Category: Policy

• U.S. and U.K. Sign Historic Data Access Agreement Under CLOUD Act Intel commends the United States and United Kingdom for signing a historic data access agreement under the CLOUD (Clarifying Law of Overseas Access to Data) Act. Under the Executive Agreement, the first under the Act, the U.S. and U.K. will be able – in cases of serious crime – to demand electronic data from technology companies located in the other...
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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 in a privacy legislation panel...
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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 and regulation. Citizen concerns like...
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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 Canada (and the world) is...
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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 Union member approved a law,...
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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 legislative and regulatory initiatives should...
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• NIST 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 been started in international standards...
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• A vision for AI: Innovative, Trusted and Inclusive By Mario Romao and Derek Waxman, AI Policy Da Jia Hao! – Good morning to all – it was with these words that Abigail Wen from Intel’s Artificial Intelligence Products Group opened her presentation “Top AI breakthroughs you need to know about” at the Artificial Intelligence Conference, co-presented by O’Reilly Media and Intel Corporation held from June 18-21, 2019 in...
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• Intel’s Artificial Intelligence Policy Vision Helps Governments Realize AI’s Tremendous Opportunities By Derek Waxman - Global Policy Director, Artificial Intelligence On May 29-31, as part of our Canadian stop on the AI Policy World Tour, Intel sponsored the 6thannual Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit in Ottawa, Canada. Created in 2011, the OGP is the leading global, multilateral organization focused on open government. Seventy-nine countries and a growing number of local...
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• The Clock Is Ticking On U.S. Infrastructure This week marks the 7th annual Infrastructure Week, an important time when industry leaders and government officials gather to discuss ways to work together to advance our nation’s infrastructure. While dialogue and conversation are critical to spur policy and R&D efforts, it’s time we ensure that conversations turn into action. There’s too much at stake as U.S. physical infrastructure continues...
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