The Golden State's AI gamble.

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This week, Ben Yelin is joined by Eoin Hinchy, Tines Co-Founder and CEO, sharing his perspective about straddling EU and US regulations as the AI guardrail conversation boils over. Ben's story looks into the doctrine of preemption and how it might impact efforts to regulate data privacy. While Dave look's at a major grocery chain getting pushback on its facial recognition program.

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Links to the stories:

• Big Tech is Trying to Burn Privacy to the Ground–And They’re Using Big Tobacco’s Strategy to Do It
• Kroger’s facial recognition plans draw increasing concern from lawmakers

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