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IAPP Editorial Director Host of The Privacy Advisor Podcast iapp.org/news/privacy-advisor-podca… My opinions here, not the IAPP’s.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.
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Christina Ayiotis @christinaayiotis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"A White House order directing federal agencies to replace 'artificial intelligence' and 'AI' with 'superintelligence' and 'SI' creates a terminology challenge for governance programs while leaving existing legal definitions unchanged for now." iapp.org/news/a/ai-by... @iapp.bsky.social
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AI by any other name? White House directs federal agencies to enter the era of 'super intelligence' | IAPP
A White House order directing federal agencies to replace "artificial intelligence" and "AI" with "superintelligence" and "SI" creates a terminology challenge for governance programs while leaving exi...
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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A good read from former FTC Chair Lina Khan on yesterday's self-regulatory announcement from the Trump administration and the Big AI CEOs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants A.I. Companies to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong?
Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 20/09/2026
Opinion: The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents. That creates the potential for unprecedented privacy breaches that expose not only isolated data points, but the entire mosaic of people’s lives.
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What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16/09/2026
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday proposed banning children under 13 from accessing social media, online games and chatbots during her annual State of the European Union speech in Strasbourg.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 05/09/2026
ICYMI: I wrote some words for my blog this.weekinsecurity.com about why Americans are destroying Flock cameras, and where the privacy fight goes next. Thanks for reading and sharing long-reads like this one.
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Vigilantism comes for Flock
More Americans than ever are destroying Flock license plate cameras amid rising backlash against the company. Is the tide turning on intrusive U.S. mass surveillance, and where does the privacy fight ...
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The Justice Department told a Manhattan federal court that it was in the national interest for the judge to find that OpenAI did not violate copyright law when it used articles by The New York Times and other publishers to develop artificial intelligence systems." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...
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Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit (Gift Article)
The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It will be interesting to see how Chatrie alters judicial approaches to “abandoned DNA.” If you’re not voluntarily disclosing records when you use a phone and tell things to Google, are you voluntarily abandoning DNA when you sit down on a chair or toss a cigarette butt?
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“In the near future, surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private.” - from a great op-ed by Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney
These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Cynthia Dwork & other privacy experts show why Trump Admin’s politically motivated decision to prevent the Census Bureau from using the best methods to protect confidentiality will end up with worse quality data, less publicly available data, and/or a privacy breach. scottaaronson.blog?p=9902
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An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.
Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to…
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/06/2026
OpenAI received a subpoena from several states as part of a probe into the safety of customers using its chatbot as it prepares to offer stock to the public for the first time.
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OpenAI hit with multistate probe into possible user harm as its IPO looms
OpenAI received a subpoena from several states as part of a probe into the safety of customers using its chatbot as it prepares to offer stock to the public for the first time.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.
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Language Models Trained on State Media Sources Launder Propaganda
Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
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Christina Ayiotis @christinaayiotis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“New discussion draft offers Congress a negotiating position as the White House mulls preemption options.” iapp.org/news/a/us-se... @iapp.bsky.social
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US Sen. Blackburn proposes AI framework to protect children, copyrights | IAPP
U.S. Congress' slow move on federal artificial intelligence policy may be coming to an end. U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced a fresh discussion draft 18 March aimed at kickstarting lawm...
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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
EU countries will discuss tomorrow adding two new bans to the AI Act via the omnibus. Draft proposals would prohibit AI systems used to generate non-consensual sexual deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. Support is growing, but questions remain. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
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EU countries to discuss banning sexual deepfakes, AI-generated CSAM | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
EU governments will discuss adding two new bans to the AI Act to prohibit generative AI systems from producing sexual deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. The proposal, debated under the amendme...
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public. “Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
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Munich Security Conference @munsecconf.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
📣 OUT NOW: Agenda MSC 2026
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Agenda and Livestreams: Munich Security Conference 2026
Follow the MSC 2026 discussions live and explore the program!
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Great @iapp.bsky.social The Privacy Advisor podcast (hosted by @jedbracy.bsky.social) episode with @omertene.bsky.social on what will keep privacy and AI governance folks busy in 2026. privacyadvisorpodcast.libsyn.com/a-look-ahead...
