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CBP issues privacy impact assessment for past commercial telemetry data usage

FedScoop

Customs and Border Protection confirmed in a privacy review published earlier this month that it was no longer collecting telemetry data, or smartphone location data, provided by commercial firms. Employees using this system were required to review and sign rules of behavior, the impact assessment noted.

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ICE pursuing privacy approvals related to controversial phone location data

FedScoop

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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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

The report stresses this issue: ‘ common or standard metrics do not yet exist within industry for the evaluation of [algorithmic systems]. Moreover, units within Cabinet Office (such as the Office for AI or the Central Digital and Data Office) lack the required independence.

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

For example, in the past, certain guidance documents that directly impact the MAS negotiation process (and MAS contractors) has not been made available for public review. PAP 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing, is one such example. Third, the alignment provides an opportunity to improve data management.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Can everything be green?

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National framework for AI assurance in Australian government: Guidance when building with AWS AI/ML solutions

AWS Public Sector

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. Cloud solutions can offer major environmental benefits with specialised data centres. Fairness Imbalances in training data may result in bias that impacts model decisions.

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OMB Releases Final Guidance Memo on the Government’s Use of AI

Government Contracts Legal Forum

This will include improving IT infrastructure to be able to handle AI training and inference; developing adequate infrastructure and capacity to share, curate, and govern agency data for use in AI modeling; updating cybersecurity; and integrating the “potential beneficial uses of generative AI in their missions.” race, age, sex, etc.);