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Why hasn’t a single Republican lawmaker warned the public that the Save America Act wld require that every state “submit [their] complete, official list of individuals registered as eligible voters for Federal office in the State to the Department of Homeland Security”? Why has the media blindly accepted the GOP’s framing of this bill? Did they bother to read it? 1/

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

The AI revolution is here - bringing both threats and opportunities. Our IT and services sector, a shining star of our economy, is at risk, and thousands of software engineers and professionals will lose their livelihoods if we do not prepare for the storm that is coming. But we have opportunities too. Data is the petrol which fuels the AI engine. As I said in parliament, India’s greatest asset is our brilliant people - and the enormous data we create. In a few days, the government is hosting a grand AI Summit. It should have been an opportunity for India to assert leadership - to demonstrate how a country of 1.4 billion people can use our data to shape the global AI future ON OUR OWN TERMS. Instead, a helpless PM Modi, has surrendered to the US ‘chokehold’ in the trade deal. Under the pretext of “clearing barriers to digital trade”, every move to use our data for our own benefit will be opposed. Already, large foreign companies enjoy a near monopoly on our data through Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Youtube, Amazon, Android, etc. With this deal, India will struggle to: •⁠ ⁠⁠Safely store the data of 1.5 billion Indians in India •⁠ ⁠⁠Get transparency in their source codes and algorithms •⁠ ⁠⁠Tax the profits they make using our data It’s a shame that our Prime Minister has been pressured to hand over India’s prime resource to a foreign power.