As we ring in the new year, we want to make you aware of key issues affecting consumers that we expect lawmakers and regulators to focus on over the next 12 months. Below are the top transatlantic consumer protection issues to watch out for in 2026:
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2026 Year in Preview: U.S. Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity Prediction
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As we ring in the new year, we want to make you aware of key issues that we expect lawmakers and regulators to focus on this year. Below are the top U.S. data, privacy, and cybersecurity issues to watch out for in 2026:
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The federal government has been shut down for over a month. We previously reported on implications for the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust work here. What does the shutdown mean for the FTC’s consumer protection, privacy, safety, and AI work?
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Introduction
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in mental healthcare for functions such as clinical decision support, notetaking and transcription, symptom screening and triage, administrative and operational improvements, augmenting the provider-patient relationship, post-visit remote monitoring, and companionship.
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On September 29, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 53, the Transparency in Frontier AI Act (TFAIA), the first-of-its-kind AI legislation in the U.S. that will require large AI developers to publicly disclose how they plan to mitigate potentially “catastrophic risks” posed by advanced frontier AI models. The law builds on recommendations from the June 2025 report from the Joint California AI Policy Working Group and is a pared-back successor to last year’s unsuccessful Senate Bill 1047, which was vetoed amidst industry opposition. Most provisions of SB 53 will be effective starting January 1, 2026.
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By Maureen Ohlhausen, Jamillia Ferris, Baasil Shariff, Maneesha Mithal, Demian Ahn, Doo Lee, Taylor Stenberg Erb, Scott McKinney, Joshua Gruenspecht, Kara Millard, Matthew Christiansen & Peter Mostow on
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On July 23, 2025, the White House announced its long-awaited comprehensive AI Action Plan titled “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the Plan). The Plan is aimed at positioning the U.S. as the global leader in AI and is a follow up to President Donald Trump’s January 23, 2025, Executive Order on “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence,” which revoked the Biden Administration’s prior AI Executive Order (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence). The AI Action Plan contains more than 90 policy actions related to three key pillars: 1) Accelerating AI Innovation, 2) Building American AI Infrastructure, and 3) Leading in International AI Diplomacy and Security. This alert touches on all three pillars with a focus on the first, which outlines the Trump Administration’s strategic vision and policy recommendations to drive innovation in the American AI sector.
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