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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 3h

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...

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 · 12h

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

AI Act Single Information Platform | AI Act Service Desk

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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · 12h

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.
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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 · 11h

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."

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 · 6d

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 · 12d

The Commission has just published a draft guidance and a template for serious incident reporting under the EU AI Act, together with a public consultation open until November 7.
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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 · 15d

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...

California Finalizes Regulations to Strengthen Consumers' Privacy

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Aug 19

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 · Aug 19

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...

Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Shake Up Meta’s A.I. Efforts, Again

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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎙️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 · Aug 15

To learn more about "Privacy People," check out the two trailers here: privacypeoplefilm.com

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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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎙️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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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand just issued a Biometric Processing Privacy Code that will create specific privacy rules for agencies (businesses and organisations) using biometrics and give New Zealanders confidence about the use of their sensitive personal information.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 3

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

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Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social · Jul 24

BREAKING: The EU Commission has released a mandatory template for AI developers to disclose training data. Unlike the Code of Practice, this is not optional. It could have global fallout, as rights holders abroad might use it to sue over copyright.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...

Explanatory Notice and Template for the Public Summary of Training Content for general-purpose AI models

The Template annexed to this Explanatory Notice aims to provide a common minimal baseline for the information to be made publicly available in the Summary of Training Content for general-purpose AI mo...

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Jul 23

Going to go full Joker mode as these guys pretend secure authentication hasn't been a solved problem for 20+ years and try and sell everyone on buying a stupid and ineffective surveillance orb as their solution to already solved problem

CNN @cnn.com · Jul 22

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Jul 22

Data protection is a cornerstone of EU values.

Today, we've launched the process to renew our adequacy decisions with 🇬🇧.

This would ensure personal data can continue to flow safely between the EU and the UK beyond December 2025.

More info ↓
europa.eu/!hbrDkn

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Jul 18

"The White House is set to use its forthcoming AI Action Plan to take aim at state and federal AI regulations while unleashing land and energy for data centers and cutting back environmental restrictions, three people who were provided details of the plan’s contents told POLITICO Friday."

POLITICO Pro: EXCLUSIVE: Trump AI Action Plan to slash regulations, streamline permits

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · Jul 18

Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.

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Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Phenomenal article by @meghanor.bsky.social on the ripple effects generative AI is having on creative writing and the mind. As an editor and writer, the issues she so thoughtfully unpacks here really hits home. A highly recommended long read.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Jul 18

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · Jul 11

For Times insider, where reporters tell the story behind a story, I wrote about how ChatGPT tipped me off to an important phenomenon, by telling the people affected to email me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/t...

Why Is ChatGPT Telling People to Email Me?

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Jul 10

General-purpose AI must be safe and transparent.

The Code of Practice is now available.

It is designed to help industry comply with the AI Act’s rules on general-purpose AI, which will enter into application on 2 August

More info ↓
europa.eu/!xFkbjC

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Jul 1

Blackburn has now filed an amendment to strike the AI moratorium from the bill altogether.

image of amendment text. basically just says “strike section 40012”

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Jun 29

one of the huge problems society will need to grapple with as these get better is not just that a lot of people will believe fake videos, or generate fake videos to validate false beliefs, but also that by-default a lot of people will assume even real videos that are uncomfortable to face are faked

Laura Carroll @lauracarroll88.bsky.social · Jun 29

"The quiz...is a warning. If citizens can’t tell what’s real, how can we preserve trust in elections, journalism, education—or daily life?...isn’t just about innovation; it’s about protecting civil rights, public safety, and democratic trust." Reader EMHinMI www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real? (Gift Article)

In this quiz, you can guess whether these videos were made by A.I.

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