I thought it’s worth re-upping some prior writing on EU-US data transfers I reread for a Lawfare piece I am doing on the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework and inevitable litigation in the CJEU.

There’s this report in 2016 after Schrems I comparing EU and legal regimes in light of the CJEU “essentially equivalent” standard.

https://www.sidley.com/-/media/publications/essentially-equivalent---final.pdf?rev=d8be58fff59b434fa8793ea8ac5b309a

The U.S. Congress is heading back from the July 4 recess with AI getting lots of attention. As it does, here’s a reminder that Congress has already done a lot of work over several years to advance privacy legislation that can have a real impact on AI systems.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-privacy-legislation-can-help-address-ai/

A year ago, President Biden surprised people by bringing up privacy in his state of the union address. Congress made great progress on U.S. national privacy legislation in 2022 and, as it considers picking up where it left off, the President can help build momentum by pushing to finish the job in 2023. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2023/02/02/biden-state-of-the-union-2023-time-to-restart-the-privacy-debate/

#stateoftheunion #privacy

In this report with my Brookings colleague Josh Meltzer and Carnegie Endowment’s Matt Sheehan, we look at the history of international AI collaboration and consider whether it can continue. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Can-democracies-cooperate-with-China-on-AI-research.pdf

Individual collaborations will require careful risk assessment by companies, universities, and research labs, with two-way engagement with government to understand risks and preserve benefits.