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• If confirmed by the Senate, Khan would become one of three Democratic commissioners at the FTC.
• Biden recently named Tim Wu, another big-tech critic and "father" of net neutrality, to the National Economic Council.
• Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout commented that Khan and Wu are not "tech critics," but "visionary anti-monopolists across the board."

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• Apple responded in a statement: "The allegations in the complaint are patently false and will be seen for what they are, a poor attempt by those who track users to distract from their own actions and mislead regulators and policymakers."
• In February, France Digitale issued a statement criticizing Apple for harming startups with its App Store practices.
• Last year, the Austrian advocacy group nyob filed a complaint against Apple for tracking users without their consent.

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• Intel is teaming with Microsoft on the DPRIVE program.
• The chip maker will work on developing an application-specific integrated circuit accelerator to reduce FHE's performance overhead.
• Duality Technologies, Galois, and SRI International were also selected to lead research teams for the DPRIVE program.

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• Google is publicly testing an alternative ad-targeting tool, which will use application programming interfaces instead of cookies.
• Google cited a Pew Research Center poll that found 81% of respondents believe that the potential risks from data collection outweigh the benefits.
• Bennett Cyphers, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that Google is ending Chrome support for third-party cookies to comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. 

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• Virginia's new Consumer Data Protection Act, which significantly boosts data privacy protections, still requires consumers to opt-out of data collection, except for sensitive data.
• The NYT observed that many companies bury their data collection controls deep within their websites, making it hard for consumers to find them.
• The editorial board supports federal legislation along the lines of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation to override a patchwork of state privacy laws that are often business, not consumer, friendly
• T-Mobile recently announced that it will begin sharing customer information with advertisers unless the customer opts out manually using the account's privacy tools.

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• The five-year term of the current commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, expires in October this year. 
• The new Information Commissioner "will be asked by the secretary of state to not just focus on privacy but to be really thinking about how they are helping to unlock the value of data again," Earl said.
• Yvonne Gallagher, digital director of the National Audit Office, told the virtual forum that barriers to business innovation lie more with infrastructure and hardware limitations than with regulation.

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• The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction to prevent Clearview AI from being used by law enforcement in the state and to delete facial scans of Californians collected so far.
• Clearview AI told CNN that it "complies with all applicable law and its conduct is fully protected by the First Amendment."
• Last month, Canada's privacy regulator ruled that Clearview AI violated its privacy laws by collecting facial scans of Canadians without their knowledge or permission.

• State privacy watch: The Oklahoma House has passed a data privacy bill that requires companies to obtain opt-in consent from consumers to collect and sell their personal information.
• The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has begun implementing its Simplified Arrival, which uses facial recognition, at the Hidalgo Port of Entry. The Government Accountability Office has criticized the Simplified Arrival program for privacy lapses. 
• The ACLU is warning that the use of robot dogs and other advanced technologies by law enforcement could threaten civil liberties if not controlled by clear policies.
• Brave, a privacy-first web browser, is launching a search engine that won't track or profile individuals who use it.
• How did Zoom build end-to-end encryption for their meeting platform? Security Engineer Merry Ember Mou explains how in their talk at Transcend’s privacy_infra() event.
• The Arizona high court has ruled that a Phoenix man can sue Costco for a health privacy breach. The plaintiff alleges that a Cosco pharmacist joked with the man's ex-wife about an erectile dysfunction prescription.