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AI Laws in Hillsborough, NC, North Carolina
As of 2026-07-26, AI Laws USA tracks 21 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Hillsborough, NC, North Carolina: 10+ federal protections, 10 North Carolina state-level rules, and 1 local Hillsborough, NC ordinance. Coverage is strongest on government use of AI, automated decision-making, consumer data privacy, and data-center siting and energy. 8 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Hillsborough, NC local AI rules
1 local AI rule specific to Hillsborough, NC, North Carolina.
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Expired Limited protection
Hillsborough ends its relationship with Flock Safety ALPR ca
Hillsborough, NC · Hillsborough ends its relationship with Flock Safety ALPR cameras
Town leaders in Hillsborough, North Carolina ended the town's relationship with Flock Safety in October 2025 amid the wave of local governments dropping ALPR contracts over surveillance and immigration data-sharing concerns.
North Carolina-level AI rules most relevant to Hillsborough, NC
10 North Carolina state rules apply to residents and businesses in Hillsborough, NC. Showing the 8 most relevant to Hillsborough, NC's local picture; 2 more are on the North Carolina jurisdiction page.
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In effect Limited protection
North Carolina State Government Responsible Use of Artificia
North Carolina · Effective 2024-08-01 · North Carolina State Government Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence Framework
NCDIT published a NIST-based framework of principles, practices, and guidance for state agencies deploying AI while reducing privacy and data-protection risks to residents.
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In effect Limited protection
NC Generative AI Implementation Recommendations and Consider
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) · Effective 2024-01-16 · NC Generative AI Implementation Recommendations and Considerations for PK-13 Public Schools
North Carolina's education department released a generative AI guidebook (including the 'EVERY' responsible-use framework) covering leadership, human capacity, curriculum, data privacy, and technology infrastructure for public schools.
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In effect Limited protection
NC HB 469 (2017 AV statute)
North Carolina · Effective 2017-12-01 · S.L. 2017-166; N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 20-400–20-403
North Carolina legalized fully autonomous vehicles, treats the registered owner as the operator for traffic-enforcement purposes, allows AVs to transport unaccompanied minors only with parental consent, and preempts local AV regulation.
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In effect Limited protection
NC AI Strategic Roadmap (released Jul. 1, 2026)
North Carolina · Effective 2026-07-01 · North Carolina AI Strategic Roadmap (AI Leadership Council under Executive Order 24), released July 1, 2026
North Carolina released its AI Strategic Roadmap on July 1, 2026. Developed by the AI Leadership Council that Governor Josh Stein created under Executive Order 24, the roadmap lays out 17 goals organized around three priorities: protecting North Carolinians from AI harms, preparing the workforce for AI, and using AI to improve government service delivery. As a published strategy document, it guides state agency AI adoption and safeguards but does not itself impose binding legal requirements.
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In effect Limited protection
Executive Order No. 24: Advancing Trustworthy Artificial Int
North Carolina · Effective 2025-09-02 · Executive Order No. 24: Advancing Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence That Benefits All North Carolinians
Governor Josh Stein's order establishes an AI Leadership Council and an AI Accelerator within NCDIT and requires each Cabinet agency to form an AI Oversight Team and submit AI use cases for risk assessment.
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In effect Stronger protection
EBCI Ord. 158 (Data Center Moratorium)
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians · Effective 2026-05-07 · EBCI Ordinance No. 158, Cherokee Code ch. 47E (May 7, 2026)
Indefinite moratorium on data center development on the Qualla Boundary. Dinilawigi (Tribal Council) voted 11-0 to amend the Cherokee Code Chapter 47E, finding that high-impact digital infrastructure 'presents a clear and present danger to the lands and people' of the EBCI.
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Proposed / pending Limited protection
North Carolina Senate Bill 730 (Data Center Water and Coolin
North Carolina · North Carolina Senate Bill 730 (Data Center Water and Cooling Regulations)
North Carolina's House advanced SB 730 to largely prohibit evaporative cooling, require closed-loop water systems, and direct the state to set water-use standards for large data centers.
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In effect Limited protection
NC DOI AI Bulletin
NC · Effective 2024-12-18 · North Carolina DOI Bulletin 24-B-19 (2024-12-18)
The NC Department of Insurance adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Insurers licensed in NC must maintain a written AI program with governance, risk-management, testing, third-party-AI oversight, and documentation controls. The bulletin operationalizes existing unfair-trade-practice and unfair-discrimination law as applied to insurers' AI use cases — underwriting, pricing, claims, fraud detection, and marketing.
