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Sierra7 Lands VA Contract for Privacy Impact Assessment Tracking Services

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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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ICE pursuing privacy approvals related to controversial phone location data

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But, even though ICE says it has received no new requests for the use of commercial telemetry services since December 2022, the agency has filed a privacy impact assessment with the Department of Homeland Security’s privacy office for review. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rand Paul, R-Ky.,

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Labor Department’s AI roadmap geared toward ‘worker empowerment’

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The agency also urges employers to bargain with unions “in good faith on the use of AI and electronic monitoring in the workplace.” That principle pushes employers and developers to integrate “early and regular input from workers into the adoption and use of AI.”

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Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws

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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.

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The FBI is using AI to mine threat tips, but isn’t sharing much detail

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Another version of the DOJ’s AI inventory, dated 2023, describes the tool with a different level of detail: “The Threat Intake Processing System (TIPS) uses artificial intelligence (AI) to calculate scores for calls and electronic tips based on call synopses and electronic tip text.

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ICE says it’s stopped using commercial telemetry data

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ICE specifically did not have an approved CTD privacy impact assessment, a type of disclosure meant to provide an overview into how personal information could be used by a digital technology deployed by the government, violating internal DHS privacy policies and the E-Government Act.

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A Masquerade Ball – EPPO uncovers EUR 200M in customs duties and VAT due

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The supposed scheme involved importing high quantities of goods, such as textiles, shoes and small electronic items from China to EU countries using fake invoices. In its Impact Assessment Report for the new customs reform, the European Commission also indicated this procedure as being prone to fraud.