President Joe Biden today released his much-awaited executive order on the subject of AI. The headlines are justifiably about the order’s safety and security aspects (we have a story up on that here), but there’s also a fair amount in there about privacy and other civil liberties.
The U.S. lacks a comprehensive federal privacy law, with existing rules relating narrowly to either children (COPPA) or health information (HIPAA). Biden clearly doesn't like this—in his State of the Union earlier this year, he identified data privacy as a rare opportunity for bipartisan legislation, mostly with a focus on protecting under-18s, but also featuring “stricter limits on the personal data that companies collect on all of us.”