Federal AI rules that apply in Hillsborough, NC, North Carolina
These federal protections apply everywhere in the United States, including Hillsborough, NC, North Carolina. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.
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In effect Stronger protection
Bartz v. Anthropic
N.D. Cal. · Effective 2025-09-05 · Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.)
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over its use of pirated-book datasets to train Claude. In June 2025 Judge William Alsup ruled that training on lawfully purchased books was fair use. The piracy claims (LibGen ingestion) were not adjudicated to a final ruling — they proceeded toward settlement. In September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement, though Judge Alsup denied preliminary approval without prejudice pending additional information on the claims protocol and attorney fees.
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In effect Stronger protection
Benavides v. Tesla (Autopilot)
S.D. Fla. · Effective 2025-08-01 · Benavides v. Tesla, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-21940 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 1, 2025)
A Florida federal jury found Tesla 33% liable in August 2025 for the 2019 death of Naibel Benavides Leon, in a crash involving Autopilot. The jury awarded $243M ($129M compensatory + $200M punitive); in February 2026 the court denied Tesla's post-trial motions and upheld the verdict in full — the first Autopilot wrongful-death verdict against Tesla.
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In effect Stronger protection
COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)
United States · Effective 2025-06-23 · 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312
COPPA requires online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting kids' personal data. The 2025 rule update — fully in effect since April 22, 2026 — adds biometric identifiers (like face templates and voiceprints, which matter for AI tools), requires separate parental consent before sharing children's data for targeted advertising, and tightens data retention limits.
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In effect Stronger protection
TAKE IT DOWN Act
United States · Effective 2025-05-19 · Pub. L. No. 119-12 (S. 146)
Makes it a federal crime to knowingly publish intimate images of someone without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. Social media and similar platforms must give victims a way to request removal and must take the content (and known copies) down within 48 hours. The platform removal requirement became enforceable May 19, 2026, and the FTC has already begun enforcement.
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Blocked / in litigation Stronger protection
NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)
S.D. Ohio · Effective 2025-04-16 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 16, 2025)
Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was preliminarily enjoined on February 12, 2024, then permanently enjoined on April 16, 2025 when the district court granted summary judgment for NetChoice. The state appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which vacated the district court's injunction in 2026.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)
D.C. Cir. · Effective 2025-03-18 · Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)
The companion copyright case: Stephen Thaler sought to register a copyright with 'Creativity Machine' (his AI) as the author. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in March 2025 that the Copyright Act's human-authorship requirement is dispositive as a matter of statutory law. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thomson Reuters v. Ross
D. Del. · Effective 2025-02-11 · Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-00613 (D. Del. Feb. 11, 2025)
Thomson Reuters sued legal-research startup Ross Intelligence in 2020 for copying Westlaw headnotes to train a competing AI legal-research tool. In February 2025, Judge Stephanos Bibas (sitting by designation) granted summary judgment to Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement and rejected Ross's fair-use defense — the first definitive U.S. ruling on AI-training fair use. No jury trial occurred: a 2023 opinion had denied summary judgment and pointed toward trial, but the court invited renewed briefing and reversed course in the 2025 ruling.
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In effect Stronger protection
Louis v. SafeRent
D. Mass. · Effective 2024-11-20 · Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-10800 (D. Mass.)
SafeRent agreed in November 2024 to a $2.275M settlement and a five-year ban on using its 'SafeRent Score' for housing-voucher applicants, after a class action alleged its AI tenant-screening tool systematically denied housing to Black and Hispanic Section 8 voucher holders. The first major AI tenant-screening Fair Housing Act settlement.
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In effect Stronger protection
FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)
United States · Effective 2024-04-01 · 16 C.F.R. Part 461; 89 Fed. Reg. 15017
The FTC's Impersonation Rule lets the agency directly sue scammers who pretend to be a government agency or a real business — including those who use AI-cloned voices or generated images to do so. Civil penalties can reach $53,088 per violation. The FTC also issued a supplemental notice in February 2024 proposing to extend the rule to all individual impersonation.
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In effect Stronger protection
TCPA (AI voice calls)
United States · Effective 2024-02-08 · 47 U.S.C. § 227; FCC 24-17
Robocalls using AI-cloned or AI-generated voices are treated like other 'artificial voice' calls: callers need your prior express consent, must identify themselves, and must offer opt-outs for telemarketing. You can personally sue violators for $500 to $1,500 per illegal call.
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