Wavelength Weekly (1 May 2022)
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Here are the editions from the past week you may have missed:
§ EU Stakeholders Agree On Digital Services Act
§ Leaked Meta Document Suggests The Company May Not Know Where All Its Personal Data Is
§ Rumblings of A Data Protection Bill In Congress
§ FTC’s Budget Request — A Closer Look
And because Connecticut’s House passed SB 6 without changing the data privacy bill, and sending it to the governor for a signature or veto, here is the free edition from the week before on SB 6: Connecticut Data Privacy Law Moves.
Reports
“Open Markets Details How US Government Can Block Musk Takeover of Twitter” — Open Markets Institute
“Training Tomorrow’s AI Workforce” — Center for Security and Emerging Technology
“Police surveillance and facial recognition: Why data privacy is imperative for communities of color: — Brookings Institution
“The Long-Term Stay Rates of International STEM PhD Graduates” — Center for Security and Emerging Technology
“How to tackle the data collection behind China’s AI ambitions” — Brookings Institution
“The State Secrets Privilege: National Security Information in Civil Litigation” — Congressional Research Service
“The Online Safety Bill: A reading list” — United Kingdom House of Commons Library
“Government Internet Shutdowns Are Changing. How Should Citizens and Democracies Respond?” — Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“The return of digital authoritarianism: internet shutdowns in 2021” — Access Now
“Distance selling: sale of goods, digital content & services online, by phone, off-business premises etc” — United Kingdom House of Commons Library
“Strategic Competition in the Financial Gray Zone” — Center for Strategic & International Studies
“Many Hands in the Cookie Jar: Case Studies in Response Options to Cyber Incidents Affecting U.S. Government Networks and Implications for Future Response” — RAND Corporation
“Information Technology Spending in the President’s Budget Submission: In Brief” — Congressional Research Service
“U.S.-China Technological “Decoupling”: A Strategy and Policy Framework” — Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Superhuman science: How artificial intelligence may impact innovation” — Brookings Institution
“What Happens When Computers Can Write like Humans?” — Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
“Federal Broadband Data Sources: Frequently Asked Questions” — Congressional Research Service
“How Russia benefits from ill-informed social media policies” — Brookings Institution
“Designing Decision-Making Algorithms in an Uncertain World” — Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
“Breaking Down the Arguments for and against U.S. Antitrust Legislation” — Center for Strategic & International Studies
“How Elon Musk might shift Twitter content moderation” — Brookings Institution
“Managing U.S.-China Tensions Over Public Cyber Attribution” — Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Lessons from India’s attempt to marry biometric and voter ID databases” — Brookings Institution
“Insurance, Cyberattacks, and War in Ukraine” — Congressional Research Service
Coming Events
§ 2 May
o Canada’s House of Commons’ Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) Committee will hold a hearing on the “Use and Impact of Facial Recognition Technology.”
§ 3 May
o The United States (U.S.) Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee’s Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “Connecting Workers and Communities: Preparing and Supporting the Broadband Workforce.”
o The United States (U.S.) Senate Armed Services Committee’s Cybersecurity Subcommittee will hold a hearing “[t]o receive testimony on artificial intelligence applications to operations in cyberspace.”
§ 4 May
o The New Zealand Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee will hold a private session on its “[i]nquiry into the current and future nature, impact, and risks of cryptocurrencies.”
o The European Data Protection Board will hold a plenary meeting.
o The United States (U.S.) National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee will hold an open meeting.
o The United States (U.S.) Senate Judiciary Committee’s Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “Platform Transparency: Understanding the Impact of Social Media.”
o The United States (U.S.) Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing titled “Resources and Authorities Needed to Protect and Secure the Homeland” with Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
§ 12 May
o The United States (U.S.) Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Justice will hold a listening forum on firsthand effects of mergers and acquisitions: technology.
o The European Data Protection Board will hold a plenary meeting.
o The United States (U.S.) House Intelligence Committee’s Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support Subcommittee will hold a closed hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Military Intelligence Program Budget Hearing.
§ 15-16 May
o The United States-European Union Trade and Technology Council will meet in France.
§ 16-17 June
o The European Data Protection Supervisor will hold a conference titled “The future of data protection: effective enforcement in the digital world.”