In early July, the Indian government banned many Chinese mobile applications, including TikTok, claiming they pose a “threat to sovereignty and integrity.” India’s Ministry of Information Technology acted “in defense of India, security of state and public order.” ByteDance Limited (“ByteDance”) is a Chinese multinational internet technology company […]
If you want a glimpse of the future, check out how developers are using gpt-3. This natural language processor was trained on parameters ten times greater than its most sophisticated rival and can be used to answer questions and write astoundingly well. Creative professionals everywhere, from top coders […]
A bill regulating the use of contact tracing data has moved its way through both chambers of the New York State legislature. Senate Bill S8450C regulates all information that includes or can reveal the identity of any individual and any COVID-19 related information or test results. New York […]
When was the last time you talked about blockchain? Maybe 18 months to 2 years ago when the world was new, Broadway was open, and blockchain was everywhere. And then it wasn’t. Blockchain didn’t leave us, its golden promise as a solution to all tech problems ran firmly […]
If a picture of your face is used for a purpose that doesn’t identify you, is your privacy violated? If the publicly available picture was used just to show a face, distinguished from some faces, similar to others, and fed into a computer so that the computer could […]
The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals were briefly taken over as part of a bitcoin scam. Former and current heads of states, global corporations, and presidential candidates had their twitter accounts compromised. The tweet from many of the twitter account said similar things, for example Kanye […]
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 crisis is destroying the restaurant industry. Hospitality dies when customers won’t leave their homes, and no amount of Grub Hub delivery will replace the dine-in experience, the workers it supports, or the money it generates. While the crisis may be temporary, it […]
You may have never thought about the data sets for training and testing AI, but you should. Software runs the world. The coming generation of software will include machine learning, so lawyers and businesses should educate themselves on the workings of machine learning that are likely to cause […]
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows no patience with companies falsely claiming participation in industry standards organizations, especially where children’s data is involved. A recent case proves this point. The FTC settled claims against Miniclip S.A., a major player in the mobile gaming industry that offers more […]
The Republic of Korea (South Korea or ROK) had been tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus in a manner sensitive to the privacy of its citizens, but the government has now admitted that personally identifiable data is crucial to its efforts and may be kept for the […]
