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Analysis: of 750 data brokers registered in at least one US state, many failed to register in other states with transparency laws, undermining consumer privacy (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/why-are…

Why Are Hundreds of Data Brokers Not Registering with States?
Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies. A new analysis by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reveals that many data brokers registered in one state aren’t registered in others.

Leider werden viele Leute keinen Widerspruch bei Meta eingelegt haben gegen die KI-Verwendung ihrer Facebook/Instagram-Daten, weil sie dachten "Boah, schon wieder so ein nutzloser Ich-widerspreche Post der nicht funktioniert."
Bin da wohl nicht ganz unschuldig dran, hab vor 11 Jahren einen Scherz gepostet, den viele nicht erkannten (siehe ab Zeile 10)
#Meta

Despite changes, crisis pregnancy centers still attract scrutiny over HIPAA promises https://therecord.media/crisis-pregnancy-centers-hipaa-data-privacy

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Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital

Brazil’s ANPD Preliminary Study on Generative AI highlights the dual nature of data protection law: balancing rights with technological innovation
https://fpf.org/blog/brazils-anpd-prel

Whatever is left of our constitutional rights and liberties exists mostly in the gaps between what the government knows about us. This is the beginning of the end. Soon, when conservatives are in charge, they'll make us follow their stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not, and when liberals are in charge, well, they'll make us follow [i]their[/i] stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not.
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U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

International Trade and Intellectual Property
Gaetan de Rassenfosse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18929 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18929…

International Trade and Intellectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) rules have the potential to shape cross-border trade far more than their legalistic origins might suggest. Drawing on three decades of evidence, this review shows that stronger IP rights simultaneously create market-power forces that raise prices and market-expansion forces that broaden demand, while dynamic incentives spur quality upgrading and new export varieties. Micro-data and quasi-natural experiments after TRIPS reveal that IP most often boosts trade along the …

Trump is taking decisive steps to crush administrative safeguards and preempt legal challenges,
allowing his administration to rapidly consolidate a surveillance state with diminished privacy rights.
Aided by recent Supreme Court decisions, Republican lawmakers, and quickly eroding due process rights,
the administration is ensuring that the data and sensitive information of each person in the U.S. can be used against them.

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined
Through legal loopholes, executive orders, and shady contracts, the Trump administration crushes safeguards protecting against surveillance

Here's a document that deserves to be remembered, resurrected, and read (hey, that's 3 "R's!).
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems" July 1973
https://epic.org/documents/hew1973repo

Authentication and authorization in Data Spaces: A relationship-based access control approach for policy specification based on ODRL
Irene Plaza-Ortiz, Andres Munoz-Arcentales, Joaqu\'in Salvach\'ua, Carlos Aparicio, Gabriel Huecas, Enrique Barra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24742 …

Authentication and authorization in Data Spaces: A relationship-based access control approach for policy specification based on ODRL
Data has become a crucial resource in the digital economy, fostering initiatives for secure and sovereign data sharing frameworks such as Data Spaces. However, these distributed environments require fine-grained access control mechanisms that balance openness with sovereignty and security. This paper proposes an extension of the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) standard, the ODRL Data Spaces (ODS) profile, aimed at supporting authorization and complementing existing authentication mechanisms…

Ethics by Design: A Lifecycle Framework for Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging From Transparent Data Governance to Clinically Validated Deployment
Umer Sadiq Khan, Saif Ur Rehman Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04249

Ethics by Design: A Lifecycle Framework for Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging From Transparent Data Governance to Clinically Validated Deployment
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging raises crucial ethical concerns at every stage of its development, from data collection to deployment. Addressing these concerns is essential for ensuring that AI systems are developed and implemented in a manner that respects patient rights and promotes fairness. This study aims to explore the ethical implications of AI in medical imaging, focusing on five key stages: data collection, data processing, model training, model eval…

xAI has been granted a permit to operate 15 gas turbines at its Memphis campus until 2027, despite protests and a potential NAACP lawsuit over air pollution (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-data-center-air-pollution-permit/

Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
xAI’s gas turbines get official approval from Memphis, Tennessee, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination
-- winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and across American life.
Now the Trump administration is working to unwind those same cases.
The administration is unwinding settlements built on “disparate impact,” -- which holds that even neutral policies can lead to …

Discrimination cases unravel as Trump scraps core civil rights tenet
The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on « disparate impact, » which holds that even neutral policies can lead to biased outcomes.

LoRAShield: Data-Free Editing Alignment for Secure Personalized LoRA Sharing
Jiahao Chen, junhao li, Yiming Wang, Zhe Ma, Yi Jiang, Chunyi Zhou, Qingming Li, Tianyu Du, Shouling Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07056

LoRAShield: Data-Free Editing Alignment for Secure Personalized LoRA Sharing
The proliferation of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) models has democratized personalized text-to-image generation, enabling users to share lightweight models (e.g., personal portraits) on platforms like Civitai and Liblib. However, this "share-and-play" ecosystem introduces critical risks: benign LoRAs can be weaponized by adversaries to generate harmful content (e.g., political, defamatory imagery), undermining creator rights and platform safety. Existing defenses like concept-erasure methods focu…

Can AI be Consentful?
Giada Pistilli, Bruna Trevelin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01051 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01051

Can AI be Consentful?
The evolution of generative AI systems exposes the challenges of traditional legal and ethical frameworks built around consent. This chapter examines how the conventional notion of consent, while fundamental to data protection and privacy rights, proves insufficient in addressing the implications of AI-generated content derived from personal data. Through legal and ethical analysis, we show that while individuals can consent to the initial use of their data for AI training, they cannot meaningf…

Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores
Yin Li, Sharad Mehrota, Shantanu Sharma, Komal Kumari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10730

Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Key-Document Stores
This paper presents a novel key-based access control technique for secure outsourcing key-value stores where values correspond to documents that are indexed and accessed using keys. The proposed approach adopts Shamir's secret-sharing that offers unconditional or information-theoretic security. It supports keyword-based document retrieval while preventing leakage of the data, access rights of users, or the size (\textit{i}.\textit{e}., volume of the output that satisfies a query). The proposed …