4V

Relatedly, @ConsumerReports just today released the results of a nationally-representative survey of 2,022 US adults. - 66% of Americans oppose personalized pricing - Hardly any (7%) support personalized pricing https://t.co/9pN3BMuBdF https://t.co/1m7VUQ9RCb

FTC's Office of Technology @TechFTC

With a 5-0 unanimous vote, FTC launched a 6(b) study issuing orders to 8 middlemen companies to understand how surveillance pricing works as companies are increasingly using troves of data & algorithms to determine different prices for different people: https://t.co/GCNU9juJnF /1

Thrilled to see the @FTC tackling this. For those looking for a primer/refresher on pricing shenanigans, I highly recommend this from @jcbeam ⤵️ https://t.co/SqrDTquWvH

FTC's Office of Technology @TechFTC

With a 5-0 unanimous vote, FTC launched a 6(b) study issuing orders to 8 middlemen companies to understand how surveillance pricing works as companies are increasingly using troves of data & algorithms to determine different prices for different people: https://t.co/GCNU9juJnF /1

Staff at the California Privacy Protection Agency are recommending that the agency take a 'support if amended' position on AI bias bill (AB 2930). https://t.co/qBMsxZVRu0 https://t.co/ObufkaeKjV

Plus an example from @rcalo's testimony: "Say I'm trying to make dinner for my kids and I'm just desperately trying to find a movie for them to stream...if Amazon can figure that out, or Apple can figure that out, they can charge me more in the moment when I'm flustered" 1/

Grace Gedye @GraceGedye

On point comments from @rcalo on how profiling + AI allows companies to extract $ from consumers at today's Senate commerce hearing. "The future we're headed to, and even the present, is a situation where you're charged exactly as much as you're willing to pay in the moment."

On point comments from @rcalo on how profiling + AI allows companies to extract $ from consumers at today's Senate commerce hearing. "The future we're headed to, and even the present, is a situation where you're charged exactly as much as you're willing to pay in the moment."

RT @chuckbell: Thank you @NYDFS for adopting state regulatory guidance to protect consumers from unfair or unlawful discrimination by insur…

For the #AI state policy watchers: Approx 70 bills being heard tomorrow by the California senate judiciary committee including #AB2930, a major AI bias bill from @BauerKahan. #AB2930 has some elements in common with the already-passed Colorado AI Act https://t.co/LxPVxmwqYQ

Tip of the cap to @kara_williams97 and all the other folks at @EPICprivacy who worked on this #AI legislative scorecard. A useful resource for those of us working in #AI policy ⤵️

EPIC @EPICprivacy

💡NEW: EPIC’s AI Legislation scorecard is now live! The scorecard is a tool for lawmakers, journalists, academics, and advocates to use to craft and evaluate AI legislative proposals. 🧵1/2 https://t.co/Ypgq3uhX67

cool job alert ⤵️

Hayley Tsukayama @htsuka

Hey everyone: I'm hiring. Come work with me to make the world a better place through state tech policy: https://t.co/0k5dy4nWm2

Proud of my colleagues for bringing the heat to @GeneralMills 🔥🔥🔥

Consumer Reports Advocacy @CRAdvocacy

We were joined by CR members & local groups (@CleanWaterMN, Sierra Club Northstar Chapter, Coalition for Plastic Reduction, @mnejtable, Mankato Area Zero Waste, @LFEnvironmental, and Northeast Metro Climate Action) to 35k petition signatures to General Mills HQ near Minneapolis. https://t.co/Mmbc4Mhmc1

Delighted to sit down with @AiPolicy to chat about the state of state AI bias legislation for an episode of @CenDemTech's podcast 🎙️ https://t.co/fRrkx5x5GM

Excited about this ⤵️

IAPP @the_iapp

🚨 #LinkedInLive alert!🚨 "What does the Colorado AI Act mean for AI governance and policymaking?" Join IAPP's @Cobun Zweifel-Keegan alongside @GraceGedye (@ConsumerReports), Ryan Harkins (@Microsoft) and @tatiianarice (@futureofprivacy) TOMORROW: https://t.co/Yk4Cr1KreS https://t.co/L5SFTtWJzQ

👀 New proposed rulemaking from FCC chair @JRosenworcelFCC re: disclosing the use of AI in political ads ⬇️ https://t.co/jYWNn9g377

FCC @FCC

Disclosing the use of AI in political ads makes elections more transparent. Today, we are taking a first step with our proposal that makes clear consumers have a right to know when AI tools are being used in the political ads they see on TV and radio.

Re: The Johansson + OpenAI voice debacle, there are some interesting bills in CA about non-consensual voice clones of performers and and dead people from @Ash_Kalra and @BauerKahan . h/t to @politicoca https://t.co/eu2krKZkGA

OpenAI engineer: "It’s kind of deeply unfair that, you know, a group of people can just build AI and take everyone’s jobs away... join us and have one of the few remaining jobs. I don't know; it's rough." https://t.co/LMNGAgFsXp https://t.co/UGnv2wwYd1

Alondra Nelson @alondra

“It’s not stealing to build the future if you believe it has belonged to you all along.” https://t.co/KADXGxYLpH