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To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has recently issued new guidance on data scraping. The guide highlights the significant legal risks it poses to personal data and the restrictions required under the GDPR....more
Generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) challenges EU copyright law, from the AI training to the protectability and liability risks of its output. The EU’s forthcoming AI Act takes first steps towards AI-specific...more
Privacy regulators, including the EU data protection authorities (EU DPAs), are expected to increase their scrutiny of data scraping to train AI algorithms. Data scraping involves the collection of large amounts of publicly...more
Draft AI Act – What Happened So Far: Back in April 2021, the European Commission provided a draft regulation laying down harmonized rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act) aimed at safeguarding fundamental EU rights and...more
In a putative class action filed on June 28, 2023, in the Northern District of California, and in other similar cases, plaintiffs allege that OpenAI, Microsoft, and their respective affiliates violated the privacy rights of...more
In the wake of an alarming exposé published by The New York Times in January, Clearview AI, Inc., a New York startup, faces a slew of lawsuits. Since the article’s publication, the Vermont Attorney General filed a complaint...more
The Situation: The second EU Payment Services Directive requires banks to give third-party payment service providers ("TPPs") access to the bank accounts of their customers (with their consent), in order to enable TPPs to...more
Happy 2018 to our readers! It has become a Socially Aware tradition to start the New Year with some predictions from our editors and contributors. With smart contracts on the horizon, the Internet of Things and...more
Is it stealing to take data without permission from a public website, or is it simply making use of resources that are made available to you? “Web scraping” or “screen scraping” is the practice of extracting large amounts of...more
In This Issue: - Data for the Taking: Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Combat Web Scraping - Google Glass Into Europe: A Small Step or a Giant Leap? - Drugs and the Internet: FDA Distributes New...more