PAST EVENT
Risks and Risk Assessments: A Look at California’s Proposed AI & Privacy Regulations
21 Nov. 3:00 PM EDT

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Privacy Law Section of the California Lawyers Association are hosting a virtual panel discussion on Risks and Risk Assessments: A Look at California’s Proposed AI & Privacy Regulations at 12pm PT / 3pm ET on Thursday, November 21. EPIC Executive Director Alan Butler will be moderating the panel, and we are delighted to be joined by:
- Annette Bernhardt, Director of the Technology and Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center
- Samantha Gordon, Chief Program Officer at TechEquity
- Danielle Van Lier, Founder/Attorney at Van Lier Law and Consultant to SAG-AFTRA
- Jen King, Privacy and Data Policy Fellow, Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
The recent explosion of AI and automated decision-making systems has brought into focus—and frequently exacerbated—the risks posed by the commercial processing of our personal information. Opaque, unproven, and unaccountable systems track us through the world, analyze and commodify our data, and increasingly make decisions for and about us. Left unregulated, these systems threaten our privacy, autonomy, and wellbeing and can entrench discrimination in employment, healthcare, and other key areas.
The California Privacy Protection Agency recently voted out proposed rules aimed at protecting consumers from runaway data processing and harmful uses of automated decision-making technology—the latest step in the implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act. The rules would require businesses to conduct risk assessments for data processing activities that present a significant risk to consumers’ privacy or security; to provide consumers with disclosures and opt-out mechanisms when businesses deploy automated decision-making technologies; and to conduct periodic cybersecurity audits.
This panel will take a close look at those rules and the harms they are meant to address. How strong are the CPPA’s proposed regulations? Will risk assessments, transparency requirements, and opt-outs move the needle on privacy and algorithmic fairness? Will marginalized populations be well served by the rules, or is more needed from the CPPA and the Legislature? And what are the enforcement challenges that await the agency?
To register for the Zoom event, click here.
Watch a recording of the event here.
Read a readout of the event from IAPP here.