New Standard Contractual Clauses for Transfer of Personal Data outside the EEA – Getting Warmer by the Day Thursday, May 20, 2021
We are one (
penultimate) step closer to the final adoption of new Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) by the European Commission.
The final version of a long overdue update to the 2004 (in case of controller-to-controller)/2010 (in case of controller-to-processor) model clauses which companies use to safeguard personal data transfers to controllers/processors outside the EEA under Article 46.2(c) of the GDPR, has cleared one of its final hurdles.
Today, the Article 93 Committee, consisting of the representatives of EU governments, unanimously approved new draft SCCs proposed by the Commission. The Committee is named after Article 93 of the GDPR, referencing the examination procedure, which the draft SCCs of the European Commission (including the one on the new SCCs) had to go through on its way to final adoption.
DigitHarium Month #4: Drones, eyes in the sky , and humanitarian operations
Drones, and the remote sensing technologies with which they are equipped, have a complicated history in humanitarian contexts. In much of the public consciousness, drones are inextricably linked to military uses: reconnaissance, surveillance and air strikes. However, those same technologies can be used for humanitarian purposes, improving organizations capacity to operate in hard-to-reach areas, dangerous terrains and changing circumstances. Article 14 May 2021
For this fourth DigitHarium month, we looked at how this much-discussed type of technology (drones and remote sensing) can be used in humanitarian operations, what advantages they might bring, and what are the key challenges that make their use more or less appropriate.
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On May 7, 2021, the US House of Representatives Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) held a hearing on “Equitable Algorithms: How Human-Centered AI can Address Systemic Racism and Racial Justice in Housing and Financial Services.”
1 It was the latest among several federal, state and international initiatives calling for fair, transparent and accountable AI in the financial and consumer sectors, and urging all AI actors (developers, manufacturers, users and regulators of AI systems) to address inequitable outcomes. This hearing focused on ways the public and private sectors can use AI to address systemic racism and optimize fairness.