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software engineering, election security, and technology law and policy re- LINA KHAN
search. He is running in the Democratic party for State Senate in District 48
of Georgia, hoping to replace incumbent Republican Shawn Still, who was FTC proposes new protections to
indicted with former President Donald Trump for the January 6 insurrection
at the US Capitol. combat AI impersonation
Ashwin Ramaswami graduated from Stanford in 2021, where he studied
computer science and served as The Stanford Daily’s first chief technology
officer. He currently attends Georgetown University Law Center.
“I’m running for (Georgia) State Senate in order to give back to my com-
munity. I want to make sure that everyone has the same opportunities that I
had growing up,” Ramaswami, who is 24 year old, said. “I want to make sure
we have a new voice, people who are young, who come from unconventional
backgrounds in politics because it’s really important that we have people who
represent us, not just people who can afford to do it,” he continued.

HEMANT DHINGRA

Nephrologist named on Medical

Board of California

he Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking to modify an existing
rule that bans the impersonation of businesses or government agencies
Tto cover all consumers, as the deepfakes pose a growing threat. The
FTC is an independent agency of the United States government whose prin-
cipal mission is the enforcement of civil antitrust law and the promotion of
consumer protection.

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a
supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking that would prohib-
it the impersonation of individuals. The proposed rule changes

emant Dhingra, of Clovis, has been appointed to the Medical Board of would extend protections of the new rule on government and
California. The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, announced business impersonation that is being finalized by the Commission.
Hthe appointment of the Indian American nephrologist, Dr Dhingra.
He has been the Chief of Medical Staff at the Saint Agnes Medical Center “Fraudsters are using AI tools to impersonate individuals with eerie
of Fresno since 2023, where he was Founding Program Director of Internal precision and at a much wider scale,” FTC chair Lina Khan said in a press
Medicine. release. “With voice cloning and other AI-driven scams on the rise, pro-
He has been President of the Nephrology Group since 2014. A democrat,
Dhingra is a member of the American Society of Nephrology and the Califor- tecting Americans from impersonator fraud is more critical than ever. Our
proposed expansions to the final impersonation rule would do just that,
nia Medical Association. He earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the strengthening the FTC’s toolkit to address AI-enabled scams imperson-
Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed his Fellowship in Nephrology ating individuals.”
at Texas Tech University. This position requires Senate confirmation and the Lina Khan was sworn in as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission on
compensation is $100 per diem. He received his medical degree from Gov-
ernment Medical College Amritsar and has been in practice for more than June 15, 2021. Prior to becoming head of the FTC, Khan was an Associate
Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She also previously served as
20 years.
counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust,
Commercial, and Administrative Law, legal adviser to FTC Commissioner
Dhingra was one of the founding members of the American Associa- Rohit Chopra, and legal director at the Open Markets Institute.
tion of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), a national organization that
represents the interests and values of Indian-American physicians. To read more about Indian diaspora and Global Indians,
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