PRG News Roundup 3/11/26

The Electronic Frontier Foundation analyzed the SAFE Act, a new legislative proposal to reform and reauthorize federal surveillance powers under national security law. 

Meta is facing a class-action lawsuit over privacy concerns with its AI smart glasses. 

A former DOGE employee is accused of retaining sensitive Social Security information about more than 500 million living and deceased Americans for commercial use.

AI-assisted coding tools were linked to production outages at Meta this week. 

From the PRG community: 

Nina Loshkajian, Technology & Racial Justice Collaborative Fellow at the NYU Law Center on Race, Inequality and the Law, argues for renewed attention to disparate impact protections in the age of AI. 

Upcoming events: 

Tomorrow, March 12, the Innovation Policy Colloquium will host Feng Fu, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth, for a presentation on steering collective behavior in hybrid human-AI systems.

(compiled by Nala Sharadjaya)

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