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 […]
Business lawyers and other trusted advisors need to pay attention to where other people’s attention is wandering. That’s where the money rests, and you must learn how it works to properly advise clients in their online strategies. I grew up in a factory town. Most of the residents […]
Actions taken to slow the novel coronavirus have serious privacy implications which are starting to come to light. These negative outcomes were predictable, but most of us didn’t see them coming, proving that when considering policies affecting personal privacy, we must extend our imaginations into the edge cases […]
Many of you know that I planned, edited and co-wrote a book published by the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. The book is called The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines. You may not know that the ABA has published a series of podcasts […]
An oft-repeated cliché holds that law lags society. There may be frustrating reasons for this, as legislatures, regulators and judges slowly process changes in the ways we live and eventually determine which parts of these shifts demand legal attention. Important commercial inequities, consumer deceptions or intrusive technologies may […]
As we consider how to ease into a more social commercial life in the next phase of the COVID-19 episode of our history – let’s call it the semi-quarantine phase – Starbucks, using artificial intelligence predictive analysis – may show us the optimal way back toward a more […]
As I have written in other places, I believe that artificially intelligent entities may one day be granted legal rights in the United States. [Buy the book The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines.] But 2020 is way too early to consider such a thing. Last week […]
