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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
