Unions Look to Sway California Privacy Agency on Worker AI Rules

California’s labor movement is focusing renewed attention on the state privacy agency to establish guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, setting up a new lobbying front as powerful unions battle the state’s influential tech sector.

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is working on draft regulations that would give workers the right to prohibit businesses from using their personal data for AI purposes. Those regulations stem from the California Consumer Privacy Act, the only comprehensive privacy law in the nation that covers employees and not just consumers.

The regulations, labor groups said, would go further than ...