Witness at Senate hearing praises ‘permissible purposes’ in draft privacy bill, urges AI for cyber defense

Witnesses testifying before a Senate Commerce subcommittee cited artificial intelligence as a reason for lawmakers to both pass legislation featuring strong data minimization provisions and to temper their approach to allow for cybersecurity.

“We leverage AI across our systems and capabilities, and we are able to detect 2.3 million unique attacks that weren't there the day before. This is a process of continuous discovery, and we're able to leverage our security data and those AI tools to block 11.3 billion...