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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For 25 years – since the introduction of Internet Explorer 2 – our browsers supported third-party cookie technology that formed the basis of internet advertising. The cookie party is ending. Tech lawyers and business executives need to learn about what will be following the cookie era, as online […]
Unlimited law enforcement application of facial recognition software to surveillance footage is an unreasonable search and a violation of Constitutional rights for people in a peaceful crowd. An officer should need to demonstrate probable cause that the investigated face on camera is a criminal in order to receive […]
Last week’s tech company announcements about facial recognition software startled me, but probably not for the reason you might imagine. Amazon, IBM and Microsoft all boosted their socially conscious credibility by moving to restrict local police and federal law enforcement use of their facial recognition technology for the […]
You are being watched. And in these trying times of COVID-19 and major political protests, surveillance matters. It seems everyone is making judgments about whether we protect ourselves or society when we leave the house, and how we register outrage or dissent in public. And now those judgments […]
Text Below reprinted from Privacy in the Age of Big Data, by Theresa Payton and Ted Claypoole, published by Rowman & Littlefield. Although it seems that every day less people care about their privacy, the ability to maintain parts of your life as private remains crucial to our […]
