Last year, it was revealed that the USA planned to launch Enhanced Border Security Partnerships (EBSPs) with other states around the world, seemingly targeting the EU, UK and Israel first. These would involve “continuous and systematic” transfers of biometric data to the USA for the purposes of immigration and asylum

The Netherlands' data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, claimed it was made aware of a potential data breach of Tesla, Reuters reports. A German publication claimed to have received 100 gigabytes of confidential data from a whistleblower, indicating lax data practices on the part of Tesla. AP officials declined to state

The Guardian reports the websites of 20 U.K. National Health Service trusts are collecting browser information and sharing details about patients' medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook through a Meta Pixel tool. The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is investigating. A report published by the Open Rights Group

Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake. By Kashmir Hill and Nico Grant for The New York Times on May 22, 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/

The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI. But after decades working with technology companies, she knows all too much about discrimination. By John Harris for The Guardian on May 22, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases

Lab will advance assessments of AI systems in the public interest. From Data & Society on May 10, 2023 https://datasociety.net/announcements/2023/05/10/data-society-announces-the-launch-of-its-algorithmic-impact-methods-lab/