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A Federal Court judge rejected a 2019 ruling by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada that Facebook violated privacy laws, IT World Canada reports. During its investigation into the Cambridge Analytica revelations, the commissioner ruled Facebook violated the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act by sharing user data with a third-party app without adequate consent.

Beginning in 2016, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials allegedly accessed law enforcement databases illegally 414 times to commit a "swath" of unlawful activity, according to internal agency investigation records obtained by Wired. ICE agents and contractors allegedly used records to engage in "stalking, … harassment (and) passing information to criminals." ICE personnel allegedly searched databases for individuals' "medical, biometric, and location data" on behalf of friends and neighbors.

The heads of multiple encrypted chat apps, including WhatsApp and Signal, wrote a letter to the U.K. government claiming the proposed Online Safety Bill would “in effect outlaw end-to-end encryption,” the Guardian reports. In the letter, executives wrote, “the bill poses an unprecedented threat to the privacy, safety and security of every U.K.

Members of European Parliament plan to add provisions to the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act that will better address the generative AI boom, The Wall Street Journal reports. In a letter outlining their intentions, MEPs explained their desire to set a global blueprint for AI regulation to steer technologies "in a direction that is human centric, safe and trustworthy." Romanian MEP and AI Act co-rapporteur Dragoș Tudorache said unpublished amendments would address the potential for "more challenging future scenarios" AI's rapid growth could bring.