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#ThePrivacyDebate: Calling for Congress to Act - By David Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer Summer is over and the Congressional recess has passed, yet we still have not seen a federal privacy bill. Partly due to Congress’s slow progress, those who care about privacy are becoming more vocal in calling for action. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating...
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Intel Urges Whitehouse OMB to Prioritize Release of Healthcare Data - On July 10th, 2019, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to identify “needs for additional access to (or improvements in the quality of) Federal data and models that would improve U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) research and development (R&D) and testing efforts." Under the February 11, 2019...
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Reimagining Public Data to Advance AI: Maximizing Insights from Federal Data - The U.S. Federal Data Strategy is well-aligned with Intel’s recommendations that new regulatory initiatives should be comprehensive and technology-neutral, support the free flow of data, and promote access to data while liberating data responsibly. Intel has been, and remains, committed to helping accelerate federal agencies’ responses to make their datasets publicly available, unleashing innovative, trusted,...
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Innovation, Automation, & Global Public Policy Trends - By Trish Damkroger, VP/GM Extreme Computing Group & Clifton Roberts, Global Director Cloud & Data Policy According to an Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) review of over 58 countries, governments around the world are dealing with technology that is evolving faster than the speed of policy development...
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Unlocking US Government Data for Social Good - By Derek Waxman (Global Policy Director, Artificial Intelligence), and Chloe Autio (AI & Privacy Policy Analyst) Earlier this year, the OPEN (Open, Public, Electronic, Necessary) Government Data Act was signed into law. Primarily, the act mandates that US government data be made publicly available in machine readable format and that government...
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Intel Speaks with Canada’s CIO about AI, Data, & Cloud - By Clifton Roberts, Global Director of Cloud & Data Policy On July 16, Mr. Alex Benay, Canada’s Chief Information Officer, joined David Hoffman and Intel’s Governments, Markets, & Trade Group for its inaugural Virtual Speaker Series where he outlined his vision for Canada’s continued evolution into a global digital economy. While Benay reminded us that...
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How Finland is pioneering the use of health data for secondary purposes - By Mario Romao, Health and AI Policy Can we envisage a future where, for secondary use, the efficient and secure processing of health and social data collected during the provision of social and healthcare is made possible, at scale and under the requirements of the GDPR? Yes, according to Finland. This Nordic nation and European...
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White House Hears from Intel on Federal Data Strategy Action Plan - By Clifton Roberts, Global Director, Cloud and Data Policy Times are changing. In the past, the notion of government data being released to the public was not only antithetical to U.S. government policy, but was illegal. Today, we are witnessing a significant shift in the government’s view on the matter. Aligned with Intel’s position that...
read moreNIST Collects Input to Outline Standardization Priorities in AI and to Make Sense of a Complex Technology Field - By Claire Vishik, Intel Fellow, and Riccardo Masucci, Global Director of Privacy One of the considerations for a technology area that is expected to gain considerable importance is the development of international standards to ensure global interoperability and harmonization. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not an exception. A number of efforts in technical standardization have already...
read moreIntel urges the Supreme Court to enshrine civil rights protections for LGBT+ people - By Steven R. Rodgers, Executive Vice President and General Counsel An important moment is on the horizon. This October, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether US LGBT+ workers are protected under Title VII of the US Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law that protects employees from workplace discrimination, harassment,...
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