On Episode 30 of Privacy Chats with Rachel and John, we take a look back at the eventful-ness of 2025 thus far, including DeepSeek’s shake-up of the global AI tech sector and continuous policy implications of the new US Presidential Administration peeling back previous AI safety mandates. Have AI acceleration priorities eclipsed AI safety priorities? If so, how long will it take for the greatest harm to be felt? Would greater enforcement pressure lead to more compliance?

This episode was informed by the following sources: 

• "Congressional Committee Kickstarts New Federal Privacy Law Dialogue"​

• "Why AI Lawyers Need a New Ethical Code"​ 

• "DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China"

• "DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in"​ - Reuters

• "A view from DC: The price of privacy enforcement"​ 

• "A view from DC: US House Republicans organize a privacy working group" 

• "A view from DC: The first few days of Trump’s AI and privacy agenda" 

• Sean O’Brien on Privacy Safe Social

• Jen Easterly On The Future of Cybersecurity and Her Agency's Survival

• Foreign Hackers Are Using Google’s Gemini in Attacks on the US