The Great Deadline Slide in Tech Privacy
The deadlines for AI privacy rules keep moving out. The EU pushed its high risk AI obligations from August 2026 to December 2027 when the AI Omnibus entered into force on July 27. Colorado rewrote its AI law in May and moved the start date to January 1, 2027. HHS has delayed its overhaul of the HIPAA Security Rule, and the CFPB's open banking rule sits under a court order while the Bureau rewrites it.
Meanwhile, the software those rules were written for is already working. Agents place orders, initiate payments and read customer data today. Protection in September 2026 comes from general laws that never paused, plus the few new rules that landed on schedule. A business that reads every delay as breathing room is misreading the calendar.
Agents are already on the job
Mastercard is rolling out an agentic payment option with the startup Alchemy, which makes virtual...
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