Colorado has become the first state to pass legislation (SB24-205) regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the United States. This legislation is designed to address the influence and implications, ethically, legally, and socially, of AI technology across various sectors.

Any person doing business in Colorado, including developers or deployers of high-risk

On November 14, 2023, the Colorado Division of Insurance’s AI insurance regulations went into effect.  Colorado is now the first state in the nation to adopt regulations specifically aimed at insurance algorithms.

Colorado’s regulation requires life insurance companies to report how they review AI models and use External Consumer Data and Information Sources (ECDIS), which

The Colorado Department of Law (“DoL”) has published a shortlist of potential universal opt-out mechanisms (“UOOMs”).  Beginning on July 1, 2024, companies will be required to allow consumers to opt out of the sale of their personal data or use of their personal data for targeted advertising using any UOOMs that are ultimately included in

With Colorado joining California as the only other state with rules implementing a comprehensive privacy law, businesses and practitioners have been anxiously watching to see whether a California-compliant privacy policy would also be compliant with the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”).  And, as the Colorado Attorney General has made clear, interoperability is an important guiding

On December 21, the Colorado Attorney General released a revised draft of the Colorado Privacy Act Rules. 

We will be providing in-depth analysis in coming days and weeks, but at first review, the revised rules appear to represent a fine-tuning as opposed to a complete overhaul.  Some of these changes – such as additional flexibility

With its draft rules, Colorado has set forth a new model for state privacy laws.  While there are many areas that are interoperable with the California model, the Colorado draft rules include important differences, as well as rules on topics that have been notably absent from California’s draft rules.  Ballard partners Phil Yannella and Greg

On October 1, 2022, the Colorado Attorney General‘s Office announced that it had submitted the first draft of its Rules implementing the Colorado Privacy Act.

The draft Colorado Rules run only 38 pages long—in notable contrast to the draft California regulations that run 66 pages (albeit in redline).  Moreover, the draft Colorado Rules address

Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser gave his first public comments since April last Thursday at Ballard Spahr LLP’s 2022 Annual Colorado Privacy Summit.  In an hour-long fireside chat with Ballard Spahr’s Co-Chair of Privacy and Data Security Greg Szewczyk, AG Weiser discussed the rulemaking process under the Colorado Privacy Act.  A recording of the interview

At the IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced the principles that would guide the CPA rulemaking process, after which his office published a white paper entitled Pre-Rulemaking Considerations for the CPA.  In the white paper, the Colorado Department of Law (which is headed by the Attorney General) welcomes informal input