Tag: big data

• #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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• 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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• Second Trust in Digital Life (TDL) Roundtable on AI: Building Trust Remains Top Priority to Address By Claire Vishik, Intel Fellow and Riccardo Masucci, Global Director of Privacy Trust in Digital Life (TDL) is an association comprising leading industry partners and knowledge institutes to improve digital technologies and services to the benefit of citizens, businesses and society. Intel has been a board member of TDL and engaged over the past years in a number of activities related to...
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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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• Data Brokers Need Reining In, and the FTC Needs the Authority to Do It By David Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer The data broker industry has long been the bottom feeding portion of the growing data economy. They purport to be innovators but are in fact nothing more than malicious profiteers. Recent high-profile misuses of personal data have shown how dangerous this largely unregulated category of companies has become. The Federal...
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• Intel Talks the Future of Artificial Intelligence at Hub.Berlin By Mario Romao, Global Director of Health and Data Policy On April 10 in Berlin, Germany at hub.berlin, Amir Khosrowshahi, Intel Artificial Intelligence Vice-President & Chief Technology Officer and Abigail Wen, Counsel for Office of the AI CTO staged a conversation on “The Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence: Innovations, Investments and Strategies”. The conversation addressed the current status of...
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• Europe, AI, and Genomics – Big Topics Discussed at Digital Day 2018 By Mario Romao, Global Director, Health and Data Policy April 10th was a big day for the digital ambitions of Europe. We saw leaders from 25 nations signing a Declaration of Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), committing to join forces to advance research and deployment of AI, without forgetting the social, economic, ethical, and legal aspects. And a couple of...
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• Intel Recommends Public Policy Principles for Artificial Intelligence By Naveen Rao, Vice President and General Manager, Artificial Intelligence Products Group The computational advances of the past few years have enabled a new era of innovation – one in which machines can analyze vast amounts of data and find useful insights in that data. This is Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the proliferation of large data sets, computers can now...
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• Intel Applauds Senate Passage of OPEN Government Data Act, Urges House to Follow Suit in 115th Congress By Cisco C. Minthorn, Director of Government Relations and Senior Counsel We are at the dawn of a fourth industrial revolution.  Advances in our capacity to transmit, store, and analyze large amounts of data can hold tremendous societal benefits, including new, more effective treatments to disease, personalized educational resources, economic empowerment for the masses, more effective government, and a cleaner...
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