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Sep 12, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Emile Ayoub
This article first appeared at Just Security. On May 8, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a framework that establishes uniform baseline standards for how the Intelligence Community (IC) should categorize, acquire, and handle commercially available information (CAI).
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May 24, 2024 | 
justsecurity.org | Emile Ayoub
On May 8, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a framework that establishes uniform baseline standards for how the Intelligence Community (IC) should categorize, acquire, and handle commercially available information (CAI).
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May 23, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Emile Ayoub
As the world races to develop artificial intelligence models that will make it easier to extract and act on people’s sensitive information, the United States still lacks a comprehensive data privacy law. That has allowed commercial data brokers to collect vast amounts of Americans’ personal information, often without our knowledge or meaningful consent, and sell it to paying customers, including the U.S. government.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Emile Ayoub |Elizabeth Goitein
The Legal Loopholes Typically, the Fourth Amendment and various federal statutes require government agencies to comply with legal process to obtain personal data on Americans. Yet over the past few decades, government agencies have taken advantage of statutory loopholes and a stalled Fourth Amendment doctrine to access personal information without legal process.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Elizabeth Goitein |Emile Ayoub |Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez
American data privacy law was already weak before the explosion of data caused by smartphones and high-speed internet service. Data broker companies have been taking advantage — and so has law enforcement. Congress must act to bring them all into line with legislation that gives Americans’ privacy protections a badly needed update. Today, the Brennan Center has published a resource that explains how Congress can do just that.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Thomas Wolf |Samuel Breidbart |Elizabeth Goitein |Emile Ayoub
A federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s assertion that he cannot be prosecuted for his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. This landmark ruling marks a significant step in efforts to hold the former president accountable, clearing the way for him to go to trial for his multi-pronged effort to thwart the peaceful transfer of power.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
justsecuritypodcast.buzzsprout.com | Emile Ayoub |Paras Shah |Faiza Patel
Across the United States, book bans, and attempted book bans, have hit a record high. Driven in part by newly passed state laws, public schools have seen a thirty-three percent increase in banned books. The vague and subjective language used in these laws leave school boards struggling to figure out exactly what content is prohibited. Some school boards, like the Mason City School District in Iowa, have turned to ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence to comply with these new state laws.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
justsecurity.org | Emile Ayoub
In August, a public school district in Iowa reportedly used ChatGPT to help it comply with the state’s controversial book ban law. That law—like counterparts passed in Florida, Texas, Missouri, Utah, and South Carolina—seeks to limit discussion of gender identity and sexuality in schools by barring school libraries from carrying books that touch on topics related to sexual content.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Emile Ayoub |Faiza Patel
This article first appeared in Just Security. In August, a public school district in Iowa reportedly used ChatGPT to help it comply with the state’s controversial book ban law. That law—like counterparts passed in Florida, Texas, Missouri, Utah, and South Carolina—seeks to limit discussion of gender identity and sexuality in schools by barring school libraries from carrying books that touch on topics related to sexual content.
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Mar 14, 2023 | 
justsecurity.org | Faiza Patel |Emile Ayoub
Filed under:content moderation, Donald Trump, Facebook, Facebook Oversight Board, Hate Speech, incitement, Instagram, International Human Rights, Meta, political violence, Social Media Platforms, TransparencyEarlier this year, Meta reinstated former President Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram, following his two-year suspension for praising rioters as they stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
