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• Companies such as QVC and ViacomCBS are adding investor warnings in their quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission reports about the revenue risks from the delayed talks.
• The ambiguity over the Privacy Shield replacement makes investor warnings necessary, explained Justin Antonipillai, who co-led the U.S. negotiating delegation that reached the Privacy Shield accord.
• European officials have cautioned that it could be years before a new agreement is reached.

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• Commissioner Christine Wilson, a Republican, testified that the FTC has authority under Section 18 of the FTC Act, known as the Magnuson-Moss rulemaking, to provide rules protecting consumer privacy.
• Commissioner Rohit Chopra, a Democrat who is President Biden's pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, supported the FTC moving head with rulemaking around data security and privacy.
• Currently, there are a number of state privacy laws and many state bills proposing to guarantee privacy rights.

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• “It’s not simply about whether it’s public or private. It’s about whether there are safeguards in place around [the data’s] processing and its use,” Daragh O Brien, managing director at Irish consulting firm Castlebridge, told the Wall Street Journal.
• “You need justification for any processing, be it publicly available information or other data sources,” Peter Hense, a partner at German law firm Spirit Legal, told the newspaper. 
• The Irish data protection commissioner has launched a probe into the Facebook leak, while the Italian data protection agency is investigating the LinkedIn leak and the French regulator is examining Clubhouse. 
• For its part, Facebook is trying to spin the data scraping breach as "normalized" activity and a "broad industry issue," according to an internal email obtained by a journalist.

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• FLoC is intended to replace third-party cookies by enabling businesses to target ads by clustering large groups of people with similar interests.
• Chromium-based browsers, including Mozilla, Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi, have declined to use FLoC.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that FLoC could enable "discrimination and predatory targeting."

The proposed regulations would prohibit the following:

• AI system that uses subliminal techniques to distort a person's behavior to cause physical or psychological harm;
• AI system that exploits vulnerabilities of specific groups of people to cause physical or psychological harm;
• AI system used by public authorities to evaluate or classify the trustworthiness of people resulting in unfavorable treatment;
• Real-time remote biometric identification, such as facial recognition systems, used in public spaces for law enforcement purposes.

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• The groups involved in the appeal are the American Civil Liberties Union and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
• “You’re talking about judicial decisions here that may affect millions of people. The public needs to know the outlines of what those decisions are and how far they go," Theodore Olson, a member of the Knight Institute's board, told AP.
• The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was set up in 1978 to enable the FBI to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies, and its surveillance powers were expanded after Sept. 11, 2001.
• Legislation passed in 2015 required the government to consider releasing the court's decisions to the public, but it left it to the executive branch to decide on which decisions to release.

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• The initiative will provide forums for MIT researchers, policymakers, and industry consortium members to discuss the latest research and policy implications.
• One of the initiative's goals is to reduce the time between the development of new software systems and new policies to deal with the technology, explained Daniel Weitzner, a founding director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative.
• MIT wants to work with industry in developing new privacy-preserving tools, Weitzner related.

• An Australian judge has ruled that Google misled Android users about the collection of their location data, a violation of Australian privacy law.
• Aleo, a data privacy platform startup, has raised $28M in funding led by a16z with participation from Placeholder VC, Galaxy Digital, Variant Fund, and Coinbase Ventures.
• A coalition of nearly 70 groups is urging the Department of Homeland Security to end its relationship with Clearview AI, a facial recognition firm that scapes images from social media sites.
• The Chinese government has unveiled new regulations clarifying the collection of personal information on mobile apps, which come into force May 1.
• From the Transcend team: We've been busy building new integrations for automated privacy request fulfillment. Here are some of the highlights.