Risk Mitigation For Social Media Cos. In Light Of Trump Order
On May 28, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on preventing online censorship targeting the Communications Decency Act, or CDA, titled “Protection for good Samaritan blocking and...
View ArticleIn a Win Against Robocalls, the Supreme Court Severs TCPA Federal Debt...
Today the U.S. Supreme Court found in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. that the federal debt collection exemption to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s general...
View ArticleVoters May Favor Prop 24 and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020...
Nearly a year after the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect, Californians now have a chance to weigh in on the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), which is on the November...
View ArticleFTC Orders Nine Social Media and Video Streaming Services to File Special...
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the FTC Act and a December 11, 2020, resolution of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) entitled “Resolution Directing use of Compulsory Process to Collect Information...
View ArticleSouthwest Leverages the Lanham Act Against Alleged Scraper of Website Fares
Website operators can consider a host of potential legal claims against entities that scrape their sites’ content without authorization, such as breach of a well-crafted terms of service agreement,...
View ArticleThe Future of Human-Computer Interaction: Electromyography Wrist Interfaces...
As part of its three-part series on the future of human-computer interaction (HCI), Facebook Reality Labs recently published a blog post describing a wrist-based wearable device that uses...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules CFAA Does Not Criminalize Every Violation of a...
In Van Buren v. United States, the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split as to whether a provision of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) applies only to those who obtain information to which...
View ArticleWhen Machines Discriminate – NIST Tackles Bias in AI
At this point you have probably heard about one of the many incidents where an AI-enabled system discriminated against certain populations in settings ranging from healthcare, law enforcement, and...
View ArticleThe U.K. National AI Strategy Begins with Consultations on Copyright, Patent,...
The U.K. released a National AI Strategy with a ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower in our new age of artificial intelligence. The Strategy intends to “signal to the world [the...
View ArticleWhite House AI Order Balances Innovation And Regulation
On Oct. 30, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.[1] The executive order provides a sprawling list of directives aimed at establishing...
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