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US lawmakers raise bipartisan FISA Section 702 reforms

With the deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act looming at the end of the year, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senate and House members introduced legislation to reform the existing law. The Government Surveillance Reform Act would impose search warrant requirements for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to review U.S. citizens' electronic communications data, along with several other data privacy and oversight provisions.

Hamburg DPA reviews Meta's plan for complying with targeted ads ruling

The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information said it is reviewing Meta's proposal to offer paid subscriptions without advertisements to users.

Amazon Prime privacy lawsuit dismissed

A lawsuit claiming Amazon violated New York and Minnesota video privacy laws has been dismissed, MediaPost reports. The complaint stated Amazon Prime stored information on viewers against laws that require video rental companies to delete user data within one year of collection. A federal judge found insufficient evidence of harm or unlawful data sharing.Full story

Balancing privacy, law enforcement's ability to access data overseas

U.S. law enforcement agencies are seeking more expeditious ways to access data stored overseas to aid investigations, R Street Institute Director and Cyber and Emerging Threats Team Senior Fellow Brandon Pugh, CIPP/US, writes. Based on conversations observed while attending a recent Ditchley Foundation "Data in Democracies" summit in the U.K., Pugh said U.S.

At AIGG: Crunch time for AI Act negotiations

Amid recent global artificial intelligence developments, the EU remains a focal point in the AI regulatory universe as EU institutions negotiate the proposed AI Act. Though big strides have been made toward finalization, the clock is ticking ahead of European Parliament's elections in June 2024 and a new European Commission. IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy reports from the IAPP AI Governance Global on the progress and remaining hurdles facing EU policymakers.

What '2001: A Space Odyssey' can teach us about AI risk management

Alibaba Cloud Head of Security Innovation Labs, Senior Director of Engineering Yuriy Yuzifovich unpacks how the dangers of artificial intelligence posed in "2001: A Space Odyssey" could have lessons for policymakers today viewed through the lens of the EU's proposed AI Act.Full story

Exploring privacy engineering's layers

To bring a deeper understanding of privacy engineering domains and their importance to the privacy community, the IAPP devised a series of charts dedicated to outlining individual engineering domains. The first releases define engineering domains and break down the IT infrastructure architect role. New charts will be added on a rolling basis.Full story

IAB Tech Lab advances data deletion request mechanism

IAB Tech Lab's Data Deletion Request Specifications aim to help the advertising industry comply with consumer deletion requests, MediaPost reports. The consumer tool will delete data and stop tracking through a signal and stop the supply chain of data tracking.

Obama Foundation Democracy Forum features AI discussion

During the recent 2023 Obama Foundation Democracy Forum, former U.S. President Barack Obama held a discussion with Decoder podcast host and The Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel that focused on how to utilize artificial intelligence to benefit democracy, as opposed to eroding it.

Spain's AEPD discusses synthetic data's use in privacy protection

Spain's data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, wrote a blog post discussing how synthetic data could replace personal data in artificial intelligence model training. Synthetic data could represent a stand-in for when large amounts of personal data are needed but not available or easily collectable.Full story

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