FISA reauthorization has the votes to pass after Speaker Johnson shortened the period to two years (from five) to convince his party’s right flank to stop blocking the bill

US House fails to adopt warrant requirement to search communications of US citizens gathered under a controversial spy law (Sec. 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). It's a win for Biden admin and intel community who staunchly opposed amdt. Vote tied 212-212

Tech industry groups are widely embracing a long-awaited national data privacy proposal from Sen. Maria Cantwell and CathyMcMorrisRodgers, but question some aspects and are skeptical that a deeply divided Congress will act soon.

My latest w/ Isabel Gottlieb:

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House Republican hardliners, emboldened by Donald Trump, sank debate on a foreign surveillance reauthorization bill Wednesday, again using procedural maneuvers to sabotage an increasingly embattled Speaker Mike Johnson. via Maeve Sheehey Roxana Tiron news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

INBOX: Energy and Commerce Committee announces hearing next week to review a slate of the latest data privacy proposals, including APRA, KOSA, COPPA 2.0.

SCOOP: A bipartisan group of House members is introducing companion legislation to a major Senate bill -- the Kids' Online Safety Act.

The measure would require social media companies to prevent harms to kids on their platforms.

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Microsoft will invest $2.9 billion in data centers in Japan, the company's president Brad Smith told Nikkei. The announcement, Microsoft's biggest investment in Japan, will be made during Kishida’s DC trip, per Bloomberg. Biden welcomes Kishida to White House tonight.

NEW: Senator Ted Cruz reacts to CathyMcMorrisRodgers Sen. Maria Cantwell national data privacy proposal -- plans to 'carefully' review the bill and 'cannot support' a measure that empowers trial lawyers and strengthens 'Big Tech by imposing crushing new regulatory costs'

Full statement:

More privacy news today: House lawmakers are introducing a bipartisan bill that aims to improve children's online privacy protections -- a companion to the Senate's COPPA 2.0, led by Ed Markey and U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D..

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ICYMI: CathyMcMorrisRodgers and Sen. Maria Cantwell have reached a deal on establishing a national data privacy standard, which would allow individuals to sue companies over privacy violations and eliminate a patchwork of state privacy laws.

Story for Bloomberg Government here: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Precious minutes left of this holy two-week recess. Let's make it a good one folks, please, no more news

NEWS from me & Andrew Desiderio

CathyMcMorrisRodgers & Maria Cantwell have a deal on a bipartisan data privacy bill they plan to unveil next week.

The proposal would set a national data privacy standard, replacing assorted state standards. Companies would face limits on what data…

Big professional personal) news! Today I’m retiring, closing this chapter on 35 yrs of reporting (20 on climate change + environment + a too short stint on the farm bill/ag beat). Somewhere in there were 13 United Nations climate summits (see photo of rescued bourbon, 2015 Paris talks).(1)

If you want to understand how the law might apply to generative AI, you've got to start with copyrights.

〽️atthew S. Schwartz and I take a look at the ongoing legal battles from authors in the latest season of Bloomberg's UnCommon Law podcast: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ai…

SCOOP: Microsoft is paying Inflection $650 million to license its software, as it hires nearly all Inflection staff. Inflection is using that money to pay its investors a positive return. w/ Jessica Lessin natasha mascarenhas theinformation.com/articles/micro…

NEW: The House approved a bill that would ban data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive personal information to US adversaries including China.

Comes on the heels of the House passing a bill to force TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell the app.

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Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell said she's considering holding a public hearing on TikTok after she emerged from a classified briefing about the app with US intelligence officials.

from Steven Dennis:
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Microsoft is hiring Google DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman to oversee its consumer AI products. I talked to Satya Nadella and Suleyman about his new role bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The latest on TikTok: The DOJ is pushing for TikTok divestiture in closed-door Senate briefings this week. TikTok is circulating a document titled “TikTok’s Response to DOJ'

From Chris Strohm Daniel Flatley and me: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The House barreled through an anti-TikTok bill in a little over a week. Don't expect the Senate to do the same.

Latest on the state of play from Daniel Flatley and Steven Dennis:

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