Category: Privacy

• Data Sovereignty: what data is needed and how will it impact technology? By Riccardo Masucci, Global Director of Privacy Policy The unprecedented COVID-19 global health crisis, growing international trade tensions and rising national aspirations to technological autonomy have contributed to make data sovereignty a significant and urgent policy issue to address worldwide in the years to come. There are multiple aspects and drivers of data sovereignty. In an oversimplified world, data would...
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• No Place to Hide: Compelling Stories of Why Personal Privacy Still Matters By David Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer If you need to be convinced that privacy still matters in the age of COVID-19, the podcast series No Place to Hide will convince you. In the first three episodes, hosted by Bob Sullivan and Alia Tavakolian, you’ll hear compelling evidence of the insidious role data brokers play in our...
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• Towards a European strategy for AI in Healthcare Leading to 2020 several European countries have launched their national AI strategies, the European Commission put forward a European approach to Artificial Intelligence, a Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence "Made in Europe", laid out the path for Building Trust in Human Centric Artificial Intelligence and set up a High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG) which presented their Policy...
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• US, UK CLOUD Act Agreement an E.A.R.F.U.L.L., Literally Since congress passed the Clarifying Law of Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in March of 2018, Intel has advocated for the prompt certification of CLOUD Act Executive Agreements with foreign governments that would optimize opportunities abroad for our most prominent cloud service provider (CSP) customers.  Such agreements would mitigate issues like data & server localization mandates through efficient requests for...
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• Towards an AI-Ready Society – with a glimpse into healthcare AI On October 2nd in Tokyo, Adobe and Intel hosted the event “Towards an AI-Ready Society for improving our lives” with the patronage of the US Embassy in Japan. Japan was one of the first countries developing an AI strategy, and creating detailed guidance on “Social principles of Human-centric AI”, “AI R&D Principles” and “AI Utilization Principles”. Japan has also brought...
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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