Privacy law scholar and professor Dan Solove sends this great news along: I’m excited to share a press release from GW Law School announcing our new GW Center for Law & Technology. Through the Center, we’re building out our privacy and tech curriculum and activities, including: We created a new JD Concentration in Privacy, Data Security, and Technology….
AI and Mass Spying
Bruce Schneier writes: Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. At the end, I would get a report of all the conversations you had…
FCC Partners With States to Increase on Privacy and Data Protection Investigations, Signaling Increased Focus on Future Enforcement
Jonathan P. Garvin of Mintz writes: The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced Thursday that in furtherance of the work of the agency’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau signed Memoranda of Understanding (“MOU”) with the Attorneys General of Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania to share expertise and resources and to coordinate efforts conducting…
The House Intelligence Committee’s Surveillance ‘Reform’ Bill is a Farce
India McKinney of EFF writes: Earlier this week, both the House Committee on the Judiciary (HJC) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) marked up two very different bills (H.R. 6570 – Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act in HJC, and HR 6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 in HPSCI),…
Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman from emergency abortion
Sickening. Disgusting. Infuriating. PogoWasRight can’t even find the right words to express how despicable this situation is. No woman should have to go to court to get permission to get healthcare that she and her doctor believe is necessary. No woman should have to risk being left infertile because some people she doesn’t even know…
EU Strikes Deal to Regulate ChatGPT, AI Tech in Landmark Act
Jillian Deutsch reports: The European Union reached a hard-fought deal on what is poised to become the most comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence in the western world. […] After more than 33 hours of negotiations this week, delegates from the European Commission, the European Parliament and 27 member countries agreed to a set of controls…