Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act

Issues related to treatment of metasearch sites and consumers in the travel industry; DOT Request for Information: Exploring Industry Practices on Distribution and Display of Airline Fare, Schedule, and Availability Information; Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee; issues related to competition in the travel and technology industries, including airline codeshare agreements; issues related to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996; S.4066, the PACT Act; H.R. 8636, the Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act; H.R. 748 Cares Act, and issues related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the travel/tourism industry.

Client expense: $190,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R. 739, Cyber Diplomacy Act of 2019 H.R. 946, Stopping Bad Robocalls Act H.R. 1644, Save the Internet Act of 2019 H.R. 2013, Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act H.R. 2202, Growing Artificial Intelligence Through Research (GrAITR) Act H.R. 2575/S. 1363, AI in Government Act of 2019 H.R. 3086/S. 1585, Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower (RISE) Act of 2019 H.R. 3156, Smart Technologies Advancing Reliable Transportation (START) Act H.R. 3262/H.R. 4686/ S. 1871, Sami's Law H.R. 4027, Stop the Censorship Act H.R. 4978, Online Privacy Act of 2019 H.R. 5703, Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth (PRIVCY) Act H.R. 6145/S. 3191, Industries of the Future Act of 2020 H.R. 6216, National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 H.R. 6395/S. 4049, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 H.R. 7308/ S. 4286, Research Investment to Spark the Economy (RISE) Act H.R. 7608, State, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2021 H.R. 8048, State and Local IT Modernization and Cybersecurity Act H.R. 8132, American Competitiveness Of a More Productive Emerging Tech Economy (American COMPETE) Act H.R. 8517, Protect Speech Act H.R. 8636, Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act S. 142, American Data Dissemination (ADD) Act of 2019 S. 189, Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act of 2019 S. 583, Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance (DATA) Privacy Act S. 748, A bill to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to strengthen protections relating to the online collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children and minors, and for other purposes S. 783, Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2019 S. 847, Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act of 2019 S. 1084, Deceptive Experiences To Online Users Reduction (DETOUR) Act S. 1116, Balancing the Rights Of Web Surfers Equally and Responsibly (BROWSER) Act of 2019 S. 1214, Privacy Bill of Rights Act S. 1558, Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act S. 1578, Do Not Track Act S. 1611, Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act S. 1914, Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act S. 2775, Harvesting American Cybersecurity Knowledge through Education (HACKED) Act of 2019 S. 2763, Filter Bubble Transparency Act S. 2878, Facial Recognition Technology Warrant Act of 2019 S. 2968, Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act S. 3284, Ethical Use of Facial Recognition Act S. 3300, Data Protection Act of 2020 S. 3398, Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act of 2020 S. 3456, Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act of 2020 S. 3663, COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act of 2020 S. 3712, Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced Problems (Cyber Leap) Act of 2020 S. 3749, Public Health Emergency Privacy Act S. 3771, Fundamentally Understanding the Usability and Realistic Evolution (FUTURE) of Artificial Intelligence Act of 2020 S. 3832, Endless Frontier Act S. 3861, Exposure Notification Privacy Act S. 3891, Advancing Artificial Intelligence Research Act of 2020 S. 3983, A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide accountability for bad actors who abuse the Good Samaritan protections provided under that Act, and for other purposes S. 4051, Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act S. 4066, Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act S. 4159, E-SIGN Modernization Act of 2020 S. 4422, Connecting Minority Communities Act of 2020 S. 4626, Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability (SAFE DATA) Act S. 4632, Online Content Policy Modernization Act S. 4758, See Something, Say Something Online Act of 2020 S. 5020, A bill to repeal section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 H.Res. 294, Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1644) to restore the open internet order of the Federal Communications Commission; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2021) to amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and to establish a congressional budget for fiscal year 2020; and for other purposes Potential legislation similar to H.R.4625, FUTURE of Artificial Intelligence Act of 2017 Potential legislation related to the regulation of facial recognition technology Draft legislation titled FTC Procedural Reform Draft legislation titled United States Consumer Data Privacy Act of 2019 Proposed rule restoring internet freedom (82 Fed. Reg. 25,568-25,590, June 2, 2017) Proposed rule accelerating wireline broadband deployment by removing barriers to infrastructure investment (82 Fed. Reg. 22,453-22,474, May 16, 2017) Draft memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies, Guidance for Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Applications (85 Fed. Reg. 1,825, January 13, 2020); Various issues relating to high speed broadband internet service and resolving the homework gap by access to broadband for students; broadband infrastructure and deployment; broadband and economic relief; technology and economic relief; intermediary liability; potential federal privacy legislation; potential legislation to establish a national privacy law; matter of streamlining deployment of small cell infrastructure by improving wireless sitting policies (FCC WT Docket No. 16-421); comments on refreshing of record in restoring internet freedom proceeding (WC Docket Nos. 17-108, 17-287, 11-42); facial recognition technology; net neutrality; privacy principles; internet of things (IoT) devices; robocalls and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) (P.L. 102-243); implementation of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (P.L. 105-277); artificial intelligence; Executive Order 13859, Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; FTC hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection; FTC data portability; FTC enforcement; FTC enforcement of section 13(b); FCC proposed radiofrequency marketing rule; reauthorization and appropriation for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); FY2021 Appropriations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); comments on March 30, 2020 Petition for Expedited Declaratory Ruling, Clarification or Waiver Filed by the American Bankers Association, et al. - CG Docket Number 02-278; comments on National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) NISTIR 8259, recommendations for IoT device Manufacturers: Foundational Activities and Core Device Cybersecurity Capability Baseline (2nd Draft); comments on the National Telecommunications and Information Administrations request for public comment on proposals and positions for the 2020 World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly; funding for the NIST AI risk management framework; FCCs COVID-19 telehealth program; Indias non-personal data governance framework; comments to Department of Transportation on remote identifications of unmanned aerial systems proposed rule; Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) and the coronavirus pandemic; comments on Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (Draft NISTIR 8312); petition to FCC Supporting Capital Ones TCPA Petition for Declaratory Ruling; inclusion of broadband funding in year-end appropriations legislation; implementation Section 2209 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (P.L. 114-190); potential nationalization of the 5G network; comments on OMBs Guidance for Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Applications; potential data privacy legislation; potential data aggregation legislation regarding section 1033 of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (P.L. 111-203); potential legislation regarding artificial intelligence; artificial intelligence regulation, research and development; potential legislation regarding digital assets; fintech and digital asset strategy; data privacy; revisions to Communications Decency Act (P.L. 104-104, Title V); consumer protection issues relating to lawsuit advertising; implementation of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) (P.L. 102-243)