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EO on AI: President Trump signed an executive order Thursday intended to stop states from regulating artificial intelligence tools and processes. A patchwork of regulations would impede development of the technology. Federal oversight, with one central law, would be simpler for AI companies to navigate, White House officials said. No such law exists.
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The order establishes an AI litigation task force to challenge state laws that don't mesh with the order's principles.
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Federal funding for broadband tech will be withheld from states that don't comply.
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Further reading from WSJ Pro: Federal AI Plan Targets ‘Burdensome’ State Regulations
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PHOTO: FARRAH SKEIKY FOR WSJ
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Happening Monday: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force is meeting to discuss financial surveillance and privacy, including how transparent the blockchain should be. Tune in at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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Several healthcare groups have moved to settle class-action lawsuits over their use of so-called tracking pixel technology that collects data from users of websites and shares it with third-parties, including Google and Meta, whether purposeful or inadvertent. (ClassAction.org)
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Kaiser Foundation Health Plan agreed to pay up to $47.5 million to end a suit covering 13.1 million people in eight states and Washington, D.C., who had personal information shared without consent through their patient portal from November 2017 to May 2024. Individuals may receive between $20.98 and $41.95.
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San Francisco-based Sutter Health agreed to pay $21.5 million to end a suit filed by Californians affected by the pixel data-sharing between June 2015 and March 2020. Each patient would receive $90.
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Redeemer Health in Meadowbrook, Pa., agreed to pay up to 90,000 patients $25 each to settle a case that covers January 2019 to March 2023.
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Telehealth service Lemonaid Health agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle its pixel case, covering visitors to its website between June 2019 and July 2025. Individual payouts will be determined by how many people file claims.
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Fear of space hacking: Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D., Ill.) introduced a bill to ban Chinese-made lidar sensors from self-driving cars, citing worries that they could be tampered with from space in the event of a geopolitical conflict. (Reuters)
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£1.2 million
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Fine—about $1.6 million—issued by U.K. regulators to password manager LastPass for security failures that led to the breach of personal data of about 1.6 million U.K. residents in two cyberattacks in 2022. (Bleeping Computer)
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