The Biden administration names White House economic adviser Elizabeth Kelly to lead the NIST's newly formed AI Safety Institute to develop AI testing standards
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The US says OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Palantir, and over 200 others are joining the new AI Safety Institute Consortium
The Biden administration on Thursday said leading artificial intelligence companies are among more than 200 entities joining …
How Dutch privacy negotiators, empowered by GDPR, have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft, Zoom, and others, as the Netherlands punches above its weight
Natasha Singer / New York Times : Tweets: @avilarenata , @coolshannes , @juliesbrill , and @jason_kint Tweets: Renata Avila / @avilarenata : Europe could/must build its own sovere...
As part of its new Responsible AI Standard rules, Microsoft plans to remove Azure's facial analysis tools, which can guess gender, age, and emotional state
The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person's gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.
The EU and US reach a preliminary deal to store data about Europeans on US soil, after the EU declared the previous pact illegal in 2020
leaving U.S. companies in the lurch. https://twitter.com/... @dcms : We welcome the announcement of an agreement in principle on adequacy between the EU and the US Global events sh...
The EU and US reach a preliminary deal to store data about Europeans on US soil, after the EU declared the previous pact illegal in 2020
leaving U.S. companies in the lurch. https://twitter.com/... @dcms : We welcome the announcement of an agreement in principle on adequacy between the EU and the US Global events sh...
Microsoft says Russia carried out 58% of detected state-backed hacks in the year ending June 30, with a 32% success rate; China accounted for 8%
and how organizations can better protect themselves: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
Biden to nominate Georgetown law professor Alvaro Bedoya, who focuses on privacy issues, to be a commissioner at the FTC
Alvaro Bedoya has spearheaded pivotal research into how the government's use of facial recognition software hurts America's most marginalized Source: The White House .
Microsoft announces a new pledge for EU commercial users of Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365, allowing them to store most of their data in the EU by 2022
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Microsoft launches a Kids Mode for Edge, with two age range options of between 5 to 8 years or 9 to 12 years
Microsoft launches a Kids Mode for Edge, with two age range options of between 5 to 8 years or 9 to 12 years
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EU's top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism Privacy Shield, in a ruling that could impact thousands of companies including Facebook
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
EU's top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism Privacy Shield, in a ruling that could impact thousands of companies including Facebook
A highly anticipated ruling by Europe's top court has just landed — striking down a flagship EU-US data flows arrangement called Privacy Shield.
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls Washington state's facial recognition law that regulates how public agencies use the tech a “significant breakthrough”
Microsoft President Brad Smith took a break from responding to the COVID-19 outbreak Tuesday to praise Washington state's landmark facial recognition regulations.