Landmark AI provisions dropped from House privacy bill headed to markup

The bipartisan privacy bill headed to markup this week in the House Energy and Commerce Committee no longer contains a section on civil rights and algorithms that would have represented an unprecedented step in U.S. artificial intelligence policy.

The latest version of the draft bill does contain provisions on data minimization and security, data brokers, “executive responsibilities” for senior management at covered entities and Federal Trade Commission enforcement that make it an important piece of both the cyber and artificial...