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The Privacy Advisor Podcast: A look ahead at digital policy in 2026 with Omer Tene
Goodwin Partner Omer Tene has long had his finger on the pulse of privacy and AI governance developments and trends. He advises clients on a wide range of issues, from data protection, artificial inte...
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Here is the Executive Order, “Ensuring A National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Trump’s AI Czar David Sacks said they will not push back against regulation of kids’ safety.
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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
BREAKING: President Donald Trump has announced a long-rumored Executive Order directing aspects of the federal government to take “decisive action” to ensure AI is regulated under a single national framework, a move aimed at curbing state-level AI regulation.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Signing ceremony underway for Trump AI executive order to limit state regulation of artificial intelligence. www.youtube.com/live/rYDbVjX...
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President Trump Participates in a Signing Ceremony, Dec. 11, 2025
YouTube video by The White House
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship. That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
this is true (Thanksgiving and Fourth of July, too)
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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Maybe that means you can enjoy your weekend! 😀
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 17/11/2025
On this day, 36 years ago, the #VelvetRevolution began. Students gathered in Prague and demanded more democracy. A peaceful movement that changed the course of history — and still inspires Europe today.
A large crowd of protesters gathered during the Velvet Revolution, many holding banners and Czech flags. People stand closely together in cold weather, some with umbrellas. Overlaid text reads ‘Velvet Revolution – 17–29 November 1989.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 10/11/2025
Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing." “Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.
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Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat
Library of Congress employees were informed to take caution when emailing the office of the congressional scorekeeper.
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Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Would you like to work on LinkedIn? InfoSec is hiring! We have both manager and IC roles -- and more coming. I'm here because I want to help protect people and not work with jerks. If that's what you like, then I hope you'll join us. Jobs in 🧵
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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
LEAK: I got my hands on the digital omnibus on AI. Some key takeaways: ▶️ Centralized enforcement ▶️ Expanded regulatory privileges ▶️ Grace period for labelling ▶️ No AI literacy obligation on companies Another must-read on @mlexclusive 👇 www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
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Planned EU AI Act changes to include centralized enforcement, regulatory tweaks | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Amendments to the EU's AI Act to be proposed on Nov. 19 look to include easing compliance burdens and centralizing enforcement through the European Commission's AI Office. An early draft, obtained by ...
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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Does the EU AI Act apply to AI agents? The Commission’s initial views seem to suggest AI agents might not always qualify as an AI system. MEP Lagodinsky asked the Commission to clarify its position and warned about a potential misalignment. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
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EU Commission’s preliminary views on AI agents raise legal applicability question | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen shared the European Commission’s initial views, prompting questions on whether  AI agents always qualify as AI systems under the AI Act. Lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky ask...
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wendyndavis.bsky.social @wendyndavis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The law firm that has represented data broker Kochava in its 3-year legal battle with the FTC over privacy is seeking to withdraw due to "serious and irreparable breakdown in communication." prior: www.mediapost.com/publications...
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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
“In order to protect fundamental rights, maintain legal certainty, and continue to ensure a high level of protection, any reform should be evidence-based, targeted, transparent, and further the EU’s values” (Christopher Kuner in this new FPF guest post) #GDPR #Draghi fpf.org/blog/the-dra...
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The Draghi Dilemma: The Right and the Wrong Way to Undertake GDPR Reform
There has been much interest in the report on European competitiveness issued in September 2024 by former Italian Prime Minister and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at the request of Euro...
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EPIC @epic.org · 22/10/2025
📢 NEW: EPIC published a new report today that examines how state Attorneys General are advancing privacy enforcement across the U.S. (2020–2024). 220+ cases. 35 letters. 20 investigations. Read more: epic.org/state-ag-pri...
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State Attorneys General & Privacy: Enforcement Trends, 2020-2024
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Eduardo Ustaran @eustaran.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Big #AI regulatory proposal from the UK Government, but not in the way many people think of regulation. This proposal is almost exclusively focused on facilitating responsible AI development through sandboxes, but with a twist… www.gov.uk/government/c...
