Rep. Summer Lee, D-Penn., is leading Democrats in a new House bill that would mandate every Federal agency utilizing, funding, or overseeing AI to establish a civil rights office dedicated to combating algorithmic bias, discrimination, and associated harms.  […]

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., introduced comprehensive AI civil rights legislation this week which aims to put “strict guardrails” on companies’ use of algorithms for consequential decisions. […]

A group of 16 Democratic lawmakers ­– led by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. – are pushing President Biden to use the administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights as the foundation of his forthcoming AI executive order (EO). […]

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. – along with Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Don Beyer, D-Va., and Ken Buck, R-Colo. – introduced new legislation on April 26 that would keep humans in the loop in the U.S. nuclear command and control process to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from having a role in making nuclear launch decisions. […]

The chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety reintroduced the Crypto-Asset Environmental Transparency Act, and this week held the Senate’s first hearing focused on the emerging technology’s impact to climate. […]

Two Democratic senators are urging the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) component to end its use of facial recognition technology and purchases from data brokers to carry out deportation proceedings. […]

Pointing to harms that can result from the use of online data from children and teens, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. – an architect of early internet privacy laws – is continuing his years-long push for an update to data privacy laws to more comprehensively protect children in today’s digital landscape, and expand provisions of the law to protect all adults if possible. […]

A group of five senators has sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urging the agency not to follow through with a plan to expand its collection of biometric information. […]

Democratic members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee led by Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., unveiled Federal data privacy legislation that aims to establish data privacy rights, outlaw harmful and deceptive practices by information service providers, and improve data security safeguards for online consumers. […]

California lawmakers on Thursday passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, one of the toughest U.S. laws governing data privacy. The legislation specifically targets information companies, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and AT&T–many of whom are headquartered in California. […]