State lawmakers say New York’s lack of comprehensive data privacy legislation is going to make managing the unwieldy implications of artificial intelligence and an increasingly personalized online experience more and more challenging the longer New York goes without such regulations.

The state Assembly held a hearing Tuesday in which Chris D’Angelo, New York’s chief deputy attorney general for economic justice, testified that at this point, New York should look to other states and realize they aren’t doing enough to manage how data is used, and ways in which people can better understand their options to opt out.

“The use of our data in ways that we don’t understand leads to hyper personalization,” he said. “Creating divergent worlds that people live in depending on what their own persona

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