The following is an excerpt taken from the final chapter of The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines, published by the ABA Business Law Section ( https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/383401164/ ) . The book is edited, and the excerpt is written, by Ted Claypoole. As increasing numbers of people […]
Businesses know that machine learning systems and artificial intelligence programs can be customized to meet a company’s specific needs. Most are at a loss to know how to begin developing them. Many are worried about teaching a machine learning system their pivotal secrets and losing rights to the […]
Microsoft has announced changes that will reserve themselves more responsibility and risk. European Union data protection authorities raised concerns with Microsoft’s data protection measures and led to Microsoft changing their commercial contracts related to their cloud services. The new contractual provisions, which will take effect at the beginning […]
The next arms race will be fought not in megatons but in milliseconds. When the primary players can destroy each other 100 times over, it comes down to who can do so faster. Of course, that is a vast oversimplification of the race occuring right now, particularly between […]
While you still need to take extra precautions for privacy when entering or leaving the U.S., it seems that border agents no longer have complete discretion to search your phone and computer. In a change to effective search policy, border agents need to establish reasons for suspicion of […]
When researchers at University of Washington pulled together a clip of a faked speech by President Obama using video segments of the President’s earlier speeches run through artificial intelligence, we watched with a queasy feeling. The combination wasn’t perfect – we could still see some seams and stitches […]
Long ago, when I worked as a lawyer at a large bank, we were generally able to rely on new state consumer protection laws being pre-empted by Federal financial regulations. This was a positive thing, because our bank, like many other big national consumer-facing companies, would usually wrap […]
Finding comfort in products that display commitment to both privacy and information security is understandable. The Mobile Ecosystem Forum, a global mobile trade association, published a study that indicated that 49% of the 15,000 survey respondents said a lack of trust limits the number of applications downloaded. This […]
I’ve been thinking back to simpler times when data was carried on paper and it required physical access to break into somebody’s files. Outside the hospital and maybe the bank there were few obligations for caring for this information hoard and nobody’s business spent much money to do […]
A recent Wall Street Journal article stated that the excessive costs of responding to breaches have become a challenge for insurance companies. The article presents insurance company executives being particularly concerned with their clients not implementing basic data management controls such as having a designated employee that is […]
