News
NYC’s school board is delaying a vote on a proposal regulating how the Education Department “collects, stores, and shares private student data, including names, emails, phone numbers, home addresses, and birth dates” in light concern related to a second Trump presidential term.
Democratic Senators are discussing how Trump “cannot ignore law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok by next year”.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert to help financial institutions identify fraud schemes associated with the use of deepfake media created with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. Servinj Norvuoza wrote an article expanding on the impact of this.
DOJ is working on enforcing the court decision for Google to sell “Chrome”.
There is growing concern that NHS patients are dying because of “problems sharing medical records” according to coroners in the UK and Wales.
Events
The spring semester PRG will begin on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, the second Wednesday of the semester.
(Compiled by Student Fellow Molly Pushner)