ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Sierra7 a contract to help the Office of Information Technology Privacy Services conduct privacy impact assessments for data within the VA's electronic information systems.

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FedScoop

APRIL 15, 2024

Back in January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had stopped using commercial telemetry data that government agencies buy from private companies. The move comes as civil rights advocates have raised repeated concerns about the use of commercial telemetry data. Within DHS, the use of this data has raised alarm bells.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped using commercial telemetry data, which can include phone data that reveals a person’s location, an agency spokesperson confirmed to FedScoop. The move comes amid ongoing bipartisan concern about law enforcement agency purchases of peoples’ location data without obtaining a warrant.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The agency also urges employers to bargain with unions “in good faith on the use of AI and electronic monitoring in the workplace.” Centering worker empowerment is considered by DOL to be the document’s “North Star.”

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FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

But the agency’s provisional approval of a few generative AI products — which include ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude 2, DALL-E2, and Grammarly, per a privacy impact assessment — call for closer examination in regard to federal transparency. Zhou also pointed to record management and data storage as a potential issue.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

At the time of the publication of that disclosure, the AI tool, which describes its training data as “agency generated,” was in production for more than one year. While we continue to have a human assess every tip, AI can help our teams be better at their jobs and keep Americans safe by prioritizing our workload.”

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University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digitalisation could reduce the administrative burden through automation, generate data insights to inform policies and boost efficiency in public spending, and serve as a living lab for GovTech experimentation.

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