By Peter McLaughlin and Tara Cho Yesterday, the California Attorney General and team held a press conference announcing the release of the long-awaited draft regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act or the CCPA. Today kicks off the official comment period for the proposed rules, and based on […]
In a prior blog post, I discussed what would happen when artificial intelligence is applied to industries that had a history of discriminatory practices. Would AI make the world a more just place? Or would it more systemically ingrain discrimination? And finally, what could be done about it? […]
Back in August, I wondered in this space whether the growing power of the surveillance state would return shame to our society and bring about “The New Puritanism.” China is betting heavily that it will. Some of you may have caught the recent “60 Minutes” segment with its […]
On September 10, 2019, 51 members of the Business Roundtable (“BRT”), representing the CEOs of many of America’s largest companies, sent a letter to Congress advocating for their Consumer Privacy Legislation Framework (“Framework”) that would govern the collection, use and sharing of personal data across industry sectors. Their […]
I expected this post would turn out differently. I had intended to commend the European Court of Justice for placing sensible limits on the extraterritorial enforcement of the EU’s Right to be Forgotten. They did, albeit in a limited way,[1] and it was a good decision. There. I […]
For more than a decade I have been warning about the vulnerability of brainspray – the brain signals that can be captured from outside your head. In 2008, this article by Jeffery Goldberg demonstrated that an fMRI machine could easily interpret how a person felt about stimuli provided […]
All eyes are on the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as the January 1, 2020 doomsday for this first-of-its-kind comprehensive privacy law (on this side of the pond) quickly approaches. However, amid the chaos and freaky Friday the 13th wrap-up of the California legislative session that leaves us […]
Business Impact of the CCPA Amendments Since the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) passed in June 2018, legislators have proposed and stakeholders have lobbied on more than a dozen amendments addressing various components of the CCPA. September 13 was the close of this legislative term and thus the […]
Given trends toward digitization and remote transaction, senior security professionals have long expected that biometric identification would be the clear future of security, obviating need for account codes and social security numbers. Safely transferring and storing a retinal scan or voice print makes more sense than memorized numbers […]
Automation can perform both routine physical activities as well as cognitive capabilities. This capability development has made policymakers and the public nervous about the impact on workers and their wages. In Ted Claypoole’s post Stacking The Deck For Workers Over Machines, he acknowledges that there is a partisan […]
