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• Enact laws to ensure that consumers’ privacy rights are respected by default—in other words, without the consumer having to take action. Including recommended protections: 

  • Data minimization and a broad prohibition on secondary data sharing; 

  •  Opt out of first-party advertising; 

  • Right to delete; 

  • Right to access and data portability; 

  • Right to correct; 

  • Data security; 

  • Non-discrimination; and 

  •  Strong enforcement​.

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• Enact laws to protect consumers and citizens concerning the proliferation of AI technology. Ensure that the development of such technology be used for the benefit and protection of all natural humans.

  • Algorithmic systems should not be allowed to make significant decisions that affect legal rights without any human supervision

  • Products that are already regulated under LA law to be high risk and further would have new AI standards incorporated into the current regulatory process.

  • Guarantee an individual’s right to “meaningful information about the logic” of algorithmic systems: “right to explanation

  • All high-risk AI systems will have to meet standards of data quality, accuracy, robustness, and non-discrimination, while also implementing technical documentation, record-keeping, a risk management system, and human oversight.

  • Require disclosure that a chatbot is an AI (i.e., not a human)

  • Restrict self-preferencing algorithms in digital markets. Individual antitrust actions (e.g., against Amazon, and Google Shopping) to reduce self-preferencing in E-commerce algorithms and platform design

  • Restrictions on remote facial recognition and biometric identification

  • Bans targeted advertising to children and certain types of profiling (e.g., by sexual orientation). Require targeted ads to have explanations and users have control over what ads they see.