New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio is promoting a novel idea. He wants to create a new federal agency to oversee the transition from human jobs to tasks managed by machine automation. This proposal is: Good Politics Good Policy Neither Both? I would […]
One of the biggest legal problems protecting AI users in the coming years will be accountability – dealing with the opacity of the black box and explaining decisions made by machine thinking. Understanding the logic behind an AI finding is not an issue where AI is assisting in […]
I was recently asked to explain companies’ rationale for failing to report cybercrimes. Each situation has unique reasons and justifications, but I decided to tackle the most obvious and human cause for such behavior – humiliation. This is not a new trend. Businesses often resist reporting cybercrimes for […]
The American Bar Association has just published an important book titled The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines, addressing a gap in current legal literature for this essential technology. Diving deeply into the law affecting autonomous vehicles and self-directed flying machines, as well as the changes AI […]
What is the heaviest computer you own? Chances are, you are driving it. And with all of the hacking news flying past us day after day, our imaginations have not even begun to grasp what could happen if a hostile person decided to hack our automotive computers – […]
The CCPA, California’s new omnibus data privacy bill, includes a provision for statutory damages in suits against data-holding companies, but the CCPA only allows the state AG and a limited group to sue for these damages under the law. A recently tabled proposed New York omnibus privacy act […]
The hippy ethos that birthed early management of the internet is beginning to look quaint. Even as a military project, the core internet concept was a decentralized network of unlimited nodes that could reroute itself around danger and destruction. No one could control it because no one could […]
The EU’s endless regulation imposed on data usage has spooled over into academia, providing another lesson in kneecapping your own society by overregulating it. And they wonder why none of the big internet companies arose from the EU (or ever will). This time, the European data regulators seems […]
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin We don’t know what we are missing. At this point, when some privacy expert or consumer do-gooder bemoans the fact that US consumers give away their private information for free to behemoth enterprises, we all just shrug […]
The Georgia Supreme Court recently decided that state agencies owe no duty to protect Georgia citizen’s personal data. From a recent Womble client alert: According to the highest court in the state, Georgia state government does not have an inherent obligation to protect citizens’ personal or sensitive data like […]
