US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI's Warrantless Wiretap Access A bipartisan bill would force the FBI to get a warrant to read Americans' messages and ban the federal purchase of commercial data on US residents ahead of a critical April deadline. A bipartisan privacy coalition in the United States Congress introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a strict warrant requirement on the FBI's backdoor searches of Americans' communications, aligning federal law with a 2025 federal court ruling that found the warrantless practice unconstitutional. The bill, the Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2026, repeals controversial expansions of the government's warrantless wiretapping authority while overhauling key aspects of federal surveillance law--setting up a showdown with the US intelligence community and its congressional allies weeks before a sweeping global spy program sunsets on April 20. Senators Ron Wyden and Mike Lee are leading the legislative push alongside Representatives Warren Davidson and Zoe Lofgren. The measure carries endorsements from civil liberties organizations across the political spectrum.

Throughout history, technology has been used for good and evil. There is no better example of this than a personal computer. However, in the wrong hands, the same personal computer is allowed Hackers gain access to corporate and government networks With inadequate security, leading to theft of confidential information and selling it to the highest bidder. What we do is continually assess the technology available and carefully analyze the value it brings, as well as its potential for abuse. There is a special concern for this in the whole society today.

In recent years, AI has evolved from science fiction to part of our everyday lives. Emerging tech is on the cusp of revolutionizing global value chains. Shaping a "new corporate tomorrow" is already taking place, and the ethical issues related to AI have been laid out in numerous executive debates. To secure democratic values and a high standard of transparency, we must take AI Ethics to the next level: AI Policy. History shows that policy and lawmaking do the trick when it comes to protecting liberty, democratic values, and human rights.

Then-Rep John Ratcliffe visited the DHS' National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) in 2016, as part of a roll-out of automated cyber tools. ALBUQUERQUE -- Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released what the first take on an evolving set of principles for the ethical use of artificial intelligence. The six principles, ranging from privacy to transparency to cybersecurity, are described as Version 1.0, approved by DNI John Ratcliffe last month. The six principles are pitched as a guide for the nation's many intelligence especially, especially to help them work with the private companies that will build AI for the government. As such, they provide an explicit complement to the Pentagon's AI principles put forth by Defense Secretary Mark Esper back in February.

The Principles of Artificial Intelligence Ethics for the Intelligence Community are intended to guide personnel on whether and how to develop and use AI, to include machine learning, in furtherance of the IC's mission. To assist with the implementation of these Principles, the IC has also created an AI Ethics Framework to guide personnel who are determining whether and how to procure, design, build, use, protect, consume, and manage AI and other advanced analytics. We will employ AI in a manner that respects human dignity, rights, and freedoms. Our use of AI will fully comply with applicable legal authorities and with policies and procedures that protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. We will provide appropriate transparency to the public and our customers regarding our AI methods, applications, and uses within the bounds of security, technology, and releasability by law and policy, and consistent with the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the IC.

Members of Congress introduced a new bill on Thursday that would ban government use of biometric technology, including facial recognition tools. Pramila Jayapal and Ayanna Pressley announced the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, which they said resulted from a growing body of research that "points to systematic inaccuracy and bias issues in biometric technologies which pose disproportionate risks to non-white individuals." The bill came just one day after the first documented instance of police mistakenly arresting a man due to facial recognition software. There has been long-standing, widespread concern about the use of facial recognition software from lawmakers, researchers rights groups and even the people behind the technology. Multiple studies over the past three years have repeatedly proven that the tool is still not accurate, especially for people with darker skin.

COVID19, also known as coronavirus, has developed into a recent global threat. The disease has no cure, no treatments, and no means of controlling it – other than isolation, social distancing, face masks, and hand washing. One form of technology that has shown its capability in tracing, tracking, and helping to prevent the spread of the virus comes through artificial intelligence or AI. AI systems were already in use as a tool to help predict and prevent the spread of viruses in the health community. It was an AI-based system that first discovered an unknown form of pneumonia that was spreading around Wuhan, China, giving insight that an epidemic was in its beginnings.

When it comes to adoption of artificial intelligence, the US Federal Government is moving at a rapid pace. On February 11, 2019, President Trump signed Executive Order 13859 announcing the American AI Initiative, the United States' national strategy on artificial intelligence. As part of this strategy the US took into consideration principles on Artificial Intelligence published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The AI Today podcast interviewed Adam Murray, International Relations Officer from the US Department of State to discuss these principles in more detail and why it's important to have AI principles around responsible & trustworthy AI discussed and adopted on an international level. Adam Murray is a foreign relations officer and a US diplomat, and has been working with the Department of State for over 13 years.

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow joins Sean Hannity on'Hannity.' I'm starting to get really scared ... and not of the coronavirus. I'm scared about the loss of liberty people around the world are experiencing as normal life grinds to a halt and we hunker down and keep our distance from each other to stop the spread of this microscopic terror. Three weeks ago you would think I was crazy if I told you that U.S. borders would be closed; many stores, restaurants, bars, and factories would be shut down; office workers would be teleworking from home; millions of children would be out of school; and many of us would be told to stay in our homes as much as possible and only leave when absolutely necessary. If an imaginative scriptwriter pitched a movie with this plot just a few weeks ago he might have been told by a movie studio that the idea was too wild and unbelievable even for a fantasy film.

The Trump administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy has released its inaugural report on artificial intelligence. The assessment comes a year after the White House launched the American AI Initiative under Executive Order 13859, which "focuses the resources of the federal government to support AI innovation," the document states. Notably, the 36-page document mentions the word "privacy" 18 times. "We remain committed to supporting the development and application of AI in a way that promotes public trust, protects civil liberties, and respects the privacy and dignity of every individual," U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios and Deputy U.S. CTO Lynne Parker state in their introduction. To help promote "responsible approach to AI," the administration calls for investment in AI research and development.