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Two Duke University students and one Duke Kunshan University student have been named Schwarzman Scholars, a program that funds one year of study in Beijing. They are among 151 scholars that will begin the program in August of 2022. Seniors Jessica Edelson and Jessie Xu are recipients from the Durham campus. Wanying He, a senior in Duke Kunshan University’s inaugural undergraduate class, has become the first student from DKU to be named a Schwarzman Scholar. ....
Federal Privacy Rules Must Get “Data Broker” Definitions Right The California capital building in Sacramento, CA. (jjkbach, https://www.flickr.com/photos/9067772@N07/567465036; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) Corporate data collection is all over the headlines, between a recent Senate hearing on antitrust, the appointment of Tim Wu as the president’s special assistant for technology and competition policy, the nomination of Lina Khan for Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner, and growing momentum on the Hill for federal privacy legislation. Much of this privacy conversation focuses on social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, and how they monetize data and feed their artificial intelligence algorithms, as well as market dominant players like Amazon, and how they might internally use data for anti-competitive behavior. ....