With protections against AI bias removed, data privacy bill 'impossible for civil society to support'

Civil rights and privacy advocates are incensed that protections against data-driven discrimination and bias in artificial intelligence have been stripped from the most recent draft of federal comprehensive data privacy legislation.

The latest version of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) became public late Thursday with several significant changes, including most notably the deletion of two sections of the bill covering civil rights protections and algorithmic bias guardrails.

The revised bill, first published by Punchbowl News, will be debated in …

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