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The EU AI Act needs Foundation Model Regulation

Artificial Intelligence remains largely unregulated. Although many of the world’s most esteemed AI experts have been cautioning against the manifold risks from advanced AI (including risks to public safety such as AI-driven disinformation and manipulation, ...
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Parliamentarians Focus on Digital Privacy Threats and Opportunities

In the past month, PACC president Sharon Polsky, MAPP had the honor of being invited to testify before the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology (INDU) to contribute to its study of Bill C-27, and the Standing Committee ...
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EU Parliament Moves to Protect Privacy

European Parliament's negotiators reached a broad majority agreement this week on a common position concerning the controversial EU chat control bill, which threatened to undermine privacy and encryption across the internet. The European Parliament’s position, ...
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The Launch of the Digital Transparency Lab

On September 22, 2023, Quebec’s Bill 64, An act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, came into effect. The Privacy and Access Council of Canada (PACC) was invited to participate in a ...
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Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2023

In 2005, the United Nations established the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to provide a forum for multi-stakeholder dialogue concerning public policy issues relating to the internet, involving such stakeholders as governments, the private sector, the ...
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Consultation: Online News Act — Bill C-18

Proposed regulations to implement the Online News Act were published in the Canada Gazette, Part I for a 30-day public consultation period beginning on Saturday, September 2, 2023 and ending on Thursday, October 2, 2023 at ...
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Public Sector Use of Private Sector Personal Data: Towards Best Practices

Governments increasingly turn to the private sector as a source of data for various purposes. In some cases, the data that they seek to use is personal data. The public sector use of private sector ...
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Consultation on revised notices regimes

The UK government has launched a public consultation on modifying the Investigatory Powers Act to “improve the effectiveness” of the current notices regimes. The consultation invites comments on the operation of the notices regime from interested groups and ...
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Consultation on Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation

The Australian government is seeking the public's feedback on its draft Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023. The new law would provide the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) with new powers ...
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Public Consultation on Lawful Interception

India has become the latest democracy to contemplate legislation to undermine encryption and privacy, and has issued a consultation paper seeking public input. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced a "Consultation Paper ...
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Canadian Digital Regulators Forum established to better serve Canadians in the digital era

The Competition Bureau (Bureau), the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) are joining forces to strengthen information sharing and collaboration on matters that relate to ...
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Advancing Access to Information in Africa

The African Network of Information Commissioners (ANIC) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have joined forces to strengthen access to information legal frameworks and implementation across Africa. This collaboration aims to ...
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Canada’s Regulators Launch Joint Investigation of OpenAI

The privacy authorities for Canada, Québec, British Columbia and Alberta will jointly investigate the company behind artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), the Office of the Information and ...
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AI and the Future ofTeaching and Learning

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released a new report on "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning. According to ChatGPT4, the report "provides insights and recommendations on how to ...
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When Private Messages Aren’t Private

A coalition of 93 groups has called on Slack to protect its users by offering end-to-end encryption for messages, and adding blocking and reporting features to help protect users from harassment. The signers include digital ...
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Don’t be fooled by Meta’s fine for data breaches

"Rarely has hype so contrasted with impact" is a fitting assessment of the GDPR's first five years, offered by Johnny Ryan, a senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Open Markets ...
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Generating Harms: Generative AI’s Impact

The Electronic Privacy Information Center — EPIC.org — has just released a report on Generative AI that details the harms these untested AI tools can cause; how GAI affects privacy, security, misinformation, the environment, and more; and remedies ...
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Facebook Vows to Fight the Fine

After a decade of litigation and mere moments after the largest GDPR fine levied to date became public, Facebook Meta vowed to fight the decision of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. In the company's response ...
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  • The EU AI Act needs Foundation Model Regulation
  • Parliamentarians Focus on Digital Privacy Threats and Opportunities
  • EU Parliament Moves to Protect Privacy
  • The Launch of the Digital Transparency Lab
  • Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2023

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