This week, Arj and Jordan discuss the merits of the proposed new federal privacy law in the US. Also this week - a new once-in-a-decade report from CSIRO also lays out seven megatrends to shape our future, three of which fall squarely into the realm of technology, digital policy and other favourite topics of the podcast.

Links:

IAPP coverage of American Data Privacy and Protection Act https://iapp.org/news/a/american-data-privacy-and-protection-act-heads-for-us-house-floor/

Daniel Solove opinion on federal privacy law: https://teachprivacy.com/a-faustian-bargain-is-preemption-too-high-a-price-for-a-federal-privacy-law/

Woodrow Hartzog and Neil Richards on a duty of loyalty: https://iapp.org/news/a/were-so-close-to-getting-data-loyalty-right/

Algorithm Watch on algorithmic bias in Google and Facebook ads: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/automated-discrimination-facebook-google/

CSIRO report "Our Future World": https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/data/Our-Future-World

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