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 […]
The world’s largest democracy has Constitutional privacy protection, but no omnibus privacy law. The most prominent proposed privacy act looks like GDPR, with special data access rights reserved for the Indian government. The lower house of India’s bicameral Parliament, Lok Sabha, introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill of […]
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, […]
Secure your data. Really. If you do nothing else for the looming CCPA, secure the personal information you hold. It’s not as if this hasn’t been either a sensible or a required step in the past. But if you haven’t been paying rapt attention to the cacophony of […]
Large scale data sales have become a contentious election issue (just not the election you are probably thinking about). The National Health Service (NHS) is the system of public healthcare providers in the United Kingdom. NHS holds unique medical data sets of the UK’s population from birth to […]
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 […]
Microsoft has announced changes that will reserve themselves more responsibility and risk. European Union data protection authorities raised concerns with Microsoft’s data protection measures and led to Microsoft changing their commercial contracts related to their cloud services. The new contractual provisions, which will take effect at the beginning […]
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 […]
While you still need to take extra precautions for privacy when entering or leaving the U.S., it seems that border agents no longer have complete discretion to search your phone and computer. In a change to effective search policy, border agents need to establish reasons for suspicion of […]
