Privacy has never been fashionable in this country. The Europeans and Canadians seem to care so much about it, and, as well documented in my earlier Heydatadata posts this month, Americans by the millions are sending their DNA to private companies or weight loss factories without any concern […]
William Buckley famously described a conservative as a person who “stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” While I am not sure that I classify as “conservatives” the […]
If you believe there are important reasons to test your DNA, then ask your doctor to run the tests and explain the results. Maybe your health insurance will pay for the test. Maybe the doctor agrees that DNA testing is a good idea. In any case you have […]
This is a particularly good time to think about our Constitutional rights to protect our DNA from government capture and analysis. If we don’t consider it soon, we may lose all rights to protect the most intimate details of our lives and bodies, leaving us with virtually no […]
So you want to know how much Neanderthal is in your genes. You are curious about the percentage of Serbo-Croatian, Hmong, Sephardim or Ashanti blood that runs through your veins. Or maybe you hope to find a rich great-aunt near death, seeking an heir. How much is this […]
The GDPR has been in force for less than two years, but we are already observing its effect on data subjects, data controllers/processors, and data privacy regulators. A huge, complex set of societal regulations is bound to have problematic passages and unintended consequences. So it seems time to […]
As we are just finishing a busy year committed, more than anything, to meeting the demands of the California Legislature, how do we expect the next year to shape up? What will the great gods of the internet and data analytics bring us? Here at Hey, Data Data […]
When Duke William X died on a pilgrimage to Spain in 1137, he entrusted his daughters to the care of French King Louis the Fat. His oldest daughter, Eleanor of Aquitaine, aged somewhere between 12 and 15 inclusive, immediately became the duchess of Aquitaine, Gascony and Poitou, ruling […]
Long before the dawn of time, humans displayed physical characteristics as identification tools. Animals do the same to distinguish each other. Crows use facial recognition on humans. Even plants can tell their siblings from unrelated plants of the same species. We present our physical forms to the world, […]
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 […]
