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Jayne Ponder

Jayne Ponder provides strategic advice to national and multinational companies across industries on existing and emerging data privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence laws and regulations.

Jayne’s practice focuses on helping clients launch and improve products and services that involve laws governing data privacy, artificial intelligence, sensitive data and biometrics, marketing and online advertising, connected devices, and social media. For example, Jayne regularly advises clients on the California Consumer Privacy Act, Colorado AI Act, and the developing patchwork of U.S. state data privacy and artificial intelligence laws. She advises clients on drafting consumer notices, designing consent flows and consumer choices, drafting and negotiating commercial terms, building consumer rights processes, and undertaking data protection impact assessments. In addition, she routinely partners with clients on the development of risk-based privacy and artificial intelligence governance programs that reflect the dynamic regulatory environment and incorporate practical mitigation measures.

Jayne routinely represents clients in enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, particularly in areas related to data privacy, artificial intelligence, advertising, and cybersecurity. Additionally, she helps clients to advance advocacy in rulemaking processes led by federal and state regulators on data privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence topics.

As part of her practice, Jayne also advises companies on cybersecurity incident preparedness and response, including by drafting, revising, and testing incident response plans, conducting cybersecurity gap assessments, engaging vendors, and analyzing obligations under breach notification laws following an incident.

Jayne maintains an active pro bono practice, including assisting small and nonprofit entities with data privacy topics and elder estate planning.

On June 2, 2026, Colorado Governor Jared Polis vetoed HB 26-1210, a bill that would have imposed requirements for use of “surveillance data” to set individualized prices for consumers or individualized wage setting for workers. The veto is yet another action in a trend of bills focused on regulating “surveillance” or “dynamic” pricing.

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This update highlights key legislative and regulatory developments in the second quarter of 2026 related to artificial intelligence (“AI”), connected and automated vehicles (“CAVs”), and Internet of Things (“IoT”).

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On June 16, 2026, the Delaware General Assembly passed HB 380, which would amend the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA). The bill is currently awaiting the Delaware governor’s signature, and if signed, the amendments would take effect on January 1, 2027. The amendment would impose the following:

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On July 6, 2026, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed into law SB 315, a frontier model safety act that resembles the New York RAISE Act, discussed in our prior blog post here, and California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA), discussed in our prior blog post here. The law takes effect January 1, 2027, with transparency-reporting and audit obligations beginning January 1, 2028.  Similar to the New York and California laws, SB 315 will apply to frontier developers (i.e., persons that train, or initiate the training of, a frontier model using computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating point operations), with certain provisions applicable only to large frontier developers (i.e., frontier developers with annual gross revenue over $500 million in the preceding year). SB 315 also includes public safety disclosure and reporting requirements. Notably, SB 315 also imposes a third-party audit requirement not found in either the New York or the California law.

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On June 2, 2026, the White House issued an executive order titled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security” (the “Order”).  The Order reflects the Administration’s stated policy of advancing U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence (“AI”) while addressing national security risks associated with increasingly capable AI systems.  To accomplish these policy goals, the Order outlines two approaches: (1) strengthening U.S. Government and private industry cyber defenses in response to “advanced AI,” and (2) developing voluntary benchmarking and review frameworks for secure development and release of “frontier” AI models.

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On May 1, the Connecticut legislature passed an artificial intelligence (“AI”) safety, transparency, and consumer protection bill (“SB 5”). While the Colorado legislature takes steps to streamline existing requirements for developers and deployers of AI systems, Connecticut has passed a multi-part framework that will impose requirements on large frontier developers

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On April 28, 2026, Maryland Governor Moore signed HB 895 (the Protection From Predatory Pricing Act) into law, which will impose limitations on the use of personalized pricing in the food retail and grocery delivery context.  The law will go into effect on October 1, 2026.  As we have detailed in prior blog posts, there has been a wave of personalized pricing proposals at the state level, and the FTC is focusing attention on pricing in the grocery sector.

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On May 7, the Colorado Senate passed SB 189, a bill that would repeal and replace the state’s Colorado AI Act enacted in 2024 and scheduled to take effect on June 30, 2026. If enacted, SB 189 would replace the current framework with a narrower statute focusing primarily on

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This update highlights key legislative and regulatory developments in the first quarter of 2026 related to artificial intelligence (“AI”), connected and automated vehicles (“CAVs”), and Internet of Things (“IoT”).

I. Federal AI Legislative Developments

In the first quarter, members of Congress introduced several AI bills related to nonconsensual images, chatbots

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