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Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Jun 04, 2026 · Canada

News release: Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s annual report highlights actions taken to protect Canadians’ privacy in the age of AI

Canada's Privacy Commissioner has published its annual report, outlining enforcement actions, investigations, and guidance the office undertook over the past year as AI systems increasingly intersect with how personal data is collected and used. The report reflects the regulator's focus on holding organizations accountable during a period of rapid technological change.

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The Guardian — Privacy · Jun 03, 2026 · International

EU aims to ensure foreign governments or firms cannot disrupt tech services with ‘kill switch’

The European Commission has introduced proposals targeting what it calls 'risky dependencies' on foreign suppliers across cloud computing, AI, and semiconductors, seeking to prevent any outside government or company from holding effective control over critical European digital infrastructure.

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FTC Consumer Protection · Jun 03, 2026 · US Federal

FTC Seeks Comment on X Corp. Petition to Set Aside or Modify FTC Order Concerning Twitter

The FTC is accepting public comments on a petition from X Corp. asking the agency to scrap or shorten a 2022 privacy settlement originally reached with Twitter. X Corp. argues the order should not bind a successor company whose leadership and structure have changed, and requests it be terminated by the end of 2026.

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Consent questions raised at data privacy bill hearing

Consent questions raised at data privacy bill hearing Roll Call

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CalSTRS taps Stanford’s Ashby Monk, global peers to shape AI governance approach

CalSTRS, the California teachers' pension fund, is working with Stanford researcher Ashby Monk and a group of international peers to develop its approach to AI governance. The effort appears aimed at building a framework for how the fund uses or oversees AI in its investment and operational decisions.

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The AI regulation gap: Risk, cost, and competitive advantage

A supply chain industry publication examines the uneven regulatory landscape around AI, framing compliance costs and risk exposure as variables that can either hurt or benefit companies depending on how they position themselves relative to emerging rules.

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IAPP · Jun 03, 2026 · International

EU AI sovereignty top of mind during AIGG EU's opening keynote session

At the opening keynote of the IAPP's AI Governance Global EU event, EU AI sovereignty emerged as a central theme, reflecting growing concern among European policymakers and governance professionals about Europe's ability to develop and control AI infrastructure on its own terms.

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IAPP · Jun 03, 2026 · International

Unpacking the White House executive order on frontier AI, cybersecurity

The White House has issued an executive order addressing frontier AI and cybersecurity, signaling a federal policy move to shape how advanced AI systems are developed and secured at the national level. The order appears to establish directives touching both the capabilities of cutting-edge AI models and the security frameworks surrounding them.

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IAPP · Jun 03, 2026 · International

Agentic advertising protocols and privacy: How new AI communication standards improve transparency

I need to work carefully here. The excerpt gives me almost nothing beyond the headline itself — it's essentially just the headline repeated with an IAPP attribution. I'll write only what the headline reasonably implies: new AI communication standards (likely agent-to-agent or AI-to-platform protocol

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OECD AI Policy Observatory · Jun 03, 2026 · International

The OECD AI Policy Toolkit: Better AI policies for better lives

The OECD has launched an AI Policy Toolkit designed to help governments translate high-level AI principles into concrete policy measures, drawing on practical guidance and examples from member and partner countries worldwide.

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noyb (None of Your Business) · Jun 03, 2026 · EU

Nordic Media Giant Schibsted switches to “Pay or Okay” – complaint filed!

The Norwegian Consumer Council and privacy group noyb have filed a complaint against Schibsted, one of the largest Nordic media companies, for rolling out a 'Pay or Okay' consent model across its publications. The system requires users to either pay a fee or accept tracking, a practice critics argue makes genuine consent impossible.

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EFF — Deeplinks · Jun 02, 2026 · International

We're Fighting Mass Surveillance Tech—and Winning

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is highlighting its ongoing legal and advocacy work against mass surveillance technologies, using its spring membership drive to draw attention to cases like that of Will Freeman, who built a tool called DeFlock.me to expose how automated license plate readers collect location data on virtually every vehicle that passes them.

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LINC CNIL · Jun 02, 2026 · EU / France

[Long read] How to prevent data extraction bots from collecting publicly available data

[Long read] How to prevent data extraction bots from collecting publicly available data LINC CNIL

404 Media · Jun 02, 2026 · International

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Internal Microsoft documents, reported by 404 Media, show the company explicitly used the language of addiction as a goal for its AI assistant product. The documents suggest driving habitual, repeated engagement was a deliberate design objective rather than an incidental outcome.

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Connecticut Enacts AI Framework While Colorado Scales Back Landmark AI Law

Connecticut Enacts AI Framework While Colorado Scales Back Landmark AI Law Wiley Law

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How the EU AI Act impacts global standards for AI in hiring: Expert insights

The EU AI Act classifies AI tools used in hiring as high-risk, imposing transparency, human oversight, and bias-testing requirements on companies that deploy them. Experts suggest these rules are already shaping how employers worldwide design and evaluate automated recruitment systems, even outside Europe.

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Illinois House Speaker on AI Regulation, Bears Stadium Incentives

The excerpt here gives me almost nothing to work with — just a headline repeated as the body, with no factual detail about what the Illinois House Speaker actually said or proposed on AI regulation or the stadium deal. I can't write an accurate, original briefing without inventing facts, which the

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EU Commission drafts guidelines on classifying high-risk systems under the AI Act

The European Commission has drafted guidelines to help determine when an AI system qualifies as high-risk under the EU AI Act, a classification that triggers the law's strictest compliance requirements. The guidance is intended to clarify a part of the regulation that many companies and regulators have found ambiguous since the Act was finalized.

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Powerful AI is making facial recognition better at identifying you

Advances in AI are significantly improving the accuracy and capability of facial recognition systems, enabling identification of individuals with greater precision than earlier generations of the technology.

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The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation

Competing factions within the Trump administration are pulling in different directions on how — or whether — to regulate artificial intelligence, creating internal tension over the federal government's approach to AI oversight.

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Trump finds an AI policy he can live with

The Trump administration appears to have settled on an AI policy posture it finds acceptable, signaling a clearer direction after a period of uncertainty about how the White House would approach artificial intelligence regulation and governance.

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LINC CNIL · Jun 02, 2026 · EU / France

[File] How to prevent data extraction bots from collecting publicly available data

[File] How to prevent data extraction bots from collecting publicly available data LINC CNIL

Krebs on Security · Jun 01, 2026 · International

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI support assistant" bot into resetting account passwords.

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EFF — Deeplinks · Jun 01, 2026 · International

Welcome New EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has named Nicole Ozer as its new Executive Director. Ozer brings over two decades of experience in privacy, surveillance, AI policy, and digital civil liberties, most recently leading the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law San Francisco and before that founding the ACLU of Northern California's Technology and Civil Liberties Program.

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