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?
This 18th-century English philosopher designed the Panopticon — a prison where inmates could be observed at all times without ever knowing exactly when they were being watched.
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
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?
Alizeh Bhojani, a fall quarter guest speaker on legislative advocacy, serves as Washington State Policy Counsel for this gender justice organization that also partnered with the clinic.
What is Legal Voice?
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)?
This French philosopher analyzed the Panopticon as a model for modern disciplinary power in his work "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison."
Who is Michel Foucault?
Washington’s My Health My Data Act focuses on protecting this sensitive category of information.
What is consumer health data?
Representative Monique Priestley hails from this state, which Forbes described as setting the "gold standard" for protections against AI
What is Vermont?
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?
Simone Browne's book examining the long history of surveillance of Black communities — from slave lanterns to modern policing — shares its name with something physicists can't see.
What is "Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness"?
Article 1, Section 7 of the Washington State Constitution guarantees the right to this.
What is privacy?
Tiffany Georgievski, who spoke about life as an AI attorney, works for this Japanese entertainment and electronics conglomerate.
What is Sony?
FIPP
What are the Fair Information Practice Principles?
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?
The fall "Drag vs. AI" class explored how drag performance and fashion serve as creative forms of this against surveillance and classification systems.
What is resistance?
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?
Dr. Lindsay Blackwell's class session covered these two interrelated fields dedicated to keeping online platforms safe, involving policies around harmful content removal and user protection.
What are trust & safety and content moderation?
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?
Gary T. Marx's essay about neutralizing and resisting modern surveillance used the metaphor of this small, sharp object placed in footwear to represent everyday acts of defiance.
What is a tack?