By David Kalat, BRG | January 3, 2024
In the early 2000s, the now-defunct Pay-By-Touch was the first service to offer payment via a fingerprint registered with a biometric recognition system. Privacy concerns related to the massive database of fingerprints the company left behind would eventually inspire legislation like BIPA.
By Isha Marathe | January 2, 2024
From generative AI adoption and AI fears to legal's long-standing skirmish with diversity, the 2023 conference season highlighted ongoing issues that are likely to take center stage this year.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 29, 2023
Genetic testing firm 23andMe Inc. has moved to transfer lawsuits over this year's data breach to Northern California, near its South San Francisco headquarters, citing an increase in the number of cases.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack | December 28, 2023
Confidentiality facilitates honest communication by assuring patients that the details of their lives, shared with their health care providers, will remain private. Yet, mental health professionals in some states are imposed with a duty to warn, requiring them to take reasonable steps to protect potential victims of their clients. However, not every state adheres to the concept of the duty to warn taking precedence over the need to maintain client confidentiality.
By Isha Marathe | December 27, 2023
Data privacy professionals are keeping an eye on the set of state laws primed to go into effect in 2024. While some laws are similar to their predecessors', others are breaking from the mold.
By Cassandre Coyer | December 26, 2023
The relationship between generative artificial intelligence and the EU's GDPR is a complicated one, with some data privacy professionals who claim the two can't coexist, and others who argue that a GDPR-like framework is necessary for the technology to grow sustainably. Here are some areas of contentions between the two from 2023.
Legaltech News | Expert Opinion
By Stephanie Wilkins | December 26, 2023
Legal industry experts make their picks for the biggest developments in cybersecurity and data privacy in the past year.
By Wynter L. Deagle, Anne-Marie D. Dao and Dane C. Brody Chanove | December 26, 2023
Just in time for the holidays, the plaintiffs' bar has gifted the business community with yet another newly minted privacy litigation theory, according to Sheppard Mullin's Wynter Deagle, Anne-Marie Dao and Dane Brody Chanove.
By Cassandre Coyer | December 20, 2023
OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT repeatedly found themselves in the news this year, partly because they best exemplify the recent advances in generative AI, but also because the two sometimes found themselves in hot water.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Peter Brown | December 20, 2023
Children aged 13 and under can log in to social media by lying about their age or pretending to be an adult; yet, social media contains vast quantities of content that is inappropriate for very young users. In his Privacy Matters column, Peter Brown discusses how and why 33 states acted together to file a massive litigation against Meta to protect the children in their respective states.
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