After long negotiations, U.S. & EU agreed to establish Trans-Atlantic Data Security Framework. This framework is designed to facilitate data transfers across the Atlantic.

This Framework addresses EU concerns about surveillance of EU citizens' data by

• introducing principles of necessary and proportionate measures of surveillance.
• companies will have to adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles including 'the requirement to self-certify their adherence to the Principles through the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• oversight of signals intelligence activities (mainly NSA)
• an independent Data Protection Review Court that 'would consist of individuals chosen from outside the U.S. Government who would have full authority to adjudicate claims and direct remedial measures as needed;'

Next is the adoption of the Framework via legal mechanisms in U.S.A. or EU of the Framework. It will be done in the U.S. through an Executive Order.

Protection of data raised in relevance with the latest breach of ICRC data. Next step is to protect data from technical and legal perspectives.

Data is central for negotiations of e-commerce rules at WTO. One can expect tensions between various uses and regulations of data from public to commercial and personal data.

There is industry for making regulatory compliance (data protection and privacy).

It is a potential link to our work with start-ups and businesses (especially small ones).

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China is strengthening digital regulation via new Data Security Law (DSL) and Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). Cybersecurity Administration of China also announced new regulation for predictive algorithms.

It remains to be seen if new regulation will affect big Chinese tech companies as it has been already done via anti-monooly regulation.

The main question is how data and AI regulation will impact China's ambitious plans for AI developments.

You can find more information here.

Privacy protection is gaining new relevance. ||Jovan||

Three years ago, I launched the Extended Monaco program, to build the Monaco of tomorrow, which is greener and better connected. I didn't expect to be comforted in my decision so quickly. Better prepared, the Principality has been able to maintain economic activity, its social, educational and cultural services, even at the height of the crisis. To achieve this, we have equipped ourselves with an adequate legislative framework, efficient infrastructures and high data protection. But cyberspace calls for everyone's vigilance. With the health crisis, cyber-attacks against civilian infrastructure have multiplied, undermining the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.

on the misuse of cyberspace; UN to lead the efforts to prevent the misuse of cyberspace

||StephanieBP||||Pavlina|| It will be legally challenged because it provides support in breaching the law.

Not a boring time ahead of us.

Could this happen? Possibly, if we don't control the LEA which tag sexual abuse content. But with global cooperation against sexual abuse, there are commonly shared databases across countries, and it might be harder to LEA of a single country to insert some political content within. Thus, there is some risk, but I think it is overstretched.

I understood this is an option that parents can switch on. Anyhow, from Apple's description it is not really an AI that reads the photos, but rather only crypto-signature which is matched with a known database of sexual abuse photos. This is quite different.