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As concerns around data privacy in machine learning grow, the ability to unlearn—or remove—specific data points from trained models becomes increasingly important. While state-of-the-art unlearning methods have emerged in response, they typically treat all points in the forget set equally. In this work, we challenge this approach by asking: do points that have a negligible impact on the model’s learning need to be removed? Through a comparative analysis of influence functions across language and

A blood test now helps doctors decide, in about 15 minutes, whether a patient with a suspected brain injury needs a CT scan. It took about 20 years to get there. That gap between scientific promise and clinical use tells us more about American innovation policy than most congressional hearings ever will. At one such ... A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting The post A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting appeared first on Truth on the Market .

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Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. It maintains an extensive database of international case law. This is its newsletter dealing with recent developments in the field. “The ruling reminds us of the value of […]

[ PDF Version ] Trust & Safety (T&S) teams in the tech industry are currently at a “build or buy” crossroads. Waning budgets and mass layoffs, increased regulatory requirements, and new AI-based tools with impressive capabilities are changing T&S teams’ internal calculus on how to allocate limited resources to traditional T&S functions. T&S teams are […] The post To Build or To Buy? Human Rights Considerations for Trust & Safety Vendors appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology .

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CDT and the undersigned civil rights and civil society organizations write to you regarding the need for civil rights protections to be the foundation of any comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) legislation. Specifically, we urge the House Democratic Commission on AI and the Innovation Economy (Commission) to support meaningful safeguards (mandatory bias testing, privacy and data […] The post Civil Rights Letter to the House Democratic AI Commission appeared first on Center for Democracy a

On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: Full access mode is enabled and codex is run without sandboxing protections, including without auto review being enabled The model attempts to override the $HOME env var to define a temporary directory. The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead. — Thibault Sottiaux , describing a pretty gnarly Codex bug

Privacy law should evolve beyond decades-old principles toward a modern data governance framework that asks whether data uses are fair, ethical, accountable and beneficial to society.

From late April 2026 to mid-June 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts observed increased ACR Stealer activity across customer environments. These campaigns are successfully using ClickFix lures to steal ...

International law scholars address some of the factual claims and underlying assumptions in Secretary Marco Rubio's op-ed on dismantling the International Criminal Court. The post In Context: Analyzing Secretary Rubio’s International Criminal Court Op-Ed appeared first on Just Security .

America’s power grid has plenty of new customers and no shortage of new ideas. What it lacks is a regulatory system capable of connecting the two. Artificial intelligence data centers, advanced manufacturing, and cryptocurrency operations are driving electricity demand sharply higher. Yet the rules for connecting new power sources and major users remain slow, fragmented, ... Lightning in a Bottleneck: How Regulatory Gridlock Is Choking America’s Energy Boom The post Lightning in a Bottleneck: Ho

Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link ) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era. Instead, we need to hold companies accountable for their actions, similar to what we do with food and drug companies. Measures such as rigorous data minimization, fiduciary duties, liability for negligent or reckless technological design, liability for algorithms that cause harm, and multi-stakeholder review of technologies w

On 15 July 2026, CDT Europe and other 5 organisations representing standardisation, consumers, digital rights, doctors, pharmacists and hospitals published an open joint letter calling EU policymakers to maintain medical devices under the scope of the AI Act. In the letter, we express our serious concerns regarding the European Commission’s proposal to exclude medical devices […] The post Open Joint Letter on the AI Act Regulating AI-embedded Medical Devices appeared first on Center for Democrac

Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.

A retired judge advocate explains how a future administration could decide who to prosecute for the illegal strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats. The post How to Choose Which Military Members to Hold Accountable for Illegal Boat Strikes appeared first on Just Security .

Federal law specifies that involuntary mobilization is to be used only to provide military forces for war or national emergencies. The post Why It’s Wrong to Involuntarily Mobilize Reserve JAGs for Immigration Cases appeared first on Just Security .

At New America, our work spans across five issue areas—each essential to building a nation and a world where everyone can thrive. For over 25 years, New America’s insights and policy solutions have ...

Alta Ares CEO Hadrien Canter on Europe's lost air superiority, the field data loop behind drone interception, and why quantity is now the quality.

Collection of expert analysis on the legality of the U.S. strike on Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean, the consequences of the strike, and related issues. The post Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers, Operation Southern Spear, Operation Absolute Resolve appeared first on Just Security .

Published on July 12, 2026 11:26 PM GMT AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix. Cross-posted from Good Structures . Executive Summary Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal, and Y>X of this animal, so Y might be a better target to focus on.” For example, you could imagine someone making a claim like “there are 20 quadrillion ants , so they are a higher priority to work o

How Salesforce sees the HAIP Reporting Framework reducing AI governance fragmentation and making transparency a competitive advantage. The post HAIP is transforming transparency from a compliance burden to a competitive advantage appeared first on OECD.AI .

As AI agents become more autonomous, strong identity, access, and auditing controls are critical to keeping them secure.

Australia's latest AI governance initiatives, heightened privacy enforcement and increasing regulatory cooperation signal a future in which AI, privacy, cybersecurity and digital accountability are ...

Australia is a country highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with the weathered, arid continent frequently buffeted by fires, floods, heatwaves and storms. It is also one of the largest exporters globally of fossil fuels, coal and gas. Situated close to Pacific Islands existentially threatened by climate-fuelled rising seas, Australia is a constitutional democracy with an active civil society, an abiding commitment to the rule of international law and this year holds the role of “P

On June 11, 2026, the German automotive company Volkswagen was convicted in four different lawsuits by the Brazilian Labor Court for reducing people to slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. While this judgment marks the company’s second round of convictions for enslavement within the Amazonian state of Pará, it stands out as a historic first in the form of individual reparations for corporate crimes committed nearly fifty years ago. This opens the way for a new era of reckoning with several other com

MENA's social media regulations give the appearance of legitimacy but threaten to increase state censorship and control. The post The game is up: how MENA’s social media regulations silence and control appeared first on Access Now .

MENA's social media regulations give the appearance of legitimacy but threaten to increase state censorship and control. The post The game is up: how MENA’s social media regulations silence and control appeared first on Access Now .

Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe’s Tech Policy Brief! This edition covers the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe and gives CDT’s perspective on the impact to digital rights. To sign up for CDT Europe’s AI newsletter, please visit our website. This is our last edition before […] The post EU Tech Policy Brief Summer 2026 appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology .

There isn’t one China, but two, and both are now very different countries, with some common cultural traits from a shared distant past. Alas, the current One Ch ...

5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Automation [Melbourne, Australia] [Aug 15, 2026 - Aug 16, 2026]

2nd Workshop on Smarter Extraction of ScholArly MEtadata using Knowledge Graphs, Language Models and Agents (SESAME) at JCDL 2026 [Dallas, Texas, USA] [Oct 13, 2026 - Oct 26, 2026]

Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) published an Issue Brief comparatively analyzing developments in cross-border data transfer regulations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) from 2023 to 2026. Titled Navigating Cross-Border Data Transfers in the APAC Region: An Analysis of Developments from 2023 to 2026, the Issue Brief examines the rapidly evolving landscape of cross-border data transfers […]