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In a joint statement, U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, urged reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's Section 702.

Dropbox helps people store, organize and share their cloud content and all its workflows, with more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries, but for Senior Director of Privacy Sarah Pipes, CIPP/US, CIPT, FIP, it "really feels like home." Pipes chats with IAPP Staff Writer Jennifer Bryant about the alignment in privacy values she discovered at Dropbox, the joy she found in management and more.Full Story

Recently, major companies have been winning legal appeals of enforcement decisions rendered by several EU member state data protection authorities, the Wall Street Journal reports. Courts in Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. ruled in favor of companies, such as Amazon and Experian to overturn multimillion-euro fines, affirming their privacy practices were in keeping with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In one such ruling, a U.K. court ruled in favor of Experian, which appealed a U.K.

PimEyes, a tool purporting to help people track their web presence, is accused of scraping images of deceased persons to populate its database, Wired reports. A user, whose nonconsensual images were previously scraped into PimEyes' facial recognition database, found images of her deceased relatives, which she claimed were used to identify her on PimEyes when the company trained its algorithm on them. In response, PimEyes claimed it blocked the Ancestry.com domain, which the images were reportedly scraped from.