On Friday, July 21, 2023, the White House announced that Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI voluntarily committed to numerous principles for the responsible development of artificial...more
Russia initiated a full-scale invasion of one of its sovereign neighbors and the Western world has responded with censure and fury. Our governments and financial institutions have cut off Russian access to money....more
Our personal technology is so complex that making a change in one aspect is likely to affect us in many ways. When tech companies step into social issues, we are likely to see unintended consequences....more
8/11/2021
/ Apple ,
Child Abuse ,
Child Protection Laws ,
Communications Decency Act ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Devices ,
Encryption ,
FOSTA ,
iPhone ,
Minor Children ,
Photographs ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Safe Harbors ,
Sex Trafficking ,
Sexual Abuse ,
Technology Sector ,
Vulnerable Victims
Stephanie Lambert, Chief Compliance Counsel with NetScout Systems, Inc., and Womble Bond Dickinson partner and veteran cyber attorney Ted Claypoole talk with host and business litigator, Mark Henriques, about the current...more
3/22/2021
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Storage ,
Information Governance ,
International Data Transfers ,
Privacy Laws ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Technology Sector
I have written recently about the crashing tsunami of change in legal attitudes toward the largest U.S. data, technology and internet companies, especially in the antitrust realm. As we consider whether GAFA critic Tim Wu...more
The movement to localize some or all of internet data has grown over the past five years as countries introduce new laws restricting data flows, and others try to boost local businesses by placing burdens on international...more
2/23/2021
/ Algorithms ,
Authoritarian Regimes ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Localization Law ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Foreign Relations ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Surveillance ,
Technology Sector
Hard on the heels of the muckle of anti-trust filings against the huge U.S. technology companies in the past few months, the United States Senate indicates that clamping down on Big Tech will be a priority for the new...more
In 2020, a more tragic year than most, we lost giants of the technology world. We lost Larry Tesler, PARC’s magician, later at Apple, who helped develop the computer commands that run our lives, like ‘search and replace’ and...more
Two weeks ago I collected the major recent anti-trust/competition lawsuits, by regulators and competitors alike, filed against U.S. big technology companies. My point was that, after a long fallow period where these giants...more
Tim Wu, the bard of big tech, has written multiple books about the rise and coming fall of technology monopolies, oligopolies, and empires. In The Master Switch, Wu tells the story of how, in the 19th Century, the existing...more
12/15/2020
/ Acquisitions ,
Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Investigations ,
Big Tech ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Innovation ,
Monopolization ,
State Attorneys General ,
Technology Sector
What if your personal digital assistant was so small but it encompassed your entire home?
If you are wondering how this would be possible, see the new generation of smart assistants designed to be placed into your wall,...more
Privacy, the gig economy, and access to digital information in our cars were all issues on ballots Tuesday for direct response of the voters. U.S. technology companies will be affected by the results of these...more
11/9/2020
/ Ballot Measures ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Privacy Laws ,
State and Local Government ,
Technology Sector
Historians believe we have started a fourth industrial revolution where physical, digital, and biological worlds will merge to form the basis of a new economy. One of the key elements of this transformation is the emergence...more
Since its conception, people have worried that an artificial intelligence would turn against humanity and threaten our lives. While this may be a result to be feared several years in the future, right now the more pressing...more
8/6/2020
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Authoritarian Regimes ,
Biometric Information ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Foreign Relations ,
Minorities ,
Personal Data ,
Political Parties ,
Prison ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Surveillance ,
Technology Sector
If you want a glimpse of the future, check out how developers are using gpt-3.
This natural language processor was trained on parameters ten times greater than its most sophisticated rival and can be used to answer...more
7/31/2020
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Coding ,
Computer Programmers ,
Data Processors ,
Machine Learning ,
Natural Language Processing ,
Predictive Coding ,
Software ,
Software Developers ,
Technology ,
Technology Sector
When was the last time you talked about blockchain?
Maybe 18 months to 2 years ago when the world was new, Broadway was open, and blockchain was everywhere. And then it wasn’t.
Blockchain didn’t leave us, its golden promise...more
7/24/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Blockchain ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Internet of Things ,
Popular ,
Technology Sector ,
Token Sales
Last week’s tech company announcements about facial recognition software startled me, but probably not for the reason you might imagine.
Amazon, IBM and Microsoft all boosted their socially conscious credibility by moving...more
6/16/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
First Amendment ,
Law Enforcement ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Police ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Search Warrant ,
Surveillance ,
Technology Sector
“New threats and a new era of strategic competition” have prompted the White House to roll out a new National Cyber Strategy. As identified below, the Strategy contains important priority initiatives that will advantage many...more
9/28/2018
/ Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Security ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Private Sector ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Technology Sector ,
Telecommunications ,
Transportation Industry