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AI Growth Lab
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 20/10/2025
🔔 Public records-based reporting should be free. @404media.co and @wired.com are leading the way. Hear why this is a public service and good for business, ft. @josephcox.bsky.social, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, Caitlin Vogus, and Lauren Harper. 🗓️ Oct. 29, 2 pm EDT RSVP: freedom.press/unpaywalled
Invitation to FPF zoom webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT
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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
MEPs are preparing to call for EU copyright rules to apply to all generative AI systems placed on the EU market, even if trained abroad. A new compromise backs making respect of EU copyright law a market entry requirement under the AI Act. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
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Generative AI developers to see EU lawmakers call for extraterritorial copyright | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
EU lawmakers are preparing to call for EU copyright laws to apply extraterritorially to generative AI systems, meaning AI models trained outside the bloc would still need to comply with EU copyright r...
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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 09/10/2025
When people warn about the privacy and security risks of mandating digital age verification, this is exactly what they mean. It’s not hypothetical www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC article text: “Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.
The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached.
People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community.
The leaked data may involve personal information, partial credit card details and messages that were exchanged with Discord's customer service agents, the San-Francisco-based company says.”
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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The Netherlands weighs in on the EU’s digital simplification agenda. Key message: focus on legal clarity, not deregulation. It also calls for streamlined governance of EU boards and, on the AI Act, urges simplification over delays. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
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EU digital laws overhaul must prioritize legal clarity, Dutch government warns | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
A planned overhaul of EU digital legislation must focus on legal clarity and coherence, the Dutch government is urging the European Commission. In a document shared with other governments, it calls fo...
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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 566, requiring all browsers to offer a setting that sends an OOPS signal, letting Californians opt out of third-party data sales as per CPPA. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/08/g...
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Governor Newsom signs data privacy bills to protect tech users | Governor of California
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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The Commission has launched a tool crafted to help stakeholders determine whether they are subject to legal obligations and understand the steps they need to take to comply. ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en
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AI Act Single Information Platform | AI Act Service Desk
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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Digital sovereignty is on the agenda of the next European Council summit. Draft conclusions seen by MLex show EU leaders set to reaffirm the bloc’s regulatory autonomy and urge lawmakers to fast-track files related to simplification. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
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EU leaders set to discuss competitiveness at October summit | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
MLex Summary: EU governments and heads of states are planning an "in-depth discussion on bolstering the Union’s competitiveness" at their summit planned for Oct. 23 and 24, according to a preparatory ...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Meta and Apple "are in the final stages of agreeing a deal with European regulators to change a range of business practices after being fined a total of €700mn in April for breaching the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act, according to officials briefed on the discussions."
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Meta and Apple close to settling EU cases
US Big Tech groups in final stages of agreeing deal with Brussels to avoid series of escalating fines
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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The decision from DPC on TikTok’s transfers of EEA User Data to China was just published! See linkedin.com/posts/luisalbe….
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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Commission has just published a draft guidance and a template for serious incident reporting under the EU AI Act, together with a public consultation open until November 7. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/consultat...
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AI Act: Commission issues draft guidance and reporting template on serious AI incidents, and seeks stakeholders' feedback
Stakeholders are encouraged to provide feedback and examples on the interplay with other reporting regimes in this public consultation.
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Tom Kemp @tomkemp00.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Shaped by years of public input, California Finalizes Major New Privacy Rules! The CPPA has approved new regs on: - Cybersecurity audits - Risk assessments - ADMT - Insurance - CCPA updates 🗓️ Effective 1/1/26 Final docs coming soon to the CPPA website. Read more: cppa.ca.gov/announcement...
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California Finalizes Regulations to Strengthen Consumers' Privacy
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
JUST IN: A federal judge in Illinois has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit against the state that claims IL's workforce privacy law conflicts with federal immigration enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
NEWS: Meta will announce an AI reorganization today, dividing the Superintelligence division into four units weighing some cuts or employees moved from AI division considering licensing closed source models to build new AI products w/ @elitan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/t...
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Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Shake Up Meta’s A.I. Efforts, Again
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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🎙️PODCAST: Earlier this year, I sat down with @sbolinger.bsky.social to discuss his new documentary, "Privacy People," which tells the story of the rise of the privacy profession. In his exhaustive work, he traveled around the word to interview AND film leaders in the space: iapp.org/news/a/behin...
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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
To learn more about "Privacy People," check out the two trailers here: privacypeoplefilm.com
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Privacy People
Privacy People is a documentary film exploring the importance of privacy, the impact of big data and surveillance, and the evolving role of privacy professionals. Featuring interviews with privacy exp...
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