Federal AI Moratorium Dies on the Vine as Senate Passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
On July 1, 2025, in a near-unanimous 99–1 vote, the US Senate stripped the artificial intelligence (AI) moratorium provisions originally included in the budget…
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Search, swipe, sleep — everything you do is being tracked, but can you even ‘turn it off’?!
This week’s conversation on The Intersect is about online privacy – or maybe the slow, confusing erosion of it. I sat down with culture and tech reporter Taylor…
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Tech tools to track protesters accused of interfering with ICE
Catherine Crump, technology law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law gives insight on location data tech used to track dissidents. Some tech-skeptical Califor…
California’s AB 2013: Generative AI Developers Must Show Their Data
California Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013), known as the Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency Act, was signed into law on September 28, 2…
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Struggling DNA testing firm 23andMe to be bought for $256m
Regeneron has different aims from the ones 23andMe presented to consumers, according to Dr Jennifer King, privacy and data policy Fellow at the Stanford Institu…
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Trump Admin’s Signal Fiasco Offers This 1 Startling Reminder For Anyone In A Group Chat
Trump downplayed the severity of this extraordinary leak of classified information and told NBC News that “Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man.” But…
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23andMe’s DNA database is up for sale. Who might want it, and what for?
It’s unclear who might take ownership of 23andMe. But experts said there are a lot of reasons genetic data could be valuable. “There are a breadth of commercial…
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Trump Admin’s Signal Fiasco Offers This 1 Startling Reminder For Anyone In A Group Chat
Trump downplayed the severity of this extraordinary leak of classified information and told NBC News that “Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man.” But…
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Signal isn’t infallible, despite being one of the most secure encrypted chat apps
“Signal protects against outside snoops listening in on your private conversations,” Riana Pfefferkorn, an encryption policy expert at Stanford University, told…
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23andMe’s DNA database is up for sale. Who might want it, and what for?
It’s unclear who might take ownership of 23andMe. But experts said there are a lot of reasons genetic data could be valuable. “There are a breadth of commercial…
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Online bullying isn't new, but it's evolving
Recently, the director of a nonprofit that focuses on eliminating waste in government bureaucracies testified before Congress. Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette criticized…
Rethinking Youth Privacy
Congress and state legislatures are showing renewed interest in youth privacy, proposing myriad new laws to address data extraction, addiction, manipulation, an…