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US Senate committee looks to tie ban on state AI laws to federal broadband funding
A View from DC: Double toil and trouble in Connecticut's privacy amendment
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and AI governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he explores the legislative activity in Connecticut this session, which saw lawmakers amend the s...
USDA suspends its effort to obtain individuals' personal information
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paused its efforts to obtain the personal information of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants after advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the USDA, The New York Times reports. The lawsuit claimed the USDA was attempting "to round up the sens...
OpenAI pushes back against order to save users' ChatGPT logs
OpenAI is fighting an order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York requiring the company to maintain users' ChatGPT messages, Ars Technica reports. OpenAI said the court order forces the company to "jettison its commitment to allow users to control when and how their Chat...
EDPB adopts transfer guidelines to third countries, presents SPE reports
The European Data Protection Board adopted the final version of its guidelines regarding data transfers to third-country data protection authorities during its latest plenary meeting. Additionally, the EDPB presented two Support Pool of Experts reports that provide training material on AI and data p...
ICO launches AI, biometrics strategy
U.K. Information Commissioner John Edwards announced the launch of the ICO's AI and biometrics strategic efforts at the authority's AI All-Party Parliamentary Groups event. Edwards said the ICO will be "ramping up our scrutiny across the AI ecosystem — focusing particularly on areas where there is t...
Tech companies look to clarify hacker names
Technology companies Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto and Google announced they will work to create a glossary aiming to clarify hacker group names, Reuters reports. The initiative will work to provide information about specific hackers to victims of cyberattacks and identify which groups are poten...
25 leaders, 25 moments at 25 years: Edward Snowden
As part of its 25th anniversary, the IAPP celebrates 25 trailblazing innovators and 25 defining moments in the last quarter century that helped establish the privacy and digital governance profession. This week, we look at Edward Snowden's exposure of the U.S. government's ability to surveil citizen...
A view from Brussels: Where does Brussels stand on sovereignty?
IAPP Managing Director, Europe, Isabelle Roccia, CIPP/E, writes it's hard to tell where Brussels stands on sovereignty. But, she said, the EU must reconcile its ambitions, ways to achieve them and the marketplace and geopolitical realities at play. She discusses "signs of robust posturing on soverei...
Canada's OPC releases annual report
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne released his office's annual report, detailing progress made on his strategic plan. "At a time when the personal information of Canadians is being collected, used, and shared at an unparalleled pace and volume, on a global scale, effective privacy pro...