US would need to find a way to agree on privacy, data, big tech issues with EU

Title: Data centres need more space in Frankfurt

Frankfurt is the major European data hub, with more than 60 data centres covering 64 hectares.

One of the main reasons for this high concentration of data centres is the proximity of the main Internet exchange hub in Frankfurt, which processes most of the European internet traffic.

Fast expansion of data hubs triggered reaction of local authorities. In the new urbanist plan, they would like to restrict space for data centres. As you can see from the enclosed article, this proposal triggered a reaction from the German Datacenter Association arguing, among others, that the restriction for the growth of data centres could endanger digitalisation processes in Germany.

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What is data poisoning?

Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Declaration aims to extend the current APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system worldwide.

It is also an attempt to address the need for a regulatory framework for the cross-border flow of data. The current CBPR system used by APEC countries has been developed over the last 10 years with an international certification system, standard development, etc.

The declaration is signed by Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, and the United States of America.

Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Declaration aims to extend the current APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system worldwide.

It is also an attempt to address the need for a regulatory framework for the cross-border flow of data. The current CBPR system used by APEC countries has been developed over the last 10 years with an international certification system, standard development, etc.

The declaration is signed by Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, and the United States of America.

this is an implicit reference to the concern that U.S. is pushing free data flows only for the interest of big tech. These lines refer to the whole of the economy.

Good visualisation for Diplo's data engine

to discuss the GDELR project

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SDG data

worldometers

need to be analysed in more details.

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.

three elements for surveilance:

• necessary
• proportionate
• in the pursuit of defined national security objectives

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.

It is one platform that provides actionable insights from data https://datasandbox.diplomacy.edu/

Can UN make private and confidential data safe for public use? On 25 January, UN PET Lab was established with the aim to ‘anonymise’ health, private, commercial and other sensitive data to be used for public good purposes. Data will be anonymised and protected via use of so-called privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). This approach can solve one of the main problems of data era of lack of access to data, in particular on health, for getting insight of interest for citizens, countries and companies worldwide.

In the pre-launch phase UN Pet Lab experimented with two approaches

First one is called secure multiparty computation (SMPC) in which data is kept at secure place where they are started anyway. Somebody who needs analysis of this data - e.g. private health data - sends request that is processed on the sidte where data is stored. Results of analysis are sent with the us eof special techniques, in particular, to avoid reverse-engineer that could discover private data.

Second approach relies on so called “trusted execution environments” consisted of ‘data enclaves’ where confidential data will be executed with utmost privacy and security protection.

UN Pet Lab will start experiments with trade data which are less controversial. also called “enclaves”, as a form of input privacy. The UN Pet Lab will run a ‘grand challenge’ prize aimed to develop new uses of PET systems.

||JovanNj||||aleksandarsATdiplomacy.edu||||anjadjATdiplomacy.edu||||VladaR|| Here are a few interesting developments which we will need to follow on 'data' aspect of our work. For time being I will annotate these types of inputs.

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Open data barometer

Data indexes

Open data

Water and data in Namibia

Data fusion - a new concept that we may use in our 'lingo' (to sound 'cool')

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Tereza sent me an interesting link on Canvas experiment with using spreadsheet. Our AI team will follow-up on it in order to see if we can use anything from it.

I found one aspect intereting. Most business solutons, including Tableaux, are too complex. They also start form assumption that users are not intelligent.

We used spreadsheet intensively in www.diplomacy.edu and dig.watch transition and found it close to basic logic in organising data for which you do not need specialised knowledge.

Behind our data sandbox is also idea of spreadsheet in displaying and arranging data.

There is more to be explored in this experiment on the following aspects:

• what is basic human cognition in terms of identifying mainly causations - e.g. Is it alrady captured in the logic of spreadsheet (X/Y axis)?
• how to transfer this basic cognition into usable systems used by Diplo and GIP?

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||

This para shifts previous balancing formulation on data governance (proper balance between data sovereignty and free data flows) towards more data sovereignty

Upskilling and Onboarding

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Change of professional culture is the key for use of data in diplomacy

New elements for diplomacy - scientific and data integrity. It will be inevetable tension between diplomacy as art and diplomacy as science.

holistic is becoming popular

ncie use of metaphor

This is on changing geo-political enviornment (first pillar of our methodology)

making rules to advance the Data Free Flow with Trust

not explicitly digital but is related to Beirut port blast, satellite imagery and data gathered by other states.

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

On anticipating risks; Governance of data is important; Mention of UN World Data Forum.

Our data is also used to influence our perceptions and opinions.

This is the vision of my Digital Cooperation Action Plan: seize the promises of digital while guarding against its dangers.One of the greatest perils we face is the growing power of digital platforms and the use of data for harmful purposes.

||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.

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Do we have this document?

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Rules for the governance of data is a key motivation of the Chinese government crackdown on companies. While proposals to nationalise companies' datasets have met criticism, an idea that is gaining traction is the possibility to establish a trading system for data between companies. ||JovanK||

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