Iowa’s General Assembly enacted a new data privacy law, officially named the Act Relating to Consumer Data Protection Providing Civil Penalties and Including Effective Date Provisions. The new law will apply to businesses that process information about 100,000 or more Iowans, or that derive over fifty percent of gross revenue from the sale of information while processing information about 25,000 ...
The District Court in Tel Aviv approved a 400,000 ILS settlement agreement with MyHeritage, the genealogy platform operator, in a class action lawsuit that accused the company of deficient data safeguards that led to a data breach. The company will also give consumers free access to use its Deep Nostalgia service, valued at a total of 1,085,915 ILS.
The data ...
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the British privacy regulator, published an updated version of its guide on artificial intelligence and data protection, in response to calls from the British industry for clarification. The guide was initially published in 2020 and provides an outline of the legal obligations relating to the use of artificial intelligence. I also established a ...
The White House published a national cybersecurity strategy designed to determine the best approach to address cyber threats originating from both state and non-state actors. Through this national strategy, the U.S. government seeks to promote a digital environment that will support the implementation of more efficient cyber protection, and the development of recovery capabilities that will mitigate the impact of ...
Getty Images has accused Stability AI Inc. of using more than 12 million photographs from the Getty Images collection, alongside associated captions, and metadata, without permission or proper payment to Getty Images, as part of Stability AI’s efforts to build a competing business.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Delaware, alleges multiple violations: copyright infringement, false copyright management information, ...
The US Copyright Office has launched a new initiative to examine federal copyright law and policy questions arising from the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The discussion will address, among other issues, the protection of copyright for works created by AI tools and the use of protected works for machine learning. The Copyright Office indicated that it received numerous applications ...
The Commissioner of Patents in Israel denied two patent applications submitted by Dr. Steven Thaler. The Commissioner found that recognizing AI as a patent inventor, or registration of a patent for an invention created without any human involvement, is a question of policy best decided by the legislature. Until the legislature enacts different rules, only a human being may be ...
The Supreme Court of the United States held oral arguments in the Gonzalez family’s case against Google. The plaintiffs are family members of Nohemi Gonzalez, an American student murdered in a 2015 ISIS attack in Paris. The family accuses Google of responsibility for the attacks, due to the automated user-feed recommendation of terrorism-inciting content and YouTube videos.
The federal law ...
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