Three seemingly unrelated topics coalesced in my head on this Independence Day Eve Day. First, I am reading proofs of my colleague and fellow HDD blogger Ted Claypoole’s excellent forthcoming new book “The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines”, which discusses the ways AI will (and won’t […]
It violates The Fair Housing Act to advertise in ways that deny particular segments of the housing market information about housing opportunities. It also violates New York law. But what happens when you use an advertising medium that discriminates on its own? We may just find out. New […]
“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 […]
In 2018, the California legislature hurried a new privacy statute through the legislature at breakneck speed. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was drafted and became law with extraordinary speed, as legislators wanted to preempt a data privacy ballot initiative. In the past year, we’ve seen about a […]
These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long distance call The way the camera follows us in slo-mo The way we look to us all The way we look to a distant constellation That’s dying in a corner of the sky These are the […]
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 […]
Nevada recently passed a law requiring companies to honor opt-out requests from Nevada residents. Companies subject to the new act are prohibited from selling covered information to data brokers. So how does this law stack up to the CCPA and some of the other measures pending in various […]
Not long ago, there was a bold proposal being considered by the New York state legislature that arguably would have changed the landscape of data privacy. Instead, the state legislature is proceeding on a less transformative, but significant nonetheless proposal. In the 2018 elections, Democrats seized control of […]
Remember when your high school guidance counselor threatened that your bad grades, crap attitude or sophomoric hi-jinx would become a part of your “permanent record” and follow you for the rest of your life. While that might once have been a scare tactic, it’s becoming a harsh reality […]
This blog is about technology and society. It is about how humans, primarily Americans, incorporate technology and innovation into our systems by setting rules, defining boundaries, protecting the innocent, punishing the unjust, and recognizing/organizing entirely heretofore unseen sectors of economic growth. We are lawyers by trade and training. […]
