Unraveling The American Data Privacy Patchwork: Will the American Privacy Rights Act Succeed?
May 01, 2024
As the focus on protecting personal data continues to grow with the ever-widening adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, exponential increases in the number and breadth of data breaches, and growing awareness of the risk posed by data brokers, the time appears right for a U.S. federal data privacy regulation to succeed in Congress. But is the new American Privacy Rights Act that regulation?
Shielding Law Practices: Mitigating Vendor Risks to Safeguard Client Confidentiality
May 01, 2024
Because vendors often access clients' internal systems, customer data, and intellectual property, they will always be a magnet for hackers searching for valuable data. Bad actors will always look for the weak spots in a firm's defenses, including those deployed by a firm's vendors and other third parties. And signs point to a growing number of cyberattacks, not a lessening of them.
Players On the Move
May 01, 2024
A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.
Digital Dibs: Rival Views of Generative AI Copyrights
April 01, 2024
GAI platforms like ChatGPT and OpenAI often require very little human input, shattering this legal landscape's framework by posing a simple question: Who authored the material? We'll explore how two countries are answering this question in different ways.
How to Structure Lawyer Blog Posts for Content Marketing
April 01, 2024
Every law firm has its own platform for attorneys to establish themselves as thought leaders, but blogs written in legalese miss the mark. Here are easy ways to structure blog posts to make them more readable almost instantly.
Pursuing AI Programmers and Third Parties over Alleged Rights Violations Caused by AI Software
April 01, 2024
Because AIs are capable of causing harm but cannot be a legal entity, they are not held accountable by court action. Several current and future possibilities exist to resolve AI difficulties. Current options involve identifying indirect liability. Future options include but are not limited to changing the law to make an AI a legal person and/or changing the law to make AI programing an ultra-hazardous activity.
Programmers Liability for Alleged Rights Violations Caused By AI Software
April 01, 2024
AI is designed to accomplish goals specified by and receive directions from a human being. Thus, it has been suggested that either direct or vicarious liability may be applied to hold the human programmer who wrote the software algorithms liable for the damages caused by the AI agent.
Law Firms' Pressing AI Questions
April 01, 2024
Most of the legal industry has by now boarded the generative artificial intelligence train, filling up conference sessions dedicated to the topic, testing new legal technology solutions and exploring the emerging legal questions that the technology will pose. But most of their questions about generative AI are still unanswered.
New Jersey Passes Privacy Law
March 01, 2024
The New Jersey law follows states, such as California, Texas, and Connecticut, who have enacted privacy laws, including broad laws addressing consumer data privacy, children's privacy laws, consumer health data privacy laws, and data broker laws.
