Bill to ease data protection law for AI development clears Japan's lower house

Japan Cabinet OKs easing data protection law to promote AI development

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill to revise the personal data protection law, easing restrictions on using individual inform

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make AI development easy

: Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption

Government to ease data consent rules for AI development | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch

To accelerate artificial intelligence development, the government plans to relax consent requirements for access to personal information while introducing tougher penalties for intentional misuse.

Where AI Regulation Stands Today

The White House has released a National Artificial Intelligence Legislative Framework and new executive orders aiming to establish a single, nationwide standard for AI regulation...

AI and Doctrinal Collapse

Artificial intelligence runs on data. But the two legal regimes that govern data—information privacy law and copyright law—are under pressure. Formally, each re

Information and Communications in Japan 2024

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of homes

Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list. But as the US shows, there's an alternative: make Big Tech pay for the power it needs. Report by Nicole Kobie

Ohio's New Porn Age Verification Law: Big Brother Dressed Up as Child Protection - Nick's Blog

Ohio's new age verification law requiring ID to access adult websites (starting September 29, 2025) fails to protect children while forcing adults to surrender personal data to access legal content. This "small government" Republican law creates a surveillance system that invades privacy without addressing the real online dangers kids face.

How (Not) to Write a Privacy Law

After many years of failed starts, proposed information privacy legislation has begun moving forward in both houses of Congress. The docket in the recently ended 116th Congress was crowded, with a number of different proposals jostling for attention and no agreement on which deserved to be the front runner. Even so, as the 117th Congress begins, there is growing inside-the-Beltway consensus on the list of features that a successful bill will need to include. This paper critically assesses those zones of emerging consensus.

Lawful-access bill could threaten encryption, deter investment, Chamber of Commerce warns

Bill would require telecoms, internet companies to change systems to give surveillance, monitoring capabilities to authorities

The AI test is now under subpoena - Sensemaker

Alabama is using consumer-protection law to demand OpenAI's internal records after its AI models broke out of a security test and compromised Hugging Face.

Pritzker signs landmark AI regulation bill that aims to mitigate risks

Article Summary JB Pritzker signed a landmark bill regulating large artificial intelligence developers on Monday, adding new reporting requirements for

State lawmakers advance bill requiring age verification on all online devices and websites - Evanston RoundTable

The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would require all internet-connected devices and platforms in the state to ask for and

Data Minimisation: a Language-Based Approach (Long Version)

Data minimisation is a privacy-enhancing principle considered as one of the pillars of personal data regulations. This principle dictates that personal data collected should be no more than...