EVERGREEN STATE TECH POLICY
Citizens can speak directly to lawmakers by attending these sessions, where they share opinions and expertise on proposed bills.
What are committee hearings?
Danica Noble of the FTC Bureau of Competition explained that AI could raise red flags under antitrust law if firms engage in these behaviors.
What are anti-competitive practices (mergers, collusions, etc.)?
CCPA
What is the California Consumer Privacy Act?
Organizations often reference these laws, which vary by state, to understand their obligations to notify individuals after a data breach.
What are data breach notification laws?
Regulators worry that only a few large companies can afford to develop AI at scale, potentially stifling this key market force.
What is competition?
This is the procedural roadmap for making laws in Washington State: introduction, committee review, floor action, concurrence, governor’s signature—or sometimes this gubernatorial action.
What is a veto?
Willie Agnew discussed the importance of this community-driven approach, exemplified by movements like “Queer in AI,” to promote inclusive AI research.
What is grassroots or participatory AI policy?
DPIA
What is a Data Protection Impact Assessment?
This U.S. agency published “Data Breach Response: A Guide for Business,” offering best practices for handling a security incident.
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
One major antitrust concern is that AI developers may form these agreements or alliances to share data in ways that limit consumer choice.
What are anti-competitive collusions or cartels?
Washington’s My Health My Data Act focuses on protecting this sensitive category of information.
What is consumer health data?
Prof. Woodrow Hartzog advocates for stronger privacy and AI safeguards, including designing for this from the start, rather than adding it later.
What is privacy or safety by design?
CPRA
What is the California Privacy Rights Act?
CCPA enables consumers to seek statutory damages if a business’s failure to maintain reasonable security results in this event.
What is a data breach?
The FTC, led by this chair, is increasingly focused on Big Tech’s potential antitrust violations in the AI space.
Who is Lina Khan?
Chapter 19.375 RCW covers this category of personal data, continuing the state’s leadership in privacy.
What are biometric identifiers?
Tatiana Rice from the Future of Privacy Forum explained that AI legislation is moving rapidly at this level in the U.S., creating a patchwork approach.
What are the state legislatures (or state-level laws)?
NIST
What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology?
Under U.S. data breach notification laws, qualifying data breaches may require notification to these two groups.
What are impacted individuals and attorney's general?
Under federal law, a merger that substantially lessens competition may be challenged as a violation of this key antitrust statute.
What is the Clayton Act?
This proposed privacy law, which served as a national model for other US states who adopted comprehensive consumer privacy laws, never made it Governor Inslee's desk.
What is the Washington Privacy Act?
Prof. Emily Bender warned that large language models don’t truly understand meaning, describing them with this memorable nickname.
What are “stochastic parrots”?
STS
What is Science & Technology Studies?
Under Article 33 of the GDPR, a personal data breach must be reported to the relevant supervisory authority within this timeframe, unless the breach is unlikely to pose risk.
What is 72 hours?
This body, in addition to the FTC and DOJ, can also investigate but, distinctly, also pass legislation addressing competitive harms in AI.
What is the U.S. Congress?