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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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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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Customs and Border Protection is expanding its use of biometric iris recognition

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“Iris scanners are just a part of our biometric collection, like the collection of fingerprints and photographs for facial comparison,” said the spokesperson, who also cited a 2017 privacy impact assessment. A recent privacy threshold analysis does mention the use of biometrics, specifically taking a “photo.”

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